Man I am just a zealous convert but the "Dems should always be doing more!" Crowd that infects the Left already pisses me off. You're not doing shit. You're poasting in a friendly platform, tough guy.
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Yeah I wonder how many of those people are actually bad actors engaged in sabotage. People genuinely committed to fighting fascism don't spend their energy on overstated broad smears of the Dems. Sincere people might target specific Dems for specific reasons.
YOU: Dems didn't do everything I wanted when they had two seconds of power, therefore I won't support them.
Dems lose election
YOU: Why aren't Dems doing everything I want?
they wanted to not have to pay their student loans so they could put that money into their 401k or pay for another iceland or bali or argentina holiday.
Their clear moral courage in poasting about the woman protested AOC because "Republicans will doxx/jail/kill us, so we must protest Dems, yes, I am your moral superior, why are you giggling?"
One thing I'm seeing a bit up is expecting a change that would happen after winning an election when we're still a year and half away from any such election in most states.
this is the crux of it imo because their thinking is built around “elections do not and cannot matter, being told that democrats need to win elections in order to Do Something is insulting to my intelligence, they should just have agentic manly virtue, like the Republicans” and then I stop listening
Started to get drawn into arguments last night about whether or not blue state governors should have state cops conduct sieges against ICE facilities before remembering that some ideas are not worth the energy it takes to refute them
It’s time for a new party. A party for the people. A party separate from the corporate funds and lobby funds. A party fully supported by the American people.
Let me know when the Democrats stop cosplaying as conservatives and stop sloppily BJ-ing the Cheneys and then writing "strongly worded letters".
Someone sarcastically wrote here, but it's true if Dems would have push through M4All, we wouldn't be in this situation at all.
What if we are being very, very specific about which Democrats need to do more and why they happen to represent the state of New York in the US Senate?
Then you would be ignoring how AOC does nothing in the House and the guy you're complaining about has one of the lengthiest resumes of getting shit done in the entire Senate.
I'm not saying AOC should or shouldn't be in the lead on this. But the criticism of Schumer is that his skillset & approach that got shit done in other contexts, is impotent against what is becoming a no-hyperbole fascist takeover of the US govt, in a radically changed comms/info environment.
We've gotten a pretty good sample size of Schumer's responses, actions, strategies, etc, by now. It's not unreasonable to look at those and come away thinking he's not the right guy for this.
Schumer is doing the best he can do under these unprecedentedly shitty circumstances. My view is that he is constantly under attack from leftists not because of him "not meeting the moment" yada yada, but because of his Jewishness and his support of Israel.
Oh bullshit. I worked for Democrats for 30 years. I know full well that they don’t have the stomach for real fights and only use the rules when it is hitting their chance at reelection.
But congratulations on making thinking Schumer sucks as a wartime minority leader is antisemitism. Bravo
He has lost his fastball. He has lost a step and can’t drive to the hoop. Whatever example you want to give, he is not a wartime consigliere and that is what is needed. This isn’t 2017 where there were some adults keeping the worst impulses at bay.
That is horseshit. whipping up the base & inside strategy is vital Use the rules like the GOP does. Oh, but that will endanger the filibuster? So what? They are going to kill it whenever they really need to anyway. And they need it more than we do.
The GOP Senate was able to use rules to block Obama bc they had the majority. Just as Dems blocked Trump once they retook the House.
Biden passed major legislation w/ Dems in control of the House & Senate & appointed more Fed judges than any president in history. Repubs couldn’t block it.
Dems should quickly, consistently, aggressively, & prolifically message the TRUTH as quickly, consistently, aggressively, & prolifically as the right messages LIES. Until then, we’re fucked.
Thanks! Exhausted by this crap. We lost 2 out of 3 elections to an idiot who’s busy destroying our country in turbo speed. So no, our elected representatives aren’t doing enough. Had these ex conservatives reigned in their crazies we wouldn’t have to deal w/this crap. Instead they empowered them.
