My impression is that contrary to the headline, this isn’t a young vs old thing, but a follows-the-news vs doesn’t-follow-news thing

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    Shockingly enough, there’s things called “primaries” where you can show the fuck up and get these fossils out for people who actually act in the best interest of their citizenry.

    The catch being the “showing the fuck up” part.

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      4 months ago

      This assumes the party allows a primary challenger to any arbitrary seat. Usually they don’t for safe seats. Or at risk seats. Or any seats where the currently elected member is making them money.

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        4 months ago

        Yes, we can dither and make excuses all we like, but if we never try, nothing happens anyways.

        Might as well try, yeah? Unless of course we just want to complain about how the system is unfair and not actually do anything to change it.

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          And you think doing the exact same thing over and over is “trying”?

          We’ve been doing things to try to change the system, but mainstream Dems, white liberals, tend to call us radical criminals, terrorists, and damaging to progress. When we try we get shot in the back. When we try we get anonymously reported by someone ‘that agrees with our ideals but not our actions’.

          So hopefully now that you people will be suffering too, you might not stab us in the back this time when things get a little uncomfy for white liberals.

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      4 months ago

      Difficult in a state where you have to declare a party (and “none” doesn’t count; they only recognize R or D)

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        Sounds like it’s as easy as declaring a party. Are there some strange initiation rituals you need to go through to declare? Sacrifice a goat or something?

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            Well I suppose you could always whine about it online instead?

            It costs you nothing to register as a Dem so you can vote against these fuckers in the primaries, except maybe some worthless sense of idealogical purity.

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              I have 0 desire to be mercilessly spammed by the Dems or Repubs because I registered with their party.

              Plus no one but me should know / needs to know my party affiliation. In today’s day and age of wanting more privacy, this is part of it. I don’t want to be on the wrong side of history because I was registered with a party.