As long as democrats are eager to attack each other and shrink in the face of actual opposition, they have no chance, they’ll be run over every time. You cannot defend the moral high ground by ceding more and more control to those with no scruples
Unfortunately part of this I disagree but I think both can be applied in opposition.Cuz we need that anger to be defiant you cannot be defiant if you ain't got a little bit of fire in your eyes constantly burning.We didn't do that this last time & we paid for it (please continue reading)
Because with that there is absolute resolve in not only building a strong and durable opposition but giving it direction with purpose. Because they can't stand when we constantly Hammer home the crimes they are committing and pointing out exactly how Un-American and unpatriotic they truly are.
Mine is very petulant, and I guess it really hit home in bootcamp. Because it’s literally the child me sticking out my chin saying “you’re not the boss of me”. They reverse psychologied me and tried to get me to quit. I was so pissed that it worked, but grateful they figured it out.
for Chrissake, she won Clark Co NV but lost the state, that basically never happens, if u can't win NV u wont be competitive in AZ at all; but for NM-01, NM might have been close, NM-02 voted GOP but that district D House incumbent (barely) won re-election, go figure that out, VOTES not themes
why anger? there was significant non-vote for KHarris vs Biden, figure that out (kicking ur incumbent to the curb THREE MONTHS before election wasn't smart?); there were 4.5M fewer D votes for US House vs Rs, complete reversal from '20, go figure that out ASAP, BIG problem
Call us crazy…but a young dynamic Democrat needs to step forward even before the inauguration and announce candidacy for Presidency in ‘28 and start with populist campaign messages of Tax The Rich & Stop The Oligarchy.
Really? When the Dems start representing my interests I'll consider reengagement, but all I've seen in 40+ years has been a slick descent into some mix of neolib and wannabe Republicanism. Show me some leadership.
The subhead also suggests a “disastrous” election. Sure. The result. But it was close, and the House is very close. We have lots to work with, inc a broad pro-democ coalition. So let’s stop crying in our soup (and generating these narratives) and get to work. As Kamala said - hard work is good work.
They (the Dem establishment and pundits) need to get past denial and finger pointing, do some analytical self-assessment, re-tool, find a leader, develop a strategy and get to work.
And schmoozer/enabler Chuck Schumer is NOT the guy for that task.
Durable opposition to accepting evil and less than evil. Dems, Repubs, & Republicrats are ALL the same: wanting power. Bunch of warmongers. #StopArmingIsrael #StopGenocide that's how we get housing, medical care, education, food...
Anger is a normal and natural emotion. It’s the emotion that makes people charge through and get things done. Without anger we can’t have effective change.
But they couldn’t have been in shock. We know who he is. If there was no oversight or monitoring before the election, then the Biden administration is complicit.
The lack of cohesion and unity in the Democrats will inevitably frustrate a solid opposition. Too often some member sees an opportunity for self aggrandisement and sides with MAGA. It's already happened. Party Caucasus decisions are treated as just a suggestion.
From abroad, its Hard to pass the mind boggling stage of WTF happened with the bomb threats? How is this a normal thing we just ignore the next day and pretend it didn't happen? How do you call an election that was interfered with by a foreign nation??? Mind fucking boggling.
I want them to be angry. I am so tired of them not being angry on our behalf. I've spent years defending them on that front and its finally been not enough. I'm through. We need a progressive populist upset at the system.
How about thinking? The Dems need to do a lot of that.
Because to lose so blindingly to the most ridiculous cartoon on the planet TWICE (2016 and today) stands as an achievement that I am sure is unsurpassed by any civilization in history.
I wake up pissed every day and every time I think about the election. I’m also pissed when I think about the lack of communication to the people regarding next steps. The lack of requests for recounts and the silence from the party I supported my entire adult life.
The DNC needs to led by someone who is Strong, defiant, and like a bulldog with a bone when it comes to the GOP lies. No more of this pansy, no response, ignore the oppositions BS. Go After the attackers with attacks. Stand up, Fight back!
And the person who leads the DNC needs to be backed by strong, defiant leaders. Harrison couldn't do it all by himself. He needed strong senate and house leaders.
Biden (god love him) needed to be ruthless and get rid of Garland and Wray. And now Schumer needs to go. And maybe Jeffries. . .
Inch towards? Try gallop, get there . We have wasted enough time people's lives their livelihoods are literally in jeopardy . They should have been passed this phase weeks ago Suck it up buttercups we got some evil to fight
We have every right to be angry Marc, Donald Trump got out of every legal case, was allowed to run for president again even though he committed an act of treason and got more legal. consideration than all those who would still be around if not for his dismissal of Covid
Look at that field of flags; those people didn’t get a chance, those suffering long covid didn’t get a chance I have zero respect for the legal profession that did this.
So true, we need to invest in the best of the best. Leave no stone unturned. Most importantly learn from past mistakes & actually acknowledge the mistakes.
Seriously, we lost a close election. Go back, fight, and for god’s sake sell your agenda and show people what you’re trying to do to improve their lives. Republicans ultimately don’t really have any plans to help anyone.
