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And what? Tell them to get a spine? Oust the corporate sycophants? Restore the New Deal? Prosecute the traitors?

This is what they are.

And how large is the disenfranchised bloc at this point?

Mid terms will spell it out well enough. Nobody has polled those just like myself that won't vote for either party again.

No, DNC has fully cooked it's Goose. If the greens didn't just float sabotage candidates they would probably run some real numbers this cycle. Screw Stein and all that garbage.

No, I've been saying it since Janurary - if ANYBODY actually went out there with a populist center-left campaign - they will become the new duopoly partner. With a good message you could vacate easily a third of democratic seats if not more..

You didn't hear? They have recast John Simm to play The Master..

They make their excuses, and their reasons...

Now one could debate that the specifics behind the Harris campaign are what contributed to the loss. And true as it is, the one thing not mentioned is this is when the left finally broke away from the Democratic Party.

I've been independant since Gore in fact, and grudgingly toeing the 'vote blue no matter who' thing longer than it's been a catch-phrase. But never again.

Failing to investigate vocally confirmed vote fraud - Making 'The Squad' a dirty word - the mistreatment of Sarah McBride - the blaming everybody else but their own campaign and strategy - the wallstreet corruption - the constant capitulation

I think I can speak for much of us on the left in saying the DNC has irrevocably lost our involvement. I still encourage AOC, Swalwell, Schiff - hell anybody that gives a shit to start a new damn party

(queue up the two-party-system reply guys here)

I really hope she counters with a SLAPP suit against him.

God knows there's enough precedent

This is called begging the question, (and no true scotsman) - And also why Politico is now just another propaganda channel.

You really gotta love when a British paper decides it want's to be a booster for the American Fascism train.

Well, when they finally declare open season, guess who will be among the first.. Yeah, the Enablers.

I think the WWW as we knew it is unrecoverable. Greed destroyed the original ethos, and the policies (namely privacy) that were core to it's use as a public square.

Me, I'm older, so maybe prone to the nostalgia. But when we had IRC, AIM, forums and torrents it was so much a better space, and community.

The Fediverse isn't getting the traction I had originally hoped, but I also think it will be with us for many years to come. But yeah, I think decentralization is the only real way to move forward out of this nihilistic mess we call the web these days.

Christ some of you are dense. OF COURSE ALL THREE WERE LOSERS, THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PARTY SABOTAGE CANDIDATES.

Ergo, nobody has really tried.

What? Nader? Perot? Stein?

Truth is, nobody has ever tried. And we just saw in New York that a populist message can actually beat the money..

Partially true? If they die, I would very easily get over it

That would be fantastic. The first time in my 56 years we would see a democrat actually caring about the social good rather than pander to it for "vote blue" dollars - that clearly dont work