There's a way to defeat the billionaires and the controlled media narrative

[Indus]

Found this article really interesting..

There's a way to defeat the billionaires: Kshama Sawant has been doing it

Jeff Bezos and the Democratic Party are devoted to stopping Kshama Sawant. She has her eyes on a bigger prize

www.salon.com

The billionaire class has targeted her since Sawant assumed office in January 2014. It has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a corporate PAC called "A Better Seattle" and saturated television and digital platforms with negative advertising. Sawant and the SA have been denied ads by Google, YouTube and Hulu. Amazon alone spent more than $3 million to defeat her when she ran for re-election in 2019. In December, Sawant defeated a well-funded campaign by the city's business community to remove her in a recall vote. The Democratic Party in Seattle is currently trying to gerrymander her district to separate her from working-class supporters.


I think this might be the way to go rather than try to fight and take over the current party system.

 

[KMFJD]

interesting article, thanks for sharing

Reading the article it looks like Seattle has a real politician working for the people and not corporations.

 

[ivwshane]

Seems like a nice biased article don’t you think?

I get the anti establishment rhetoric but it seems a little dishonest to claim the democrats didn’t want to raise the minimum wage and then claim credit for raising the minimum wage that was passed by democrats in 2014.

I think the real message here is that there is no reason not to run on and implement progressive ideas. The negatives are nothing but scare tactics.

 

[gothuevos]

I think the real message here is that there is no reason not to run on and implement progressive ideas. The negatives are nothing but scare tactics.

Except for the fact that, you know, progressives usually get crushed outside of their primary elections.