People against Ms Rachel are akin to that time Mr Rogers had to sue the KKK for impersonating him to spread their hate filled message.

Or when Fox News slandered him. At least the KKK was smart enough (barf) to try to imitate his style for evil. Fox is too dumb even for that.

When you attack the helpers, you're bad.

Don't forget about states with off year elections! Virginia legislature and governor elections are on odd years, and I'm sure we're not alone. Every year is an election year!

I'm here to invest early

Lol likewise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c3e26ToDs0

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

A republic is a type of democracy. Specifically, it's a representative democracy.

A representative democracy like the US and a republic are literally the same fucking thing

It is a democracy, just a shitty type of one. There's a bunch of different types and only like one is direct representation where every citizen votes on every issue and every time humans have tried that, they get real particular about what qualifies as citizen so it's all more or less the same. Anyway, if you're past high school you should probably retire that line of thinking because it's reductive, useless, and actually false.

what an empty shell of a person he was.

That's his purpose...

He was handpicked by Pelosi, and a biased DNC threatened to bankrupt any state party who's reps didn't vote for him.

The current DNC has been dumping that money back on state parties for almost two years now. Even if someone thought they might pull the same shit, they won't have the funds to do it by then, and the state parties are already funded.

The "victory fund" was the stick neoliberals used, and Martin broke it into pieces and passed it around. It the bottom up structure the Dem party was always meant to have.

I am so tempted to send this as an actual email to his team along with a link to the attached article.

...and many state-level too, like Gavin Newsom and Scott Wiener. (As a Californian I am compelled to work "Fuck Newsom" into as many comments as possible.)

It's not as simple as that. Many are, yes, but there's also the progressive caucus and many who refuse to compromise on their integrity. AOC, Raskin, and many others.

Conversely, as someone already pointed out, there are also corrupt, corporatist state Dems, and probably even local ones too. It's not the level of government that makes the corruption, it's the sources of funding and how those influence their voting record.

Are they primarily funded by small donors and grassroots effort, or large donors and shadowy PACs? Do they serve their constituents or the oligarchy? These are the indicators we should focus on, not whether they're state, local, or federal.

The problem with the Democratic Party establishment is that it's run by milquetoast, centrist, corporatist Dems who in any sane country would be considered center-right. There are plenty of disruptors within that party and they're gaining a lot of momentum and influence, but they just haven't risen to the echelons of Democrat leadership yet. I think they will within our lifetimes, if we can pull our democracy out of this death spiral with the constitutional order still intact.

Honestly, I think the silver lining to all that's happening now is that it's really spurring people towards the progressives. And as people continue to see in larger numbers that progressive policy works (as in, it actually helps ordinary people and also as in it's an electable platform), I think that momentum will become unstoppable.

I don't want to jinx anything but within the next few election cycles I think we're going to start seeing the progressive caucus really start to increase their influence and eventually claim a majority within the Democratic Party.

And hopefully that happens as the Republican party continues to fracture and shoot itself in the feet repeatedly as their ship sinks faster and faster, because all they know how to do is subvert, slander, lie, and manipulate, and people are catching on.

I think it's probably more complicated than that, like sure lots of people in the party end up as paid opposition and certainly the longer they are in Washington making the kinds of compromises they have to make to get anything done the better they get at rationalizing those decisions. But I wholly agree that things need to change from what they are

Yes. And primaries are when you can put a better blue who on the ballot.