Library Socialist

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Cake day: January 29th, 2026

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  • You’re conflating general voting rights with access to ballot lines and closed primaries.

    These are very different things, and the Democratic Party (and GOP) have different goals with each of them.

    The Democratic Party has led numerous lawsuits to remove 3rd party, especially Green, candidates from the ballot line. The greens even have a list here - https://www.gp.org/third_party_suppression_a_problem

    The Democratic leadership strategy falls apart with a challenge from the left. They’re able to keep leadership and candidates that are far to the right of what their base and voters are and want because, while they’re inept at attacking right, they make very sure to deal with any threat to their left as the existential threat to them it is. If there’s a block to their left that doesn’t subscribe to VBNMW, then they can’t continue that grift and pretend the left has nowhere else to go.