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Is the last person to talk about billionaires and other things that shouldn't exist:
Another hypocrite pretending to be against oligarchy while being backed by oligarchs
This guy looks promising, but there's little to no donor information readily available on him, so grounds for cautious optimism at best.
Again little to no public donor disclosure, which is very ominous for a state Senator from NY of all states..
TL;DR: Dem leadership consists mainly of hypocrites who are as beholden to billionaires as their (much worse in almost all other aspects) fascist colleagues.
Re Ken Martin: he's a shrewd political operator. He's been chair in MN for a long time, and made incremental progress and won elections. I'd describe him as a progressive who is not willing to let perfect get in the way of good.
Source: was well connected with the MN DFL about 10yrs ago.
Could mean he knows how to get things done. Could mean that he has little to no ideological consistency. Usually a mixture of both but mostly the latter.
Usually 1 step forward when already 5 behind the rest of the world. Incrementalists are usually willing to trade 3 steps back to fascists negotiating in bad faith in the name of holy bipartisanship.
You mean a Neoliberal incrementalist trying to pretend to be a progressive while continuing to work for billionaires and their corporations against the working class?
I bet you were!
Sounds like you're describing a carbon copy of Jeffries. There's already way too many of those kind of politicians in Dem leadership. That's why they lost every part of government to fascists.
I'd say MN has mostly done better than most states under his pragmatic leadership. Whether you can say it's his doing or not, well sure, it's just a piece of the puzzle.
But your criticism is also reasonable. The Dems haven't actually learned anything about winning elections since they gave up new deal politics.
And yeah, MN is a small place. I'm not gonna dox myself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The language one uses matters in the long run even from hypocrites. It shifts national conversations and can sometimes force your hand. Eventually the people who fully believe the messaging will take over the party. It's part of how the Republicans have let their own party shift so far to the right
In terms of Wilker, I hadn't read about that from him but looked into it some more as the article linked was brief. Found some others with more insight in to what he thinks about that. It very much still sounds like he thinks the system is broken, but doesn't want to lose harder by not fully playing in it
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https://isthmus.com/news/cover-story/teaching-an-old-party-new-tricks/