The victories were a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also a referendum on the Democratic party’s own centrism that is complicit in the violence of masked men hunting immigrants, the funding of a genocide and the denial of healthcare to citizens of the world’s wealthiest country.
…Hakeem Jeffries, who is running for speaker of the House, will not commit to holding a vote on abolishing ICE. He opposes Medicare for All. He has said he will not hold Trump accountable for the human rights violations committed, portraying it as a question of “getting even” rather than achieving justice where it was denied. Chuck Schumer, who holds similar positions, has an extraordinarily low approval rating – yet plans to run for majority leader in the Senate. Electeds are questioning whether these men should hold these roles.
But the dissent must also come from us, as it has been. We need to demand an end to the fast violence of guns on our streets trained on our neighbors, bombs dropped from the sky and the slow violence of people dying because their healthcare was denied or their food stamps were cut.
We need to organize, and mobilize, to demand the multi-racial democracy we were promised – not a playground for the rich to get richer on the time and labor and lives of the poor.
Fuck Jeffries and Schumer, both of those fuckers are selfish assholes who just want to go back to the status quo so they can keep collecting their bribes in peace.
They will, the status quo is what got us Trump in the first place. Look at all the progressives who ran. They crushed it. Centrists don’t have the popularity to draw voters. All the progress gained will be lost because the DNC will squander it with infighting and will try to prop up an unpopular candidate like Hillary.
Gavin Newsome is just such a perfect embodiment of everything wrong with the DNC, I feel he will be the one foisted upon us all.
All centrism is is political cowardice. Just spend some research and pick a side.
“Centrists” who would sooner vote Republican (like Haley Stevens) than support any truly progressive policy.
it kind of varied with region. Here in Texas both Talarico & Hinajosa are certainly more centrist in their approaches, and I don’t think open progressives could have won a Statewide elections here like they did.
Completely agree, but for anyone not in Texas you need to understand that for a lot of people here “average centrist” is basically “militant communist terrorism”.
In retrospect (and purely, only in retrospect), if we had packed the ballots with progressives they’d have gotten in anyway. I feel strongly that the election was decided here in Texas by low information voters doing the opposite of what they did last time because that’s all they could think to do. I really don’t think it went any deeper than that. The fascists knew that about their base, that’s why all their ads have always been fear based. This time, real world fear was flying in the face of the manufactured fear, and it became impossible to ignore any longer. Many of these people have never left the state. They’ve only seen six dollar diesel in memes about California. When they saw that at home it was like seeing a tiger in their kitchen. They ran for the voting booths the same way they’d run for the shotgun.
Under no circumstances would I have ever placed a bet on a statewide blue sweep! I remember Anne Richards, I feel like she’d be happy about this outcome.
I feel strongly that the election was decided here in Texas by low information voters doing the opposite of what they did last time because that’s all they could think to do.
That’s giving low-information voters too little credit. While I don’t know what exactly is going on in their heads, we do have a consistent pattern of Republicans voting for progressives (see: Obama in 2008*) so clearly there’s some amount of thought going on here. The complaints about Harris are I think also informative; some Republicans vote blue when the blue candidate seems like they’ll do stuff for them and isn’t an empty suit.
*Obama wasn’t a progressive, but he ran like one.
I think you’re on to something. The working class are so desperate for working class policies that they run towards anyone who can convince them that’s them, then when those lies are revealed, they run in the opposite direction.
It’s the same for Kansas, Ohio, Alaska, NH, Iowa, and a bunch of house seats as well. In fact most of the new gains are in red districts from moderate to conservative Democrats.
I’m a progressive but the article is bullshit. And Reddit/Lemmy progressives are starting to annoy me by burying their head in the and/or aggressively insulting people who point out reality.
We’ve made some good gains but people are acting like we took over the party and that’s not even close to true.
AIPAC WON
I think AIPAC and Israel are in their death throes
It’s beautiful to see people finally waking up to their terroristic state.
