Democratic Socialist of America members who include New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should leave the Democratic Party and create their o…

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  • Feyd@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Let’s make a deal, Tom. Get proportional representation, one of the variations of voting that fixes first past the post, legislate away citizens united, and have fair, publicly funded elections, and you can have the party you want.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Countries with PR are having the same problems with fascism that first-past-the-post systems have. Also, PR gives more, not less power, to opportunistic centrists, since they’re often needed to form a coalition, which gives them massive leverage. In countries with PR, the centrists are often in every government, as the governments alternate between center-right and center-left.

      PR might seem fairer in principle, but the notion that it’s some kind of panacea is unfounded. Like term limits, the benefits are almost entirely theoretical. And in both cases, the “miracle cure” can lead to antidemocratic anomalous outcomes when someone figures out how to game the system. And every system can and will be gamed.

  • littletoolshed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    “…don’t want that in my party…”

    Is this guy the new owner or something? I’ve never heard of him.

    • unalivejoy@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      “I just bought a bunch of Democrat senators. What can I do about all these pesky socialists in my party? They won’t accept any of my bribes.”

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    How about you leave. Like, what are y’all even fucking doing anymore? You guys are more unpopular than you ever have been and it’s literally your own fault.

    • Saleh@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      The DNC Dems are there to prevent a progressive party from forming. The DNC Dems are working together with the Reps to fight against the people of America for the rich oligarchs running the country.

      We warned that this is what is going on before the last presidential election and before that. But people wouldn’t want to listen, instead defending “slow genocide” and “lesser of two evils” and other insane statements. Now they keep getting screwed as the DNC Dems understand that they will keep getting away with it.