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[–] -3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Can't you primary them out of control? Join, volunteer & push out the limp fucks? I mean, the Tea Party was able to take over the GOP in less than a decade

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This seems to be a very good point on it's surface. However, the GOP got cooked by a dozen billionaires working very hard and spending a lot of money against a dozen other billionaires. The tea party and eventually the magats, where in no way grass roots.

    If you can find a few dozen billionaires, and they might have to be centi-billionaires at this point, it's not the 90s anymore, if you can find a dozen of them, you have a chance to sway the DNC over the next 30 years just like the magat billionaires did.

    Do you know a dozen hundred billionaires who want a 95% tax rate on their fortunes, strong, pervasive worker unions and legal protections, a $70 minimum wage, an end to "political donations", a complete overhaul of the police and judicial system, free education and healthcare, etc? I bet we can't find one that wants even just the first one.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    No the primary is controlled it doesn't actually have to obey its rules this most recent time they didn't even hold one

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Bar some very specific cases, they're holding primaries for every electable house and senate seat that comes up every 2-4 years.

    Sure, party leadership tries to steer these (same as GOP) but if you want to break their balls: that's where to do it

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