Krono

...destroy everything that supports Hamas. Everything.

This is called "genocide". People with a sense of ethics oppose genocide.

Comparing innocent Palestinian children to 18th century slaveholders is a gross attempt at justifying genocide.

I'm not trying to say Jesus was a pacifist, but all of those quotes are Old Testament, written centuries before Jesus supposedly existed...

The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members

So UN employees were abducted and tortured, then forced to repeat Israel's propaganda line, in an attempt to justify their whole genocidal endeavor.

Well it sounds like we agree on most things then, except on how to communicate to voters. I have found that being honest with voters about things like the corruption of the DNC and the serious flaws of the ACA actually helps to win them over.

Try to do a door knocking campaign and act like the Democratic Party is perfect, most voters will smell the bullshit.

It only takes a few seconds to say "yes most Democrats are corporate lackeys, but not this candidate, and here's why..." Acknowledging the flaws of the party does not suppress turnout. It is the flaws themselves that do the suppression.

My original intention here was to try to convince people to think critically when hearing a politician's stump speech, which I believe is adding value to the discourse.

I surely didn't have lofty goals to "improve the country or the Democratic Party" when I opened Lemmy today lol.

And I do believe the DNC and the donor class are a bunch of corporate goons who have little to offer, and almost all Democratic politicians are subservient to this superstructure.

Let me ask you, how do you suggest we overcome the institutional hurdles when running a progressive primary challenge? The last 2 progressive primary challengers I volunteered for had extreme problems finding vendors to supply them with the basic supplies that they need to run a campaign. This is because the DNC has a policy of blacklisting any vendors that work with a progressive primary challenger.

We can agree that Republicans are horrible and make everything worse, but how is that applicable in the case of the ACA?

The ACA got exactly 0 Republican votes. There was no reason to negotiate or even listen to Republicans in this case. It was Democrats doing it to themselves. And as I have already established, yes the ACA is a right wing bill.

As for advocating for progressive ideals, I am doing that when I call out the hypocrisy and corruption of the corporate Dems. It's becoming very difficult to tell the difference between a modern corporate Dem and a 90s-00s Republican, and that scares me.

I think it's a good thing to say "Democrats bad" when they are in fact bad. Whatever demons lurk on the other side of the aisle does not change this. Putting your fingers in your ears and yelling "vote blue no matter who" is not a solution.