There’s a lot of doomerism happening in these comments, so I’m just gonna add in that yes, I do think there’s a chance. A small chance, but a chance nonetheless

Right now shit sucks real bad. People know this. That’s why Trump won the first time. He ran as an anti-establishment everything candidate and people—not just his bigoted cultists—ate it up. But things didn’t get better. So then people voted for Biden bc he was the opposition to Trump who had become the establishment as the sitting president. And Biden won and shit still sucked. So then they went back to Trump bc there was no viable republican or democrat candidate outside of Trump and Biden/Harris. (Yes Bernie should have been the answer but America is currently a two party system and he was robbed of a primary election.)

So now that everything sucks and is getting worse and we’ve tried republicans and democrats and none of it is working and most candidates refuse to talk about real issues like affordability, people are starting to say “fine. I’ll find a different candidate then.”

And that’s how we got Zohran Mamdani, an openly democratic socialist as mayor of New York City. All across the country progressive candidates are using this momentum to primary out establishment dems. Not all are winning, but many of the races are close, like Kat Abughazaleh’s race. Even that helps because it shows dems that if they want to keep their seat as the controlled opposition so they can keep getting their bribes, then they have to change their messaging and priorities. People aren’t satisfied with a campaign to return to pre-Trump business as usual. People want a candidate that works for them

So check who’s on the ballot of your dem primaries (which are happening rn and through the summer depending on where you live) and see if there are any progressive candidates and do what you can to support them. Donate, volunteer, spread the word, and most importantly, show up and vote in the primary and the elections in November. Even local candidates like city council members and judges can have a lot of power if they have enough numbers and the support of the people

I know a lot of people on lemmy say that America is beyond repair and that the only answer at this point is a violent revolution but not only is this not realistic, it’s not helpful. A violent revolution would be devastating and the amount of lives lost would be horrifying. Theres also the fact that most violent revolutions result in a military authority taking power rather than a true democratic rebuilding. It’s much easier to fantasize about a violent revolution than it is to do the slow, tedious work of creating real change from the ground up

There’s no need to jump to the worst case scenario when we have a prime opportunity to make real change and build grassroots movements. Like I said, this is our chance to capitalize on people’s anger and dissatisfaction with the system to build class consciousness and grassroots movements. Do what you can, even if it doesn’t seem like a lot, and stay hopeful. We’ll get through this together by supporting each other

Won't happen until both the Republican and Democratic parties are dead and buried. As we've seen over the last decade, they're more than happy to work together if it means keeping progressives out of office.

Yes, we elected progressive presidents in the early 20th century. A century ago.

Then we decided in the 70s to stop being progressive.

If america can ever return to a normal parliamentary democracy instead of only giving it's people the choice between two parties, maybe

You'll have trouble finding someone worse than trump, but if you do I'm sure he'll win with a landslide.

We had FDR once 😭

center right is as far as america goes, and its the most conservative western country. Besides the DNC prevents any viable progressive from running ever.

they only allow AOC, AND BERNIE in congress solely to take attention off from themselves. like how schumer had a slew of dems to take the fall for ending the shutdown, in order to shield the other dems from being primaried.

more or less both parties make back-door deals with each other not privy to the voters.

at the time of bernie and obama, yea it was possible, as soon as trump got elected, it went out the window. as the DNC had not come up with a candidate as good as bernie or OBAMA since, just milquetoast AIPAC supporting candidates.

at this point it's hard to say if we'll even have an election in general

For which office? You guys already have elected progressives in some offices

We might be able to get a progressive to run as an independent in the general. If they try to go through the democratic party they will be backstabbed, while also inheriting all the DNC's baggage and idiocy.

It’ll be the progressive that gets elected to preside over the decline. Once we’ve been bled dry and the other nation(s) take the world lead, like China.

Not for a while, but that door is going to swing back the other way so hard it'll damn near come off the hinges. Then back the other way it'll go. The 1% thrives on our division.

We're in the grip of corporate control and we're not seeing light till that's resolved. I think eventually it'll happen though, whether it is through regulation or by the way of the green plumber is unclear.

E: then again, this was the next post: https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/12/sam-altman-s-home-targeted-second-attack/

And I hear there were 6 more warehouse fires, but I can't back that up. Media isn't covering it.

Elections 2028:

90y old republican with dementia, salivating to the microphone

Vs

88y old democrat on wheelchair, suffering terminal cancer, taking painkillers directly to the bloodstream.

Unfortunately during the debate, republican saliva shorted out cables in the microphone, while Democrat fell into coma.

Elections are won by the republican, democrats are weeping on bluesky, wondering why people voted for a shitty president again.

The End.

It's gonna take a big crowbar, or some other tool, to oust the billionaires from power.

It would take another age of enlightenment, otherwise people are just too conservative here.

clinton and obama were not that old.

Not in my lifetime or the lifetimes of my youngest family members. Bernie is a centrist and he's seen as too radical left.

Progressive Americans have to defeat the mini-boss (DNC) before they can on the main-boss (GOP).

There's a chance the GOP can crack open for a Progressive popout but the MTGs and such already got there years ago so I wager thats about at 0% odds now.

The Puritans were elder dipshits.

Sure the founding father's were progressive for their time (minus the misogyny, classism, and slave owning), but the Puritans never went away.

They just became the Know Nothing's, the Confederates, the Dixiecrats, the moral majority, the tea party, and now MAGA.

America is going to collapse. Start having faith in self and building a community that has a foundation that isn't using and abusing you.

This is more of a thought and a note to myself. It started out as sarcasm but I don't think it really is. The more I detox from American pop culture the more real authentic and honest life seems to be. It's like I have been lied to my entire life about truth and freedom.

Firstly, pray America has a future. You are currently becoming dumbfuckistan.

It's about to be do-or-die I feel..

Yes. If you look at the last couple of elections and when they were born you’ll notice an outlier that got that vote because they promised something different.

It’s doable, but it seems like the current voters like people born at the tail end of WW2.

Once we kill every billionaire, yes. A chance.

Yes!

Yes but it will be after a catastrophe that devastates the economy like another great depression, civil war or world war.

not anytime soon though because the Democrats won't let any of them win

Yes.

But we will probably watch them die on tv.

But it's possible.

Nothing is impossible. Might be improbable, but definitely possible!

I'm going with a third option: who the fuck cares?

America appears to be the batshit landscape the rest of the world knew it was but we were always getting drowned out from the noise of your soft power via hollywood and manipulative political/economic orgs. If you're having issues, has it been considered that you might wanna contain that shit instead of plaster it all over the world news? It's exhausting to continually see headlines about what nutty thing that wouldn't occur anywhere else happened today in Jesus land. And then have to suffer through the trivial machinations of moaning and hand wringing so that citizens can relieve themselves of responsibility and go back to their Netflix and video games.

America is cooked all the way through because it fosters a culture that takes away the compact mirror and hands a megaphone to kids when they're born. That's not gonna be cured in one or three or five years via election cycles. You have a terminal infection of culture and the sooner you come to grips with that, the better for everyone.

dont worry, kamala is running again

Remember that guy before Trump? Dunno about progressive, but he was young.