No because left means anti-capitalist. The Democratic Party is not anti-capitalist. Therefore, the Democratic Party is not a left party.

However, they are a neoliberal party. Which, when compared to the Republican Party's existence as a fascist party, does certainly make the Democrats preferable. But just because they are preferable does not mean they are left

Russia is much stronger militarily today then it was in 2022.

What are you basing this on?

men are generally terrible

George Floyd was generally terrible?

if you're ok with recycling I can link you an old comment.

Yes please

we've got a really fucking good chair

I've seen nothing but criticism of Ken Martin

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/19/dnc-chair-ken-martin-infighting-00413409

It's embarrassing how horrifically you have misread this comment thread.

You're being antagonistic with someone who agrees with you.

Their point is that vote blue no matter who is an empty slogan that is only applied when the centrist is the blue candidate. Now that a socialist is the candidate, the Democratic Party will abandon the vote blue no matter who logic. Because it was always just a pretext to force the left into supporting neoliberals, it was never actually about actual party unity

Within the context of US politics, the center left/Democratic Party is the largest political obstacle for socialists. So antagonism towards the center left seems to be rational within that

Democrats hate progressives

Democrats hate socialists. Their job is to ensure that the leftward fringe of the party, and of acceptable mainstream discourse, never moves past progressive/social democracy. The Democratic Party serves capital by ensuring a neutered American left

Hopefully this can be changed

Looting may be warranted or unwarranted. But, because majority support is not relevant, we shouldn't evaluate the propriety of looting based on this metric

The point is that majority support is unnecessary for a thing to exist. In fact, it increasingly appears to be an irrelevant metric in general

He doesn't focus on any of those things though, and instead talks about prioritizing anti-poverty and anti-hypocrisy.

The line that the Gospels are the why and socialism is the how appears to be apt. Liberation Theology is based on this principle. Which is the sect of Catholicism that clearly has heavily influenced both Francis and Leo

That link states that no federal reform occurred. Which supports my point.

Of the state level changes, they are all aesthetic and surface level changes - and even those are now being undone.

So I'm not seeing the real change. Which demonstrates that the protests were not effective

Isn't this just admission to stereotyping which is inherently illogical?

The US is an oligarchy. Any actual threat to that would be suppressed. Because these protests were not suppressed, what conclusion can be drawn?