Have all been shown to be fertile for left of liberal political victories. My understanding is that the Nevada DNC also has progressive leadership, so waiting to see if they can push for some wins on their end now that they have some power
Portland is iffy. Right now 4/12 city councillors are DSA members, but by no means revolutionary in their politics. They are slightly better than average libs. Portland’s DA was a progressive but got turfed out for a Republican “tough on crime” guy. Former progressive city council members have been literally framed by the police or just faced massive smear campaigns. The mayor is a trucking company CEO who’s trying to give extra money to the shitty police department that they didn’t even ask for while at the same time cutting the parks budget.
literally been framed…faced massive smear campaigns.
Wasn’t there some Portland politician who made national news over parking tickets or some shit? I don’t remember who it was, just that it seemed really fishy and libs were pearl clutching over it.
Not a bad point but a counter point is that momentum always was and is against anyone left of liberal. It’s not like Sawant didn’t have an uphill battle against Amazon money
Honestly, if left of liberal politicians got into power in a state’s party democrat apparatus, they’d probably win just due to inertia (provided they aren’t sabotaged like the NV dems were, obviously). Chuds will call them communists, but they’ve been doing that for decades so I have to imagine it doesn’t work on the average person anymore.
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Have all been shown to be fertile for left of liberal political victories. My understanding is that the Nevada DNC also has progressive leadership, so waiting to see if they can push for some wins on their end now that they have some power
Portland is iffy. Right now 4/12 city councillors are DSA members, but by no means revolutionary in their politics. They are slightly better than average libs. Portland’s DA was a progressive but got turfed out for a Republican “tough on crime” guy. Former progressive city council members have been literally framed by the police or just faced massive smear campaigns. The mayor is a trucking company CEO who’s trying to give extra money to the shitty police department that they didn’t even ask for while at the same time cutting the parks budget.
Like I said about Seattle, it’s more that they can win, not that they are well organized and doing a good job today (that would be the next step).
Wasn’t there some Portland politician who made national news over parking tickets or some shit? I don’t remember who it was, just that it seemed really fishy and libs were pearl clutching over it.
Carmen Rubio. She was a city councilor running for mayor. It was a legit story. She had an absurd number of violations and lied about the circumstances around them repeatedly. It was not really a huge loss. She was and is not even progressive. Just a normal lib.
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I guess my main point was that Sawant can indeed win on a socialist platform. Not that everything is set to go today.
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Not a bad point but a counter point is that momentum always was and is against anyone left of liberal. It’s not like Sawant didn’t have an uphill battle against Amazon money
Honestly, if left of liberal politicians got into power in a state’s party democrat apparatus, they’d probably win just due to inertia (provided they aren’t sabotaged like the NV dems were, obviously). Chuds will call them communists, but they’ve been doing that for decades so I have to imagine it doesn’t work on the average person anymore.
MSNBC will call them Russians