@nitpicking@mstdn.partyIs it me, or should the fact that the President of the United States is openly stating he'll reverse the result of the democratic election in New York City not getting the attention it deserves?
I mean, even Richard Nixon wouldn't do that. Even the stunningly corrupt Lyndon Johnson wouldn't do that. Weirdly immoral Bill Clinton would never have considered it.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialUspol
"We're not redrawing the districts to discriminate based on race, we're drawing them to favor our own party," is such an interesting thing to say out loud. On the one hand, pretense of democratic norms is completely gone; says a lot about where the country is headed. On the other hand, the need to maintain a pretense of non-racism persists? That's probably better than them feeling comfortable to go full mask-off about white supremacy. They're already flaunting breaking a lot of laws, so I wonder whether the legal or social-norms aspects of coming out as explicitly racist matter more to them here.
#USPol
@memeorandum@universeodon.comYoung progressives look to Zohran Mamdani, AOC as future of the Democratic Party - under one condition (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/young-progressives-look-zohran-mamdani-aoc-future-democratic-party-one-key-caveat
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p27#a250803p27
@lilmikesf@c.im
@karlauerbach@sfba.social"The Democratic Party is ripe for a takeover"
Yup, I am also disgusted with the D-party. The "leadership" is so out-of-touch, so cowardly, and so into tunnel-vision vote-losing "identity" issues that unless there is a root-to-branch change, the D-party will never again win a national election, and will lose more state elections.
(I would add that those identity-politics issues are quite important, but until the D-party wins some elections little to …
@cdarwin@c.imThe prescription is simple.
Cut ties with firms and any vendors that they do business with that treat donors as marks.
Establish and enforce efficiency standards.
Demand that fundraising operations deliver actual value to campaigns,
not just commissions to consultants.
Most crucially:
Recognize that Democratic donors deserve the same honesty the party demands from everyone else.
The party faces a choice.
Continue feeding the vortex, or shut…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deDid you know that in two states in the USA there is no “Democratic Party” but a merged coalition that acts in some ways like the Democratic Party but has different values and a different platform?
In Minnesota, for example, there's the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (which was a merge in 1944 between the Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party), which has values like Democratic Socialism and left-wing populism!
The other one is in North Dakota, the Democrati…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaFuck #KRF, a partie stuck in the past, ignoring trans rights and human dignity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Party_(Norway)
@Billybobbell@twit.social"The current order is built on a triad of capital, the nation and the state. Our aim should be to replace it with a different one: the social, the international and the democratic..."
Great interview with James Schneider in Sidecar about the potential for the new party being established by Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana.
#corbyn
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialNo wonder #establishment #Democrats and their donors are opposing. What place do "authenticity and moral vision" have in politics?
@paulwermer@sfba.socialNo wonder #establishment #Democrats and their donors are opposing. What place do "authenticity and moral vision" have in politics?
@cdarwin@c.imAmerica’s democratic collapse has been coming for years, always just over the horizon.
But when everything that happened during Trump’s first three months in office happened and
(here’s the important part)
shockingly little was done by the few groups
(Congress, the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party, American corporations & other large institutions, media companies)
who had the power to counter it,
I knew it was over.
And over in a way that is…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhere is the Party?: time for Democratic leaders to 'fight with both hands' or 'step aside' (MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/where-is-the-party-time-for-democratic-leaders-to-fight-with-both-hands-or-step-aside-246211141717
http://www.memeorandum.com/250830/p36#a250830p36
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itlol NY has the shittiest, most primaryable reps (except AOC). https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4k6dakv7cskxttdvfpzadq7e/post/3lsp3thw5a22a
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe Democratic Party just can’t take a win.
https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/114769127152796608
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageCorrecting Misperceptions at a Glance: Using Data Visualizations to Reduce Political Sectarianism
Douglas Markant, Subham Sah, Alireza Karduni, Milad Rogha, My Thai, Wenwen Dou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00233
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialDo you think Democratic Party politicians are the same as Republican politicians?
For the budget reconciliation bill, all 45 Dem Senators ( independents King & Sanders) voted against it.
Vote was split 50/50, requiring VP Vance to break the tie.
