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  • Years ago they tried to pass a minimum amount of time you had to hold a stock before selling…

    It was a fraction of a second and neoliberals and Republicans immediately united to tell everyone how antithetical to America that was.

    For some reason, that wasn’t enough to show people that both groups have the same priorities and we can’t fight an oligarchy with fucking oligarchs.

    We’ll never win if only a handful of politicians are actually on our side.

    But it’s almost impossible to compete against dark money in a primary, and the people running the DNC know that. So they’ll never agree to get dark money out of primaries. It’s the only reason they’re still holding back progressives.


  • Why that would be huge:

    It would incentize the rich to hold stocks long term, this would lead to corporations thinking more than what profits are in 3 months.

    Which translates to greater stability for other investors and job security for the people who work there.

    But it’s never going to happen as long as Smaug Pelosi and people like her who’s main priority is personal wealth is running the Dem party. Because we all know Republicans will never support it.

    But if we don’t purge the Dem party of neo liberals, and fast, we’re all fucked. We can’t keep walking down the path of “the rich always get richer” like nothing is wrong.

    Wealth is finite. And without taxes and regulations the people who already have a lot will always accumulate more faster than they can spend it.

    With them hoarding all that wealth, no one else has any.



  • Tradition…

    It’s another one of those things where we’re not going to codify it because Republicans want it as a pocket ace, and moderates control party policy and they just have a phobia of admitting anything actually needs fixed, let alone fixing it.

    But the electors in a lot of states can do what they want

    32 states + DC are legally required to vote for the party that nominated them as electors tho.

    So some are “locked in”, the rest can pretty much do what they want. I know some states are on an “interstate compact” where once they get enough states it triggers them having to vote for the national popular vote winner.

    But I’m not sure what the overlap is with the ones who already have the requirement to vote for the party that appointed them or how that will shake out.












  • Not really.

    There’s have to be a population where a large amount not only voted that way, but when they voted that way it was statistically different.

    Like, there may very well be something where a population like women voted differently by mail because their husbands watch.

    But in my state someone is allowed to “help” so the couple in front of me the man voted, then went to the woman’s booth and “helped” her.

    All while outside the cops talked to a screaming red hatter who apparently had to turn his trump shirt inside out and when he did poll workers say the multiple hand guns in his waistband.

    Don’t worry tho, the poll workers let him skip the line and vote while the cops showed up and talked to him for 2 minutes before letting him drive off.

    So before you think of what shady shit may happen with mail in, you need to realize plenty of shady shit happens day of too.




  • Right?

    They want progressives to be both a small minority they can ignore, but also 17 million people?!

    That would make them 20% of the party…

    If 20% of your own party can out message your own campaign, then it’s a shit campaign. Even before factoring in the billion plus dollars you compromised the party platform to raise and the fact that the opponent is trump.

    We can’t keep letting the DNC be the only other option. They’re clearly not capable of it.