What’s keeping people from demanding it?

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    19 hours ago

    I know of the Working Families Party and that party has had some success either winning their own election or running as Democrats.

    A major job of a political party is to organize. If a party can’t organize while other ones can, maybe I shouldn’t support the party which can’t organize.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      10 hours ago

      This kinda goes both ways though, I hadn’t heard of the WFP before, and they don’t seem to be particularly effective, like a mini-DSA.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      19 hours ago

      it’s not that they can’t organize; it’s that your attention is likely captured by sources that try to suppress their efforts.

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        17 hours ago

        Then they need different efforts to get their word out.

        Also, I pointed out another leftist party which has been able to break through the noise.

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          17 hours ago

          you’re commenting here on one such effort.

          also: other leftist parties also seemed to make it through the mainstream filter too and have been later revealed to be compatible leftists groups (ie acp, cpusa, etc.) so this alone isn’t the only indicator.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            10 hours ago

            Minor correction on the CPUSA, it started as a genuine communist party with ties to the CPSU, but was systematically infiltrated and destroyed internally until it became a shell of what it once was. The ACPis different, it espouses “MAGA communism,” whereas CPUSA is just toothless and ineffective.