• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    4 days ago

    Pretty much, yeah.

    Taking over the Democratic Party vs starting a new party is kinda like addressing climate change on Earth vs terraforming Mars.

    The former sounds painful and bureaucratic while the latter sounds exciting and innovative.

    But if you can’t fix the party or planet you’ve got, which has like 80% of the hard work done already, what hope do you have of doing a new thing from scratch?

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      One of the criticisms against the Democratic Party is that they aren’t particularly democratic. Party insiders and the wealthy hold far more power and practically pick the nominees.

      Rather than compare them to the planet from which we were birthed, I would compare them to a shitty boyfriend we’re afraid to dump.