Still a long way to go, but we are on the right path and it is righteous.
Its a bitter pill to swallow when people realize the harm we’ve caused. But sometimes medicine is very bitter.
Israel isn’t going anywhere. Bibi’s regime maybe but there’s nothing indicating that the state itself is in jeopardy.
AIPAC probably have already rebranded and or splintered into a hundered new organizations. That’s how I would do it at least.
They already are doing, funnelling more money through UDP these days. That’s why we need sites like trackaipac.com to keep tabs on it. If they had splintered years ago, it would have worked better. I think people can generally see what’s up nowadays.
Not until they’re out of funds.
No more medical bankruptcies or crazy bills, and costs less than the current system. Healthcare is not lost when the owner eliminates your job in a recession and out of work for a year or more. Too many think they have theirs and won’t lose it and that’s selfish. Do better, demand better, it’s not hard to vote for that each time until it passes.
it’s not hard to vote for that each time until it passes.
It is - because unless you’re willing to primary and punish the Democratic Party for not doing this, they’ll do exactly what they’ve done since 2008. Promise it, then backpedal once in power.
I mean, a progressive here would be a centrist in most countries. So in a way, yes, trying to drag the center closer to the actual center.
Centrists won’t stand anything that has happened under this administration, and will vote to repeal tariffs, defund the Iran war, and vote for real investigations of the corruption. If they dont, then they are with the proto fascists.
I’ve got news for you that might seem like clairvoyance.
Well then those aren’t centrists. Those are collaborators.
That’s what centrism is. The half way point between concentration camps and healthcare for all is still fascism.
Lol thinking you’ll be getting Healthcare for all. It will be socialism for the armed forces and brown shirts only.
That’s currently how it is right now, you incredibly dense mung bean.
And healthcare for all is so difficult, only 42/43 developed nations and 155/208 nations on Earth have managed to do it. The US has the same healthcare access as fucking Somalia.
Manhattan project… no problem Human genome project… easy Copying an effective Healthcare system from 42 other developed countries… sorry we can’t because profit.
When the overton window is skewed so far to the right like it is in the USA, what passes for centerism is still way off towards the right wing.
Yup. And here’s how it got there . . . .
Even Jon Ossof was campaigning on Universal Healthcare.
Is he Medicare for All single payer, or the stupid public option Medicare for America which lets insurers dump their expensive patients onto the government plan then point at it for being inefficient?
Edit: he’s a snake pushing a public option. Fuck incrementalists, they’re the same radical centrists that got us into this mess.
Do you have a source for that because I’ve read equally valid comments elsewhere that suggest otherwise and a brief google search suggests that he in-fact does not support M4A?
Does it ever?
It did for Bill Clinton and they’ve been chasing that high for decades. Both bribes and Blue No Matter Who votes! 🤤
News to nobody but “centrists” and MAGAts.
Hopefully the people can move forward without too many politicians getting in their way.
South Carolina won a D senate seat with a moderate
The ‘moderate’ running on Bernie’s exact platform down to every single word spoken?
Not sure where you’re getting that from. If , for example, Annie Andrews supports Medicaid For All /single-payer this is not mentioned on her campaign website or in any of the TV ads I’ve seen. She does explicitly suppoort a lot of healthcare reform that does not involve single_payer/medicare_for_all
https://drannieandrews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Patients-and-Prices-Platform.pdf
Democrats focused on basic, universally appealing topics so in a sense that is centrism. The real test will be how they can approach more divisive social issues.
In the global sense - 32 of the 33 OECD (“developed”) countries have some form of universal healthcare, so yeah, that’s a “centrist” issue, and anyone against universal healthcase is, in that sense, already right-wing. Same, really, with most social safety nets.
So it always rankles me when someone in the US claims to be “centrist”. Not only is that already right-wing, but with the Overton Window, it really IS generally right-wing.
Of course not. Centrists kept telling people to not even vote.
Not all of them. There were centrists like Haley Stevens telling people to get out and vote Republican.
