Honestly call or email the Democratic party offices and voice that you one hundred percent agree with Sanders.
Pelosi should just gtfo and become a stock broker. She’s unusually good at trading stocks for some obscure reason.
(The reason is insider trading)
As a stock broker she would be subject to the law against insider trading.
I think you mean barrel shroud broker.
We know they don’t respect Sanders.
Exhibit A: Picking Hilary.
They RFK’d him.
Members of the DNC were emailing each other about how best to undermine Sanders’ presidential campaign after promising to remain neutral. Democrats, if you want to inspire voters, let them pick the fucking candidate!
It wasn’t disrespect, it was outright fear.
They’re afraid that someone is going to get into that position that can’t be bought and is going to grandstand to the public to ask for the things that donors won’t like.
Corporations are spending a lot of money to own the voices in the government, they don’t want to make any rich people angry.
Pelosi is the best example of what’s wrong with Dems. Literally enriched herself off the pain and suffering of the working class and poor.
I’m a Sanders guy, but Pelosi held against an onslaught. She’s tough, and that’s good.
She’s good at holding her own. Too bad her own is neo liberal garbage and self enrichment.
The Democrats win on policy, but they’re horrible at rhetoric.
The dems used to win on policy, but now they do whatever they want (or are paid to do) regardless of the will of their voter base.
They only want to do what pays the best
The fuck are you even talking about? The last shit they could even use their multi-trillion dollar propaganda machine to spin as a positive was RomneyCare.
If anything you’ve got that backwards. They can run the worst candidates possible with literal fucking fascist policies and still get tens of millions of votes based purely on vibes.
I"m saying they’re good at getting shit done, but horrible at letting anyone know they actually got anything done. I don’t even think they vote on vibes given that no one on the GOP hasn’t given off the most scummy fucking vibes I’ve ever felt.
Hell Vance and Paul Ryan have basically the same vibes
I"m saying they’re good at getting shit done, but horrible at letting anyone know they actually got anything done.
And I’m telling you you’re delusional. The exact opposite is true as evidenced by your own rationalization.
I don’t even think they vote on vibes given that no one on the GOP hasn’t given off the most scummy fucking vibes I’ve ever felt.
Did you switch to talking about republicans here? We’re talking about democrats voting and you’re talking about the vibes of the republicans being bad like that’s not literally part of what I already said.
Pelosi is wrong about Sanders. But she did not “enrich herself”.
Bernie is literally quoted in the article saying “Nancy is a friend of mine”.
The main thing she’s known for is rampant unabashed insider trading. If that isn’t enriching herself then I don’t know what is.
Pelosi is wrong about Sanders. But she did not “enrich herself”.
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Pelosi is wrong about Sanders. But she did not “enrich herself”.
Are we playing the “it’s her spouse who is the stock investor” game?
https://www.newsweek.com/how-nancy-pelosi-net-worth-vastly-increased-while-house-speaker-1762361
Because if this is how one accumulates wealth, it certainly sounds like it’s “off the pain and suffering of the working class and poor.”
D.C.-based nonprofit OpenSecrets.org estimated Pelosi’s net worth at $115 million in 2020, a rise of $41 million since 2004 - the first year OpenSecrets began tracking members’ personal finances.
Paul Pelosi’s company, Financial Leasing Services, has been highly successful in its investments in recent years and those investments have included shares in major firms such as Disney, Amazon and Google.
The New York Post estimated that the Pelosis had made between $5.6 million and $30.4 million between 2007 and 2020 through capital gains and dividends from investments in five tech companies - Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft - based on public disclosures.
That’s not really good evidence. They could’ve made more money by just holding an SP 500 index fund. Their recent Visa trade is better evidence.
Fair! But personally it’s my opinion that in all but a vanishingly small number of cases, if someone is sitting on high tens of millions of dollars and on up, I feel very certain that fundamentally this description works:
Literally enriched herself off the pain and suffering of the working class and poor.
While there are people who are underpaid and struggling to eat, there’s not a path to that kind of wealth that isn’t directly or indirectly exploiting their pain and suffering.
Their wealth is itself the evidence.
Pelosi’s response kinda proves that the DNC is just the other side of the shit coin running the funhouse arcade game of American democracy
This is where Pelosi proves Bernie right just by talking.
I don’t respect Pelosi.
Lmfao imagine being aligned with pelosi and thinking you’re right.
I mean they lost what 10mil votes? I’m with sanders they need to fix their shit. Get real. They’re going to run Harris again with slightly more left wing policies, Republicans will point out she’s an insincere flip flop and destroy her again. But it will be the DNC not the Republicans that setup the loss.
Big bussiness is scared that if given the chance bernie would win and they cant risk that.
Let’s not wrap it in some mysterious “big businesses” it is really oligarchs vs us, they take more and more of wealth making all of us poorer and then use media (which they control) to say it is because of minorities our lives are so shitty.
I highly recommend On Freedom book by Timothy Snyder which talks how we are being manipulated to go against our best interest.
I think everyone should read it and be aware as things won’t improve unless we start fighting back.
Let’s not obfuscate with “oligarchs” either.
They’re the bourgeoisie. It’s the same struggle now as it was 100 years ago.
Will be writing my reps later today and I sent a few bucks to Bernie since I figure what better way to tell a politician they’re barking up the right tree?
I know online petitions are generally cringe but if there was one backing up Bernie’s stance here and telling the Dems to get their heads out of their own asses, I’d sign it in a heartbeat. If other people feel similarly, maybe we should get the ball rolling? Best case Dems get the message, worst case we waste our time and nothing changes, right?
worst case is nothing changes and you get put on a donor list and passed around to politicians you dont even like.
There’s always https://democrats.org/contact-us/
Pelosi needs to fade away into the sunset
Anyone got the DNC’s number?
It was hard to find but I believe it is 202-863-8000
https://www.eriecountydems.org/democratic-national-committee-dnc/
Jaime Harrison is the DNC chair. https://democrats.org/jaime-harrison/
In my experience shit rolls downhill, so start at the top.
Join the discussion at !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world . It was a neutral space but now that we’re in fascist America neutrality is no longer acceptable.
The working class need a voice and the DNC is so completely clueless, so that communication needs to happen like an avalanche for anything to change.
Yeah the RNC
Sanders is right, and people are right to be.
Political parties are private institutions and should not be in a position to shape American policies at all. Having a two party system allows centralized control over everyone else in the given party. If elected officials feel pressured to fall in line then they’re not fighting for the American people, they’re fighting for their own political party.