You voted for Republicans or didn't vote at all. Stop getting mad at the Dems because they don't have enough to work with and now need to work strategically and use their political capital wisely.
Maybe if they had been given a Congressional majority they wouldn't have to rebuild their political capital while picking and choosing what to support.
Sure would've been nice if they'd been Harris's nominees, or if Democrats had control of the House so the Laken Riley Act never would have come up, or if they had control of the Senate and grinding Congress to a halt wasn't necessary.
Democrats are safe to lash out at, though. When they protest Democrats, these people know they're safe and won't be called upon to put their bodies on the line. That's why they never take the fight to the people actually causing problems and doing the violence. They're scared.
Yelling at the weak minority party is very "i dropped my keys over there, but i'm looking here instead because the light is better" if it's genuine, but in reality i think it's mostly GOP-aligned trolling that's pretending to be on the left
I think the narrative is self protecting: If Democrats suck then it's totally reasonable for these people to throw away their votes, if Democrats are good, or even just better, then throwing their vote away makes them part of the problem.
Yeah but instead we have what we have which is Republicans with a lot of power and Democrats with a little power that they are too fucking chickenshit to use
Absolutely: I think we should all speak out against the fascist Republicans, I think that should be our focus.
There are only so many hours in the day, if you waste them attacking the people who are trying to defend you, you're just carrying the fascist's water.
"PLEASE FUCKING USE WHAT LITTLE POWER YOU HAVE AND DEFEND US!"
And you're over here like, "well sure they could deny unanimous consent and grind everything to a halt but asking them to do what is rude and attacking your allies!"
I also wish American voters had given Democrats the power to protect us, but like I said, voters empowered the Republicans.
If you want Democrats to protect us you should be doing everything you can to help them win majorities in 2026, and complaining about them won't do that.
Only takes one Senator to grind the Senate to a halt by denying unanimous consent on everything. Zero Dem Senators are doing it. Meanwhile literally less than 60 seconds after finishing his 25 hour talking filibuster, Booker granted unanimous consent to help the GOP make up some of the 25 hours.
I don't know if the current party leadership is right for the moment, but I can also recognize the moment is pretty unprecedented. We're all in uncharted waters trying to orient ourselves.
But the reality is that's small compared to taking back society from the likes of Musk and Bezos.
This is called a STATEMENT. It’s exactly what’s done when you are supporting someone but have zero power to stop Trump. It’s more than AOC did. More than Bernie did. Same as Booker did. Same as every elected official can do. The only ones to stop Trump are republicans. Piss on them
I think this perception goes away if Chuck Schumer finally leaves. He’s been a sink clog. You see lower ranked Dems doing stuff. Then he goes on a show and weakly responds to government kidnappings or talks about a sternly worded letter or undermines the entire House Dem caucus in budget talks.
He brought 9 democrats back over to vote against the crypto bill just this week and killed it. When you ignore things like this to maintain your thesis that he doesn’t have magical rhetorical powers or isn’t particularly inspiring, it doesn’t make anything better.
There’s not much he can do. I don’t want or need him to channel my outrage. I need him to do his job. He doesn’t have magic powers. His job is to keep a pack of egomaniacs united in their votes. I wish they would vote against all the nominees, but it’s a symbolic gesture with less than 50 votes.
Like I don’t need Chuck Schumer to fucking inspire me with speeches. I need him to do his job and keep Democrats together to vote against bills. The CR was a tough call and I think he’s wrong. But he’s spiked an anti-trans bill and a pro-crypto bill. There’s no magic he has to stop majority votes.
"...You see lower ranked democrats doing stuff..." like what? Giving inspiring speeches & traveling to hotspots to highlight problems & gin up energy are important, for sure, but doing the grind work of technically specific legislation & persuading fence-sitting Dems is important too.
Oh come on, Shoe, they're not just posting smug insults at shitlibs who deserve it. They're busily circulating articles from Jacobin and re-reading Benjamin Tucker and Victor Yarros in preparation for the leaderless revolution that soon spontaneously erupt and rid us of capitalism once and for all.
