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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On the Democratic Party's Cult of Powerlessness

I have my favorite solutions





spencerflem  ·  2 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love that idea so much,

I've been saying it to everyone I meet since you posted it here, gotta be almost a decade ago.

Its overwhelmingly cute and would help so much and is so doable and Nobody seems to be talking about it

kleinbl00  ·  2 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Danielle Allen did a series of ten pieces for the WaPo but they didn't exactly set the world afire.

I'll say this: WA state does jungle primaries, which helped contribute to outcomes like this:

Our Trump-annointed gubernatorial candidate was Semi Bird, who walked out of the primary with 11% of the vote (even though the Republicans had registered five candidates with the same name as the Democratic candidate). The most contentious and expensive race in Washington was for Commissioner of Public Lands, primarily because the Republican who was running was a big timber shill who got primaried for impeaching Trump.

EDIT: hot off the presses

am_Unition  ·  2 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I do not trust Gluesenkamp Perez. I can't remember what she did or said years ago that first raised my warning flags, but the recent banana peeling claims are another questionable installment. Honestly I get Paulina-Luna vibes from her. If you have to be a pandering liar to get elected, again, curtains for democracy. Speaking of which, I'll get back to you about the information environment in that other thread soon. Have a good Monday bro(s).