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I have been having the same thoughts. We currently have choices between far right fascists and center right. There is no progressive party. It may take a few years of MAGA destruction of our democracy and the economy before people are ready to support it, but a new party could be the answer. It is unfortunate that nobody better than Williamson, Stein, and RFK Jr was stepping up. West is the only one you mentioned that I could consider supporting.

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Thanks for this. It's shocking how entire paradigm of our political system has shifted to the right over the last several years.

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The Dems are not actually Center right. When you find genocide, fund war for profit, imprison journalists and civil rights organisations like the Uhuhu 3, and send police to arrest students for protesting genocide….that’s actually fascism.

Don’t wait for mystical symbols or hand waves. That’s actually fascism.

And until people start voting for the Green Party of others on the ballot and stop pretending that they can only make one of two fascist choices, well it’s going to continue like this.

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I agree with everything you say. We had a chance in 2015 and 2020 to elect Bernie Sanders, but the corporate wing of the Democratic Party quickly did everything they could to eliminate him. What a mistake! Think what that party would look like now after 8 years of a President Sanders! I grieve for what could have been but am on board with your thoughts for a brighter future.

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Yes. Imagine the Democratic Party without the corporate wing that suppressed Sanders. That's all it would have taken to have not ended up here.

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There is a window of opportunity in which Biden could do what’s right and pardon you, Julian Assange and Leonard Peltier for crimes for which you were not guilty. It’s important for you to resume your work, it’s essential that Leonard should be allowed a short time of freedom after 50 years of imprisonment. The cases brought against all three of you were vindictive, I despair of seeing justice done once Trump takes office

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DNC is a well organized criminal organization and one of the two wings of the single US War party,

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Admittedly a small sampling, the few commenters here so far highlight not only the challenges awaiting a party attempting to rally the working class, but also the unmistakable collective stupidity of the American voter. I have NEVER been more proud of not participating in the electoral process. Until the day a class-conscious bus driver, baker or butcher rises from the political ashes to lead us out of the political wilderness, workers will inevitably continue our prostrated dependence on the professional managerial class and/or millionaire/billionaires to sell off our bodies and souls to the system demanding them in exchange for the meager scraps offered in return. As a hospice nurse, I’ve had more than one encounter with patients and families telling me the candidate they’re waiting to throw their support behind is the individual basing their entire campaign on eradicating insurance companies. The days of half-measures are over. The ONLY candidate I’m even remotely interested in any longer is the individual willing to die for the folks he/she desires to lead..

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"Until the day a class-conscious bus driver, baker or butcher rises from the political ashes to lead us out of the political wilderness, workers will inevitably continue our prostrated dependence on the professional managerial class and/or millionaire/billionaires to sell off our bodies and souls to the system demanding them in exchange for the meager scraps offered in return."

Yep, but as noted by Steven and others, the closest thing to that who even sniffed a chance within the Democrats, Bernie Sanders (granted, a career activist and politician), was sabotaged forthwith. The two corporate supremacist center-right and proto-fascist parties will do anything and everything up to and including assassination (character, or if needed, mortal) to stop a truly popular, er....economic/social populist from arising on a class conscious message to unite the working class. The corporate media and FIRE/tech sector political donor class will gladly do their part. I am at a loss as to what possible positive outcomes the US and EU can have now. I suppose at least in the EU, with their parliamentary systems, there is the chance for third and fourth parties to force coalitions and thus compromise. The US may require a war (civil or world) to lay the groundwork for any meaningful changes to this arch-capitalist destructive trajectory we're on.

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Oh my,

the Democrats succeeded, you are not giving them proper credit. Look we have had over a year of full scale GENOCIDE. Biden offered everything needed with no redlines, none. Again and yet again he pledged all this country has to arm Israel's forces and protect them as the killing proceeded including blocking all calls at the UN for a ceasefire. Full success!

Thankfully the American people said NO loudly and hopefully all the rest of those in the pay of AIPAC undermining our democracy to support Israel will eventually be OUT as well.

I am astonished, after a year of horror, of Biden's nonstop support of KILLING, now that regime has been thrown OUT and instead of PLANNING how we can END the genocide we hear all this clammering and fear mongering about the dangers of Trump.... does the literate class actually LOOK before they speak? NO. Fear is the latest way to govern so if you lose you just generate FEAR OF THE OTHER as in trump-derangement-syndrome........

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Don't get your hopes up with Trump.

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-return-of-trumps-iran-obsession

I also read that this Hook guy and others circling the new cabinet choosing committee have advocated for a no-fly zone in Ukraine. You wanna talk about killing and genocide, it's likely only going to get worse over the next 4 years, and on a much larger scale.

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as Sy Hersch said, Trump is "a circuit breaker" so if that is the best we can do, lets get to work making change, NOW. The genocide HAS TO STOP, let us stop it.

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“… My guess is that it could not create one to lift working people while also appeasing the corporate donors who now dominate the party...”

It’s worth reflecting that the “corporate donors” aka the oligarchy, that funds the Dems…..benefits from Project 2025.

They fund the Dens to block alternatives. The Dems is a terminally infested corps therefore. A zombie.

