'Stain on Our Party': Ilhan Omar Condemns Minnesota Dems for Tossing Fateh's Mayor Endorsement
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Of course it will. This is like, the Democrats whole thing.
I wanted to say something sarcastic but wow, that is fucking brazen. Let's hope the "vote blue no matter who" crowd gets the hint.
No they won't, there's plenty of precedent to this. Look up what happened when India Walton won the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo.
At this point democracy is already dead in USA anyway, so might aswell burn the whole fucking system down to the ground, and start from scratch.
True enough, but without strong labor organization today's elected officials and the like will be tomorrow's resistance/"resistance" leaders. There's still value in getting progressives elected into office and, by extension, something of value is being stolen when neoliberals sabotage those progressives.
True. The new leadership will have to be from proper labor unions, in order til build the cpuntry for the common people, instead of for the corporations.
That crowd is trying really hard to not see the hypocrisy.
DNC doing Trumps work for him
As is tradition
It's not your party. It belongs to the people who bought and paid for it.
As someone from outside the USA, I will never get over how strange it is to have national-level parties involved all the way down to municipal mayor races
The problem with electronic voting is proprietary software.
No fucking way they're not using open source voting?!?