What no one seems to be addressing is the fact that if this administration gets in, free and fair elections are over. There is no midterm or 2028 hope. They fucked with this one, Kamala is legally our President so peeps need to get with the program here.
This is it. 👆 I was thinking AOC has the smarts & disposition to steer the Dems back to a people centric party. 🇺🇸 Dems can’t go full Corbyn, not electable in 🇺🇸, but Dems can flip the moneychangers tables. Make corporations reinvest in the 🇺🇸 worker. Incentivize training. Dem platform 2025.
If an influential leader called us to DC for a sustained massive peaceful protest in DC, I would drive my car, sleep in it & be there.
Not those regional neighborhood protests that are ignored by the media.
We’re about to hand nuclear codes to madmen who want to own the world & everyone in it.
But linking arms with blue collar Nazis to defeat the oligarchs feels a lot like the blue collar Nazis linking arms with the oligarchs to defeat liberals. Haven’t we demonstrated that partnering with the morally bankrupt never works out?
I'm an alarmist. When protests are met with harsh "defense" tactics by local/federal enforcement, and half the country believes the fabricated outrage, which leads lawmakers to rush through policies that limit the media, demonize protesters and frame peaceful citizens as agitators, what then?
I can't believe that I'm on the side of Maga. It seems like they thought that Trump would make sure that they would get good paying jobs because of regulating imagination. And now they found out that they won't
Yeah, but who is charismatic enough to lead it? Sen. Warren got her ass chewed for her very accurate assessment of what led to that UHC CEO being shot. We need someone who is powerful enough to speak the truth and not be shamed into walking it back bc of the perceived optics.
Senator Warren should have been President IMHO, but staying on topic, what about Katie Porter? Also, AOC has the charisma and the right already hates her just like they hate Warren.
Nonsense. We need charisma. Shit... Trump just got elected at nearly 80 YO. Please don't equate age with irrelevance or lack of ability. I agree, senority is lame. Jeffries doesn't have the fire we need, IMO. AOC would be better. Or a fresh new face (not necessarily young).
Exactly. Everything needs to be framed as the interests of the American people vs the Oligarchs. This is true for healthcare, climate change, financial regulations, health and safety, labor laws …
There was in 2011 It was called #Occupy and the Oligarchs saw fit to destroy it at every given opportunity
They couldn't allow the masses to realize that they are ALL getting screwed by the man so the Tea Party was utilized in order to divide & conquer............a time old technique
Sadly it's already failed because #boycottTesla shoulda been a thing on the left at least 2 years ago. Instead Dem voters and elected Dems have both been giving him $ to buy the GOP lol. Good luck organizing against the guy with more $ than anyone in the world now
It has to be a group of individuals with different strengths to converge and use the social media platforms to dismantle legacy media entirely. Then:
One can only imagine if MLK, Malcolm X and the BLA had converged as one movement how much more progress would’ve been made. Diplomacy & Strength.
The chattering classes see "big political openings." Organizers see a funding vacuum. The DNC is not going to turn dems into a labor party, it would piss off too many of Joe Manchin's friends. So, action>commentary, who is acting on this?
Like never before! And I have very little confidence that the Dems will effectively do that. If they can't make billionaires and co-POTUS Musk the defining face/theme/message of the GOP/MAGA/Fascists, NOW, when? Dems should be doing this NOW, relentlessly.
As long as Pelosi and Schumer keep on running the show, it'll be same ol/same ol. Also, the DNC is one of the worst run organizations in America. So we got that going for us, which is nice.
You can't. You can't change the Democrat party. And, at least at the federal level, working to get them elected is working against your own interests. They've been screwing us over for at least 50 years with their good cop, "we need a strong Republican party" routine. Fuck 'em.
I still say compulsory voting is the way to go. We might even actually get a third-party if we do that. I’m totally with you in that I’m real tired of playing both ends of the same coin. We have to break the stalemate or we’re going to break the country.
The 2 parties that control the whole system & process need to go. The Electoral College needs to go. The Senate needs to be proportional or disbanded. We aren't going to fix this by forcing people to vote. The problem is the broken system & awful candidates. 🤷 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/why-eligible-voters-did-not-vote
It was always only ever a class issue. This political partisanship is just the fuel they throw on the fire to keep us divided, distracted, and disorganized against the true cause of our suffering.
I believe that's only about 30-35%. The rest just want to keep their heads above water and provide for their families. Work hard and succeed. They want their piece of the American Dream.
