And billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk ā who is overseeing the administrationās controversial effort to rapidly shrink the federal government ā has criticized ActBlue, seeking to tie it to protests and acts of vandalism against his electric-vehicle company Tesla. He has argued, without evidence to substantiate his claims, that some prominent Democrats ā including one who died in 2019 ā were funding ActBlue and the protests.
āSomething stinks about ActBlue,ā MuskĀ postedĀ earlier this month on his social media platform, X.
Thereās no need for that. Progressives can assume control of the Democratic party. Thatās how itās supposed to work in the first place.
They donāt. Because no one wants to sit in boring meetings outside their house. And no one wants to go through the invasive procedure of running for office.
And here we are. With the only progressives who can stand to do that already in the party thatās been plagued by idiot consultants - who donāt even act in official capacity - giving them losing advice for 40 years.
Taking over Dems is next to impossible for progressives as entrenched elite is backed by ābig moneyā and is effective at torpedoing progressives every time. Take big money out of politics and you may have a chance at overtaking party, otherwise - screwed
Yes but Iām not talking about running against them in an election - Iām talking about working with the local chapter to become chairperson and moving on to state. Driving change in a proper way - in incremental, boring ways that add up.
Do that. Itās āfreeā in that corporate big money isnāt in play (although politics is - thatās the mysterious thing most people who have no experience with it canāt fathom.)
If a person canāt work with the local Dems for -reasons-, then join or start the Independent party locally and win elections. If somebody thinks that canāt happen, theyāre not a good choice anyway. Dream. Do. Vote.
Hereās the thing, in less than 2 years weāre going to be at midterms and all the āleftiesā will be shitting on the Democrats again (rightly or wrongly, it doesnāt matter at that point), handing yet another election to the fascists and then spending the next two years not doing anything either.
What are people waiting for? Leadership. One doesnāt need to lead the country, one doesnāt need to lead the state, one doesnāt even need to lead the local council, but people do need to show up if they want to participate. Or, yāknow, donāt. Where most of us are now.
I have experience participating in local chapter for a party, but when you get some ideas pushed to a party congress and get it squashed because itās being controlled by the people opposing the change it kind of turns you off.