• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Okay, well, I’m waiting for those steps to be carried out then. We can’t really talk about her extreme viability until they have.

    I’m going to skip over the Kamala stuff because you say this later:

    An extended campaign would only reveal Kamala as just another weak-ass establishment Dem.

    Which I agree with. This is the reason she was not a strong candidate.

    Was she the best we could have done under the circumstances? Well, we didn’t get a primary, so who knows. The past is the past, I suppose.

    I am worried that you are drinking the koolaid a little bit. Kamala did lose. Nobody cares about policy. AOC’s proposals should be violent retribution against the leeches sucking the life out of the USA. Trump is successful, in part, because he pretends to be anti-establishment. The DNC’s official position is to never criticize any prominent figure they’ve ever had.

    I agree that AOC can energize people. What I’m asking is if she has the dominant aura necessary to crack the whip.

    I ask, partly because having the will to mobilize our system into actually doing something is a prerequisite now to being successful, and partly because this ping-ponging between the Dems and the Republicans will burn the country down. We need like a new cultural revolution. It should be as offensive to be a Republican now as it was to be a Nazi in the 1940s. American individualism and apathy must be crushed under heel. Anything less than this is basically a slow death. A pyrrhic victory as we lose global significance.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      9 hours ago

      Kamala didn’t lose, she was robbed, and more and more evidence of it coming to light. IF we ever regain power again, a deep, comprehensive investigation of our election system would be required.

      Find out what these traitors did, who did it, and how. When they are identified, nothing less than the death penalty should apply for their crimes. They need to shake up any future traitors who want to try it.

      But I agree that we need a big reset. Education needs to be federalized, states have proven they will not handle education responsibly. Elections need to be federalized, states have proven that they will abuse their authority. No gerrymandering, no Electoral College, Government funded elections, strict time limits on campaigns, truth in campaigning laws, end lobbying, etc.