The Left can’t sit out the 2028 Democratic primary. If AOC chooses not to run for president, Eric Blanc argues that socialists should run a working-class candidate — even an unknown one — who can inject anti-billionaire politics into the race.
The solution isnt giving union leaders more power.
The solution is electing decent politicians who know what life is like for average Americans.
Something that we’ve made huge strides to in the last year and a half.
What needs to happen, is happening.
If a progressive becomes president in 2029, and we’ve got the best shot since FDR, then they name the new DNC chair.
Literally the only thing that can stop us, is if people get tricked into not supporting the Dem party right now. Because if a Dem doesn’t win the next presidential, that means the ~420 voting members of the DNC get to pick again.
There’s a slim chance they go back to neoliberalism again, and then we’re fucked and really need a third party again.
So we need to make sure we don’t even give them a chance, we need to get a progressive in the White House while we can.
Well, this is assuming we’re not facing massive voter suppression and tampering in November. Which at that point, we need to organize into a scorched earth movement of general strikes, to bring the oligarchs to their knees.
I don’t want to say too much about that would look like here.
Which comes full circle to the headline…
The solution isnt giving union leaders more power.
The solution is electing decent politicians who know what life is like for average Americans.
Something that we’ve made huge strides to in the last year and a half.
What needs to happen, is happening.
If a progressive becomes president in 2029, and we’ve got the best shot since FDR, then they name the new DNC chair.
Literally the only thing that can stop us, is if people get tricked into not supporting the Dem party right now. Because if a Dem doesn’t win the next presidential, that means the ~420 voting members of the DNC get to pick again.
There’s a slim chance they go back to neoliberalism again, and then we’re fucked and really need a third party again.
So we need to make sure we don’t even give them a chance, we need to get a progressive in the White House while we can.
Well, this is assuming we’re not facing massive voter suppression and tampering in November. Which at that point, we need to organize into a scorched earth movement of general strikes, to bring the oligarchs to their knees.
I don’t want to say too much about that would look like here.
On my soap box…
Waiting to go to the ballot box…
But this is America and there’s a couple other boxes.
It is what it is. But yeah, people need to understand options