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   wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 08:50:32 JST wet forest moon folklorist

   re: USPol takes today

   its fair to critique Kamala's campaign (always important when you lose by wide margins) but it is *the Democratic Party machine* that

   1) put Biden in by orchestrating a 2020 coalition to stop Sanders

   2) promised Joe would be a one term president

   3) ran Biden a second time without a primary while hiding the 2024 cognitive issues we were all yelling about back in 2020

   so its not just Harris's mistake (there were some), or Biden's hubris. the failures are systemic

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 14:46:14 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     Now we have people like David Brooks saying, well, hold up, maybe, just maybe, a Bernie Sanders like movement could have won here. Maybe that's the direction we need to go!

     But we know that if we try to go in that direction, legacy media, the Democratic Party machine, and many MSNBC-pilled liberal rank and file folks will tell us to fuck off into the sun.

     I am going to go in that direction anyway. Centrists failed. Left populists have work to do

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 14:46:15 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     Out of Obama's failures came populists. On the right the tea party and Trump doing birtherism. Truly disgusting stuff. Named immigrants and leftists as the villains.

     On the left came Occupy Wall Street. Small but mighty, post partisan. Named billionaires and corporate greed as the villains. Organizers from Occupy Wall Street then drafted Elizabeth Warren to run for POTUS, she declined. So they created the People for Bernie Sanders and we caught *fire*.

     Then the Democratic Party crushed us.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 14:46:16 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     Trump reminds us of what the US is - a deeply sexist and racist society built on genocide and slavery. It's who we are and have been. But recall that less than 20 yrs ago, Obama was elected on the promise of what the US could become. Sadly he then chose capital over the American people with the bank bailouts, he dropped drones overseas, etc. We became very disillusioned.

     Crucially since then, the Democratic Party machine has only denied that disillusionment rather than address it head on.

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 16:18:46 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     I don't know the final vote tallies, but its clear that both of Trump's wins were in large part due to depressed turnout on the Dems side. that's good news for us because it means we can beat fascists back by recruiting and organizing from the vast ranks of the politically disenfranchised. Sanders pulled people out of the woodwork with a simple story that named villains, channeled anger, condemned racism and sexism, and built community by bringing people together. lets learn from that

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 16:18:47 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     My advice to all of you (and myself) is to mute the blue magas and focus on organizing. Organize, recruit, persuade. Share indy media, join groups, be active. Nurture durable networks. Work w/anyone who shows up to organize. Instead of abusing folks that hold different views, work on making your ideas fun and impossible to resist. Find narratives from the people who have been consistently calling these issues accurately: like the folks now running Lever News, Drop Site News, and Breaking Points

     Joachim repeated this.
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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 16:18:48 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     those of us who organized with Sanders and in post-Sanders campaigns have learned a few things. we've learned that despite how hideously we've been treated by party operatives and legacy media, we are the clear-eyed adults in the room. we've learned that when we treat one another well and we follow through, we can succeed. we've learned this week that no one else is coming to save us. not a party flush with cash, not the experts. this is on us. or as we like to clarify: not me. us.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:58:32 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     @seachanger

     The only reason Biden got there in the first place was because he became Obama's choice to ratfvck Sanders during the 2000 primary when it seemed Sanders was going to completely upset the Democrats' coronation.

     Copmala was the compromise to hold back Hillary from running directly. The former became the latter's protege, as witnessed by the transformation of Hillbots to KHive.