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    Telling too that the Democratic leadership said after the fact that one of the reasons they lost was that they relied too much on small donators instead of billionaire donators. Disgusting

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          The war chest was campaign money for the biden/harris ticket, so if they went with someone who wasn’t on the ticket they couldn’t spend the money.

          This was the convenient excuse they manufactured so they could appear as though their hands were tied when just running biden again, and then kamala when that failed.

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            She burned through something like a billion and a half dollars if I remember right. She gave a shitload to rich celebrity endorsements.

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              This in particular pissed me off. Soon as the news broke, here’s me:

              “Are you fucking kidding me?! You make the rich celebrities pay YOU, not the other way around. If they have to be paid to endorse you, then they aren’t fucking endorsing you. They’re making their down payment on bribery!”

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      Which of course means they’ve learned absolutely nothing, and we can look forward to more of the same awful messaging and misguided/corrupt representation next time.

      Dems need to be replaced with a new party, I know FPTP is a challenge but the alternatives are worse.

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        I’d bet 20 bucks right now that the DNC will figure out some way to lose the midterms as well.

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        I agree with replacing the Dems, but are you meaning to say the alternatives to FPTP are worse? FPTP is the reason we are in the situation we are in imo.

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          Not at all, I’m saying the alternatives to not dismantling FPTP to enable new parties are worse. As in, we have got to get rid of it and elect an actual populist on the left, or the Dems and Repugs will bring about the end of the American empire through unbridled greed.

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        as someone who has been a dem my whole life, I agree. I feel like my political party has completely failed me, but at least for now, it’s the strongest form of defense we have against Fascism in our country, so I’m kind of stuck here.

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        Hate seeing this shit… “Democrats went way too far left with the pronouns stuff, so people overcorrected.”

        Fucking bullshit. They don’t know what “left” means anymore.