🇺🇸 Discussion: The DEMOCRATIC P - Part 3

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[DJ Kornphlake]

 

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[Morg]

 

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[Lobo]

‘Who’s got next?’ Democrats already lining up for 2028 presidential race in early voting states

The voters in early presidential nominating states are used to seeing contenders months or even years before most of the country.

apnews.com

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Former President Barack Obama issued a call to action for Democrats at a private fundraiser in New Jersey on Friday evening, urging those frustrated by the state of the country under President Donald Trump to "stand up for the things that you think are right."

"I think it's going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up," Obama said at the fundraiser, according to excerpts of his remarks exclusively obtained by CNN.

"You know, don't tell me you're a Democrat, but you're kind of disappointed right now, so you're not doing anything. No, now is exactly the time that you get in there and do something," he said. "Don't say that you care deeply about free speech and then you're quiet. No, you stand up for free speech when it's hard. When somebody says something that you don't like, but you still say, 'You know what, that person has the right to speak.' … What's needed now is courage."

"There's been, I gather, some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote-unquote abundance agenda. Listen, those things are not contradictory. You want to deliver for people and make their lives better? You got to figure out how to do it," he said.

"I don't care how much you love working people. They can't afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY," he said, referring to "not in my backyard" views. "I don't want to know your ideology, because you can't build anything. It does not matter."

NIMBY-ism has no ideological fault lines, it's across them all and global.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/uk-housing-market-beset-by-nimbyism-under-tories-how-will-labour-change-things

 

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[Lily Adler]

We are wasting air time and energy smearing one of your own instead of focusing on Trump and his enablers.

 

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[squeekness]

I hope he doesn't even have a chance.

 

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[Sithborg]

Maybe not hold up the transphobe Newsom as a good example....