And centrists ran on the inflation reduction act in 2024, with no shame at all for what they stole from us. Because killing everything that had a direct tangible benefit to voters (except lowering the price of 10 drugs for boomers on medicare) was democrats’ accomplishment.

Go ahead. Tell me how all the corporate handouts in the law will help individuals. Trickle down economics is so great.

We gave democrats the means.

They worked with republicans to block what they ran on. They betrayed their voters and demand perfect loyalty forever no matter what they do.

The party is a huge problem. People who love how corporate and pro-genocide the party has become blame anyone who wants better.

If Hogg were attempting to further entrench centrist hegemony, party leadership wouldn’t be opposing him.

Which is why the national minimum wage is no longer 7.25 and BBB passed.

They will blame the voters every time.

He’s talked big and caved before.

It sure is neat how republicans can reliably stop democrats no matter how large a majority democrats have, but it never seems to work the other way.

I don’t think they’re even selling out. I think this is what they would be doing even if there weren’t money in it.

Well, Sanders is suddenly too old (again) because we no longer have to pretend biden is lucid.

And AOC can’t run because a woman suddenly can’t win, which will be the case until we find some centrist corpodem woman to run again.

Their excuse for Hogg has been that they suddenly like school shootings now that a gun control advocate wants to primary the corpo/genocide wing.

Compare how they’re treating Hogg to how they treated Dick Cheney.

But this is just a way to disenfranchise someone they aren’t comfortable with.

Yes, this is the purpose of democratic party leadership.

That’s not a problem for centrist democrats. They don’t care if they win; they just want to shut out progressives.

Look, I’m not usually so gatekeepy, but neither linux nor lemmy are that hard to use.

Your initial comment is basically “I can’t figure out how to use this, and that’s somehow the fault of everyone who can.”

I’m not gonna be your tech support.

We finally beat medicare.

Jesus Christ, what bleak times we inhabit.

Why does that matter?

I remember centrists calling Bill Clinton the “first black president.” Guess they don’t want to give up the title.

I’m saying that “too old” means “too far to the left” and that the party would run a fucking mummy as long as it didn’t want to raise the minimum wage or implement universal healthcare.

Ötzi/Imhotep 2028!

I can’t help that you’re determined to miss it.