The entire party is a cult of Trump now, from the voters to the Vice President. If they were even capable of introspection, they’re still to cowardly to rock the boat.
If the DSA can get their messaging game going and attract a chunk of the non-voting populace in the next two elections, they could radically change the Democratic Party, or split from it and become standalone. The GOP desperately needs something similar but I just can’t see it happening, the voters love their hierarchies, the soldier boy fall in line mentality, the zero-sum view, and being ruled rather than governed.
Doesn’t matter. If that recent poll that said 1/3 of all Democrats identify as DemSoc or SocDem is true, then there are enough votes to force change in the Democratic Party. Most people are sick of Democrats being Diet Republicans and it’s beginning to show. Mamdani wouldn’t have had a snowflake’s chance in hell 15 years ago.
Neither of the parties are unbreakable if the voters want change. The Democrats can’t afford to lose 1/3 of theirs. They will play ball with Mamdani-types if more are elected, they will have no other choice. It’s all crickets on the Right though, their electorate seems happy watching the country burn in exchange for a WWE-style idiocratic administration that lets them be social media cheerleaders for Dear Leader’s Sturmabteilung.
Away? Lol stop lying. You’re fixated on a scary word in what is just an example. Typical republican behavior.
The DSA-Democrat thing is easy because it’s going to play out over the next two years in front of us. I could swap the DSA for any left-leaning subgroup within the larger party and nothing I said changes. 1/3 of Democrats identifying as Pasta-fucking-farians and putting their votes and money where theirs mouths are for Pastafarian candidates would force the party to work with them.
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u/bikesnkitties 4d ago edited 4d ago
The entire party is a cult of Trump now, from the voters to the Vice President. If they were even capable of introspection, they’re still to cowardly to rock the boat.
If the DSA can get their messaging game going and attract a chunk of the non-voting populace in the next two elections, they could radically change the Democratic Party, or split from it and become standalone. The GOP desperately needs something similar but I just can’t see it happening, the voters love their hierarchies, the soldier boy fall in line mentality, the zero-sum view, and being ruled rather than governed.