We all do, not just those in the office
Especially since those in office don’t seem particularly interested.
It’s us.
They won’t. They’ll make sure nothing fundamentally changes.
This mindset is how Trump got a 2nd term
Voters: “Please stop funding a genocidal regime”
Dems: “Nah, we’re going to stay the course. And how dare you speak out against it!”
Yes, Trump has been harder on anti-genocide protestors, but it definitely started under Biden’s term.
TBH the way these posts keep popping up with everyone shitting on dems makes me think it’s a huge bot farm.
“Everyone to my left and only my left must be a bot.”
It definitely looks like that.
I see the same accounts posting and interacting with each other and reposting the same content with the same comments.
Pretty sus
This mindset is how Trump will get a 3rd term.
sure is, because god knows the centrist dems havent learned a single thing from their loss and will play the same losing strategy they always do next election.
Spreading FUD against Democrats helps Trump get reelected.
Don’t talk trash about the party willing to compromise with fascists on the open-source federated social network. You might make someone think communism is a good idea.
Democrats being feckless losers with no spine or vision is how Trump got elected and re-elected.
It was a combination of foreign election influence, billionaire class and GOP propaganda. And in the end Trump won by 1.5%.
Democrats can only do what the voters allow them to do. All the groups I mention above are actively trying to stop them.
Democrats can only do what the voters allow them to do.
We gave them the means in 2020. They didn’t use it.
During the last election it was all “now is not the time to change course.”
Well now we have over three years to re-tool the Democratic party into something that can win. But we still have people saying “Nooo we actually need Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and all these useless benchwarmers to win.”
No we fucking don’t. There is plenty of time to make change. Unless you don’t actually want change from these conservatives in all but name.
“Nooo we actually need Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and all these useless benchwarmers to win.”
No one is saying this. It’s more like “Voters have not been voting for progressives. If democrats primary more progressives, democrats will lose elections as much as progressives do. We can’t afford to do that against Trump.”
When potential voters are polled on their view of progressive policies, they support them. It’s only when they’re labeled as Democratic Party policies that they lose.
Draw your own conclusions about whta the Democratic Party is contributing.
During the last election it was all “now is not the time to change course.”
It’s like that right now.
The DNC complaining that other Democrats are trying to get more active people into positions of power. The chair made statements today or yesterday lamenting how he couldn’t punish his own people because they weren’t breaking any rules.
Harris throwing the election by promising to continue Bidens war crimes is how trump got a second term.
To employ the crude vernacular, no Democrat has the requisite reproductive organs necessary to solve MAGA, either testicles or ovaries.
what are boobs if not balls for the chest? chesticles if you will, and what are balls, if not the small wrickly dangly boobs between your legs.
it does not matter, as dems have neither :) (i wanted to be a part of ur silliness I apologize in advance)
Boobs are the milk of human kindness. Testicles are the seeds of evil.
I don’t really like this way of thinking. Women are just people, as are men. A matriarchy isn’t preferable to a patchriarchy.
i mean I’d still drink both
👀
best they can do is a mild chastizing
The DNC needs to go, it isn’t reformable
This is true of both parties, and our sit two party system.
well we can start with our own party.
The Democratic leadership seems to have decided that the way to do this is “get out of their way and let them complete an irreversible takeover and descent into fascism”.
They work for the same overlords.
Tom Cotton, ® cowardly shitbird from Arkansas, supporter of military-led crackdowns of domestic turmoil, approves this meme without reservation.
People voted the dems out of the way of fascism.
Right. Got to teach those voters a lesson: never question party leadership.
And if Demoocrats won’t, then the general population will need to do it.
They won’t because republicans even if they form a dictatorship are less a threat to their interests and goals than the alternative.
More like they can’t because everybody shits on them online so they don’t get enough votes to do anything.
No democrats don’t not fight against rising authoritarianism because people criticize them for supporting genocide and imperialism that’s a deluded take.
If people supported dems wholeheartedly, if people had gone out and voted dem, then the fascism wouldn’t be happening. That’s reality.
If people supported dems wholeheartedly
Your expectations are unreasonable. Not everyone will follow democrats as they play arms broker for a genocide, no matter how entitled you feel to their unconditional support.
I have said it before but republicans need to become irrelevant to the point they change the party name again.
