There haven’t been 60 dems in the senate since 1979
There haven’t been 50 dems since 2013
You’re ignoring independents who caucus and vote with the dems. Your numbers are misleading on purpose. You’re just making excuses for a party that opposes progressives and not republicans.
Imagine being expected to do your job.
Sure is convenient that the party suddenly wants impartiality when centrists might get primaried.
They didn’t have primaries last cycle and just told us who we were expected to vote for and that wasn’t a problem. That was just 6 months ago.
Democrats care about neutrality like republicans care about fiscal responsibility.
DNC chairs shouldn’t be picking winners
The second the shoe is on the other foot.
Sorry, they’re too busy trying to stop David Hogg.
Primaries. Where party leadership fought tooth and nail to keep challengers off the ballot and eventually just said “fuck it” and gave us who they wanted anyway.
And now they’re whining about neutrality because David Hogg wants to primary republican-lite incumbents in deep blue seats. “Vote in the primaries! Not like that!”
You make the choice based on the cards you’re dealt, not the ones you wished you have.
You appeal to the electorate you have, not the electorate you think should exist.
Beyond the election though, because you have more time, you try to change the game.
Yeah, we saw how that worked with Biden.
Instead he wants the party to endorse replacements of their own
Oh, if any of Hogg’s people win their primaries, the party will do everything it can to sabotage them in the general. centrists prefer republicans to progressives under all circumstances.
Reforming the DNC is our best shot.
Primarying all the useless centrists is the best way to do that. Which is why democrats are losing their shit over this, but were happy to vote for trump’s continuing resolution a few weeks back.
centrists oppose the left and work with the right.
And 2022. They did ad buys for republican candidates in the primaries and then gleefully announced that they had no money for progressive candidates in the general.
I’m in agreement, honestly, we need to be reducing Republican seats as the singular most important goal. Challenging incumbents isn’t going to do that.
Where were you when AIPAC was buying candidates against Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman? I didn’t see your desire to protect incumbents then.
Funny. The corporate press counted them at the start of 2016 when Clinton needed a boost.
And Hogg is going to help through his PAC anyway.
And he’ll probably be stripped of his position in the DNC for it.
Oh, the primary that gave us Obama was biased as hell. For Clinton.
It wasn’t enough. The party learned, though. Which is why they’ve been moving towards not even having primaries when they can just shove a centrist at us and order us to vote like they want.
The vote records are public
So is the lawsuit in which democrats successfully argued that they didn’t have to hold honest primaries.
Nobody diddles kids better than me, folks, nobody! Big kids, strong kids
…kids that climb on rocks.
Apologizing and stopping are two different things.
I’m sure that’s why centrists are suddenly freaking out.
Despite the naysaying, isn’t this a good thing? Seems the new chair wants impartiality
Centrists benefited for decades from partiality. Now that someone else is playing their game the same way they’ve been playing it, they decide that they want to be impartial. I have no faith whatsoever in the party’s interpretation of neutrality. It just means partiality in favor of centrists.
republicans always seem to be able to stop democrats when they have a minority in the senate.
Then again, republicans are actually interested in stopping democrats.