yea because Corporates (Ones in power) are using the Radicals

What internal revolution? Looks like the DNC has already quashed any far left uprising.

The people Walking Away have the potential to fight this but dont

DNC changed the Super Delegate Rules

Someday, if you wake up and you find you can't control the party, or the party is betraying you, or the power base isn't where you think it is, or you find yourself looking increasingly alone, flipping sides is sometimes your best option.

@devpav It hasn't finished yet. And it's still very much being fought. There's been some more far-left upsets in the primaries too.

what do you do when you dont like the other side either

I don't know.

welcome to my world sometimes.

>64 enemies
>still can't find anyone

I remember why I stopped playing this game

https://www.laprogressive.com/super-delegate-reform/

@Lagomaster24 I've never really been a fan of Trump and I still am not. We're on "opposite" sides, but we're more alike than you might think.

http://digital.vpr.net/post/sen-bernie-sanders-praises-dncs-superdelegate-changes

I'm still expecting Crowley to win back his seat from AOC in November. The Dem establishment will just toss a few million at his third-party campaign.

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I don't know.

Most people are pretty alike politically

People said the same thing about Trump right until the end.

you just have to actually have a conversation

It would be a huge disruption of the order for Crowley to be even fighting AOC in Nov.

funniest ban message I've ever had

And I highly doubt he'd put himself into that fight.

Anyone notice Cortez isnt getting as much coverage anymore?

Yeah.

I think she kinda blew up.

But it says that they just dropped her instead of playing her everywhere like they did for Palin.

It has happened before on both sides. Hell, Murkowski lost her GOP primary and then won a *write-in* campaign during the general election.

think she'll win?

Partially because Palin was still at the forefront, but mostly because I think the media realized she was too close to what they wanted and not a good representative.

Cortez? Absolutely.

why?

The Dem Party is very top-down and exerts a great deal of control on it's members for historical reasons.

Crowley is the #4 Dem in the House, right?

So you think she'll be watered down?

Fight the official primary system and you guarantee a huge mess for someone.

I think she'll just be ignored outside the base.

There's politicians like that on both sides of the aisle.

hers?

The progressive base.

yea

Like, everyone not in SF or NYC will ignore her.

And the media will figure it out and not bring her up.

@devpav something like that. But if you bend the rules it causes chaos and the party bosses won't like that.

And since Cortez's base is the most energized and active part of the base, they won't risk alienating them further. They need footsoldiers to run door to door for voter registration drives and campaigning.

If Crowley was mounting a serious challenge, he would have been making noise already.

The Dems already spend millions astroturfing all of that.

Money and people are different resources.

You need both.

The Dems use money to buy people. That's Soros's schtick.

actively campaigning (volunteers and all) works, might not always win but its a fantastic way to get awareness out or get out to vote

Dems and Repubs campaign

although they put more effort into it if the area is swing

@devpav you don't honestly believe the left is just controlled by Soros, do you?

I believe he's their largest donor.

LIke, he's a major player and his recent donation is actually an order of magnitude larger than both war chests in 2016.

m'Soros puppets

But he's not some kind of puppetmaster, and money alone won't win you anything.

And money disappears fast.

He provides money and organization.

Sure? But there's more than just Soros' organizations.

Of course there is.

i read that as smores

smores puppets

There's still Silicon Valley, the MSM, etc etc. I never said the Dem Party was a one-man show run by Soros.

Idk if it’s just my area but there is an increase in Dems not taking Corporate donations

When Soros dumps 18 bil on foundations and Silicon valley makes donation apps just for you, you don't have to.

And that's far from the only place it's happening.

In fact, I’ll have to check on the current one, but the one I worked on during state elections almost exclusively did small individual donations

It's nice PR.

We're not disagreeing about anything then.

Sure.

But I still hold the claim, that Soros can't just buy people and the party does concern itself with the far left base.

Soros is often aligned with the far left, too.

@Lagomaster24 I'm pretty sure the corporations and such are funneling their money in other ways however.

They take money from the party so maybe in that way

@devpav fair.

Out of sight out of mind thing maybe

PACs is my immediate guess.

And advertising.

No they didn’t except PAC money

Nike isn't exactly playing both sides in it's ads right now.

Interesting.

But I am pretty sure they are funnelling money somehow.

Only party and small donations by individuals

Again probs party

Probably won't say what it is because it doesn't look good to be finding a backdoor.

I’m only talking about the one I worked

But I guarantee there's a backdoor somewhere.

Not the current one

And people are using it.

I've heard they removed a limit on oil companies recently.

The current one only said they aren’t taking corporate money iirc

Because the Kochs are funding a Democrat.

Who?

Interestingly I know a lot of Dems who hate PACs

Or at least voters

Heitkamp.

Is that pronouced how i *hope* it's pronounced?

Kochs 🤔