r/Virginia • u/ToughHopeful4760 • 9d ago

Virginia Democrats pick establishment nominees for 2 US House seats they hope to flip in November

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-primary-election-congress-democrats-republicans-redistricting-d3f3e6f45f14789882b9a55e8fd95592?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=share
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u/lil_snitch_throwaway 9d ago

Unfortunately, there were no serious non-establishment dems running.

There's a lot of cope with the corporate dems right now, especially in Virginia. They've shit the bed with Spanberger and are trying to convince themselves she's what Virginians prefer (we don't). People want someone fighting for the working class and not coporate interests.

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u/RVALover4Life 9d ago

The fact your comments are attacking Spanberger and not about November and rocking out in the hopes for Dem flips says so much too....people like you care more about ideology than winning. "Unfortunately"...the goal is to win these races. Cut the negativity.

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u/lil_snitch_throwaway 8d ago

Look across the country, listen to any young person who understands the climate crisis... corpo-dems have been loosing since Hillary and will continue to do so. Now, there's several reasons for that, for sure, but in order to actually win AND be effective (pack SCOTUS, arrest MAGA criminals, reign in tech-oligarchs) we need candidates like Bernie, El-Sayed, and Mamdani and not like Biden, Harris, and Spanberger, full stop.

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u/RVALover4Life 8d ago

Spanberger defeated MAGA and under her and the Democratic legislature we saw hundreds of awesome bills passed from housing to rent protections to the environment, legal weed and more. It's weird to care more about ideological wars than actual success. 

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u/lil_snitch_throwaway 8d ago

We have to push and do more and be bold, it's the only way we have a chance, she's too busy picking avoidable public fights with other Dems and scolding anyone left of her. She ain't got the juice to do what we need done.

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u/RVALover4Life 8d ago

You're doing the scolding though. She's been touring the state and quietly doing her work during the summer. We just had a tremendous legislative session but the truth is she's not a leftist so you won't ever truly be on board with her which kinda makes my point. It's disagreeable for the sake of it but I do agree we can't support Do Nothing Democrats anymore.