I've got no room to talk, but
- be the change. get involved in local organizing and politics (and community action).
- even if that's not your bag, we have to have good candidates at the local and state level to be able to feed into the majors. AOC is an anomaly (not a bad thing, but uncommon).
Dear everyone in this thread. The Democrats are not going to save us. We saw what they did to Bernie. We need a new progressive party, with new leaders & new ideas. When they don’t allow us a seat at the table, we must build our own table.
I see this happening organically. We have a vacuum of leaders. People power is how things can get done. I’m not interested though in working with MAGA. Too dumb.
How about RIGHT NOW!?!!
We need AUDITS of this election
AND
we need Congress to follow the Constitution and be brave. Trump is disqualified and CANNOT take the oath of office!!!!! 14th NOW!
The wealthy already own our media, our judicial system, our government and just about everything else. I like your optimism but I feel like we may be a bit late on this one.
Our adversaries are not the wealthy, capitalism or Washington, but the corporations and oligarchs who pervert our institutions and corrupt our system. End citizens united. Tax and regulate. Put up a wall of separation between big money and the government of, by and for the people.
It needs to be outside the Democratic Party and absolutely not "allied" with it in any fashion. Any persons working for the new movement must renounce, loudly, any involvement with the Dem (or GOP, or any other) Party.
Just being a marketing brand for Democrats isn't nearly enough.
That would take years to develop & America doesn’t have years. Like it or not, whatever the group is, it’ll have to work with an established political party to piggyback on its organization & volunteers on the ground at state & local levels, & that party has to be the Democratic Party.
Historically the US has changed party systems in just a couple of years. The Dems have no power at all at the federal level and are the mortal enemy of any anti-oligarchy group. There's zero reason to even try to work with them.
Historically, you may be right. And I’m no fan of billionaires, but they can’t be all grouped together anymore than one can group all Democrats together. Laurene Powell Jobs & MacKenzie Bezos are billionaires, but that’s likely the only thing they have in common with Musk & his ilk.
You’d think, but I have my doubts. Guessing that as soon as Dems get on the anti oligarch populist tip, maga and the repubs will change their tune. Time will tell.
🦋 is a hub for new media and thought leaders to share. Not only has MSM crumbled, the very effective disinformation machine is as connected as it’s ever been and maybe ever will be.
As to a new movement, I was hoping Dems would step — up but look at AOC.
The Democratic Party gerontocracy has consistently opposed such organizing. Only if the Dems ban outside money in primaries will that have a chance of changing (and it’s a small chance at that).
it would take a modern Revolution. People might have to [God]Forbid] Not buy their fav PepsiCo or Frito Lays snacks for a while. Or, getting really serious now, ride a bike or walk, take the bus. #sacrifice
Imagine if we had an opposition party capable of even recognizing that. Right now Laura Loomer is making a better case against oligarchy than the dems.
We can’t afford to have one person, no matter how dynamic, to lead. Has to be a group with different strengths to converge behind the single cause of advancing people over corporations. From removing money from campaigns, outlawing lobbyists, to jailing Wall St. scammers.
People first, always.
No Nazis, first rule. No cruel, evil, hateful don't belong in our gov't, or our institutions. Nazis are organized deadly, bigoted people focused on slavery, encampments to make prisoners to make free/slave labor. Their 2025 playbook has been written. They are telling us what they are doing.
I really like Dean Phillips. He's the guy who ran in the primary (and tried to get others to run) and got totally skewered by the establishment DNC. He's a successful, mod-liberal business man. Pro worker. Brilliant marketing/messaging. Not a party "insider" so more street cred. Bill Clinton-like.
There is, but we need to decide on a message that can’t be picked apart by a bad name (like defund the police) can be put in a post, and is understandable by idiots. Or we’ll never get anywhere.
An up and coming party in Europe and Canada is the Green Party platform . Gill Stein is too old for president she's 75 now . I think David Hogg would be a great replacement .
Most Americans don’t like oligarchy. Trump posed as an enemy of “elites” and the establishment. That was a lie. He’s empowering oligarchs to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, worker & consumer health & safety laws, all for tax breaks for the rich. Time for a genuine populist uprising.
BIGGEST opening in decades! The oligarchy’s greed has gutted the middle class. Time to fight back—with bold policies, grassroots energy, and a vision for an economy that serves EVERYONE, not just the yacht club. Let’s make America fair again!
