I mean, I’m souring on the Democrats because they haven’t fucking done anything to divert us from this disaster.
The Dems are fairly low on my list of the blame game. But they’re still on the list!
They’re very high on mine. They created the conditions that allowed Trump to take power. They’ve fought tooth and nail to keep everyone who might have been able to prevent this disaster away from the levers of power. The Democrats are the rachet preventing the rest of the country from stopping (or gasp reversing) the Republican-led march to fascism.
They’re active participants in the fascist take over. They normalize fascism and act as controlled opposition to keep those who would oppose it out of power and out of the conversation
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Can always count on centrists to gaslight anyone to their left.
If Joe Biden had put Donald Trump behind bars on his first day of office for the January 6 attack we wouldn’t be here right now. Everything good he ever did is irrelevant because he failed to stop the coup
The house is burning down. I’m obviously blaming the arsonists, but I’m also lying blame at the firefighters who decided to not do their duty.
“Hey listen, the wild bear is the one mauling everyone in the school. Blame the bear! Yes, we placed honey in the open door and smeared the children’s faces with fresh salmon, but it’s the bear that is eating the children. Please donate to help me scold the bear.”
I don’t like comparing Trump and co to wild animals, simply because they are so much more malicious.
Hard to argue that. But Trump et al are significantly stupider than bears, so it probably evens out.
Hey remember those bear proof trash cans that turned out to be tourist proof as well? How long do you think it’d take Trump et al to open one?
Does “et al” include a bear?
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When they get the ball, they won’t play offense. When they lose the ball, they won’t play defense.
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Worse still, they seem eager to contribute to it. Just look at all the 2028 hopefuls lining up to validate Republican talking points about immigrants and trans people
Well the Overton window has moved so far to the right that the Democrats now sit where the Republican’s did 16 years ago.
And they’re still chasing republicans rightward.
Voters made sure to put them in the minority in all levels of government.
They’ve had a bunch of long talks on the floor of congress.
In a functioning democracy this would be a great time to launch a 3rd party.
Unfortunately we wished for it on a monkeys paw and we got the America Party.
The Dems are like the Keystone Cops bungling around while a wannabe dictator continues to take America apart.
Even if the Dems had decent candidates, their strategy and tactics are ineffective.
It’s like we get the worst of anyone who wants to be a politician, either side of the aisle.
Simple reason is…it takes a ton of fucking money to run a campaign. Even small county judge races cost at least 50-80k. How many good, down to earth people can drop their job, spend 80k on campaign shit and get out alive?
Even with party money, you’ll still be struggling. Plus, who wants to be holden to the same old bullshit system?
Very good points. It’s why money needs to be taken out of politics. Many other countries have figured that out.
Citizens United really was the nail in the coffin for American politics.
100% agree. If we do have a landslide in 2026 without MAGA’s cancer. Maybe we can end Citizens United!
Democrats have been campaigning on and doing nothing about Citizens United for years.
Exactly. Because they’re not prepared to do what’s actually necessary - reform the filibuster to allow it to be removed. Democrats have all these high-minded plans, but they all require a margin in the Senate they will never reasonably achieve. And even if by some miracle they did get 60 seats in the Senate, there will always be a rotating villain to throw a wrench in the works. Mamdani won not just because he had plans, but because he had very specific plans. He could tell people exactly how he intended to pass those plans. Democrats don’t actually have a plan for repealing Citizens United. They just have vague notions about repealing Citizens United.
Because they’re not prepared to do what’s actually necessary - reform the filibuster to allow it to be removed.
They’re not willing to. The filibuster is democrats’ perfect excuse for not passing things that they ran on but never had any intention of ever implementing.
Democrats don’t actually have a plan for repealing Citizens United.
Of course they don’t. You don’t plan to do things you don’t intend to do.
I mean, Mamdani and Bernie proved that this is a very solvable problem. Small dollar donations are more than enough to get a candidate with popular policies into victory.
Democrats were recently caught having a fund raising scheme so corrupt that it should be a capital offense to run such a thing. Those spammy text messages we were getting asking for donations? Turns out 98% of the money donated to those went straight into the pockets of consultants. The party’s primary reason for existence is not to advance policy goals, but to steal money from liberal donors.
It was only very recently that the US legalized paying a wage from campaign contributions, too.
Almost like it was all rigged, something trump admitted out loud, more than once.
Who cares about ratings when you don’t need elections?
I knew the American public was fucking stupid but I didn’t think they would continue declining this quickly.
Who cares? They don’t need ratings. Why even post this?
Because we are all sick and tired of only having conservatives to vote for.
