How do we the people create any true influence over the DNC? Aren’t they like the final approver for a democratic presidential candidate? And the DNC board isn’t elected by the people as far as I know. How could we ever have a true leftist democratic party if the DNC is running things?
We can get a lot of the way there by not rubber stamping their bad candidates. They need to know that if they play chicken with the voters we wont blink-- but we always have in the past. We’ll let the republicans drive this country right into the gutter if the DNC doesnt actually court our vote and just does whatever the rich donors and AIPAC want. The centrist voters would rather roll over and say they were powerless to influence the DNC, and vote for whatever trashy candidate the DNC sleezes into place. Theres nothing down that centrist road. It’l be a painful fight and we’ll take a lot of lumps letting republicans win if the DNC effs with us, but its the only strategy we realistically have.
They argued, and won in court, that they are a private corporation and voters are not entitled to fair elections and they are under no obligation to listen to the will of the voters regarding the candidates they select to win the nomination of their party
How do we the people create any true influence over the DNC? Aren’t they like the final approver for a democratic presidential candidate? And the DNC board isn’t elected by the people as far as I know. How could we ever have a true leftist democratic party if the DNC is running things?
We can get a lot of the way there by not rubber stamping their bad candidates. They need to know that if they play chicken with the voters we wont blink-- but we always have in the past. We’ll let the republicans drive this country right into the gutter if the DNC doesnt actually court our vote and just does whatever the rich donors and AIPAC want. The centrist voters would rather roll over and say they were powerless to influence the DNC, and vote for whatever trashy candidate the DNC sleezes into place. Theres nothing down that centrist road. It’l be a painful fight and we’ll take a lot of lumps letting republicans win if the DNC effs with us, but its the only strategy we realistically have.
They argued, and won in court, that they are a private corporation and voters are not entitled to fair elections and they are under no obligation to listen to the will of the voters regarding the candidates they select to win the nomination of their party
Just like in New York City. Get good candidates and elect them in the primaries.
We’ve had good candidates for decades. The party’s attempts to kill their campaigns are sometimes unsuccessful.
By voting blue only if the candidate is a genocidal piece of shit, and opposing any progressive candidate.
Which is the only thing “vote blue no matter who” has ever meant.