Maybe, Rich. Although, if the Harris/Walz ticket had more than a measly 3 months to organize, they might’ve resonated better. But, of course, the blame lies with the Democrats and their leadership. A campaign takes time to build momentum—especially when you’re taking on a rigged system.
We need to take back Americans First rhetoric. Jobs and training programs. Cheaper healthcare/drugs. Add in pro-democratic ideas, too, like One Person One Vote (disbanding the electoral college). End the ability for billionaires to buy elections... campaign finance reform.
Agreed on everything, Katie. But let’s be real—abolishing the Electoral College won’t work UNLESS Trump digs his own grave on it. What I would do? Make voting day a national holiday. More volunteers at the polls, more flexibility for voters. That’s how you fix it!
We don't need voting a national holiday. That's severely old school. Where I am, I voted before "voting day" multiple times already. We need a party that actually works for the people it wants votes from, and that isn't the Democrats or the GOP.
It is certainly unlikely. I agree but now is the time for big ideas and bold action. One person, one vote, resonates. A nat'l election day holiday is also a great idea. Trump promises a ton of shit that's impractical and he never does.Maybe we should stop being so damn safe and ask for what we want.
You’re absolutely right. Why settle for safe when we can ask for what we really need? The big ideas matter—like One Person, One Vote, and making Election Day a holiday. We need to take bold steps. NOW! Let’s fight for what works!
It feels like we are all doing it in our politicians are not. @aoc.bsky.social joining the picket line with Amazon was great but we need more. I can’t just be only her always all the time.
The problem is everyone standing around for someone else to "take charge" so nothing is getting done but a bunch of bitching and moaning about the status quo. We have to get out en mass, the leaders will show themselves
One of the things that Trumpers liked was the stimulus checks even though Biden also gave out stimulus checks . The Green parties Universal basic income would bring them over.
Mm-hm. And Nader made sure Bush won and in ‘24 Greens tried their damndest to help trump. Green Party is nothing but a spoiler operation. Jay Sekulow representing Greens to get her on ballots should tell you something, plus republicans $$ to the Greens.
In towns across America, citizens should quietly put up a guillotine in front of city hall. No fanfare, statements to the press, etc.- just put one up. #NonverbalCommunication
One vein into that world is through the antiMLM movement. Many of these oligarchs made their fortunes from them. Bidens FTC chair has done a lot of good, but she's about to get fired and they're going to run amok. Anti MLM YouTubers are great people and are going to be ruthlessly targeted.
A key component of MAGA was to fight the elites. BUT Trump always betrays. He despises his base and only wants power over his financial peers. It’s how he measures everything. It’s all about who has the most money which is why he’s working so hard to monetize the Presidency #TrumpBetrays
If the Democrats want to be relevant nationally instead of dominant in the highly educated rich states, then they are going to have to revert to supporting much higher tax rates on the elite rich.
They had the Congress and the WH in the first two Obama years and the first two Biden years and the first two Clinton years and the best they did was raise the top rate to 39.6% and then the ACA tax on the rich.
We have to remember that the top tax rate under Eisenhower, a Republican president, was 91%. Hmm. Seems we were able to do a few things when the rates were thus. Like build a middle class. And there were still plenty of wealthy Americans. So, what's the excuse?
The interstate highway system was a great accomplishment, except for the fact it destroyed many black neighborhoods. I completely agree about high speed rail.
you realize you cannot tax more than about 19% GDP or approx where we are at right now. The progressive tax with exemptions and loopholes is problem, nothing close to +50% brackets is going to help.
The era of high marginal (and effective) tax rates was not an era of much higher tax revenue. That is true. High tax rates on the rich cause a more equitable distribution of income (and wealth) which provides for more consistent tax revenue, higher growth, and therefore lower deficits/debt.
Something from a macro textbook? It doesn't address what you are taxing and it def does not prove any causation between taxing and deficit spend or growth which should be treated as independent vairables. Good these conversations are happening but bad policy ideas sink it before it can swim.
We need new taxes as well. A proper wealth tax on financial assets, and taxing leveraging assets for transactions same as income. I.e. you buy Twitter by taking loans using your stock in Tesla as collateral, it's taxed as if you sold the stock.
Or do we need the Democratic Party at all. Or will the Nazi party rig the elections again. We need a third party to stop the bs that goes on now and it would force the other two parties to build coalitions.
