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Progressive group calls for Senate Dems to replace Schumer as leader (thehill.com)
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The progressive group Indivisible called for Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to replace Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) as Democratic leader after the party secured control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

“Yesterday, voters made it very clear that they want a new generation of Democratic fighters,” the group wrote in a social media post. “We need a leader in the Senate who is capable of leading that fight. It’s time for Senate Democrats to choose new leadership.”

The group cited the Democratic leader’s faltering approval ratings in its Wednesday statement. An NBC News poll conducted at the end of October found only 13 percent of registered voters viewed Schumer’s leadership positively.

“The American people did not elect Democrats by historic margins just to bend the knee and go back to business as usual,” Indivisible said in its statement. “Senate Democrats need to listen to the voters and turn the page on status quo politics.”

The paid opposition running the Democrats will not falter in their supporting of their Republican donors' causes.

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I understand where you're coming from, by under current conditions, with the American people being reactionary, it's impossible for the left to hold power on its own. That means the only ways of achieving power are to work with shitty people or to convince formerly shitty people to stop being shitty.

What is the path to victory, if we isolate ourselves from the average person?

We can (and must) begin to build socialism, not with abstract human material, or with human material specially prepared by us, but with the human material bequeathed to us by capitalism. True, that is no easy matter, but no other approach to this task is serious enough to warrant discussion.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I largely agree with you on this, but there are limits to "shitty people". Religious extremists and Nazis have an entire philosophy and desire to destroy and/or control everyone else. They feel joy when people they don't like are in pain. They cannot be dealt with any other way than banishment or destruction (and banishment just means we will deal with them later)

    With that being said, maybe some of the neoliberals will change, but they are already working hard to appease the elements of the extreme right rather than the left as we speak

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I agree with that. There's definitely limits and alliances aren't always beneficial. I'm just saying that if someone is prepared to help end the war in Iran because of gas prices, ideally they'd have a more humanitarian motivation, and we can call them out for it, sure, and not fully trust them, of course, but we don't need to be turning away willing hands. And the same goes for the neoliberals. Neither group reliably supports our goals, but on the occasions that they do, cool. There's a line to walk, I guess.

    And it's worth noting that not every Trump voter is a Nazi (at least not an ideologically committed one), some are just politically disengaged or gullible or they were just more aware of the Democrats' flaws without seeing the Republicans'. There are certainly some that are ideologically committed and yeah fuck them, we don't need, like, Tucker Carlson or JD Vance.

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