Dems: just stop being so duplicitous, like the Repubs but just doing it in a slicker way to try and conceal it. Don’t waste our time with the sham elections anymore; just say this suite of oligarchs want this, the other wants that, and the much smaller number of people who are in one of the cults can show up at THEIR polls (no longer ours…)
This all is a consequence of not having ballot-by-petition; by requiring that a ballot choice must be sanctioned by one of the Parties, with both Parties being owned, in regards to representational government the ““elections”” are now a colossal joke!
This and other stunts has poisoned the well of American political process. We’re done. And while a lot of blame is justly placed on Trump and his sycophants, nowhere in the post-election analysis is blame being laid on Harris for her policy inaction antics. I find that to be astonishing.
“Sometimes inaction is the highest form of action.”
I’m not getting Cenk’s strategy here. While it is laudable that he points these things out, the message I am getting between the lines from him is: we have to change the Dem Party.
The corporations who effectively OWN the Dem Party are not going to cede control of it. The Repub Party oligarchs haven’t ceded control to MAGAs (though MAGAs mistakenly think so…)
This is like the hope of some that Swing States will cede their control to a popular vote. Ain’t ever going to happen.
I think we should always just blast out on media that the US has become a sham with regards to representational government, and short of spending years working on secession (Maine/NH/Vermont?) or a radical revolution, people who still hold the principles of the Enlightenment that this country originally operated on should just move abroad to countries who reflect such values (IF other countries will have us…)
I don’t buy the “go local government” approach; these tyrants would always be inclined to meddle with that through the Supremacy Clause…
I looked up the code; the only way you can run without the two owned parties is as an Independent (like Perot did…); and you’d have to be organizing the petitions NOW, to be ready in 2028.
AND: the problem is, the country’s laws will get burned down in the meantime. If such an Independent candidate were to become a serious contender, I can’t imagine the State politicos or the Kangaroo Court not obstructing it.
Though I must admit: where the categorization of “Independent” has often had the air of fringe (think: Lyndon Larouche…), after this disgrace they called an election, not being in either owned party will have a lot of cache…
Look at all the trouble Cenk had to go through just to attempt to get on the ballot in some states. I mean some of those cases are still pending I think
They’ve been stubborn about that for years; I think it’s a commitment to their founding cause. Kudos to them, but they don’t run practical candidates that want to do good working class economic policies. In doing that, they undermine their following.
Working Class Independents need to take lessons from their petitioning efforts; you will also need to assemble a crack legal team to fight the corporations who will always be trying to challenge your ballot petitions. Look at the crazy crap they did with RFK (and frankly, that only hurt them!)
I am suggesting someone work out a deal with the Greens to use their hard work and take advantage of their ballot access. Their platform is not an obstacle. It is getting a big name/big movement candidate to agree to finally go the third party route.
If they could agree to have worker issues addressed like they never did before, I’d be cool with that; I just don’t see them agreeing to that. “Look, it doesn’t matter if you have a job if there’s pollution…” But then they take it to the point where it’s not about workers rights. Which I can respect, but it’s not going to be making 51% of an electoral vote!
Well in 2016 I think they would have let Bernie take over and I believe they were courting Nina Turner for VP with Jill. And it seems like most down ballot candidates are just placeholders to keep ballot access.
