Discussion: Khanna Floats Compromise After Flare-Up Over DCCC Stifling Primaries

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And once again, IMO - the DNCC is setting themselves up to snatch defeat from the very jaws of victory … nothing is going to be gained by the DNCC’s decision…and as someone said, this would mean that folks such as AOC wouldn’t have a chance … SMH

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And this includes blacklisting people who work for primary challengers? Why even bother with primaries? The logical extension of your position is to do away with primaries whenever there’s a Dem incumbent. Democracy!

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There’s no DNCC.

There’s a DNC.

There’s a DCCC.

And there’s a DSCC.

Presumably you mean DCCC, since they’re the organization at issue.

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And he wasn’t close to being representative of it.

“The core mission of the DCCC is electing House Democrats, which includes supporting and protecting incumbents,” the form read. “To that end, the DCCC will not conduct business with, nor recommend to any of its targeted campaigns, any consultant that works with an opponent of a sitting Member of the House Democratic Caucus.”

If the incumbent is not the best Democratic candidate in the district, then the DCCC should not be supporting them. Nor should the DCCC be in the business stifling voices of dissent within the community who seek to make the community’s Representative more representative. That’s true whether or not the district is a swing district. Attempts to silence dissent are attempts to attack democracy. They should not be tolerated. Ever.

Let’s also keep in mind that the man who gave us that[1] was also responsible for the 1953 Iran coup that led to the 1979 revolution.

  1. And the line is ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.’ Churchill may have been a pugnacious ass, but he wasn’t quite arrogant enough to claim to know the future.
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Booooo. You do not compromise when you are right. This is how the Democratic Party became such a POS corporate shill of a party. Shame on Khanna for throwing his progressive sisters under the bus.

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Mitch McConnell is as big a liar as Donald Trump. His definition of “compromise” is “give us everything we want.” True compromise means both sides give a little; sadly, this is not presently possible with the corporatist religionists who represent the Republican party. That will have to change by electing better Congressmen and Senators, as well as not voting for unqualified bigots to be our President. I don’t know how the Democratic Party will get there, but whatever we are doing now is not working.

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It might be working. I mean, 2018 went pretty well in our favor. I think non-party groups are doing a great job (Flip the 14 in CA, Swing Left, Sister District, Postcards to Voters, Indivisible groups etc). Saw this earlier…

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But my impression of 2018 was that leadership took a pretty passive role. I recall feeling frustrated that the party was so much less active than activists but it probably worked out for the best.

Ideally, I’d like to see the DCCC focused on saving or flipping seats that don’t get national coverage and lack local activist support rather than this blacklisting b.s…

I helped campaigns in 2018 for candidates I wasn’t impressed by and were too conservative imo because I cared most about winning. I did so alongside others who felt the same way. I think the DCCC should buck up, let the voters decide then work like hell to get as many Dems in office as possible. Everything else is, at best, wasted energy.

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Thanks …