times like this are when you’d expect someone—anyone—in the government to go rogue. but this transition is decidedly un-rogue. quiet. deferential. a surrender.
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As Margaret Atwood says ‘history does not repeat, it parallels’. Their project is already in stage 3. Looking for new targets to consolidate power and wipe out opposition.
They ended a 20 year war, doubled the solar generation capacity of the country. They tried to mitigate the end of Roe to protect as many women as possible while shepherding the health system and economy through a global pandemic. All while trying to highlight authoritarian attacks on our country.
How did the voters respond? By telling them to get lost. After telling us all that democracy is at risk, are they expected to attack a democratic result? Nah. Give the people what they want.
All those achievements and your take away is that. The last 4 years has been as much sneering from the left as from the center and right. Also I was talking about government, not Democrats. Them fuckers should fight.
this is the attitude of a quitter. think of those who will be put into this admin's proverbial woodchipper. queer neighbors, union workers etc. have some fight in you please.
One gets the feeling that Democrats are relieved that from now on they only have to play the role of the loyal, courteous opposition to endless Fascist rule.
there were iirc 2 demos called but hardly any circulation outside protest spaces (i was posting about em!!). mainstreamers kinda contentedly kept it all on the sidelines vs boosting. reminds me of difference in dsh defense when pols boosted defense vs when the didn’t. went from ~15 defenders to 300.
a big part of is it the info flow stays very much stuck and reliant on pols, and those pols won’t boost things they can’t use to boost themselves, so people don’t hear about the thing they’d have liked to go to bc who they’re told to listen to doesn’t want them knowing
& when you’ve got that info & push it out, you get maligned & ignored or treated as some niche weirdo pushing stuff that’s Strategically Wrong… tiresome
In 2016, Trump was succeeding a very popular president. Protesters were propelled by a sense that history was going the Obama way. Trump is now succeeding an old, stumbling abettor of genocide, and lets say nobody thinks that the Biden era points to anything good.
It's pretty stunning how a just slight margin of error win for Trump has been in conventional wisdom as a stunning triumph for Trump, Dems must bow to the new admin which a not insignificant number of D's have now ascribed too. And D voters want Trump voters to experience Trump with no safety on.
Unfortunately, the ones who went rogue were the Republicans in N Carolina, SCOTUS members; Clarence (grifter) Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Amy Comey Barrett, Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Thomas, along with Justice Cannon who’s WAY OVER HER SKIS.
My only conclusion is that none of them actually give a rip if we’re in a dictatorship or not because they are all personally financially secure for the rest of their lives and they never cared about anything else.
The person with arguably a responsibility to go rogue is the person with blanket immunity at the end of his life expectancy, but his career has shown he only loves Israel and won’t make a single unexpected move to help America.
so did Biden in 2020; and his response - while trump and Rudy and 75% of the Republican Party were bragging about how they were going to overthrow the election to install trump as Dictator - was to leak this, about how he was staffing DOJ to lay off of Trump and Rs
You are not putting them in power, the oligarchs are putting them in power. And they want them to surrender. That’s what they are selected for. A fighter will never get corporate money.
Incorrect, its that they don't CARE to fight. So long as they keep congressional recess on time and get invited to the Met Gala, none of this matters to them.
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Defeating evil by cleaning the red carpet and giving some shade.
Unbelievable
and/or everyone is just fucking exhausted
Start building a true left in this country. Hell, just start by rallying college campuses with messages of UBI and M4A.
The Democrats need to start leading (first time in my 51 years) instead of reacting and I think she can do that.
That’s because liberals like him want to maintain the status quo.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/president-elect-biden-wary-trump-focused-investigations-sources-say-n1247959
The worse the GOP is, the better the dems do financially. Incentives are severely misaligned