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Which brings me to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a man who didn't so much win office as fail to lose it, after his Conservative opponent Pierre Poilievre saw a collapse in his poll numbers the instant Donald Trump (whom Poilievre had repeatedly associated himself with during the campaign) promised to turn Canada into "the 51st state."
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Sure, leaders sometimes exhibit moral fortitude and courage. But we can't rely on our leaders to be perfect - or even pretty good. The only reliable way to get the leadership we deserve is to *force* our leaders to follow *us*, by organizing in political blocs that mete out severe punishments when they betray us.
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Say what you will about the Tea Party, but boy, did they understand this. During the Obama years, any Republican that wavered from the party line was mercilessly tormented by Tea Party activists, who flooded their offices with calls and emails, showed up at their town halls, and at restaurants when they were trying to have dinner, and then they backed their primary opponents.
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The Tea Party years were a winnowing function for the GOP, and the only Republican politicians who survived were the ones who refused to compromise. This worked for them in world-historic ways. It was thanks to the Tea Party that the GOP was able to steal two Supreme Court seats, for example.
Corporate Democrats use the Tea Party as an example of why we can't let the public into progressive politics.
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After all, corporate Dems already control Democratic politicians, and so any organized rank-and-file bloc threatens their ability to push electeds to pursue grotesque policies like supporting genocide in Gaza or showering billions on ICE:
The seven Dems who voted to fund ICE knew that they were doing something that would be wildly unpopular with the voters who sent them to DC, but they did it anyway, because they aren't afraid of those voters.
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They treat their voters as ambulatory wallets to be terrorized into donating small sums via relentless text messages about the impending end of democracy in America, even as they vote for the impending end of democracy in America.
These seven lawmakers don't just need to be primaried: they need to be made an example of. Their names must be a curse.
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They must be confronted in public - long after they are out of office - by voters brandishing pictures of the people ICE murdered after receiving the funds they voted for. They must be haunted for this decision for the rest of their days. As Voltaire said, "Sometimes you must execute an admiral to encourage the others."
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115968303633853196
After all, corporate Dems already control Democratic politicians, and so any organized rank-and-file bloc threatens their ability to push electeds to pursue grotesque policies like supporting genocide in Gaza or showering billions on ICE:
The seven Dems who voted to fund ICE knew that they were doing something that would be wildly unpopular with the voters who sent them to DC, but they did it anyway, because they aren't afraid of those voters.
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