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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It would make it harder. Because instead of a single national level party for oligarchs to buy. They would have to buy 51 state level groups. Groups that live, with their constituents. Are answerable to their constituents. Not across the country from them.

    Power corrupts. Concentrated power more so. If you want a party responsive to the people. To push against things like citizens united that hurt the people. Give power and voice to the people. Not some oligarchs or vanguard. Not a few nameless unaccountable rubes on the other side of the continent.









  • The primary process was absolutely far too weighed towards national leadership. But it wasn’t “rigged”. Obama winning proved that. No matter how many excuses you make. Hillary and many in the national party were sure pissed about it. And yet they didn’t change the rules.

    Yes national leadership had their pick. They always have. But even the courts didn’t find that the party had rigged anything or done anything in violation of the rules. Tropicaldingdong’s own links elsewhere in the threads prove it an disprove his claims. Leaving them just quoting Donald Trump to support their claims. And if Donald Trump is your source of truth you have problems.


  • Before this the party simply picked a candidate at the convention. The public didn’t get to vote.

    It wasn’t a very democratic primary process ironically. It was definitely far too weighed towards national leadership. But hardly rigged. It’s hyperbolic and unconstructive to even claim. The fact Obama won only illustrates that. Rules didn’t change between Obama and Sanders. Organizations are allowed to set their own rules within reason. And Sanders helped make them better.

    And despite all that. So many people who claimed to support Sanders seem so focused on hindering him. Ask yourself why has Sanders not echoed your claims. Why hasn’t he been a party to any of the laughable failed suits supposedly filed in defense of him. Think critically. I’m no fan of the national Democratic party. I think the state parties should take leadership back. This doesn’t do that. All these false claims do is aid the fascists.

    If you want to punish national Democrats. Don’t enable fascists with division. Build your local and state party to be independent of the national party. It’s what we all need to do. And that will make them listen.