• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      “If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.”

      From the article.

      I am saying:

      " Even if the House Democrats do none of those things, there will not be hell to pay with the base"

      The reason I say this is because, even if they do none of those things, they will still constitute the lesser of two evils for all future elections. That fact, coupled with the base’s strong conviction to vote for the lesser evil, means the House Democrats will not have “hell to pay” with the base.

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        3 days ago

        That only makes sense if you view the DNC as a monolithic organization in complete lockstep…

        And not 400+ voting members who just kicked out the Neil beral branch who had controlled the party for decades even thru Obama…

        Which, to be fair is often where these conversations tend to end up.

        Do you understand now?

        Acting like the DNC from February 2025 to today is in anyway responsible for what prior DNCs did just doesn’t make any logical sense.

        Which is why the result of these exchanges usually boils down to:

        They don’t have a basic idea how our political system works.

        Which is cool, just fucking spend the 15 minutes to learn it. You don’t even have to trust me for a link, it’s taught in civics classes all over the country and I’m sure there’s a Wikipedia and YouTube videos. You don’t have to “trust” any source I would provide.

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          3 days ago

          I actually already knew that, but maybe you can enlighten me as to why that has any bearing on the claim “Even if the House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will not be hell to pay with the base”?