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    1 day ago

    The Democratic party is right there, and it stands for nothing.

    That’d be nice, but no. The Democratic Party stands for keeping leftists out of power and, if possible, keeping neoliberals in power. It’s a shit platform, but it’s there and it means they’ll fight you tooth and nail (or simply kick you out, as they’re trying to do to David Hogg) if you try to bring even center-left politics to the party.

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      Oh, I’m certain they’ll fight, but I’m not talking about changing the party. I’m talking about taking their base to take their seats

      I’m talking about a hostile takeover, we make a big enough faction and we can take the party, along with the infrastructure and less involved voters

      Why do you think they’re trying to kick out Higgs? It’s not because they think he’s more dangerous as an independent

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        19 hours ago

        I’m talking about a hostile takeover, we make a big enough faction and we can take the party, along with the infrastructure and less involved voters

        That’d be nice, but my point is that the party will fight you tooth and nail if you try to do that, and if you choose to work within the party they’ll have a lot more leverage over you via party bylaws, appeals to party unity, etc, and they’ll use that leverage to, for example, dilute your political program and drive a rift between your base and leadership and between more and less dedicated members of the movement. These aren’t trivial concerns; handled improperly (or maybe even if handled properly) they could very well spell the end of your attempted takeover.

        Why do you think they’re trying to kick out Higgs? It’s not because they think he’s more dangerous as an independent

        Because he has a high-ranking office within the party and doesn’t have wide national appeal. Also note that Hoggs isn’t a leftist; he’s a liberal who simply wants Democrat gerontocrats gone. He’s running a completely different path from the one we’re talking about here, and still there’s a good chance he gets kicked out and proves my point that the DNC won’t tolerate change from within.

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          4 hours ago

          And what is the other option? Start up a third party? We don’t have time for that.

          If the stars aligned, best case, it would take a bare minimum of 2 election cycles to get a party established. One to get enough seats to form a voting block and gain legitimacy to the average voter, then another to gain enough seats to be more than a side note

          And meanwhile, Democrats will still exist, and since they hate the left more than fascism they’ll still fight tooth and nail.

          We don’t have time or other options.

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            3 hours ago

            We don’t have time for that.

            Why? What’s the deadline? If you mean to stop fascism then either way fascism isn’t going to be stopped at the ballot box; parties and elections are day after stuff.