Gretchen Whitmer responds to calls by some Democrats to vote āuncommittedā in Michiganās primary on Tuesday
Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor, pushed back on calls to not vote for Joe Biden over his handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict, saying on Sunday that could help Trump get re-elected.
āItās important not to lose sight of the fact that any vote thatās not cast for Joe Biden supports a second Trump term,ā she said on Sunday during an interview on CNNās State of the Union. āA second Trump term would be devastating. Not just on fundamental rights, not just on our democracy here at home, but also when it comes to foreign policy. This was a man who promoted a Muslim ban.ā
Whitmer, who is a co-chair of Bidenās 2024 campaign, also said she wasnāt sure what to expect when it came to the protest vote.
Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat who is the only Palestinian-American serving in Congress, urged Democrats last week to vote āuncommittedā in Michiganās 27 February primary.
Right, exactly. Sure, the Dems have a bunch of formal structure, and yes, you can participate in it, and if you persuade the decision makers inside the party (who are industry tools more often than not), then yes, you can have an influence. But if you want to challenge them on something genuinely democratic, like calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, which 76% of the Democratic base is in support of, then all of a sudden the elitist liberalism comes out and we all have to get in line behind our august statespeople, who know infinitely better than us measly citizensā¦
Itās what Bernie has been saying for decades.
The first step is replacing neoliberals with progressives. We canāt fix anything while theyāre in power, because theyāre the problem
Which is why the DNC fights harder against progressives than republicans. Losing to republicans just isnāt a big deal to them, they know in 4-8 years theyāll be in power again, and theyāll be a shit ton of donations to Dems because of it.
If they lose to progressivesā¦
That could be the end of the gravy train forever.
The more people understand that, the sooner it happens.
Thatās why the neoliberals demand absolutely loyalty to Biden.
The DNC has the state infrastructure and most federal and state-level campaigns tied so deeply into their infrastructure thereās no real hope of replacing them.
Local politics are a tiny bit more open-ended, but again, the stakes are lower and local governments are explicity subordinate to states. Cities and counties canāt do much if the state doesnāt like it.
I have no idea how you fix this situation up, but as I see it, whatever the solution is has to look like making the DNC and its infrastructure obsolete. I donāt see this happening inside the Democratic Party.
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The DNC is not the state partiesā¦
The state parties exist independent of the DNC, but due to how funding is supposed to trickle down, the state parties do kind of have to listen to them.
And while the state parties are in charge of their primary votes, the DNC can choose to ignore them.
Which is what happened when NH Dems refused to break NH state law so that Biden wouldnāt have to lose the first primary after NH picked progressive over party favorite in 2016 and 2020.
Itās confusing, but please try to learn more about our poltical system.
Iām noticing lots of Bidens supporters are incredibly opinionated, they just donāt know what theyāre talking about about. When they do, they finally start understanding how fucked up we are and that if we dont act soon itās too late.
Itās hard enough when one party is antidemocratic, if both areā¦
Right, theyāre formally separate, I know. The DNC intentionally uses their version of the power of the purse to control state parties. Like you said. They donāt need perfect control as long as they can starve any campaign they donāt like of funding.
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