Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.*
There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.
There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.
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Ken Klippenstein
CNN: Is democratic leadership is doing enough?
SENATOR JACKY ROSEN: I think that we have to realize that we're in the minority. They have the White House, they have the House, and they have the Senate. So the tools that are available to us here as legislators...they are limited.
SENATOR JACKY ROSEN: I think that we have to realize that we're in the minority. They have the White House, they have the House, and they have the Senate. So the tools that are available to us here as legislators...they are limited.
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Now, yall want Dems to be politicians?! Stop it! Yall just want somebody to console yall.
Truth is, nobody can save u rn. Unless YOU'RE going to do something, go hide!
They don't understand the American experiment won't make it to the midterms.
And get off cable news and go where people watch.
They seem to have forgotten that Trump sent an angry mob to the floor of the Senate a few years back to murder them all. Democrats are comically out of touch with reality
Because it's always been our job; we just got complacent and outsourced it to these lickspittles.
Dems won't help us. We gotta help each other instead.
I'm guessing he assumes the midterms are his for the taking without a word of resistance.
We need MORE Sheldon Whitehouses, Bernie Sanders', and fewer Jacky Rosens. ANOTHER, Biden "institutionalist".
I'm sorry to say she's a Nevada Senator.😡
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Why the fucking Dems can’t do that is just insanity.
Collaborators and Vichy Americans will be remembered for their refusal to do the right thing.
But there’s even more Dems should be doing as citizens with rights and obligations to our society. Civics more broadly than high school social studies is about that.
I want fighters who care more about the values and principles underlying the Constitution than they do about a document fascists pissed all over. The institutions it created are now corrupted. …
Politicians wed to a document won’t put people first. They will never be nimble enough to engage in creative opposition and body-on-the-line resistance. They’re not defending democracy, just their perceived place in it.
Yet another reason we need to be bold in our vision and demands of what a post …
If their elected GOP reps are going to lie and hide, be there to provide the service being withheld and seize the narrative.
A real politician would’ve known what to do there, knowing that since 3 weeks ago military planes started moving immigrants into Gitmo.
No dem went there. None.
We elect people from all walks of life (at least in theory we do) to legislate & perform Article I duties. These people can be introverted, bookish & make good legislators based on expertise.
Lauren Underwood, for example, was a nurse. It's great to have her in Congress!
Indeed, successful popular movements have never been led by Congress.
They are led by the people.
It is in our hands. We need to take action.
But they're not. Because they're collaborators.
Show up at federal agencies and DON’T leave when told. Get arrested.
Highlight the impact of their actions.
Hold rallies and town halls. Build opposition through ACTION!
We need leaders who not only understand good trouble, they’re willing to lead the charge getting into good trouble.
Right now, anything else is brand-building and you can fuck right off with that.
Get out of the way,
To change the behavior of republicans you have to make it THEIR problem.
Everything democrats do right now should focus on exposing republican culpability in all of the harm being done.
What, there isn't one??
Well you're misunderstanding your role
here.