Their job is to serve their donors. That’s why a few Democrats threw themselves on a landmine to collaborate with Republicans to end the shutdown, despite voters showing them clear and obvious support on election day. They had literally zero electoral reason to cave, they did it because the rot runs the party.

The rot can either be cut out, so overthrowing the party leadership, or the party can be left behind to rot in the dustbin of history. If we do not address the rot everything will get worse forever until the country collapses.

The rot runs the party, you aren’t going to clear them out without overthrowing them somehow.

I think the DSA should split the party.

And there never will be.

Maybe the Democrats aren’t the best vehicle for progressive ideas.

So? He wants this because his donors want it, of course, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s using leverage to get what he wants.

He has more leverage now than he ever will, and he’s using that leverage to get what he wants.

Sure would be nice if Dems did that

Can’t you access your password manager from a web browser? Or your phone?

Isn’t that just… every app?

And then what?

Unless he taps into that anger and uses it to overthrow the political interests aligned against him, he won’t be able to do anything. They’ll just be mad and march around, but no real change will occur.

The Black Panthers existed.

But I notice you skipped over all the other things he could be doing, but isn’t, because he’s just doing electoralism and has no politics outside of it.

Is it a fucking secret? Why would any of this be happening behind the scenes? We should have an idea what else they have going on! It would be the height of stupidity if they were engaged beyond electoralism but they kept it in the dark so no one could find out.

He’s not just one man. There’s an entire team of people behind him and an army of volunteers, and they all seem to be solely focused on the election. What I want to see is for him to focus on his role as merely the electoral front of that larger organized effort, he focuses on the election and the rest of the people around him have plans that extend beyond and outside of elections. That’s not what I’m seeing.

My expectation is, once the election is over, they’re going to go home and forget about politics.

We’ll see.

It’s the only thing I see him doing. I don’t see him organizing workers or tenants and helping them unionize. I don’t see him distributing mutual aid. I don’t see him engaged in mass education. I don’t see him arming the poor and training a people’s army.

The electoral part is the only part I see him doing, and the only part I see his supporters doing.

Again, I’d be happy to see him prove me wrong.

Actually I think Marxist-Leninists and Black Maoists and anarcho-communists all have good ideas.

I’m really a centrist if you think about it.

I think he’s going to run into a brick wall with the city council and police union and organized business leadership when he tries to do any of the things he promised. They’d happily destroy New York if it meant kneecapping the DSA from making any progress.

I’d vote for him if I lived in New York, but I wouldn’t expend any other energy on his campaign.

Turns out, microplastics make you immortal.

Well.

It depends on your tax bracket and property values, doesn’t it?

On the one hand I’m farther to his left and am critical of some of his campaign decisions, and am not optimistic about his abilities to overcome the capitalists through purely electoral means.

On the other hand I’d be happy to see him prove me wrong.

The criminals are the ones in the FCC

They failed because the other unions didn’t stand in solidarity. If every union in the country retaliated against Reagan they could have forced him to rehire. They kept their heads down to protect themselves instead of retaliation, which only accelerated the decline of unions.

Despite the decline it’s still a viable strategy. If the air traffic controllers get fired, everything gets shut down. It’s the only way.