The rallies are breaking records, and the Democrats are sleepwalking through a realignment. We need a cattle call to flood the zone with 1,000 new and different candidates — not a coronation of 10.
Also writing from West Virginia. Bernie made the call today to his massive email list, asking everyone, literally everyone, to run for an office. And offering connections to guidance as to how. It has long since been time for everyone to step up their game, wherever and whenever possible.
I've been dramatizing the needed revolution nonstop, most recently on Earth Day, via what could be with AOC and the closely related in power:
Today, I am writing to ask you to go outside your comfort zone.
I am writing to ask you to run for office.
Yes, you.
We need people in every state, county and town in this country to raise their hand and say they are prepared to run for city council, school board, mayor, state legislature, Congress and more. We need to elect progressives at every level in this country who are prepared to side with the working class in America and fight for an economy and government that works for all of us, not just the few.
All you have to do is tell us that you are interested, and we will connect you with an organization that will provide you the tools, the training and the information you need to get the process started and to be successful.
That's the first step. I am asking you to take it now.
Which is the reason none of the democrats can have my vote.
Jill green? Heard of her? It is remarkable how the Democratic cultists insist that no other parties exist even when they’re right there on the ballot paper.
Bernie Sanders and AOC’s message distilled down to its essentials is vote for Democrats in the midterms. That’s all. Reminder that the AIPAC spent $8.6 million to defeat Cory Bush and over $20 million to defeat Jamal Bowman. AOC by contrast had more campaign cash at over $7 million than any other squad member. Electing more Democrats is a dead end that will change nothing. What needs to happen is to shut the country down in a series of general strikes, and go from there. That requires solidarity not just rallies maligning Trump and calling for the election of more Democrats, whether down-ballot or up.
Even the left doesn't like Bernie enough to vote him into the presidency, or run him for VP on the frontrunner, and now he's “passing the torch” to AOC, whom the left also doesn't like. Just dumb. America is an uneducated, angry, racist populace, and we routinely try to “fix” our ignorant culture by telling the unwashed masses they need to respect people who have decided to identify as a dining room table. And then we stand around confused why they didn't vote for our wonderful candidates.
No, the democrats brought us here, they will only make things worse. In any case I will not vote for anyone who does not condemn the genocide and commit to ending it.
Excellent post, so glad it popped up for me to read. The clip of Bernie and AOC at the Denver rally was very inspiring. I agree, 1000s of progressive people are needed to run for offices, local up to federal. We can beat back the billionaire schemes to install private fiefdoms for them to plunder and trash our lives, our work, and our planet.
Bernie & AOC have no issue with the 🇮🇱led, 🇺🇸financed Genocide. That’s a deal breaker. It is not enough to regurgitate the same campaign slogans again. The World HAS changed and the Democrats have not.
Can't find your reply to me. Don't know why so I'm replying here. Absolutely nobody. The Democrats are complicit in the genocide that makes them fascists too. Genocide is a red fucking line. So shove your purity test up your ass.
Follow the money. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. The DP controlled the House and Senate when Biden took office in January 2021. Recall that Biden said: "Nothing fundamental will change," to his wealthy donors before winning the White House over Trump. True words. The corporate DP co-created the conditions of declining living and working conditions for the working class with misnamed free trade pacts like the NAFTA, and banking and telecom deregulation.
Trump feels that material pain, rhetorically, unlike the corporate DP, a center-right party. will change as independent movement politics grows. Ideas matter, and they grow from the material living conditions of the population.
I don't get any sense they are leaning on a "braintrust" of smart movement people with a sharp, coherent program, outside of a feel-good, "look how many people agree with us" moment. We need a list of demands: no "consent agenda", one hundred percent obstruction in Congress, etc. At the state level, we need what economist Dean Baker and others were calling for even before they passed the "Trump tax scam" in 2017: a coalition of all states with progressive taxes (and even those who don't yet, like Washington) enacting "above the line", progressive payroll taxes to neuter these corrupt tax cuts, and use the funds to protect vital health and other social programs threatened with sadistic cuts. And on and on.
Also writing from West Virginia. Bernie made the call today to his massive email list, asking everyone, literally everyone, to run for an office. And offering connections to guidance as to how. It has long since been time for everyone to step up their game, wherever and whenever possible.
I've been dramatizing the needed revolution nonstop, most recently on Earth Day, via what could be with AOC and the closely related in power:
https://fictiongutted.substack.com/p/most-revolutionary-earth-day-excerpt
Bernie today:
Today, I am writing to ask you to go outside your comfort zone.
I am writing to ask you to run for office.
Yes, you.
We need people in every state, county and town in this country to raise their hand and say they are prepared to run for city council, school board, mayor, state legislature, Congress and more. We need to elect progressives at every level in this country who are prepared to side with the working class in America and fight for an economy and government that works for all of us, not just the few.
