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[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

not the kind of person the party wants to make this mad, if you're losing this kind of normie Dem for these listed reasons then you're in deep shit

[rachel shabi @rachshabi]

'Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings' - Israeli defence official, Oct 23
'Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction... Flatten Gaza' - Knesset member (Likud), Oct 23
Israel did exactly what it said it would do and western allies let it

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Final Election counts show majority of Americans didn't vote for Trump

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

👀 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its own “nation”. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland for Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as Denmark ambassador & said the US shld buy Greenland. Praxis & Dryden are thrilled…1/

[KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM @KOAColorado]

MVP Bo Nix? 👀 High praise from PS2 🗣️ “It’s not even looking like Offensive Rookie of the Year. It look like MVP right now.” 🔥

#KOAGameDay | @AuroraMHRorg

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Trump putting together the most war thirsty administration in history isn't a surprise at all.

What is surprising is that anyone still listens to the likes of Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi trying to convince you it wasn't going to happen

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues, tough on the border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot about law and order, and reaches out to moderate Republicans, that candidate existed and she just lost"
~John Oliver on dems moving right

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

The Democratic Party needs to chart a new path. Bernie Sanders has spent his entire career telling the same story about America. It may be the antidote to the one that Donald Trump successfully wielded in his return to power. Here's my election take.

https://t.co/6RTiA6n68R

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The Democrats lost this election because they ignored the justified anger of working class America and became the defenders of a rigged economy and political system.

@GlobeOpinion

https://t.co/GMZ4IcSakl

[Sayre Bedinger @SayreBedinger]

The Chiefs got beat by the Broncos and still won the game 😂😭

[Jabari Brisport @JabariBrisport]

"The Democratic Party has moved too far left"

No it hasn't and last time it actually did move significantly leftwards Americans liked it so much they gave the president 4 terms.

You need universal programs. You need to tax the rich. You need to boldly lean into class warfare.

[Anthony LaMesa @ajlamesa]

"He shouldn’t have run," said Jim Manley, a top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "This is no time to pull punches or be concerned about anyone’s feelings. He and his staff have done an enormous amount of damage to this country."

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Memo to the Ruling Elite and Corporate Media: Expanding Social Security, Medicare for All and raising the minimum wage to at least $17 an hour are a helluva lot more popular than Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney and crypto billionaires.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Kamala and the Democrats spent an entire campaign chasing Republican voters who *checks notes* vote for Republicans. They have no one to blame, but themselves.

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

I am shocked that this remains a befuddling thing for DC democrats and pundits. For fuck’s sake, in the last two years of the Biden administration, we took away expansions of the child tax credit, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance; we let the Fed raise interest rates on everything from cars, to homes, to credit cards; and then (!) we largely stood by while dominant firms raised the cost of rent, groceries, and everything else. Why would voters think the economy is anything BUT “not so good/poor”?!?

[PolicyMadman @SPersonUC0079]

@brooklynnygirl @bern_identity They could have broken the tech fascists up years ago but instead took their money and looked the other way

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Delete this, @MAGAResource. It’s vile, fake, irresponsible, and not at all reflective of what my father would say. And you gave no thought to our family.