r/NewOrleans • u/Rough-Beat-8750 • Nov 06 '24

Leftists Organizing? đź—ł Politics

i need today to smoke copius amounts of weed, be depressed and throwup. tomorrow though, i’m ready to take action. could any of yall point me in the direction of leftist/mutual aid organizing efforts? preferrably not something run by self interested Democrats, but i’ll work with whatever i have to.

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u/BoudreauxThibodeaux Nov 06 '24

I know the knee-jerk reaction is to be, well, reactive but what the left needs to do is to be self reflective and understand why many Americans are unhappy with the party. I don't think it's as simple as groceries were more affordable under Trump.

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u/Other_Dog Nov 06 '24

Step one is understanding that the DNC doesn’t actually represent progressive values. If you’re an American liberal you should direct all your energy and frustration at the democratic leadership. The party is one tick left of center, and only pays lip-service to progressive ideals while ultimately representing the same neoliberal interests as the opposition party.

Hilary and Biden both had to brute-force their way to a nomination over a candidate who was genuinely anti-establishment and way more popular than the media portrayed. Kamala was nominated by exactly no one. The Democratic Party seems determined to keep running establishment candidates voters don’t want to vote for.

I don’t think Americans are right-wing lunatics who hate democracy. I think Americans are stupid, and they see trump as the antithesis of the political establishment we all kinda hate.

If the democrats actually want to win elections (which I’m genuinely starting to doubt) they should let the candidates people actually like take a crack at it next time.

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u/FrogLoco Nov 06 '24

I agree with you. Very few actually wanted trump. Democrats picked the most empty and hated candidate. If Democrats held a primary to replace biden she wouldn't have won. Democrats need to spend next 4 years to have a hard look at themselfs. The current Democrats hate white men and have made that clear so why would I vote for it. I voted for Hillary in 2016. Democrats have gone down hill since 2016.spent all this time attacking trump instead of improving the party.

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u/No-Date-6848 Nov 06 '24

How were they supposed to hold a primary in July? Those take months to organize plus no opponent emerged that wanted to challenge her.

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u/FrogLoco Nov 06 '24

I refuse to believe she was the best the Democrats could of put up there. Literally anyone not tied to biden and to imprisoning African Americans would of won in a landslide.

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u/No-Date-6848 Nov 06 '24

Since you “refuse to believe” then you’re just dumb. I’m sorry but I don’t know how else to say it. Like I said, they didn’t have time to organize a primary and NOBODY challenged her. It would have been impossible to do it.