Call me a skeptic, I think we are past politics. A mobilization would be wiser.
Our opinions don't matter to them. A rule they live by is "Might makes right", it is time to show them who is truly right. Remember they declared the war against humanity.
A weekly news report on the progress of Trump’s 92 election promises…especially deportations. A running tally? Grocery prices? Single family housing sales? Tax breaks for average hh? Of course , we need a platform other than CNN and MSNBC.
My fantasy unifying platform:
1. 100% Public campaign financing and no PACs or lobbying or $ to judges
2. Radical transparency (anti-corruption)
3. End drug war & enforce antitrust
I believe most problems come from a combination of these 3 root causes.
Ranked choice voting will be easier to achieve. And, it’s not an either/or, we need it as well as campaign finance reform. We must make both happen. Pretty sure we’re in agreement
Everyone can take some action. Find something no matter how small. Join Indivisible. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. Join Costco to support a business that supports democracy. Read Robert Reich's books. Let's hear what each of you is doing?
I think the rift has started with the Maggots. They are going to wake the hell up and it's already starting. Once they find out these oligarchs used them it could change overnight.
Yeah, unfortunately, he took my money and my time (I knocked doors and wrote postcards for that guy) and then he dropped out & endorsed Biden. So not really a wild fan of his. Any Democrat or Independent who runs as one is off my list of people I'll bother trusting.
He's literally the most popular politician in American politics and has been for like 20 ,years u stupid fucking idiot. His policies are the most popular policies in the American body politic..Univ Healthcare 76% aprvl, paid leave 91%, expanded SS 93%. Pls stop voting in the primaries 😂😂
He's accomplished more than any of senator in ur lifetime. He started the fight for th le most popular policies in the American body politic. Univ Healthcare 76%, paid leave 93%, expanded SS 91%. We just lost bc we ran another status quo Hillary 2.0..do u need to lose for a third time 😂😂
Bernie started zero of these fights. He is a contrarian disruptor. Aka useful idiot. He did manage to split the Dem coalition. He had a lot of help from the billionaire media. So good job?
Bernie is certainly the most popular politician to the terminally online of The Left. You can cite all the polls you want. They mean nothing. Look around the whole big country. Where are all the elected officials of The Left? They don’t exist. But ancient Bernie on his own could change everything.
Love the idea! IMO it needs to be simpler. Oligarchy is too abstract ...many don't understand the word. They understand greedy rich bastards though! 😀 Some ideas: Build the People's America! Prosperity for the People! Take America Back from Billionaires! America for the People! Stop Tycoon Takeover!
Oligarch is the perfect word. It’s not about money. It’s about power. We can’t fight what we don’t understand. So we need to understand. We are not the stupid ones.
Agree. I don’t know of anyone that has the reach and charisma to take the movement where it needs to go. Maybe AOC, but the party won’t let her. Makes you wonder… 🤔
Care to give us more details? What is untrue? Do you know of someone with the charisma/reach (that would do it) or that the party won’t let AOC take a higher visibility/leadership role?
I don't think charisma and reach is what's needed or necessarily helpful.
Obama had all the "charisma" in the world but didn't build a movement.
Instead we need local organizing. Groups like @indivisble.
And look at the organizing led by black women in Georgia over the last several cycles.
Organizing is powerful, but the driving force often comes from strong, visionary leaders. The Women’s March and Stacey Abrams’ work in Georgia are prime examples of how effective leadership channels collective energy into action. Strong leadership turns moments into movements.
Yes but you said what was needed was charisma. Stacey Abrams name is known but it's the dozens (hundreds?) of actual organizing groups that got that state to elect 2 dem senators.
Not so sure the women's march has done anything to sustain a movement. If I'm wrong would like to see it.
I would never minimize the work of the organizers, but we have to admit that it was Abrams who showed them and inspired people. She showed them that you could mobilize people. She gave people hope. Hope will move mountains.
I have to agree with you on the WM (for the most part), although it can be argued that we might have gotten our first woman vice president because of its sheer impact. I’m looking for a Martin Luther King or a César Chávez. We might not know them yet.
And, let's start talking about "low-income" folks, too! Actually, Occupy had is right; it's the top versus everyone else. The "middle-class" is disappearing. And, if they think this is just about them, we're in trouble.
