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Where else in America (besides New York) will voters overwhelmingly reject pro-corporate politics?

[truthout.org]


"If a Budding Socialist Movement Can Defeat Amazon, Imagine What Else It Can Do.


For socialists, New York has been the site of the most important electoral campaign win yet: Ocasio-Cortez’s insurgent run for the House in 2018. Her victory led to an explosion of membership in DSA nationally ... Less examined, however, is how Ocasio-Cortez’s win was part of a massive shift in the politics of New York City and New York State.


Her victory, along with Julia Salazar’s in the New York State Senate, were, in the grand scheme of their respective legislative bodies, small ... Yet Ocasio-Cortez’s and Salazar’s victories, combined with the continued organizing efforts and electoral victories of the socialist and broader working-class movement that put them in office, quickly effected a massive shift in New York politics that produced huge victories against two of the most powerful capitalists in the world today: real estate developers and Amazon."


New York now had only two socialists in elected office: one in the House of Representatives, one in the state senate. But the presence of two of them, as part of a broader progressive upsurge in the state, would soon have massive consequences. Salazar’s election was part of a wave of state senate primary races that unseated the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of six state senators who were Democrats but voted with the Republican Party, often denying the Democrats in the state legislature a majority."

AnonySchmoose 8 May 3
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Iowa can barely ever get comfortable with electing mainstream Dems, much less ever give socialists or progressives a chance. We have been a one-party (Repub) state since 2007, even tho the state did vote for Obama twice.

The fact that Cuomo is still so popular in the state proves that voters may still be very comfortable with corporatist pols. Cuomo sure as hell is one as well as being a friend of the 1% rather than the 99%.

It is sad that the populace of some states get easily seduced by the comfortable, corporatist-generated populism within the right wing, which contains both dems and repubs.

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Minnesota probably will never abandon corporate politics. The Democratic Farmer Labor party its called in this state. We still have only a half baked medical cannabis program that gives little choice to patients.

Theresa_N Level 8 May 4, 2020

Really sorry the Minnesota party lags behind on an important issue related to health and quality of life -- medical marijuana. If we didn't have it here, I would have problems getting enough rest and sleep and consequently with depression.

It's not that there isn't any medical marijuana it's that it is inadequate. Just five or six dispensaries for the whole state. One type of THC vape oil is all they have other than CBD products and tablets, capsules, and lotions. It's inadequate not absent. What is needed is full legalization with a range of raw and vape products.

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