Fear the Consequences? Have they run that Idea by DNC Leadership? Because the LAST Thing they would WANT to do is HURT Republican Voters FEEWINGS NO MATTER THE COST!
Use the fearrrrr
I’m not so sure they even want that at all. Simply because of their shameful behavior, while the US president acts like a goddamn Nazi (because he obviously is one, of course).
But for all that, the Democrats have refused to allow even a little progressiveness in their ranks for years, against the wishes of their own voters.
But hey, I don’t know very much about all this because I’m from Germany.
All I can say is that in our country - and this applies to larger parts Europe - Sanders, for example, would be a moderate center-left politician. What he is calling for is not at all radical in many parts of the world, but rather quite normal. Basic decency, so to speak…
Yup. The Democratic party is the Republican party of 40 years ago. The Republicans are obviously now literal nazis, fascists, kkk, the worst of the worst. That’s all we have and they have no interest in changing that.
Many of us like Sanders because he is a vocal option that is at least left of the status quo. But there are also so many of us that want European left policies. We just can’t get it to happen in a winner takes all style of representation. And capitalism.
Yes, unfortunately, I think, the US has been a plutocracy for way too long already.
I think it’s time for US citizens to admit that and change it for good. Of course, I’m fully aware that many Lemmy users have long realized this.
I really don’t want to offend anyone with this obvious statement, but it’s simply a fact that many people in the USA have been living like in a third world country for a very long time - even though the US is one of the richest countries in the world.
The reason for this is very obvious: shameless enrichment of the rich and powerful - hardly any difference to Russia imo - more humane means so far, yes, but the effect is basically the same.
This is not meant as an insult at all. I just can’t believe how obvious the corruption in the USA is: Even in the highest offices. People like the President himself or Clarence Thomas (so on and so on) obviously no longer feel the need to be ashamed of anything - they don’t even try to keep any of their criminal activities even remotely secret.
Our system is certainly not perfect and we also have major problems with corruption and also with the resurgence of fascist parties. But the level of open corruption in the USA is still mind blowing for: The shameless insider deals of the president, the unscrupulousness of constitutional judges who so obviously rule against the constitution! I can’t even begin to name even half of it.
Unconditional immunity for presidents? Imprisonment of innocent people without due process? Wild - only in failed States!
You really don’t have to be an expert in constitutional law to realize that any even halfway decent democratic constitution would of course rigorously rule all this out.
I myself can only observe this from afar and helplessly feel sorry for all good and rational thinking US citizen.
Of course, I have no solutions. Only the obvious warning that the US institutions have long been corrupted.
I wish you all the best and try to contribute at least something from afar - but unfortunately I have little hope, because I believe that the US system is broken beyond repair.
It drives me insane how people idolize these criminals. They will dismiss anything criticizing billionaires as “commie liberal bullshit” and go back to their charlie kirk. The US is and has been completely brainwashed. I can’t tell ypu the weird looks I get when I come right out and say “the billionaires are the problem. Stop using Twitter and amazon”. They act like that is total insanity.
No offense taken. We know we’re “a third sold country in a Gucci belt”. It’s not that it started 40 years ago, but that’s when it really took off, this speedrun to transferring wealth and power to the already wealthy. They purposely cut funding to education to make an easily manipulated populace, and have been using fear propaganda relentlessly for longer.
We also learned last time Trump was elected that most of our country was held together by gentlemen’s agreements and the idea that our constitution never considered irrational people would be elected.
Our system is broken, and the ones with the power to do anything about it have no interest in doing so.
I honestly don’t know how we recover from this. Stopping Trump is a bandaid. Rooting out the cancer… 🤷🏼♂️
https://fee.org/articles/economic-fascism/
Just leaving this article from 1994 here
The Overton Window really fucked us.
yes, and the dems lionizing “centrism” and “bipartisanship” played a huge role.
They would sell their own families out if they could paint it as “pragmatic”
Democrats will do nothing like they always do
We could try voting in more than 50 DNC senators for the first time in over a decade.
It was a sufficient majority to do everything democrats said they wanted to do. Instead of using it, they got in their own way and broke their promises, secure in the knowledge that they have people like you to make excuses for them.
Pretty sure they only need to cash their AIPAC/lobbying checks.