If just one of the 50 Rs that voted for it had been replaced in the last election with a D, it's clear the bill in its current form would not have passed.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWhy should the D-party agree to anything, and I mean *anything* that FFOTUS wants?
https://apnews.com/article/senate-confirmations-nominations-trump-schumer-thune-905a63d0046319eeb7c266d5e24e70b6
@cdarwin@c.imTrump, emboldened by a Republican party that appears willing to let their leader do whatever he wants,
is now threatening to send troops to Democratic-run cities including Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco and New York City,
prompting outcry and accusations of abuse of power.
“He’s really planning a military, repressive force, to go out into the streets of the places that are most likely to resist his dictatorship and to just put down the whole thing by force.”
@simplicator@federate.socialCorrex: NYT issued a retraction on this NYC primary age turnout histogram. 30-34 turned out the most. https://mastodon.social/@MattBinder/114769706388770860
@kurtsh@mastodon.social“The working class abandoned the Democratic Party, primarily because the Democratic Party abandoned the working class.”
✅ Control of the Senate Could Be Decided in Maine. This Oyster Farmer Is Vying to Unseat Susan Collins. – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: a secretive project offering influencers $250-$8,000 a month to boost Democrats kicked off in July; creators were told 90 influencers were taking part (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influe…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Democratic Party is ripe for a takeover (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/418002/democratic-tea-party-zohran-mamdani-new-york-primary-incumbent
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p41#a250628p41
@scott@carfree.city @cdarwin@c.imDays after attorney general Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department’s revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom.
Norm Eisen, a former attorney for Barack Obama’s White House, had convened lawyers, Democratic communications strategists, a neoconservative Trump critic, and a former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.
This one was big, Eisen said from his parked car in Baltimore, where he had traveled for a lawsuit to ov…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialIt's good to see someone with experience and a large following raising the issue of the abusive level of #Democratic #fundraising (and the opportunistic #ParasiticPACs scamming people).
And …
@paulwermer@sfba.socialIt's good to see someone with experience and a large following raising the issue of the abusive level of #Democratic #fundraising (and the opportunistic #ParasiticPACs scamming people).
And …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIt's Mamdani Time! -- The upside potential and downside risk of the new Democratic party. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-zohran-mamdani-time-democratic-party-new-york
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p85#a250626p85
@Billybobbell@twit.social"The current order is built on a triad of capital, the nation and the state. Our aim should be to replace it with a different one: the social, the international and the democratic..."
Great interview with James Schneider in Sidecar about the potential for the new party being established by Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana.
#corbyn
@UP8@mastodon.social📣 Sanseito touts 'Japanese First' rhetoric to gain support
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/politics/sanseito-upper-house-election/
🆓
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caWe are barely 6 months into #TheAmericanFascist Presidency and we already find ourselves with fundamental rights in the American Constitution under direct threat and the power of the judiciary to enforce and check the power of the President being pulled back.
And Democratic Party members seem to be all talk and very very little action or leadership to counter this.
Are they waiting for the midterms to take back Congress?
At this pace, surely they see the risk that there may not BE midterms. Or that the results are negated, disputed or invalidated.
I can’t fathom how they are not removing themselves from Congress now in protest and calling for a general protest/strike of all freedom loving Americans to restore the constitution, force the Trump appointed fascist enabling judges to resign, and force Trump and his Administration to go.
July 4th is coming. Independence Day? Or not? Democracy or not?
#usa
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaCro Cop was elected to Croatian Parliament on a list for Social Democratic Party of Croatia, where he served one term from 23 December 2003 to 11 January 2008. Here are his positions 👇
@cdarwin@c.imSee how the game works?
Republicans have long instinctively understood, far better than their oft-bumbling opponents,
that capturing the language is crucially important.
When you do that, when you frame the terms of debate,
you have a darn good shot at winning hearts and minds. Particularly weak minds.
I’ll leave it to the shrinks to diagnose the passivity of the Democratic mindset,
to try to fathom why the blue party has long allowed "class warfare&qu…
@mlippert@vmst.ioI got this post by @… in my email today, it was forwarded while it still was attributed to Liz Cheney with this preface which I agree with:
"When she was in Congress, I disagreed with almost everything she said and every vote she made. But on the transcendent issue of our time — protecting our democracy from Trump and the forces of authoritarianism and fascism — Liz Cheney has been correct, clear, and courageous."
