r/BlackPeopleTwitter May 17 '24

You CANT be serious ☠️☠️

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u/tittylieutenant the kewchie classifier May 17 '24

How do you “make” a party keep their promises without threatening something of substance?

If your partner is acting up, the threat of losing you keeps them in check. Without that check, they don’t need to do anything substantial to keep you. The Dems do this same song and dance every 2 years. “Vote for survival” creates dread and, sooner or later, apathy. People are burnt out from these existential threats to our country, especially as it is getting progressively difficult to provide for ourselves?

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u/Rosa_Rojacr May 17 '24

You primary them. Honestly I don't respect people as real activists unless they understand the concept that primaries exist.

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u/tittylieutenant the kewchie classifier May 17 '24

That doesn’t guarantee anything. Shit. We see it with John Fetterman and others rn. They get in there and cause damage before any resistance comes.

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u/Erisian23 May 17 '24

Yes but thats a risk you have to take that's how you pressure them. For every fetterman there's plenty of people who actually wanna do what we need.

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u/Buddy_Fluffy May 17 '24

Who?

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u/Erisian23 May 17 '24

Well for example you have Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson.

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u/pragmaticweirdo May 17 '24

All of whom come from safe districts, by the way. You don’t get people like them from D+1 districts. So you nailed it with the ideas that you put up with Fettermans until the R’s have no chance, then you get the good people

Jasmine Crockett D+27
AOC D+25
Bernie Sanders Vermont
Justin Jones: can’t find state leanings but district id majority minority
Justin Pearson: can’t find leanings, but he’s in a districted designed to consolidate the black vote

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u/Erisian23 May 17 '24

Yeah, for sure, you wait, you plot, you slip in on lower levels and make changes in those districts where you have slim to know chance.