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Re:The case for why Google should be regulated as a public u... by dhosek on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:57PM (#24122572)
This is why it's important to vote in primaries and to cultivate leaders at the local level. The Republicans became a lock-step far right party by building up infrastructure and candidates at the lowest levels and building from there. Too many progressives don't seem to pay attention to any elections below the presidential election (and then whine that things are rigged when their candidate gets less votes than someone they don't like).
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Re:The case for why Google should be regulated as a public u... by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:56PM (#24124356)
The Republicans deliberately built the grassroots top down, with targeted media and subsidised networking. Supposedly grassroots orgs were aggressively seeded and astroturfed.

It's not that progressives don't pay attention, it's that the Democratic machine doesn't do this. In fact it works to sabotage and disempower effective grassroots opposition to its corporatist policies.

There are always a few break outs in every cycle - like Cori Bush this year - but they're there for show, not for policy. If they get too pushy they run into opposition, and if they don't accept a compromise with the party line they're quietly removed by PACs that funnel non-grassroots special-interest money to challengers.

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Re:The case for why Google should be regulated as a public u... by InitialLastName on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:13PM (#24124598)
To be fair, the presidential election thing progressives are whining is rigged is that their candidate lost despite getting 3 million more votes than someone they didn't like.

That it happened twice in 3 presidents is icing on the "it's rigged" cake.

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Re:The case for why Google should be regulated as a public u... by dhosek on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:57PM (#24126517)
I was referring to whiners in the primaries. There are many factors for why trunmp won in 2016 and changing any one of them could have changed the outcome. One of those factors was Sanders voters who stayed home or voted for third-party candidates.
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