Progressives Up in Arms After AOC Loses Key Committee Seat | “At this point almost nothing the Democratic Party does makes any damned sense,” MSNBC’s Joy Reid wrote.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/progressives-up-in-arms-after-aoc-loses-key-committee-seat/
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This obviously is not ideal but there is absolutely no way that this would suddenly make me vote Republican.
It Makes sense the bulk of elected representatives are there to protect the wealthy and corporations and are expected to always punch left in order to maintain a neoliberal power structure.
Nope. Nothing makes sense.
Politicians so crazy……. It’s almost like, they have alternative agendas or something
Sounds like the old guard is afraid of any change to their status quo. Someone needs to mark their card. How does the old song go The Times They Are A Changin?
Well if the democrat leadership refuses to accept the new guard then we force it. We start a new political party.
Honestly progressives need to learn to win elections and build coalitions. If they can’t win in their own party how do they plan to win nationally.
Makes perfect sense if their ambition is to serve themselves and their donors.
This is proof that the old guard of Democratic leadership is more concerned with furthering their own political careers than serving their constituents.
So sick of where this entitlement has led us to.
The old guard has no intention of giving up power to move forward, just obtained wealth for themselves and their families, the people just don’t matter
Fuck em all!!! 2 party system is broken like everything else in this country.
Unless you are the 1%
There’s a lot of that going around
Hi! Democratic strategist here. There were in fact a few conflicting agendas happening. We were aware of them the whole time, we all indulged in them and did dirty shit behind the scenes for favors. Now that we’ve lost I’m going to slow milk the cow for 18 months on podcasts and talk shows and maybe a book if I can find someone to write it…. Then I’m going to use those hundreds of thousands of dollars they paid me to do whatever the hell I want for another year before getting hired again for the next election.
Thanks suckers.
I don’t understand why most Democrats are angry with this choice. These are the individual that are being defended by shouting down anyone that criticizes that Harris didn’t run a flawless campaign. Harris isn’t going to be running for election in 2026 or 2028 these people are, and they are the ones that where defended by Reddit after the election. I hope that this helps open some peoples eyes that change is needed.
The Democratic party, which is ruled by corporate elite warmongers…. doesn’t deserve AOC or Bernie Sanders.
I have to agree with Joy here. This was a perfect opportunity for the Democratic Party to demonstrate a shift in strategy and this does not inspire confidence.
Have they tried joy?
It makes perfecr sense if you look at throught he lens of getting wallstreet and health insurance donor money you can steal!
It makes sense if you understand their goal as a party is the status quo NOT progressive change.
If AOC said she was starting a new party I would register. I wish the progressives would take over.
It makes perfect sense, Nancy wanted a surrogate on the committee.
Progressives should leave the dems and start a new progressive party. Fuck those old rich white people in the leadership.
Joy Reid can stop with her fake outrage. She actively helped get trump elected with her constant sane washing of him and then being hypercritical of the Biden Administration. She carried water for russian misinformation on numerous occasions. She is corporate media…. Constantly creating conflict in order to attract more viewers so that her paycheck is higher and shareholders make more money. They all need to be let go.
What’s the difference between McConnell and Pelosi?
Joy Reid doesn’t make any damned sense her self. So if she’s saying it, it’s pretty bad.
Did pelosi just fight harder to keep a cronie in charge of oversight than she did to pass a federal abortion law? Sounds about right
This bears out the big open secret of how the Democrats actually operate: they are led by a few surprisingly wealthy old people clinging to their power like alcoholics holding their wine, refusing to put the party, their constituents, and their country ahead of their own self-serving gains.
Some good work has been done, at times, but the Pelosis and the Schumers of the party need to fuck off and make room for the next generations
Would that be the same Joy Reid that called Bernie supporters more dangerous than Trump supporters in 2020? Performative leeches, they have had just as blame in both Trump victories as Democrats themselves.
Would love to see the progressives split from democrats and form a new party. Dems would still be a major party and the retirement community would continue to keep their billionaires safe.
Let’s leave these relics behind and form a new progressive party!
Nancy Pelosi can fuck off, she had her time in the sun now she’s just as crooked.
Progressives, the only group I will ever DISDAIN as much as the Trump cult.
The new regime can’t fix old problems and the old problems just won’t go away
Corporate goons.
I don’t think there’s any progressives left in the party
Democrats have Progressives. Republicans have MAGA.
Republicans pushed aside their traditional ways, embraced MAGA and now win elections.
Democrats are fencing out Progressives and are losing elections.
People get up to vote for MAGA. People get up to vote for Progressives. These are both Populist movements and if you ignore your party’s Populist movement at a time that it’s getting people elected, well.. you’re going to lose elections.
To quote famous Muslim Durk Banks “AHHH HAA”
I am a foreigner who has supported the Democratic Party all my life (I am 30 years old). Since the 2004 elections, when I was still a child. and when Obama was elected, I decided that this is the progress we have made as people. Obama was a good president. weak in foreign policy (I will explain why), but for the United States he was a good president who pulled the country and the world out of the deepest crisis.
I am from Belarus. For me, the war in Ukraine is one of the main problems. because Russia is really a terrible country. and I’ve never beaten Trump. For being a mafioso, for breaking the law. I was glad when Biden was elected in 2020.
but I will say a terrible and terrible thing that may reach someone here.
The situation is so deplorable with progressive politicians of the Democratic Party that I’m not afraid of Trump anymore. He’s the best option for me. Even if he surrenders Ukraine. Because now, today, he looks more reasonable and rational than 80 percent of the Democratic party. and really, it’s not a coincidence that the candidates Trump won were women. but because the program of these women was simply poisonous. just think, in order to win Trump, the Democrats had to pull out a pale old grandfather. because there were simply no other options. if the democrats do not understand that the main thing is to maintain the standard of living, and not the policy of segregation, then everything will return to them. but if Trump now looks like a more reasonable person than a Democrat, then this is an occasion to reflect not on the fact that everyone in America is racist, but to reflect on the fact that something is wrong with democrats.
I think Progressives MAY be overestimating how much Americans want their policies.
There’s a lot of evidence that Americans mostly want moderates, a candidate like 2020 Biden is more electable than a 2016 Bernie or a 2024 AOC. The old guard is probably still the best chance for Dems to get elected
When you think about it this assignment is a horrible look for Democrats. “Ooh, we lost because we ran a non-White woman against a lying cheating neo-Fascist, so we shouldn’t put any young non-White women in power, anywhere. Why yes the voters were right, lets also be sexist and racist.”
Fuck Nancy Pelosi and the entire Democratic Party. I can’t wait for the day when all these ghouls die off.
ahhh finally time for young voters to complain younger voters don’t show up for primaries. welcome to the machine kids.
As a conservative, all this Democrat in-fighting makes me happy.
I get why progressives are upset. But it’s also not lost on me that they are only as upset as they are because they only plug into politics on a superficial level.
This is not a shocking result. The progressive caucus is a minority power within the DNC. They don’t even have internal cohesion as a caucus! The Progressive caucus is 95 members strong and yet AOC only got 84 votes.
Progressives need to seriously get back to congressional grassrooting. They need more than 95 members AND they need better organizational structure as a group. Otherwise they better get ready for more headlines explaining how they lost for not playing the game.
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