Turns out the message is not by Liz Cheney but is well worth reading as a kick in the ass to the Democratic Party.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-message
@memeorandum@universeodon.comA New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party (Liam Stack/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/democratic-party-zohran-mamdani.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p4#a250625p4
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am quite sick and tired of the D-party doing little more than useless posturing (such as writing letters to El Cheeto) or simply asking for money. (The purpose of that money is almost never sufficiently described, if the purpose is described at all.)
So it is good to hear that new candidates are arising who will challenge the fuddy-duddy-crats of the D-party. (My own Congress Critter included.)
Note to others: We need good, fresh faces filling elective posts at *all* levels -…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialDoes the Democratic Party need to register a $45 million in-kind political donation for today’s fiasco?
#ArmyParade #TrumpParade
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
@annsev@troet.cafeIt is so obvious. Why isn't a new, liberal Democratic Party being founded in the #USA?
Forget the #Democrats. They have shown themselves to be completely incapable in the current enormous crisis. They are afraid for their sinecures, act tactically and the welfare of the citizens is as little important …
@cdarwin@c.imZohran Mamdani’s apparent victory late Tuesday night represented a sharp rebuke of the Democratic Party establishment
It represented, he said, the ascendance of a new Democratic coalition, one that prioritized the needs of the working class over those of the elite.
“We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford,” he said.
“A city where they can do more than just struggle. One where those who toil in the night can enjoy the fruits of their labor in…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhat Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy? (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/25/what-made-the-democratic-party-go-crazy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p97#a250825p97
@scott@carfree.citySolnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Democratic image is underwater -- but they're not losing (Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democratic-party-favorability-ratings-low
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p30#a250729p30
@gwire@mastodon.socialThe party whose base believes there's a secret network of politically-connected child-abusers... should probably avoid these headlines.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine.
But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialHow the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
1/2
#uspol #democracy
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNadler, Pillar of Democratic Party's Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year (Nicholas Fandos/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/nyregion/jerrold-nadler-congress-retires.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.f48a.0mjVi6N1dqz2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p73#a250901p73
@cdarwin@c.imEstablishment Democrats worked overtime to oppose progressive upstart Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s mayoral primary race
— and yet, claim to be baffled over why the Democratic Party is losing support, freshly ousted Democratic activist David Hogg said in a fiery post on Monday.
“The same establishment that is spending millions to destroy Zohran will say in a few months that we need to spend millions on polling and testing to win back young people.
Open your god damn eyes…
@cdarwin@c.imOne week ago MAGA threw me in jail
for speaking out against their gerrymandering plan
to hand Trump more control.
Gov. Gavin Newsome, Joy-Ann Reid, and even People.com told the world to pay attention.
The time for strongly worded letters is over.
We must meet this moment,
and that means electing leaders who are willing to get arrested to stop Trump's tyranny.
I'd do it again for the people of Texas.
I'm running for congress in a…
@cdarwin@c.imWhy aren't I seeing every Democrat in congress on TV right now talking about this insane budget bill⁉️
It's Isaiah Martin
- and I think we need more Democrats with spines in Congress.
I know everyone is texting you right now, but my special election to fill a critical blue seat in Congress is⭐️ in just a few months - not a year and a half.
As a grassroots zero corporate dollar candidate, I need folks like you to come through for me.
It's our end o…
@buercher@tooting.chOn the day after Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani emerged as the likely Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, Representative Jerrold Nadler endorsed him in November’s general election, giving Mr. Mamdani a key measure of support from one of the city’s most prominent Jewish leaders.
Mr. Nadler, a Democrat, said Wednesday that Mr. Mamdani’s apparent victory was a “seismic election for the Democratic Party that I can only compare to Barack Obama’s in 2008.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/25/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-election
@cdarwin@c.imAn initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line.
All they have to do is keep it secret
—and agree to restrictions on their content.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secre…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMamdani Won Over N.Y.C. Democratic Voters. Can He Charm Washington? (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/nyregion/mamdani-democratic-party.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p9#a250720p9
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialStochastic urban planning for housing: Reduce regulations with no provision to provide housing supporting the mix of incomes in California.
After all, in our system, return on capital plays no role in determining what price developers demand for building./s
https://www.s…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialStochastic urban planning for housing: Reduce regulations with no provision to provide housing supporting the mix of incomes in California.
