• F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Big surprise, old suits in the democratic party don’t represent the modern democratic voter.

    There needs to be term limits, especially based on age, and to whipe out any form of stock trading and “donations”.

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      20 hours ago

      The reason they’re still in office is for 30 years the DNC has put protecting incumbents above all else, including beating republicans.

      The DNC power structure is pretty much the opposite of a democracy, but we just got our furtherest left chair in over 30 years, and his performance as a state party leader shows his biggest concern is beating Republicans, and he’s accomplished that to great success by just not putting the party in-between voters and the progressive candidates they want to vote for.

      It’s an incredibly low bar, but one Ken Martin easily clears.

      Don’t hate the (literally a month old) new blood for the failings of the old.

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        8 hours ago

        The reason they’re still in office is for 30 years the DNC has put protecting incumbents above all else

        Protecting centrist incumbents above all else. They didn’t do shit to protect Cori Bush or Jamaal Bowman, for exactly one reason.

        I’m not giving anyone this shitty party selected for any position the benefit of the doubt until I see how they actually behave in situ.