• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Well, look at what happens even in liberal hotbeds like NYC and San Fransisco. Democrats are so obsessed with appeasing wealthy reactionaries that they’ll do obnoxiously anti-popular moves like Hochul delaying congestion pricing (what a turn of face that’s been) and Dianne Feinstein raising a Confederate Flag above the mayor’s office.

    How else do you get a crook like Eric Adams or Henry Cuellar or Bob Menendez in these positions of entrenched power without the party endlessly running cover for them. Fucking sickening.

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      No real leaders to rally about, anywhere, that I know about. Just a slow decline into increased corruption

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        No real leaders to rally about, anywhere

        The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

        But real leadership still exists. I’ve got a great local DSA chapter here in Houston. There are a number of activist groups - Food Not Bombs leaps to mind - that do an incredible job of bringing popular politics to bare against entrenched capital interests. They just don’t get a million-dollar kickback from the Heritage Society to produce mediocre rap videos with Tom MacDonald or put up a Whites Only orgy tent at Burning Man.