True. The more right the DNC leans, the more extremist right the RNC leans, to differentiates themselves from Democrats.

Which, fuckin' honestly, should be an object lesson for anyone who wants to advance progressive politics in this country. Engage in primary after primary and take over the party from within until the old guard are appalled at what it has become, except do that with good goals instead of horrifying ones.

And remember that by the time the election itself is at hand, it's too late to make meaningful change in the party platform. The primaries are what actually matter when it comes to changing course. Everything after that, it's just a binary choice between which of the major candidates you actually want in power.

More or less

Damn, I forgot the constitution was racist

I was about to say that Trump has already been elected twice, and then I remembered that that's not going to stop him.

And he's probably not even particularly left.

There's way more nuance than Lemmy pretends. It's difficult to deal with, because there's a lot of nuance and several grains of truth lying around.

They're afraid if someone on "their side" is out there yelling "I'm a socialist", that it'll scare the donors. That much is true.

Lemmy forgets that you need donors and allies to win elections. I honestly think many people pushing the "both sides" narrative actively want us all to lose.

We don't need to be as beholden to donors as the general Democrats are. We have a lot of room for Democratic Socialist policies. But if we use our platforms to yell about how both sides are the same, well, first, they're absolutely fucking not, and second, that's going to get people to stay home and lose elections.

We need to pull the party to the left. Partly that'll help win elections. IF we don't sink the boat while we're doing it.

Mamdani is a Democrat

Tell that to the DNC

He didn't say he wouldn't endorse him, only that he was going to meet with him this week to talk about stances which affect both of their approval ratings such as rising antisemitism in NYC, and I can certainly believe that even before the war on Gaza there was rising antisemitism such as a crowd led by Kanye West at one point.

Hakeem's District is Brooklyn, 22.4% Jewish.