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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22077561

“I’m not interested in anyone who is moving further away from the center,” said Cindy Bass, a Pennsylvania committee member from Philadelphia. “The center is where we have to be.”

They're not going to change a thing unless people make them.

Find your local state delegate and personally tell them how you feel a centrist is only going to guarantee another Republican victory. They are listed here: https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_National_Committee

Bernie Sanders is working behind the scenes to get a progressive in there but he can't do it alone.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is why I’m holding out hope that Sanders is working on the foundation of a new party. The DNC is clearly not the way forward, and doesn’t look like they’re going to pull themselves out of their death spiral.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sanders is almost 90. You cant count on him to survive his term, much less create a new Party.

No 3rd party has won the Presidency in modern times.

If you want to see change, look at what's actually worked in the past.

Back in the day, a guy named Jerry Falwell made himself a power in the GOP by a simple trick.

Both Parties, Dems and GOP have local clubs that make the small scale choices that keep things moving. They pick the county clerks and sheriffs. If the local GOP club had had twenty people at the meeting that chose the country clerk, Falwell's folks would show up with fifty.

After a while, those county clerks were becoming Congresspeople.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also consider running yourself too for those local down ballot races and or encouraging progressives you know to do the same!

https://runforsomething.net/

https://wherecanirun.org/

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the links