People talking to other people about politics isn’t nothing, it’s the soul of democracy.
As someone who once was a conservative but grew into an adult, I recommend listening for another long while to the people talking instead of assuming you can walk in somewhere friendly and start complaining.
Like, if you’re not doing anything else other than posting online the hypocrisy annoys me. Protest. Reach out personally to your representative. Put pressure on people to do more. Don’t just shout about it on social media.
If the Democrats did more, they wouldn't lose elections in embarrassing fashion. This isn't the left on social media making things up. You lost the popular vote to Donald Trump. People chose a maniac because they are desperate for any sort of change in this country. Wake up.
You’re not wrong, but there’s no shortage of people not in that demographic on the left who are putting themselves at risk for the greater good; if anything, we’re the majority on here.
There's entire books on this sort of thing. I know you mean well, but tbh, after several decades of attempts to get y'all on the center to moderate left to coalition build, ball is in your court, not ours
Have had several replies that compare Europe as to why Dems here suck lol. Yes why is a Parliamentary system instantly more responsive but also more unstable?
Also the Right did this though it was framed as more ideological. The Republicans were always "selling out" the base and there was always a more conservative feasible tack to take. That way lies madness. It's fine to push but it's the total dissatisfaction because of unrealistic expectations.
The GOP is destroying the federal government and renditioning people to gulags and elected Dems are poll testing their responses and many are playing footsie with the admin. So yeah, they should do a helluva lot more.
One easy but effective measure: Any Senator can object to Unanimous Consent for the passage of a bill. This forces an actual vote, and delays the GOP agenda. The GOP used UC when they were minority. Dems haven't. Quorum calls, same story. As Dems fail to use their tools, the GOP gets its way.
Absolutely. We live in an attention economy so Dems need to do as much as possible to draw attention to every one of Trump’s transgressions. They should be pounding the tables on all of them, using social and other outlets to push counter programming. Instead we get Jeffries telling Dems not to
go to El Salvador. We get Gallegos kicking it with Andreesen. Everything is poll driven pablum. Senate Dems are still voting for Trump nominees. It needs to be full-bore opposition 24/7. Show up at rallies. Hold press conferences. Get arrested. A few are doing it. Way more need to.
I've seen people ranting about how Schumer and Jeffries "aren't saying anything" 15 minutes after some event has hit the news. As if these guys are supposed to react instantly on social media to everything that happens in the world.
Gimme a break shitlib, 45 minutes is more than enough time to plan and execute a daring rescue and also hold a press conference afterwards where they say all the right words and none of the wrong ones, but they didn’t. Even. Try.
You mean you aren’t Mobilized by the Chuck Schumer Rapid Response account that posts laser eyed memes of an old man speaking from the well of the senate
I am a liberal 70 year old who has been attacked by this far left "tough" crowd because I think Luigi Mangione is a disgusting murderer and should rot in prison once found guilty . They think he is a hero , a martyr , and I'm the problem. Welcome to our flawed team.
Friendly platform my azz. Bluesky is filled with terrorist loving antisemites. People who are happy to see Jews attacked outside of the Middle East when they have nothing to do with Israel. Go to a large anti-Israel account, reply saying you're a Jew and you believe Israel has a right to exist.
Praxis is *never* doing any coalition building with the shitlibs and actively aiding the side of the fascists, up until it is no longer viable to do so.
after a day in Newark
after endless lawsuits
after pilgrimages to El Salvador
after a marathon filibuster
after steadfastly opposing destructive legislation
even while not in power
despite messaging problems
the criticism claiming "Democrats are not doing enough" is nonsense
Dude - good for you if you’re happy w/their performance. However, their job is to represent us & our job is to let them know what we want/need. Our right to push back doesn’t end with our vote.
found a long list of reputable sources to follow by googling "how to protest"
TL;DR
• know your rights, reading laws re: public safety and peace
• be creative, your main action will be presenting and communicating to others
• attract attention, be seen and heard to deliver your message w others
What does that actually *do* though? Trump deports people without the Senate! Trump takes bribes without the Senate! Trump breaks the law without the Senate!
It's also like...to the extent that Congress does enable Trump, they do so precisely by *doing nothing*. That's kind of been the dirty secret of why Republicans "get their way": they don't need to 'win' to get their way, they don't even need Dems to 'lose'. They just need entropy of inaction.
How, exactly? Senate dems are in the minority. There is only so much they can do to slow and stall things. Because voters made sure that repubs had all the power.
Our job was to elect a Democratic majority and empower them to do the work we wanted them to do, but that's not what happened, voters empowered Republicans with full control of the federal government.
I'm not happy with how Republicans are performing, that's why I vote for Democrats.
If Kamala Harris is the president DOGE isn't slicing and dicing the federal government to ribbons. That alone was enough to vote for her. I can also list Abt 1000 other things that wouldn't be happening if she were POTUS
There are times when criticizing Dems is necessary but you have to articulate what they should be doing and the impact it would have. Case in point is Schumer and Senate Ds’ cave a few months ago. In contrast, most of the anti-Dem poasting on here is just roasting for reposts.
No it isn't. It is knowing what Dems can do to defend against the GOP and watching, horrified, as they fail to use their procedural playbook to serously delay the GOP. It's Dems not using tools as Mitch McConnell did when he was minority, not saying why, and inundating us with fundraising.
Yeah. I hear you. The Democrats BS is hard to take, but considering the other team is team Nazi. It is our only choice if we want a chance to stop the American Nazi Movement know as MAGA.
And how precisely is rubber-stamping Trump’s terrible appointments and cabinet picks doing anything to prevent or obstruct MAGA fascism? Democrats are complicit and do not deserve your loyalty.
Neither is ignoring the complicity of Democrats with Trump. Unanimously approving his appointments is in no way shape or form opposition. Pretending it is is naïve. Get your head out of the sand…or your own ass, wherever it’s buried. Just wake up to the fact that Democrats are not our allies.
Also "Democrats should do exactly the specific things I think they should be doing" and "Democrats should lead" are mutually exclusive demands. Sometimes leadership means telling people what they don't want to hear and doing something other than what you want because what you want is fucking stupid
Democrats can never do enough, even if we halved the uninsured rate, forgave millions of American's student loan debt, and invested $400 billion in renewable energy people would still say none of it matters.
Source: We did those things and people still say none of it matters.
Biden forgave literally $180 billion in student loans. He passed the biggest climate bill ever. Together with Obama, they dropped the uninsurance rate by 2/3rds with the ACA.
None of that matters because the internet is only concerned with this week's shiney object.
What’s the evidence that insurance denials are higher than ever? How does one compare insurance denying an expensive treatment now in some cases vs never covering it pre aca?
Pre-ACA, many people literally could not get insurance at all, at any price. Vast swaths of the working poor were shut out of the insurance market. It was bad, and the ACA helped a ton of people. That matters! It's silly and juvenile to pretend that anything short of a total victory equals nothing.
Every other Western nation on Earth provides its citizens with tax-payer funded healthcare. You're bragging about Dems doing the bare minimum on healthcare, 15 years ago. You people need to seriously think bigger and demand more from your politicians.
You're doing the thing, you're demeaning progress in order to undermine Democrats and in so doing you're making progress less popular and less possible.
People get mad at Democrats because folks like you go around telling them that nothing Democrats do actually matters, you're part of the problem.
You're like a team that loses a game and then afterwards comes out and says "we did nothing wrong, we played a great game, and we only lost because the fans didn't cheer loud enough for us"
I don't have to make Dems seem useless. They do that themselves, champ.
Over half the nation lives paycheck to paycheck. A broken bone can bankrupt you. People have no workers' rights, the minimum wage hasn't gone up in 2 decades, and all profit created stays at the top. And Dems have held the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. This is the country they've created.
Tell me what progress your political party had made, how your party has improved American lives?
If Democrats are so bad, please, tell me who's doing better, who's done more. You can't and you know it, that's why you deride progress, because you have to.
Democrats have always been held to a higher standard than Republicans. It’s the reason DJT ran as a Republican. Dems have always been far from perfect but way better than Republicans on the economy. Dems just need to dumb down the explanation of stuff. Keep it simple straightforward & relatable. 💙🇺🇸💙
Exactly this. Dems do everything on that list and voters respond “how come you didn’t do this or that or the other thing, too? I’m gonna stay home/vote GOP,” who then break everything…..and voters still punish Dems for it.
Let them feel the pain they want. Maybe then they will grow the fuck up.
Yep. The only "good" thing about Trump 2.0 is we no longer hear the daily anti-Dems tirade from the left. I was so sick of it for four years when Biden was president.
The Democratic party has made more progress for more people than any other American political party in the last century, and until people acknowledge and accept that demonstrable truth we're going to continue to have an uphill battle.
Now ask me why my mentions have been full of them explaining(screeching, really) that Dems aren’t doing shit. I’m good with them not doing anything right now tbh
and i ask a dem why they are eating that and drinking that and wearing that and driving and filling that and talking on that and googling that ….ALL NAZI GOODS
oh “ i just need to de-stress”
imagine the damage they could have done from november, but no
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YOU: Why aren't Dems doing everything I want?
The clear moral courage of only fighting when there is zero personal risk.
Truly heroes all.
Like, it's obviously the guiding star, but wow
B-But not by like, *fighting* fighting.
Just. You know. Screaming at libs.
Me in 2025: "Oooooooooooh."
I won't be going back.
Someone sarcastically wrote here, but it's true if Dems would have push through M4All, we wouldn't be in this situation at all.
But congratulations on making thinking Schumer sucks as a wartime minority leader is antisemitism. Bravo
Understand the game and the opponent. He doesn’t.
But w/ Repubs in control of both Houses, there’s little that Dems can do.
Bernie & AOC making millions w/ oligarchy rallies isn’t leadership, it’s opportunism.
Schumer needs to use the power he has and won’t.
Biden passed major legislation w/ Dems in control of the House & Senate & appointed more Fed judges than any president in history. Repubs couldn’t block it.
We can't tell the people we elected and gave a job to do that job?
Suddenly saying, "don't cross the aisle and vote with MAGA to help them strip our rights" is making unreasonable demands?
Miss me with this protecting shitty Dems refusing to use the power we gave them
Republicans have the majority in the House AND the Senate.
Do you not know that?
To form an independent civilian coalition of experts, veterans, watchdog orgs and hold public documented hearings of these broken laws?
The power of denying unanimous consent to slow the Senate to a halt?
The power of voting against horrible nominees instead of rubber stamping them?
What I *don’t* do is get on here and criticize the party writ large as if I’m asking to speak to the manager. Because I know whose fault this all is.
If they don't want to get called out in public then they should get their fuckin party in order.
I agree: Republicans and non-voters are the problem.
Tell me about how they had to vote to confirm Trump's nominees.
Tell me about how they can't reject unanimous consent and grind Congress to a halt.
Idiot.
How we lost and got here, and why we won't get out of it without kicking every one of these fuckers out in a primary
You don't work with Nazis because you think its popular ffs
Republicans are the problem, not the Democrats.
They're trying to convince themselves.
If attacking Democrats helped the Democrats, Republicans wouldn't be doing it.
By all means, if you want to hold Republicans accountable for what Republicans are doing, be our guest! You can start any time!
If you want Democrats to do more, elect more.
There are only so many hours in the day, if you waste them attacking the people who are trying to defend you, you're just carrying the fascist's water.
