“How’s the Democratic Party’s ground game in Pennsylvania?” I asked a friend several weeks before the 2024 presidential election. He replied optimistically that there were far more door knockers this year than in 2022.

It turned out these door knockers were just urging a vote for the Democrats without putting forth a compelling agenda attached to candidate commitments on issues that mean something to people where they live, work, and raise their families. There was no Democratic Party “Compact for the American People.” Then-President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania, which went Republican, many times, with his most memorable message being that he grew up in Scranton.

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Their aversion to building their own momentum to answer the basic questions “Whose side are you on?” and “What does the Democratic Party stand for?” remains as pathetic as it was in 2022 and 2024.

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[–] 9 points 9 months ago (17 children)

How do we overturn Citizens United

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    Expand the Supreme Court. It's not even a radical idea. We have one SC justice for every superior court circuit. The number of circuits has grown, the number of justices hasn't, and there's no reason they can't or shouldn't, except that it'd dilute the donors' power.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    congress and the senate would have to make s new law snd the president would have to sign it.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Citizens United isn't a law, it's a Supreme Court ruling which has its (flawed) logic based on the Constitution. A law won't cut it, because Citizens United would be used as precedent to strike it down as unconstitutional. We likely need a new Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Maybe we form a micronation that's basically like the US government but socialist?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    The CIA would like to know your location

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    I dunno, are you fedposting? 🤨

    But nah that wasn't my implication. Just that starting a micronation that's "the United States but better" would certainly attract some attention.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Well crap, if you are correct, then we really, truly are fukt.

    There is no way we'll see a constitutional admendment, especially not one for the people and agaisnt big business. Not in my lifetime. Its fascism from here on out. Fuuucccckkkkkkk.

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