I'm sure that the same people who couldn't deliver Bernie Sanders an overwhelming win in 2020 can suddenly become savvy pols who can just put together a national third party.

If you want action, do what AOC and the others in her squad did. Work inside the Dem party.

Take a lesson from the right. Back in the 1970s Jerry Falwell decided to take control of the GOP. He did it from the ground up. If the local GOP club had had twenty people show up to the last meeting to pick the next county clerk, Falwell's people would show up with fifty people. Soon those county clerks and sheriffs were becoming Congresspeople and Senators.

Politics is a game and the left sucks at playing it.

The Left keeps not voting in hopes the Dems will come to them.

It's not going to work next time either.

So, to solve the problem of the left not voting them, they are moving further to the right.

I humbly disagree. This seems to be an overly simplified view.

The origins of "the far left" (as I understood it) was basically promoting heavy government involvement. For example, breaking up monopolies, many government subsidied programs for it's people, which in turn needs higher taxes for it people (so the rich get taxed more, the poor get taxed less).

The origins of "the far right" was the polar opposite. No government involvement. Companies will do "what's right" in order to compete for profit, less tax on it people, as there are fewer government processes/programs (because people have more personal wealth and can afford the programs that are relevant for them).

"the center" was in the middle of these two extremes. The understanding is that there needs to be some government involvement to prevent companies from going unchecked, not all people have equal chances in life resulting in some people needing more/less government assistance, ect. Yet, also acknowledging that the Stalin form of socialism fights against the basic human desire to "work to make their lives better" and companies (when left to their own devices) cannot be absolutely trusted to do "what's right" for society.

The problem with the DNC and the 2024 election is that the media has perverted what "the far left" aka Democrats and "the far right" aka Republicans (and this has been going on for years).

Based on your line of "left vs right", I'd argue that the Republican party is "close to" my definition of "the far right" (fascism aside). Yet, the Democratic Party is actually closer to "the far right" than they are "the far left". I'd even go so far as to say, that the Democratic Party is far "right of center".

So, yeah, I totally support moving the DNC towards the center, because it'll (finally) make the Democratic Party closer to their "far left" ideals.

2016: "We don't need to change! Look at our opponent, Trump!"

2020: "We'll pretend to be M4A. But the main thing is beating Trump! Worry about change later!"

2024: "We lost, but we did everything right. Americans are the problem. Anyways, Trump is in his last term, so why change?"

Then make sure to tell the people actually voting for the chair to give the pushback they need to see that's a mistake. Change is only going to come when we speak up

Aka the libs want to turn on trans people.

The DNC aren't liberals. They're center-right.

Point me to a moment during the last campaign that Kamala promoted identity politics. The very most important thing we should do is to nit listen to pundits.

Middle America is about 20y behind the rest of us, this is the 90s gay marriage situation all over again. If the DNC actually wants to win elections they need to stop putting narrow identity groups front and center and run on their track record of positive economic policy for everyone or they're going to lose every election for the next 20y (barring those won by voter backlash over catastrophic Republican admin fuck-ups.)

The DNC went too far down the identity politics rabbit hole and hasn't quite realized that people in the identity demographics they want to Jenga together into 270 EC votes are willing to vote for the other side because they're not happy with the DNC's corporate profit economy.

The critical flaw in the DNC's 20y old identity politics strategy is the assumption that these identity groups are monolithic. It's a prejudiced as hell position to take that "these are the interests of all women" or "these are the interests of all black people" and yet that's what the DNC has tried to do for the last three elections running. It should be painfully obvious at this point that this doesn't work: women, PoC and Muslims voted for Trump in droves (or stayed home in protest) despite the front and center spending to bring those groups on side this election. Everyone's tired of performative pandering and wants real economic and policy reform to help recover some of what was lost to the last couple of economic crashes and to inflation.

The meme is already stale but JFC they've learned nothing from the last two election losses - the Harris campaign was the 2016 Clinton campaign minus the fundraising dinners on Wall St.

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Surely no one here that y'all branded as tankies told you so.

Does the article tell us how to cast a vote? I skimmed it and couldn’t find a link to where I could at least send an email.

That's not a constructive approach. Doing nothing just means Republicans completely disasemble what remains of democracy in the US.