In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) indicated that he does not currently support Medicare for all legislation after co-sponsoring similar bills from 2013-2021.
I’ll admit that I don’t understand the inner workings of the Democratic Party, but I want to say: It’s not that neoliberals control the money because they run/ran the DNC, but that the DNC had money because it was controlled by neoliberals. This money ultimately comes from donors, who give it to neoliberals no matter what post those neoliberals currently hold. To a first approximation, the more progressive the party is, the less money it gets, with the difference going to neoliberals directly. The point being: The neoliberals’ political comes from their rich backers (and the media connections of those rich backers), not from their party posts, so while their power would be diminished by losing control of the party they’d be far from done for.
You underestimate the dedication of the rich to fucking over everyone else. They’d just rethink their strategy and try again. Not to say it’s hopeless, but that the givesomefucks is being too optimistic about the fate of neoliberalism. Even if progressives become dominant in the blue side of Congress, there’s still value (if you’re evil and actively trying to impoverish people) in maintaining spoilers to deny them a majority.
It’s not that neoliberals control the money because they run/ran the DNC, but that the DNC had money because it was controlled by neoliberals.
No.
When Obama won in 08, he abandoned the DNC.
It operated in a zombie state for 8 years ran by neoliberals into bankruptcy.
When 2016 happened the DNC had zero money and only the chair knew it.
The chair and Hillary’s primary campaign made an agreement with the DNC chair (no one else knew) that Hillary would fund the DNC. That came with the strings that Hillary’s primary campaign controlled what the DNC said and did.
And that is what started the “victory fund” that stole money from state parties, and was handed to Biden, to Kamala, and Finally to the current DNC, who has given it all back to state parties with no strings already.
I highly recommend you read up on “the victory fund”. Start with Donna Brazille’s article because she was the first to blow the whistle. Literally “follow the money” and see that it’s gone.
None of this is hypothetical, and Ken Martin didn’t appear out of thin air, he had a decade long track record running a state party.
This requires zero faith in anyone, just like maybe an hour of looking up what’s happened in the last decade of political history with the DNC, it is highly documented and takes the same level of effort as a jr high book report.
There’s none cause not to put that level of effort in, and I’ll most likely even edit in some links to start out with. But again, don’t just take my word, look around yourself, all this verifiably happened.
I’ll admit that I don’t understand the inner workings of the Democratic Party, but I want to say: It’s not that neoliberals control the money because they run/ran the DNC, but that the DNC had money because it was controlled by neoliberals. This money ultimately comes from donors, who give it to neoliberals no matter what post those neoliberals currently hold. To a first approximation, the more progressive the party is, the less money it gets, with the difference going to neoliberals directly. The point being: The neoliberals’ political comes from their rich backers (and the media connections of those rich backers), not from their party posts, so while their power would be diminished by losing control of the party they’d be far from done for.
The bribes would stop rolling in if they were no longer getting them anything
You underestimate the dedication of the rich to fucking over everyone else. They’d just rethink their strategy and try again. Not to say it’s hopeless, but that the givesomefucks is being too optimistic about the fate of neoliberalism. Even if progressives become dominant in the blue side of Congress, there’s still value (if you’re evil and actively trying to impoverish people) in maintaining spoilers to deny them a majority.
No.
When Obama won in 08, he abandoned the DNC.
It operated in a zombie state for 8 years ran by neoliberals into bankruptcy.
When 2016 happened the DNC had zero money and only the chair knew it.
The chair and Hillary’s primary campaign made an agreement with the DNC chair (no one else knew) that Hillary would fund the DNC. That came with the strings that Hillary’s primary campaign controlled what the DNC said and did.
And that is what started the “victory fund” that stole money from state parties, and was handed to Biden, to Kamala, and Finally to the current DNC, who has given it all back to state parties with no strings already.
I highly recommend you read up on “the victory fund”. Start with Donna Brazille’s article because she was the first to blow the whistle. Literally “follow the money” and see that it’s gone.
None of this is hypothetical, and Ken Martin didn’t appear out of thin air, he had a decade long track record running a state party.
This requires zero faith in anyone, just like maybe an hour of looking up what’s happened in the last decade of political history with the DNC, it is highly documented and takes the same level of effort as a jr high book report.
There’s none cause not to put that level of effort in, and I’ll most likely even edit in some links to start out with. But again, don’t just take my word, look around yourself, all this verifiably happened.
Links:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2024/08/29/heres-every-billionaire-whos-given-1-million-or-more-to-help-kamala-harris-get-elected/
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/04/10/george-conway-tearfully-admits-he-stupidly-gave-his-kids-inheritance-to-biden-victory-fund-1631973/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donors-can-now-give-620600-to-biden-and-dnc-expanding-democratic-big-money-fundraising/2020/05/16/d2bf51cc-978a-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html