Every primary should be competitive, I don't care if it's AOC or Fettermen.

It's been a loooong time since there was real primary competition for the local congress seat. Shit was bought and sold long ago, enforced by a "power broker" (read: mob boss) who rules regional politics with an iron fist. And the general is just a long string of ~70/30 splits. There was no challenger for the senate seat, either.

Progressives have been making a tiny bit of headway at the local level, at the cost of endless lawsuits and harassment for daring to go against the machine. But the vast majority of committee positions etc are patron/nepo placements even though they're "elected." Shit is thoroughly corrupt.

Yes, I still voted.

Nope. It sure wonʻt be easy. But we need to be merciless.

Violence: It gets shit done.

Conservatives love violence. Let's give them a wonderful Christmas gift this year.

Tell me when Schumer stepped in and told Andrew Cuomo he needed to not run because the voters had decided, and that Mamdani was the candidate?

Show me where Jefferies came out unabshedly in support for Darializa?

The core of the party are Democrats who will happily support fascism and thats why we have fascism.

It's the same sell as the rest...

Compromise on this, and we'll get you elected and you can do so much!

It's not that the people who fall for it are monsters, it's an incredibly sophisticated manipulation network that's been running for literal generations.

Like, she straight up had two agents as handlers, and likely had no idea. Maybe she knew by now, but I doubt she did when they were hired.

Write them off as individual monsters who were always wrong in the head, and it just gives us a false sense of security. The truth is scarier, and why we need to crack down on foreign interference and pac money in general