Why we’re leaving El-Sayed’s spot on the ballot blank | Opinion [from democratic party members]
This is what the democratic party members Lon Johnson, a former Michigan Democratic Party chair, and David Kramer, a longtime Democratic strategist who has previously helped elect Democrats to the Senate, say after their candidate lost. Both supported Rep. Haley Stevens (per https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2026/10/16/dem-leaders-urge-party-to-vote-none-of-the-above-in-senate-race-finley/92269640007/). These are the people that would rally "party unity" to ensure a republican defeat if their zionist candidate had won. Despicable.
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Dems showing that the leftist strategy in 2024 is the correct way to apply pressure.
Oof, the amount of dog whistles in that op-ed, you'd think it was written by Stephen Miller.
I guess it's not surprising that one of the authors is on the board of directors of Democratic Majority for Israel. And the other is accused of offering then Senate candidate Nassar Beydoun 20 million dollars from a pro-Israel lobbying group to drop his Senate campaign and instead offer a primary challenge to Palestinian Muslim Rashida Tlaib in the 2024 election.
Jesus christ, do you have a link or something to that?
It's on his Wikipedia page.
Yeah so it is, the source there is https://www.mlive.com/politics/2023/11/michigan-senate-candidates-received-20m-offer-to-instead-primary-rashida-tlaib.html for any interested
They’re very upset that the electorate doesn’t support the genocide of Palestinians. Lon Johnson and David Kramer can go fuck all the way off. Join the GOP if the denunciation of Zionist racism is so abhorrent to you.
Rough you can't do anything physical about it.😔
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Another example of centrist democrats doing the work of the donor classes.
Shame on them. Fucking garbage. We did our part, hopefully our man gets in!
From the people that left Gaza blank.
So I can do the same when Newsom’s on the ballot? Sweet!
I will never cast a vote for that dude.
The article itself concludes with:
so yeah absolutely!
Well in my opinion Abdul has definitely earned the votes.
Abdul yes, Newsom not so much.
Vote blue no matter who!
Never heard of anyone trying to get on board a sinking ship, but if you want to join the GOP you do you.
Sorta like when people left the presidential candidate spot blank because they couldn’t bring themselves to defeat trump.
Yeah they're hoping that "party unity"works strictly one way. Fuck you if the candidate is to the left of genocide joe, "blue no matter who"when it's their guy.
Liberals need to do better, and remind other liberals whenever they come to anarchist/c/ to yell “purity/unity” testing crap. It's your party. Your tactics. Look at the mirror. Heck, bring mirrors every “peaceful” protest.
Fucking dipshits learned nothing from 2024.
We need to break the duopoly.
See you at the riots!
You know its in the Constitution, right
I have definitely heard people say that unironically. Makes me sad.
What it says essentially is "the person with the most votes becomes president", via the Electoral College, and that's the entire structure of the process.
So there's always one person with the most votes, and the next person with almost-the-most-votes. Over time that solidifies into two parties.
We first have to get rid of the Electoral College before we can do anything else and that involves removing parts of Article II. Until then, third parties will not get any (or very few) Electors = it's a duopoly.
Vote blue no matter who*
Vote blue no matter who*
*We decide who not you
Vote blue no matter who!
No, not like that.
Man who hasn't been politically relevant since losing 40%-55% a decade ago has something to say? In the editorials of a right-wing local newspaper?
Holy shit bang the drums, I can't believe the Dems would do that to El-Sayed, what a betrayal!!!!
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If actual party members publish a piece in an actual newspaper about how they're not gonna vote dem it's no big deal, but when someone writes a comment on lemmy about how they wouldn't vote newsom you get the whole gang screeching at you and possibly banned 😂