For the working class the only salvation is to build something from the ground up.

In this respect every single vote that the ceiling glass gave to the Dems rather than the Green Party, was a wasted one. Because it takes a decade to build this alternative and involves election losses that build ballot presence.

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AGREE - The Democratic Party has no vision and the time is ripe for a new, corporate-free, progressive third party! Let’s do it!

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Once the tariffs are enacted and inflation increases the shine on the apple will grow dull. Trump voters, will suffer.

This period is the time to organize ourselves.

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From Matt Goodwin:

"This is what happens.

This is what happens when you ignore what millions of ordinary people have been saying for much of the last decade.

This is what happens when instead of addressing their concerns you jam even more mass immigration, broken borders, social disorder, woke policies, gender madness, soft-on-crime policies, high taxes, regulation, and cultural chaos down their throats.

This is what happens when instead of treating your fellow citizens with respect you choose to berate them, once again, like you did in 2016, as “Nazis”, “fascists”, “MAGA extremists”, “insurrectionists”, “garbage”, and more.

This is what happens when the only people who refuse to acknowledge that most voters do not want to live in a world with open borders, mass migration, soft-on-crime policies, high taxes, restrictions on free speech, forever wars, and the sexualisation of our children happen to be the very people who control our institutions.

This is what happens when you allow our public, taxpayer-funded institutions, from universities to schools, to be hijacked and taken over by radical ideologues who use their power to impose a stifling, unscientific, and deeply divisive woke agenda on everybody else, including our families and children..."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-151259799?source=queue

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Sorry, but the hijacking was done by the FIRE sector - Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and the "investor class" to whom successive US governments from the state level on up, beginning in earnest with Ronny Raygun, have been gladly handing over control of the public commons. "Woke" is an entirely corporate message and/or platform now. TPTB, the industrial/finance/media titans who own our electoral process are just fine with as much wokeness as is needed to ensure that people like you, me and, adjunct professors, bus drivers, schoolteachers, firemen, etc. remain divided along phony cultural issues that will never affect our lives so that we are never united in class consciousness. The right purposely attempted to destroy public and higher education and mostly succeeded where class conscious philosophy and economics was rooted out, defunded and the vacuum filled with wokeness - because the oligarch/financial class is just fine with it. Makes it all the more easy for them to hoover up all the assets, infrastructure, and money and rent it back to us in perpetuity as "services."

The now infamous Schwab quote: "You will own nothing and be happy." wasn't some not-so-veiled allusion to global communism as the right delusionally tells itself. It was an open, honest proclamation of war on all of us: "We will own everything and we will rent it to you at a price of our collusion and choosing, and there will be nothing you can do about it." The Everything-as-a-Service equivalent to what we've all seen productivity software and housing become. The ultimate rentier capitalist economy on a global scale. You wanna use those heated seats built into your work truck? Well you better pay the monthly rent for it, or we'll remotely turn them off!

And while we fret and moan in neglectful ignorance about DEI and the supposed effects it has had on American industry and STEM (for ex. Boeing) the real reason (corporate greed, short term profits at the expense of long-term stability, and the gutting of R&D in favor of buybacks) are ignored and pushed below the fold. But enjoy that Bari Weiss "Free Press" sub. I'm sure it's very informative and always accurate - especially about "free speech" as long as you don't criticize Zionist Israel.

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Perhaps you should take your spiel over to Matt Goodwin's site. Speaking for myself, I don't view the loss of my rights and protections in law and policy based on my sex class as a "phony cultural issue." And I don't view the lifelong medicalization of children when they can't possibly consent in any meaningful way as trivial. And I'm done with the intellectual posers and misogynists who do.

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Some of you need to take a look at this excellent read:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN32BXC2/

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I've been saying this repeatedly since the Bernie bamboozle. Here is one of my substacks on the subject there've been many of them. And many more detailed. https://heininger.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-why-the-democrats-must?utm_source=publication-search

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Someone needs to take over the Democratic party in the same way that Trump has taken over the Republican party. Only 0.4% were willing to vote 3rd party. Hopefully, the right person is a little younger than Williamson, Stein and RFK Jr. Claudia De la Cruz is amazing.

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The Democrat Party of today is not the Democrat Party I grew up with when JFK was President. Clearly in the last two or three decades they have been taken over by communists, marxists, and globalists, who colluded with the old Republican Party. The Democrats AND Republicans WERE the UniParty owned by Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big AG and Big Corporations.

The New America First Party is what is uniting Americans now, of all nationalities and faiths, the working class, families, veterans, seniors. No more warmongering from Congress, no more billions of our money sent to Ukraine, peace in the Middle East, no more censorship on social media.

The last thing Trump is, is "pro-corporate". He is pro-America.

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Also, RFK Jr. will actually be able to do good things now, things that would not have gotten done, to Make America Healthy Again.

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RFK is a charlatan.

His family has had far more than their share of time in office. It’s a nation of 300 million. How many Kennedys? That’s not democracy.

He should stay in private life and uplift others.

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About the only thing he could possibly do good is expose some CIA files on his father, but we all know that will never happen.

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