All you have to do is tell us that you are interested, and we will connect you with an organization that will provide you the tools, the training and the information you need to get the process started and to be successful.
That's the first step. I am asking you to take it now.
Nope. Bernie is a Zionist and the Democrats started and funded the genocide.
Exactly who passes your purity test, Jasmine?
Which is the reason none of the democrats can have my vote.
Jill green? Heard of her? It is remarkable how the Democratic cultists insist that no other parties exist even when they’re right there on the ballot paper.
AOC is not a Zionist, nor supports funding genocide.
Get over yourself and your issues.
Democracy is more important.
Get over yourself.
This is more important than you.
We need more of this. Power to the people.
The pro-democracy anti-Trump coalition definitely needs to support thousands of candidates.
But really we need to give up our most of our deal-breakers to expand.
Against money in politics? Check
For taxing the rich & corporations and against corporate subsidies? Check
For the Constitution? Check
Otherwise we should allow a diversity of opinions.
Thanks
Love Perfect Union news coverage (watch the video). We need to focus on the People. Move 47 out of the center of our narrative. Move it to the people.
“how are you doing making your basic needs met?”
We need to raise up real stories of real people and put them at the center:
Minimum wage has been raised in years.
We can’t unionize
We are not getting compensated for our work, we’re working on skeleton crews.
Our money is being taken by oligarch corporations.
We can’t afford healthcare, rent, food.
AND they are attacking social programs like Medicaid Social Security, SNAP.
Bernie Sanders and AOC’s message distilled down to its essentials is vote for Democrats in the midterms. That’s all. Reminder that the AIPAC spent $8.6 million to defeat Cory Bush and over $20 million to defeat Jamal Bowman. AOC by contrast had more campaign cash at over $7 million than any other squad member. Electing more Democrats is a dead end that will change nothing. What needs to happen is to shut the country down in a series of general strikes, and go from there. That requires solidarity not just rallies maligning Trump and calling for the election of more Democrats, whether down-ballot or up.
Even the left doesn't like Bernie enough to vote him into the presidency, or run him for VP on the frontrunner, and now he's “passing the torch” to AOC, whom the left also doesn't like. Just dumb. America is an uneducated, angry, racist populace, and we routinely try to “fix” our ignorant culture by telling the unwashed masses they need to respect people who have decided to identify as a dining room table. And then we stand around confused why they didn't vote for our wonderful candidates.
No, the democrats brought us here, they will only make things worse. In any case I will not vote for anyone who does not condemn the genocide and commit to ending it.
Excellent post, so glad it popped up for me to read. The clip of Bernie and AOC at the Denver rally was very inspiring. I agree, 1000s of progressive people are needed to run for offices, local up to federal. We can beat back the billionaire schemes to install private fiefdoms for them to plunder and trash our lives, our work, and our planet.
Bernie & AOC have no issue with the 🇮🇱led, 🇺🇸financed Genocide. That’s a deal breaker. It is not enough to regurgitate the same campaign slogans again. The World HAS changed and the Democrats have not.
Bernie HAS made a specific appeal at his rallies for people to step up and run for something. He outlines AOC’s path to congress as an example.
Can't find your reply to me. Don't know why so I'm replying here. Absolutely nobody. The Democrats are complicit in the genocide that makes them fascists too. Genocide is a red fucking line. So shove your purity test up your ass.
No ideas and no appealing candidates. The Dems are cooked as were the Whigs in the 1850s.
This rocks and is so right on
Follow the money. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. The DP controlled the House and Senate when Biden took office in January 2021. Recall that Biden said: "Nothing fundamental will change," to his wealthy donors before winning the White House over Trump. True words. The corporate DP co-created the conditions of declining living and working conditions for the working class with misnamed free trade pacts like the NAFTA, and banking and telecom deregulation.
Trump feels that material pain, rhetorically, unlike the corporate DP, a center-right party. will change as independent movement politics grows. Ideas matter, and they grow from the material living conditions of the population.
Great article 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Well Hakeem & Schumer just had a press conference saying that these people don’t represent the party
I don't get any sense they are leaning on a "braintrust" of smart movement people with a sharp, coherent program, outside of a feel-good, "look how many people agree with us" moment. We need a list of demands: no "consent agenda", one hundred percent obstruction in Congress, etc. At the state level, we need what economist Dean Baker and others were calling for even before they passed the "Trump tax scam" in 2017: a coalition of all states with progressive taxes (and even those who don't yet, like Washington) enacting "above the line", progressive payroll taxes to neuter these corrupt tax cuts, and use the funds to protect vital health and other social programs threatened with sadistic cuts. And on and on.