That’s not how it works. Leftists won’t be “allowed” to take over the DNC. Voters will need to create the political will to run leftists. There hasn’t been enough demand for leftists candidates. There are enough examples of leftists wining primaries and losing elections to prove that.
Election results have proven that leftists aren’t the majority. Politicians are beholden to the voters not leftists.
If leftists don’t vote for the candidate furthest to the left because they “aren’t left enough”. Then the party will replace those votes by appealing to those to the right.
Before Obama, Bill Clinton won two terms in a row.
Bill Clinton is not progressive. This would indicate the two term win wasn’t related to the progressive stance.
There are plenty examples of progressives winning primaries and losing elections. And progressives politicians are pretty rare to begin with. This shows how few American voters actually lean left.
Hillary stole the primary from Bernie because she had invested in the DNC for her own self gain, sure. But that doesn’t mean Bernie would’ve won the election.
It’s a popular opinion on lemmy that democrats should’ve known that Hillary couldn’t beat Trump. Yet she got the popular vote.
This is another example of lemmy not reflecting what actual voters choose.
I realize that is a popular opinion here on lemmy.
But, you don’t seem to realize that lemmy doesn’t reflect what American voters vote for.
The 2016 and 2024 elections have shown us that Americans would rather let Trump win than vote for a woman.
AOC isn’t popular enough outside of her fan base to win a national election.
Because Russian bots try to dispute the fact that Snowden is a Russian asset.
How do you audit them without revealing national security secrets?
I could understand why foreign actors would try to manufacture consent to force the pentagon to reveal what they’re using their budget on.
It seems like every time someone goes after Trump there is a barrage of commenters online that all of a sudden have a lot of anger to express towards that person.
For example, Mueller, Garland, Cheney.
The timing an quantity of comments always makes it seem like brigading to manufacture consent to attack those people.
Votes are a metric to measure engagement. Which is valuable information
It definitely looks like that.
I see the same accounts posting and interacting with each other and reposting the same content with the same comments.
Pretty sus
The comments on here don’t reflect those differences.
It was a combination of foreign election influence, billionaire class and GOP propaganda. And in the end Trump won by 1.5%.
Democrats can only do what the voters allow them to do. All the groups I mention above are actively trying to stop them.
“Nooo we actually need Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and all these useless benchwarmers to win.”
No one is saying this. It’s more like “Voters have not been voting for progressives. If democrats primary more progressives, democrats will lose elections as much as progressives do. We can’t afford to do that against Trump.”
I see progressives on here everyday attacking democrats for fundraising.
Spreading FUD against Democrats helps Trump get reelected.
Why is it that both Trump and progressives on lemmy want the DNC to not have fundraising?
This mindset is how Trump got a 2nd term
The majority of voters chose Trump. Unfortunately that’s how a democracy works.