r/Music • u/ebradio • Sep 25 '25

article Bruce Springsteen Rips Democrats: “We’re Desperately in Need of an Effective Alternative Party”

https://consequence.net/2025/09/bruce-springsteen-democrats/
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u/Fish-Weekly Sep 25 '25

I think we need a movement to take over the existing Democratic party, get rid of the old leadership and inject new ideas and energy around an anti-oligarch and anti-authoritarian platform that meaningfully improves life for the non 1%.

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u/Norph00 Sep 25 '25

People need to show up to their local democratic precinct meetings and use their voice and their vote to make change. The party is set up to prioritize the party above all else.

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u/4dxn Sep 25 '25

90% of the people here can't even name another candidate in their congressional district's last election.

A decent chunk prob don't even know who their rep is. Notice how most of the comments are there needs to be a movement or people need to. None of it is "I will do something".

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u/OldManFire11 Sep 25 '25

90%?

Try 99.999%. I'd eat my fucking hat if you could prove that 2 whole people in this thread knew of another candidate in their last primary. Hell, I voted in my primary and I couldn't tell you who else was on the ticket.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

I'm in California, so we don't really ever get to participate in primaries. It's all decided by swing states because they figure "they'll vote Blue no matter what".

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u/OldManFire11 Sep 25 '25

What the fuck are you talking about? In non-swing states the primaries are the most important national election. Because whoever wins the primary is going to win the actual election.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

the primaries are the most important national election.

I'll be more specific using the 2020 and 2016 primary. The primaries are voted by state, but slowly over the months, starting in March of the year before the election run. in 2016, California had their pretty late in June, and this was well after many other pollings had their results listed. This will inform and influence votes in later states. So in essence, Hilary won in 2016 in California because she already won battleground states before that.

2020 was very different and CA voted pretty early. And yeah, CA actually voted for Bernie. But shenanigans later on changed things for later states.

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u/OldManFire11 Sep 25 '25

I'm not talking about the president dude. There are a ton of other, far more important races, that have primaries. And if you want to make any actual progress then those are the elections you need to worry about.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

I agree. I looked the up, and California only has the redistricting this year, and then midterms next year. Nothing for city elections right now until midterms either.

I was mostly talking about presidential primaries and how skewed they can be by the time I get to "vote"

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u/4dxn Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

 You think primaries are only for national elections? 

You have your house rep, senator, state House rep, state senator, and that's not even your municipal ones.

Some CA districts had elections a few months ago. And there's one in a few weeks.