But the moneyed dems will shut it down like they did Bernie. We need to totally ditch the Dem establishment or its all just a pipe dream. Dems can fight ruthlessly; but only to maintain the status quo
organize a national boycott like a strike. It is our power and the only thing they care about. We are the consumers we buy the oligarchs stuff. The way we rejected from twitter, FB, MSM, WaPo etc we need to do to products EN MASS we have a network at BS and that's what it's for to cact collectively.
That is the clear takeaway after this election & everything that’s happened since then. America is DESPERATE for Dems to become explicitly the anti oligarch party. And I promise you, if they did, you’d see similar outcomes to the last time we had a Dem choose that path https://bsky.app/profile/yikesamerica.bsky.social/post/3lc44yiwmpc23
I believe the language of all people is money. If and when Dems start seriously addressing nationwide affordable senior housing, universal basic income UBI, and most importantly, and most urgently, universal healthcare UHC, then they will win back the trust of the 99%.
Push to tax billionaires.
These terms we’ve thrown around for a decade have lost their meaning, including oligarchy and ,most unfortunately to me, fascism. But it’s the reality and we need to create new terms to use to describe and explain the danger we face now.
Maybe “CEO and shareholder governance”. The Republican voters have been begging for a president who would run the country like a business without really ever contemplating what the article means. CEOs are dictators and shareholders couldn’t care less should workers.
Carpet bagger is the word for these oligarchs. They have come to the US and bought up our country cheap. Just like during post civil war times. They manipulate the courts and tax laws for their advantage. They take, tthey don't give back.
Not really seeing it if I'm honest. Sure you could "organize" a bunch of people who are already with you (what we usually do), but I see no evidence that the political culture is turning against oligarchy right now. In fact that language in particular indicates passe, almost quaint, concerns.
The Leviathan that’s trying to suffocate and Exhaust the best pieces of our country, cannot do what he’s setting out to do without making himself vulnerable or without exposing the hubristic and feckless absence of a sustainable solid plan
Since there is a cult and one Democratic party yes there is room for another party only if you can deprogram the stupid idiots and lock up the likes of the Murdochs. We need a new independent media outlets for this new party. I like the European and Canadian Green platform.
Green platform: universal basic income, end insurance based healthcare, nationalize water and energy, end arm sales to Israel, tax mega rich , put planet before profit. Think globally run locally. https://gpelections.org.
No. There really isn’t. That time has passed until November 2026. And even then? They have already won the information war, and we have already proven that a huge portion of Americans will believe whatever they are told.
What are you talking about? Untrue.
Only thing the Dems don’t have is the balls to call out Trump and Russia on this election - FFS, the clock is ticking….
It is entirely true. The establishment Dems have sold out to big donors and "centrists" just as much as the GOP. When the Dems tacked right under Clinton, Obama and then Biden, they moved away from the base that gave the Party strength. There's a reason why more union members voted for Trump.
People should have been in the streets after Jan 6th. We sit by and wait for someone else to get up and march for us. Until we get up and save ourselves are going to get exactly what we deserve
How about RIGHT NOW!?!!
We need AUDITS of this election
AND
we need Congress to follow the Constitution and be brave. Trump is disqualified and CANNOT take the oath of office!!!!!
What needs to happen is like what lord MAGA did in 2015. This movement needs a leader that will systematically knock down every stodgy stalwart of the old Democratic Party order, and do it in a way so titillating that the vacuous corporate media will be unable to resist covering in full.
Agreed, but not sure liberal people can follow. MAGA/Repubs gave up individuality to snap in line behind 45. Lefties tend to in-fight about the best way to do things and splinter.
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Vote for this everyday for the rest of my life.
Not those regional neighborhood protests that are ignored by the media.
We’re about to hand nuclear codes to madmen who want to own the world & everyone in it.
Who will join Katie Porter, AOC, Omar, Presley, Tlaib?
Establishment Democrats demand that all bend the knee to Big Business and the status quo.
•Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
•American Humanist Association
I don't know if I've ever heard a Democrat even say the word oligarchy though sadly.
The Hornet Party will suffice.
These are not separate fights.
Lol.
They couldn't allow the masses to realize that they are ALL getting screwed by the man so the Tea Party was utilized in order to divide & conquer............a time old technique
Who can win agaisnt that
It would be nice
https://bsky.app/profile/xopherpaul.bsky.social/post/3legph3smps2g
One can only imagine if MLK, Malcolm X and the BLA had converged as one movement how much more progress would’ve been made. Diplomacy & Strength.
Where does the oligarchy begin and who’s in it?