After all, in our system, return on capital plays no role in determining what price developers demand for building./s
https://www.s…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe irony is if the Twitter Nazi splits the Republican Party in two to make a National Republican Party to counter #TheAmericanFascist Republicans “Big Beautiful Bill” then that could open up more room for the Democratic Socialists to make their own party split from the Democrats and all of a sudden the USA could have 4 viable parties. Imagine that. A multiparty system! The most democratic shift in the US Congress since 1776?! Initiated by a 21st Century Fascist.
But of course… that’s way too optimistic…
#usa #politics #democraticsocialist #nationalist #nazi #elonmusk #trump #democraticParty
@cdarwin@c.imIf you want to know why a Democratic Senator and Representative in Minnesota were shot...
It might have something to do with the fact that their deaths would end the Democratic majorities in both chambers.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p130#a250725p130
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s appeal isn’t rooted in policy;
it’s rooted in style.
I He uses delusional bravado to cosplay as a rebel against a broken system that both parties helped to rig.
The Democratic establishment’s timid, survivalist politics can’t compete with that.
You can’t beat an immoral agent of chaos with risk aversion.
You beat him with moral clarity
— the kind that’s willing to sacrifice corporate donations, political comfort and maybe even your own career for t…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGallego Gets Candid About His Party's Immigration Failures (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/senator-ruben-gallego-arizona-interview-immigration-iowa-democratic-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p51#a250815p51
@cdarwin@c.imFormer Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang
said he’s reached out to Elon Musk
in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party,
Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders. ($$$$)
When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.”
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGOP quickly seeks to make Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/26/republicans-zohran-mamdani-democrats-socialist/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p30#a250626p30
@cdarwin@c.imRandi Weingarten, the longtime leader of one of the nation’s most influential labor unions and a major voice in Democratic politics,
has resigned from the Democratic National Committee.
She pointed to disagreements with the party’s new chairman, Ken Martin.
Ms. Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race early this year,
Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
Mr. …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIndependent and third-party voter registration growing, largely at the expense of Democrats (Jocelyn Shek/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/democratic-voter-registrations-decline-independents-surging-rcna213772
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p65#a250625p65
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Hogg, the young vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee whose vow to unseat “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats roiled his party,
said on Wednesday that he would step away from the high-ranking role in a move that ends months of internal infighting.
Moments before Hogg announced his decision, members of the committee had voted to hold new vice-chair elections that could have led to his ouster.
“I came into this role to play a positive role in creating the change o…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIf Emanuel runs, he'll bet on candor defeating the 'culture police' (George F. Will/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/09/rahm-emanuel-democratic-party-presidential-nomination/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUyMDMzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUzNDE1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTIwMzM2MDAsImp0aSI6ImZhOGE1NGE1LTA3MzQtNGZmMS04NmI3LTUyODBkZGE1YWY5NiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA3LzA5L3JhaG0tZW1hbnVlbC1kZW1vY3JhdGljLXBhcnR5LXByZXNpZGVudGlhbC1ub21pbmF0aW9uLyJ9.QpSoDY-d7EdInOG1pKCDBDtJDc9ZR_DLWPxZeCmukr0&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p2#a250710p2
@cdarwin@c.imIt's Isaiah Martin, and the countdown is at 82 days until my special election.
Two huge updates for you.
#1: It's official, we kicked the hive, so MAGA has put in a handpicked Trumpster to run against me.
💥But getting arrested didn't scare me, so their lackey doesn't either.
They won't steal this seat in Congress from the people.
#2 Last night we hosted a town hall with over 11,000 people in attendance.
💥Momentum is building, and we c…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIf these are the people working for the Democratic Party in the USA then we really all are truly fucked as a planet.
Totally and completely delusional mentality of blaming others rather than any kind of introspection or self-reflection.
#delusional #USA #Climate #Democrats #Fascism https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire/114716527724699352
@cdarwin@c.imI never thought I'd be proud to have been arrested.
But I also never thought that I'd be in a situation where the President of the United States is trying to make questionably legal power grabs.
He knows if he loses Congress, it's over.
It's Isaiah Martin,
and my election isn't in a year,
it's in 89 days,
which means vote by mail ballots are coming sooner than later.
First and foremost, thank you for your support.
I…
