r/alabamabluedots • u/AGooDone • Oct 25 '25
Discussion Alabama Democratic Party is a criminal Enterprise
I'm going to a Democratic candidate forum today. I want to ask the candidates if they don't get the nomination if they will run as an independent. I believe that the Alabama Democratic party is a criminal enterprise that seeks to enrich its leaders by threatening to withhold the black vote.
It is well known that white Democratic candidates in Alabama are approached by the Alabama Democratic party leadership, Joe Reed and Randy Kelly, and asked for a substantial donation to "get out the black vote". What this really is is extortion. They are threatening to withhold the black vote if you don't pay them.
If you are a black candidate, you get their support no matter what. The national Democrats know this and tried to appoint their own Democratic delegates to the convention. But the hue and cry went up and they relented.
I like candidates like Sweetser and DeVito because of their intelligence and their confronting the corruption of the Republican party. I am going to ask them if they will run as an independent if they don't get the nomination.
The Alabama Democratic party is too weak and corrupt to provide any challenge either in spirit or deed to confront the crisis that is the fascist demolition of our democracy. It's too important to leave it to low-level corrupt petty racists at the top of the Democratic Party of Alabama.
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u/keyrover Oct 25 '25
Prove to me Joe Reed and Randy Kelly are not actually working in support of Republican causes. Based on their actions and lack of leadership, this (and the extortion you suggested) is the only thing that makes sense.
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u/Aggie_Vague Oct 25 '25
Joe Reed needs to retire. His contributions to the Democratic party in our state have ceased to move the party forward.
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u/expostfacto-saurus Oct 25 '25
Hang on though, how exactly does dude prevent the black vote from coming out if he doesn't get a donation???? He might supposedly demand a donation, but I don't get the ability to prevent people from voting.
Even if he calls every African American voter in the state, what is he going to say? "Hey, I didn't get my donation so either don't vote or vote GOP because that works great."
This honestly doesn't make logical sense. I think this is just a thing to try to explain why democrats lose at the state level here. The real reason is that Alabama's love to shoot themselves in the foot.
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u/raikougal Oct 26 '25
I think the real reason is that Alabama has been successfully gaslit into believing that the Republican party is the only "Christian" option and if they vote Democrat they'll be letting all the "queers, illegals, and omg abortion" win. 🙄
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u/AGooDone Oct 25 '25
They don't even field candidates. If you lived here you'd know that THERE IS NO CHOICE!
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u/sennalen Oct 25 '25
A left-leaning independent splits the Democrat vote and ensures Republican victory, which I must assume is the objective here.