"It speaks to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats," he said.

“It speaks to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “It speaks to a vision that goes back to a New Deal understanding of what working people deserve,” referencing the era of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the label given his domestic policies.

“And I’ll tell you that for too long that kind of politics, you can only find it in history books, and we need to bring it back to the present day.”

  • Phantaloons@piefed.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’m proud to have been one. Some of us get tired of knives in the back, but if it serves what I believe in, my vote will be behind it regardless of color.

    It’s never red, tho.

      • Phantaloons@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Many of us started as plain-jane, even… proud Democrats before we were stabbed in the back 20 times by our own party. Now the label is as fake as my smile.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          1·
          3 days ago

          You don’t have to join a party. I’ve been an Unaffiliated Independent since I registered to vote 49 years ago. It means I can’t vote in the Primaries, but my candidates were always too left to win anyway, so I would just support whoever won the primary, but they were NEVER my guy.

          I have recently considered registering as a Democrat, only so I can vote in the primaries, because we are finally getting candidates - mostly Democratic Socialists - that I actually care about, and I actually WANT to give them my vote.

          • Soup@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            If you don’t vote in the primaries then of fucking course your candidates are “too left to win”.

            There are so many fuckin’ losers out there bitching that who they’d prefer “doesn’t have support” while actively not supporting them. Of course they’re losing, you’re deciding they’ve failed before it even happens and leaving them in the dirt.

            • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
              1·
              3 days ago

              I can’t vote in Primaries either, but when I look back on it, there’s the rare occasion that the guy I would have voted for won the primary anyway, but MOST of the time, the person I would have voted for didn’t stand a chance anyway, so my primary vote never really mattered. I can’t think of a single time where I regretted it, because my preferred candidate lost by only one vote, mine.