Or is this the continuation of reigning in the millionaires and billionaires?
The left brings their NPR tote bags
Republicans exist though.
Because from where I’m standing, there’s not much difference between the two when we start to talk about money.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/why-eligible-voters-did-not-vote
So the question you need to be asking yourself right now BEFORE anything else.
Are you -personally- willing to die, go to prison, and or be tortured…. For what you want to have done?
Because that’s what it’s going to take.
Up or just retire so we can take our country back.
- be the change. get involved in local organizing and politics (and community action).
- even if that's not your bag, we have to have good candidates at the local and state level to be able to feed into the majors. AOC is an anomaly (not a bad thing, but uncommon).
An invitation?
Well write one and get the ball rolling.
We need AUDITS of this election
AND
we need Congress to follow the Constitution and be brave. Trump is disqualified and CANNOT take the oath of office!!!!! 14th NOW!
Just being a marketing brand for Democrats isn't nearly enough.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/30/kamala-harris-has-more-billionaires-prominently-backing-her-than-trump-bezos-and-griffin-weigh-in-updated/
As to a new movement, I was hoping Dems would step — up but look at AOC.
#Resistance
#NoOligarchy
I’m based in Florida we should organize and coordinate across multiple states.
(Medicare For All, but better.)
It also needs Tier 1 messaging & media because that’s how 2025 will roll.
People first, always.
You know, we beat around the bush on this all the time. Voting should not be a voluntary exercise.
All the rest we use to get people to the polls.
Seems no one wants to do that because the government might actually represent The People!
Now it the time to work together and get billionaire and corporate money out of politics once and for all!
Who's gonna wake up Lenin?
When?
What is their plan?
How can I believe this?
Except other oligarchs. That’s why that opening will be filled by Mark Cuban.
Even if it pisses off some of their donors.
Corporations, on the hand, not so much.
I mean, she *was* the Citizen’s United case, after all. It was personal.
I’m talking about 70% top marginal rates and a 50% corporate tax rate and a 65% estate tax rate with vigorous enforcement.
The way it used to be.
Almost like having money allows you to have nice things.
Aside, I’d rather have high speed rail than most of the interstate system.
It was 32% by FY 1981.
The economy grew on average 3.5% per year in that time frame.
The economy has grown 2.8% on average per year since, in the era of tax cuts for the rich and huge increases in income concentration.
National debt is back over 100% of GDP.
Half of large corporations didn't pay federal taxes from 2014-2018
At least bring them back to pre-Reagan rates.
But, yeah. I like your numbers.
Our opinions don't matter to them. A rule they live by is "Might makes right", it is time to show them who is truly right. Remember they declared the war against humanity.
Democratic leadership is centrist on a good day but centre right on most days.
1. 100% Public campaign financing and no PACs or lobbying or $ to judges
2. Radical transparency (anti-corruption)
3. End drug war & enforce antitrust
I believe most problems come from a combination of these 3 root causes.
Imagine if MAGA's leaders didn't encourage them to hate people who are different from them.
Thought wb great!
Unite in
Solidarity
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Oppose (the)
Oligarchy
If we get it going, it'd really cripple their minds!
Obama had all the "charisma" in the world but didn't build a movement.
Instead we need local organizing. Groups like @indivisble.
And look at the organizing led by black women in Georgia over the last several cycles.
Not so sure the women's march has done anything to sustain a movement. If I'm wrong would like to see it.
It was called MAGA JACK!
Bernie Sanders was proof. Occupy Wall Street was proof.
Because I'm pretty sure the Democratic Brass solution is a lot more Debbie Dingell, Gerry Connelly, and a strong dose of Brad Sherman..
They're all only in their 70s, just starting out.
Push to tax billionaires.
These terms we’ve thrown around for a decade have lost their meaning, including oligarchy and ,most unfortunately to me, fascism. But it’s the reality and we need to create new terms to use to describe and explain the danger we face now.
That’s the next admin.
https://bsky.app/profile/alanhowe.bsky.social/post/3lejmewicqs2g
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social has been showing us the way.
Dems as a whole could blow it, of course, but they’ve stepped up before. I remain optimistic (eternally it seems).
Only thing the Dems don’t have is the balls to call out Trump and Russia on this election - FFS, the clock is ticking….
We need AUDITS of this election
AND
we need Congress to follow the Constitution and be brave. Trump is disqualified and CANNOT take the oath of office!!!!!