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Pattern hunter digging up truth bones |Helper | University & Digital inclusion staff | Analyst (RE, IT, EXEC, OPs, MKTG, FIN) | Process improvement & 6σ | Former choir director | Crochet designer | Neurodivergent with Justice Sensitivity
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The Democratic party base is predominantly progressive (aka pro-humanity) now and growing, but the Democratic leadership is holding onto its power with an iron grip.
This is not Democratic, it's not democratic, and it's quite literally killing us.
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And I did leave. I re-registered as NPA. It was clear to me that the Democratic party was deeply corroded and corrupt and I didn't want to be any part of it.
Democrats aided & abetted a tyrant. They're complicit with genocide. They didn't defend the Constitution as they swore to do. I was out.
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I registered as a Democrat as soon as I was old enough, and my parents were lifetime Democrats: Mom was on the board of Florida House, Dad walked with "Walkin' Lawton" Chiles & co-wrote the 95% lending legislation so people could put 5% instead of 20% down on a home.
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Does this look like winning?
"As Donald Trump continues his victory tour and purges dissidents from his administration, public servants who obeyed the law and appeared before Congress... the past three years of Democratic leadership and decision making has made Trump stronger...¹
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A hypothesis as to why Democrats exhibited such strange behavior is over on Twitter. It has yet to be debunked, although I've asked people to try.
After it's copied over here, I'll share it. Meanwhile, see my pinned, which includes some background.
Were Dems even playing to win? I say no:
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Instead, the Democratic party was & is a shield to protect Trump & a sword to enable his agenda.
Is this the kind of behavior that inspires voters to show up? We are living the answer to that question now. People are suffering: more people and increased suffering.
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Democrats could have had Republicans running in circles their whole time in power and then gotten reelected as the party of justice, the party defending our Constitution & protecting the people
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There was silence on the part of so many Democrats, but Elizabeth Warren spoke up about Trump, about Barr, about the increasing threat of Trump again...
The house also had a duty to impeach those officials who were violating the Constitution and rule of law, like Barr, Clarence Thomas, etc.
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And then there's this:
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Democrats could at least have slowed Trump down, but they didn't even try.
We could see consequences of the Democrats' dereliction of duty, and the increasing threat of a terrible man determined to sieze power, plunder, & destroy.
Trump 2 is a continuation of Trump 1:
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We're living the consequences now of the Democrats' refusal to hold him accountable, to execute an earnest impeachment inquiry, charge him with the appropriate volume & seriousness of his crimes like the multiple counts of obstruction of justice, genocide, bigotry, etc.
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The foregoing going excerpts are from "Democrats Should Go After Trump’s Full Corruption, Not Just Ukraine"
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/16/r...
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And he [Trump] glories in it. He’s doubling down. He is going to continue nourishing these impeachment offenses, not like Nixon slinking back into the corner. He’s going to turn it into an advantage for him to the extent that he can." ...
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"But the tragedy is there aren’t enough articles of impeachment that should have been passed through the House... When you go after a president... You don’t go after him with a narrow hand and a get-it-over series of hearings." ...
Trump impeachments: 3 mos. Watergate: 15 mos.
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🔹Nov, 2018: "Unlike the Republicans, we're going to hold Trump accountable!"
🔹January, 2019: "We're going to hold Trump accountable!"
🔹March, 2019: "Trump isn't worth impeaching."
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"The obstruction of justice in the Mueller report, where he had about 10 documented obstruction of justices, that was even supported by her deputy, the number two person, Steny Hoyer from Maryland. So she [Nancy Pelosi] overruled them all."
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"Most of the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee opposed her [Pelosi's] narrow approach, but they were overruled. ...
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Via @democracynow.org:
"So, she [Nancy Pelosi] has forfeited a huge opportunity not just to impeach Trump, but to remove him. What’s the point of just impeaching him if you don’t use the full arsenal of impeachable offenses? ...
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I meant to share this above and forgot: here's the link to the video of Nadler's speech over on Elon Musk's post-Twitter disaster site: x.com/LindseyBoyla...
And a screenshot:
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Good quality advice from Ernest people, appeals, a petition with over a million signatures and who knows how many others, calls to Congresspeople...
Democrats only announced their crap impeachment inquiry when their hand was forced and so they put on a show. Trump remained untouched.
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Oh Nadler was complicit in the deception all right. Telling the people that he opened an impeachment inquiry when it wasn't even funded or decently staffed? Ridiculous.
And look at how he cowered behind Pelosi for political cover, as if this is any kind of excusable behavior:
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Oh, but "Trump was impeached!"
It's called "performative opposition." Americans didn't understand enough about impeachment to realize that they were scammed. Only three crimes (articles)? 5% the staff of Watergate? Unenforced subpoenas? Get out!
Pelosi wouldn't even whip for impeachment.
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The left is letting itself be played, and if we continue to ignore and tolerate it we will lose our country.
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What's the appeal of politicians who condemn Russian influence while accepting donations from Putin's oligarch?
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Politicians who talk of protecting children while never holding DHS or Trump accountable?
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Why would voters want politicians who are upheld as champions of our Constitution while funding concentration camps, holding private meetings w/ Trump's people, & extending the Patriot Act?
apnews.com/article/tech...
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What's the incentive to vote for politicians who are clearly working for the other side?
Schumer helped fast-track 15 Trump judges for McConnell in return for vacation, then helped get Kavanaugh confirmed.
Feinstein ignored Kavanaugh's victims' calls, incl Ford's.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Trump-friendly Facebook (FB)and anti-worker Amazon are also heavy influences: in the case of Speaker Pelosi alone, FB is one of her top five campaign contributors, & her financial disclosures show millions invested in FB & Amazon combined.
But her public face is much different (IMG 2):
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Some of us have posed questions like this: is it reasonable to assume that Putin and other bad actors only targeted Republicans? If you were one of the bad guys with so much at stake, wouldn't you make sure you had a grip hold on every key player, regardless of party?
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With our country on the line and an authoritarian in the Executive branch seizing more power daily, wouldn't you want to ensure your candidate was as appealing as possible rather than run on a platform of "well, at least he's not Trump?"
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The following thread contains support for my argument above. It's unlikely I'll get it all loaded tonight, but it'll provide some artifacts to go on in the meantime.
It's a lot to absorb, especially for those who didn't notice these patterns at the time.
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ℹ️ The majority of Democrats wanted a climate-focused debate between the candidates for the party's nomination, but Democratic leadership refused.
📌 Corporate lobbyists were reportedly a major influence on this decision.
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ℹ️ The majority of Americans in both parties support Medicare for All: 58-70% of all Americans in both parties & 88% of registered Democrats.
📌 The Democratic nominee hasn't endorsed Medicare for All, and party leaders have assured insurance executives not to worry about it.
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ℹ️ The majority of Americans supported impeaching Trump. House Democrats ran and won big on promises of accountability in 2018, but by August of 2019, the House hadn't impeached, enforced its subpoenas, or held purse strings.
📌 Democrats dropped 10 points in the polls.
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Think it through: if you were determined to win, wouldn't you try to be more compatible with what voters want than with your opposition?
To this point:
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We really need to question whether this issue with UK's Labour party is happening here in the U.S. & watch with a critical eye, for the Democratic party leadership's decisions (climate, healthcare, Trump accountability) have been in defiance of what the majority of Democratic voters support.
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This is the right message but we have the wrong people. The information strongly indicates that Dem leadership is throwing the election, so appealing to them with winning ideas like these is unlikely to return desirable results. Check your premises: do Democrats want to win?
Consider...
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www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Again with the laser summary. Very well put.
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Nor have I. What we do know is that Democrats had a mandate to protect our voting rights and did not, nor did they try to stop Trump.
While I voted & encourage ppl to do so, it is true that Democrats showed patterns indicating they were not invested in winning, and the results also support that.
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This conversation is disorienting. Not engaging in whatever straw man nonsense this is.
If you want the Dems to win you better encourage them to embrace more voters or you’ll be crying about “non-voters” for the rest of your life; or the end of democracy.
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You're right. Multiple Democratic leaders and MOC show a pattern of shielding & enabling Trump while putting on a veneer of resistance. They played the American people with impeachments & a prosecution that were hollow. Cosplay.
These Dems' dereliction of duty cost us in 2010 & again after Trump 1.
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And here's where where the US right fell in relation to Western liberal democracies and Russia as of the date of the data gathered & used for this graph: