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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social

This is exactly right; any answer to any question about “why doesn’t the left do X thing the right does” is always the same.

My friends and I have attempted a version of taking over the Democratic Party from the left. The campaign against us by the establishment has been unrelenting.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social

If you're ruthless for the right, you get money put behind you. If you're ruthless for the left, you get money put against you.

America First Legal got >$50 million in funding. A left version of the same would get attacked by Dem orgs and donors, and everyone associated with it blacklisted forever.

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  3. canwil.bsky.social profile picture

    canwil @canwil.bsky.social

    These are some of the Democrats they call “the future of the party”

    We cannot let this happen….AGAIN!!!!

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  5. Shawn @shawnelder.bsky.social

    Hmm? It's as almost the Democrat corporate donors see Leftism as the enemy? I understand many Dems fight Leftism cause some Cold War brainwash. While we don't need to go full Maoist here, they should understand the Center is crushing them with no progressive policies. Status Quo.

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  6. davidtenn.bsky.social profile picture

    Dave Tenner @davidtenn.bsky.social

    America has no left. It has Bernie Sanders and AOC and a few other screaming into the void left when the rest of the party became basically Reagan republicans as the old republican party became the AFP (American Fascist Party) We have no left. Only right and further right. These are your choices

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  9. reallyez.bsky.social profile picture

    ReallyEZ @reallyez.bsky.social

    Politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the Democratic party is the backup plan of the exact same donor class as the Republican party.

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  12. @sorcafa.bsky.social

    and no offence but your politics are incredibly milquetoast lol. imagine the hurdles put in front of anyone a fifth as radical as stephen miller

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    Sean Kearney @kearfacts.bsky.social

    I think a lot of people forget in 2015 and 2016, the establishment Republican Party did everything in its power to try and stop Trump at first. John Kasich and Ted Cruz literally made an alliance near the end of the primary to stop him!

    Trump just took it over by force. They fell in line later.

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  15. danbad23.bsky.social profile picture

    Daniel B. @danbad23.bsky.social

    It’s almost impossible to do politics without absurd amounts of money supplied by the “liberal” donor class. Big money loathes leftists for obvious reasons.

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  18. wade-k.bsky.social profile picture

    All You Need is Love @wade-k.bsky.social

    The dilemma of contemporary times: money won't buy happiness (as expressed in the declaration of independence) but it will buy you more money and more power.

    Remember, power and money are dependent upon each other for success.

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  19. danmarich.bsky.social profile picture

    Dan Marich @danmarich.bsky.social

    Is it because the GOP has already swung way right and if you support them you likely do too, while the Dems are not ready to swing far left and prefer to remain closer to the center?

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  20. bansheerage.bsky.social profile picture

    @bansheerage.bsky.social

    It’s true though! The right have deeper pockets. Which is why the left needs to rethink our strategy. Should we find ways within the system instead of against it?

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  22. moreacomment.bsky.social profile picture

    @moreacomment.bsky.social

    The left of center coalition is more educated and for this reason it is swayed - perhaps, too much? - by the logic of popularism.

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  23. theendofmypatience.bsky.social profile picture

    NobodySpecial @theendofmypatience.bsky.social

    Populism is your answer, btw. 50 million people on your side giving a buck each wipes out America First, etc. There's a lot of pissed of people out there. You have to go talk to them.

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    shep @shepherdone.bsky.social

    "The right" is a rightwing authoritarian movement, "the left" is nearly its opposite, never the twain shall meet.

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  30. aaronhuertas.bsky.social profile picture

    Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social

    Even at a prosaic level of trying to more effective influencer work or playing some constitutional hardball there’s so much bad faith resistance, soft nos, deflection and gaslighting. Like not even trying to primary a mid tier Dem.

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  33. youlikeraisins.bsky.social profile picture

    Raisins @youlikeraisins.bsky.social

    Is it that dem leadership is centrist while the base is more liberal? I see the base getting excited about people like aoc and mamdani, and leadership not being excited about them at all.

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  34. estj99.bsky.social profile picture

    Call me Beth @estj99.bsky.social

    Establishment Dems, tho ineffective, work against Progressives, et ... Toe the line or they come after you. Dems lost the Presidency 2 of last 3 times. To win the Prez Nom, must have 15%+ to overcome Party. It you get that, they disqualify delegates nominating convention- ya lose either way.

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    DW @dwilliamesq.bsky.social

    I mean this is true, and I dislike it, but it also makes sense. America First Legal IS the GOP. The right took over the party. The left is not the establishment Dems (who mostly suck). Of course they oppose you.

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  39. fearlessfreckles.bsky.social profile picture

    🦋FearlessFreckles🦋 @fearlessfreckles.bsky.social

    An idea: Collectively boycott (or minimal spending) holiday shopping. 4th Qtr spending provides a basis for how the country is doing. If you're celebrating, then purchase what you can now and minimize your gift giving/ celebrations. Celebrate holidays after 1/1/26. Have Christmas on 1/6/26.

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  40. johnbrownbread.bsky.social profile picture

    Academic Anarchy🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social

    The Stephen Miller of the left would basically be Lenin, Stalin, or Kropotkin. But again, many of the same people clamoring for such a person are too pathologically bound to capitalism to even consider the possibility.

    To many people, doubting capitalism is like doubting gravity.

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    Jennifer in SLC @jennifkslc.bsky.social

    This is absolutely true in my experience. Anyone I’ve ever known either personally or anecdotally that has tried to change the Dems from the inside has either quit in disgust or got co-opted into the machine. And the DNC establishment is ruthless if the left attempts to form a party to represent us.

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  46. thakman.bsky.social profile picture

    Thakman @thakman.bsky.social

    Start a program to register the left as unaffiliated. Support banning political parties. Put wealth constraints on Congress. When 70% of the electorate is unaffiliated the revolution is in full swing.

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    Dave McC @mccdave.bsky.social

    The way through may be radicalization of the professional class such that significant money starts going toward more aggressive goals. If you look at the polling, the Dem base - which has a lot of professionals - is probably on board. Pool their resources & you have a counterweight to the status quo

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  49. happyears.bsky.social profile picture

    Happy Ears @happyears.bsky.social

    Money helps, let's not pretend it doesn't, but just in the last 10 years we have seen many cases of the left outspending the right and still losing, sometimes badly. After a point, we need to stop pointing the finger at spending, or solely at spending.

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  50. rampantrawdoggery.bsky.social profile picture

    Jack @rampantrawdoggery.bsky.social

    Corporations own the parties and the Ds are particularly hurt by it. It causes them to sell out their constituents.

    Hamilton county dems just sent me an email about how DEMOCRATS WANT TO FUND POLICE!!! What the fuck??? I do NOT want that.

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    Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social

    The right has money with it; the left has money against it.

    Mainstream Democrats have learned how to represent workers, capitalists, and issue groups. It’s structurally determined to be incoherent.

    The left has clear and disciplined operatives, but their aspirations are blocked by the center.

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