Minnesota's Democratic Farmer-Labor Party has stripped democratic socialist Omar Fateh of the endorsement for Minneapolis mayor he won at last month's convention. Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said, "This decision will be a stain on our party for years to come."
True enough, but without strong labor organization today’s elected officials and the like will be tomorrow’s resistance/“resistance” leaders. There’s still value in getting progressives elected into office and, by extension, something of value is being stolen when neoliberals sabotage those progressives.
True. The new leadership will have to be from proper labor unions, in order til build the cpuntry for the common people, instead of for the corporations.
I wanted to say something sarcastic but wow, that is fucking brazen. Let’s hope the “vote blue no matter who” crowd gets the hint.
That crowd is trying really hard to not see the hypocrisy.
At this point democracy is already dead in USA anyway, so might aswell burn the whole fucking system down to the ground, and start from scratch.
True enough, but without strong labor organization today’s elected officials and the like will be tomorrow’s resistance/“resistance” leaders. There’s still value in getting progressives elected into office and, by extension, something of value is being stolen when neoliberals sabotage those progressives.
True. The new leadership will have to be from proper labor unions, in order til build the cpuntry for the common people, instead of for the corporations.
No they won’t, there’s plenty of precedent to this. Look up what happened when India Walton won the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo.