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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: To our establishment friends in the Democratic Party [View all]
Jit423
(1,568 posts)15. I do support getting out and bringing our case before the voters more. Sorry, but Bernie is not getting us more Dems.
He is getting out more voters to be Independents and against Trump but I am not sure he is getting out more Democratic voters. I still can't shake what is did to us in 2016 and somehow, I feel as though he will tarnish AOC's future as a Democrat. That's just me, but that is my true feeling.
Dems have a history working for the working man and the disenfranchised and the poor to be proud of. We need to have a message that energizes more current Dems to get out there and to vote. One friend of mine said it seems like we old Dems are not good enough for the "new" Dems after all the work we did in the past, many giving their lives, to fight off racism, sexism, and fascism it's as though what we did over the past 75 years wasn't good enough. After the way VP Harris was treated by the anti-establishment Dems many blacks feels as though this is not their fight. I, for one, understand that feeling.
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All Democratic leaders should be joining with Bernie & AOC to grow a Massive Movement
thought crime
Apr 2025
#5
An ideology of insults, disinformation, hate, anger, cynicism is all the Revolution Establishment tells its
betsuni
May 2025
#78
"Divisive" was redefined 10 yrs ago, means objecting to false accusations and bashing of Democrats, threats.
betsuni
May 2025
#82
How many Fortune 500 company's or CEO's have donated to Sanders or AOC? vs the regular leaders of the party?
LiberalArkie
Apr 2025
#9
I don't know of any CEOs/Fortune 500 companies who have donated to Democratic leaders. There is Ro Khanna,
lapucelle
Apr 2025
#20
Well this last election went fucking gangbusters for us, so maybe a different approach will help.
Cuthbert Allgood
Apr 2025
#23
Sorry, but recruiting and training candidates who want to run as Independents against Democrats
lapucelle
Apr 2025
#29
So you would vote for/support a "liberal" Independent running against a Democrat like Ro Khanna?
lapucelle
Apr 2025
#32
Ro Khanna is quite liberal, not one of the ineffective establishment-types.
FoxNewsSucks
Apr 2025
#34
Wow, so you think that Bernie Sanders is trying to "take [Democrats] out" and replace them with Independents?
lapucelle
Apr 2025
#35
For example, how did our last Democratic president not speak up for the working/middle classes?
betsuni
Apr 2025
#65
Does not violate forum rules if it's true. If it's true there's evidence and examples.
betsuni
May 2025
#72
We are told the oligarchs, billionaires, donors, corporations control the party. That included Biden as leader of the
betsuni
May 2025
#74
Yeah, Joe Manchin "was actually a Democrat", before he abandoned the party...
Jack Valentino
Apr 2025
#38
Yup. Running against a fictional demonized Democratic Party for its imaginary sins.
betsuni
Apr 2025
#47
As our last election clearly points to, money is not going to fix it. For me, Bernie and AOC are about democracy.
Magoo48
Apr 2025
#57
I do support getting out and bringing our case before the voters more. Sorry, but Bernie is not getting us more Dems.
Jit423
Apr 2025
#15
"We can campaign with Cheney but we can't work with progressive independents?"
FoxNewsSucks
Apr 2025
#21
The way Democratic voters have set out the last few election I think that those voters think
Autumn
Apr 2025
#28
They also treated Hillary like crap- both progressives and male media members.
kerry-is-my-prez
May 2025
#77
He's recruiting and training folks to run as Democrats or to RUN AGAINST DEMOCRATS as Independents.
lapucelle
Apr 2025
#52
Those are Democratic Party initiatives by NYS, some launched going back as far as 2014
lapucelle
Apr 2025
#63
NYS Democrats were asleep at the wheel when George Santos replaced a Democrat in the House. nt
PufPuf23
May 2025
#76
Did you work that race? I did. Actually, it was the press was asleep at the wheel.
lapucelle
May 2025
#81
How about some links to posts you made at DU during the elections that brought Santos to the House? nt
PufPuf23
May 2025
#83
Sorry. That doesn't work on me. There's an advanced search feature that you are welcome to use.
lapucelle
May 2025
#84
A stern letter read out loud. Democrats part of the "Them" in the populist "Us vs Them" status quo.
betsuni
Apr 2025
#55
The GQP has set out a bold new vision of how this country should function.
Clouds Passing
Apr 2025
#60
There are many places where the Democratic party cannot win. So let them run as Independents.
Intractable
May 2025
#79