That's what we're begging them to do
"PLEASE FUCKING USE WHAT LITTLE POWER YOU HAVE AND DEFEND US!"
And you're over here like, "well sure they could deny unanimous consent and grind everything to a halt but asking them to do what is rude and attacking your allies!"
ffs
If you want Democrats to protect us you should be doing everything you can to help them win majorities in 2026, and complaining about them won't do that.
End that chokehold, things will start to move in the right direction with almost anyone leading the Dem party.
But the reality is that's small compared to taking back society from the likes of Musk and Bezos.
These people can't even get people to read their articles (partially because they don't write any to begin with.)
Read theory!
The Revolution™ will be so cool and real and I'll be in the politburo for sure. I told *so many* libs that they're fascist!
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As someone who once was a conservative but grew into an adult, I recommend listening for another long while to the people talking instead of assuming you can walk in somewhere friendly and start complaining.
you're definitely a dadrocking genx brocialist trying to relive your no to glory days after twenty years as a corporate lawyer.
*Cue moving goalposts*
Got you. Here:
http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/overton_window.pdf
There's entire books on this sort of thing. I know you mean well, but tbh, after several decades of attempts to get y'all on the center to moderate left to coalition build, ball is in your court, not ours
Stalin taught me that :)
~Jamie Raskin
Start with conviction; bring a friend, make a plan, make a habit
Say it out loud and say it often:
"This is wrong"
Then,
Insist
Resist
Persist
after endless lawsuits
after pilgrimages to El Salvador
after a marathon filibuster
after steadfastly opposing destructive legislation
even while not in power
despite messaging problems
the criticism claiming "Democrats are not doing enough" is nonsense
we must help them now
Democrats cannot stop a lot of what Trump is doing, because Democrats are not in the majority.
This was explained to you ad nauseum before the election, and since.
Stop harming and start helping.
TL;DR
• know your rights, reading laws re: public safety and peace
• be creative, your main action will be presenting and communicating to others
• attract attention, be seen and heard to deliver your message w others
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I am livid and appalled
He’s a trash human being who belongs in a Balad Air Base burn pit.
Use specifics.
... and, let's pretend they did ...
would you start helping then? or find the next thing to complain about that Dems have not done?
serious question; help me understand
Please make sure it is something they can do.
Democrats have historically done well when in power, but they are in the minority in Congress
Congressional Republicans are in power right now, and can make change
If you want change, call your Republicans
That U.S. Congressional switchboard number is
202-224-3121
test: Without looking it up, who are your state legislators?
I'm not happy with how Republicans are performing, that's why I vote for Democrats.
Bluesky poaster, 30 seconds later: this is bullshit, you aren’t DOING anything.
Actual opposition party or bust.
None of this is a "comeback." This isn't a game.
Source: We did those things and people still say none of it matters.
None of that matters because the internet is only concerned with this week's shiney object.
Healthcare has never been more expensive and insurance more unusuable and you're bragging about the system. This is why people get mad at you.
The uninsurance rate (among only adults who aren't on Medicare even) is down by 2/3rds since pre-ACA. More than 90% of adults are insured.
The fact that you're with a straight face claiming that doesn't matter is exactly what I'm talking about.
People get mad at Democrats because folks like you go around telling them that nothing Democrats do actually matters, you're part of the problem.
You're like a team that loses a game and then afterwards comes out and says "we did nothing wrong, we played a great game, and we only lost because the fans didn't cheer loud enough for us"
I don't have to make Dems seem useless. They do that themselves, champ.
Tell me what progress your political party had made, how your party has improved American lives?
If Democrats are so bad, please, tell me who's doing better, who's done more. You can't and you know it, that's why you deride progress, because you have to.
Dems: They wouldn't lose if you voted for them.
Leftists: whatever, shitlib
Let them feel the pain they want. Maybe then they will grow the fuck up.
oh “ i just need to de-stress”
imagine the damage they could have done from november, but no
every penny INCLUDING SPORTS funds NAZIS