The Vermont senator, who has long had a tense relationship with the Democratic Party, suggested in an interview that more progressives should join him in running as independents.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Nowadays, I have very little respect or identification with Democrats. It feels like a failed party

    Yeah, but lots of us reached that point decades earlier…

    08 Obama was the lone bright point going back forty years of the party.

    Hell, at Carter’s time he faced a fractured party because he was moving to far right. So really it’s more like 50 years.

    Dems have lost the plot for longer than most of us have been alive, and I’m all about reducing the strength of the party as an organization.

    But we still need a DNC and state parties if only to facilitate primaries, that’s a very important function.