We lost the election so we are suppose to lose everything, maybe even all our right, I don’t think so. I am waiting for the legal experts who put us here to give us a plan for getting past this that does’t start with suffer it until next election.
Biden should declare the results invalid due to psyops warfare by Putin and other foreign hostile agents. If there’s a civil war let’s have it with Biden as President.
My view--"Under" the anger likely are the emotions of hurt, sad, and/or scared. 1, 2, or all 3 of them. Important to hold, have, and go through the emotions, not get past them.
The energy of anger can provide impetus/initiative in creating the new forms necessary for constructive opposition.
No we need to get down and dirty and take the low road. At least for a little bit. I mean how do you build a strong durable opposition if you do not get down in the dirt. It doesn't happen.
yes want to get involved. still grieving but not giving in and not giving up. started a 10 week training with SURJ... Gearup. we're getting ready pre inauguration. the TIME IS NOW PEOPLE> Indivisible is another tried and trusted activist group.
Time to stop fucking around. We only have a little more than a month. The jackboots are going to hit the ground running and we are gonna be crushed if we don’t have a plan in place at 12:01 on January 20th.
For decades the GOP has walked all over Dems. We've folded every goddamn time. We need to stop accommodating and get to what really happened last mo. I don't accept the loss. Not w o hand re-counts
The plan occurred on November 5, 2024 but too many isms stop people from voting for VP Harris, even Dems didn’t vote nor support . So, it’s time actual supporters (Black women) who’ve been fighting for democracy to vacation and allow all the beneficiaries learn to fight. Working class you got it!
We need to get past defeatism and detatchment. I'm not angry I just don't care anymore. I worked so hard on climate and all that work was wasted because Biden chose to run again. The Inflation Reduction Act was such a godsend and people worked ao hard on it. It's going to be dismantled by Trump.
People were absolutely ruined by inflation, the loss of community during Covid, and the strain of financial insecurity. But for them to think Trump was the answer was a complete failure of messaging by dems. Kamala did not have time to reach voters in that short window.
The fact that voters chose Trump (who is incompetent, a convicted felon, an instigator of an insurrection, and demented) over women's health, the climate emergency, the ongoing threat to schools by mass shooters, and the opportunity to create jobs here under the IRA really makes me feel hopeless.
I don't know how I get that hope or that willingness to fight again. It's made me lose my faith in humanity frankly. Trump's a racist misogynist pig of a person and America elected him twice. Those fossil fuel men and billionaire tech bros that helped elect him are evil. But they won. Twice.
This pretty much sums up how I feel, too, altho' I can't claim to have been fighting like you, as I'm not American. But my well-meaning illusion of collective human progress, and in "the arc of history ending towards justice", has been shattered.
I ask you, what choice do you have? To give up is to welcome tyranny without a fight. The struggle is never over. The fascists want us defeated, hopeless and helpless. We can’t afford that.
I don't see how we lost. There are too many Computer Scientist out there saying it was hacked and other significant voter impingments. I will never believe that the turkerys voted for thanksgiving
We endured thousands of texts asking for $$. Kamala has the money to finance a hand re-count. We deserve to see those numbers jive. Our f'n democracy depends upon this
Democrats make the same mistake over and over and over. They allow the republicans to define them and to frame the conversation around that definition.
I'll accept the outcome if there is a hand re-count in battleground states. I know it's expensive but it's necessary. Something doesn't add up. Kamala can afford it. She has a billion $$ of our donations
We can use art as a vehicle to tell the truth. Art holds a mirror up to tje people and makes them look. Art knows what is happening well before the public is aware but then the public begins to see what truth art is revealing! Get creative y’all🤩
We need that anger, and use it to take over the Democratic Party. Just like magas took over the Republican Party. The New Democrats will represent the working class, not billionaires or corporate America. There are more of us than them!
DNC must go on the streets & talk to regular Americans who work 2-3 jobs. I've talked to many folks like Uber & Lift drivers..most supplement their income to pay their bills. They don't trust politics, because they failed them. At Sephora, a university minority student can't pay her student loans.
Elected Democrats need to grow spines. Most are overglorified Kyrsten Sinemas, just slightly less obvious about having their hands out for corporate sponsorships.
Inch toward anger?? That should have been the first reaction after shock on Nov 6th! Man, the Dems are so frustratingly worried about decorum that it makes me wanna scream so loud that you guys down in the state hear me. Please please stop being so proper and start fighting back!
Y'all say the same shit every time we get our asses kicked when the real truth is this white nationalist autocracy fuckery is going to END the way it started 🤷🏾♂️🤧 #ADNR #weinthefield
Missing the word smarter- as in AI smarter. Younger techier leaders smarter. Using new mediums to get messages across smarter in multiple languages matching US demographics in Swing States smarter.
Instead of pundits taking cheap shots at democrats, they should take a look at what is happening around them. Maybe mass exodus from X and mainstream media indicates something more significant is going on with electorate.
Plus the reaction to the CEO of United Healthcare getting killed. That revealed how angry people are at this 50 years in the making bullshit economic system.
Many of our leaders created the unfair tax code. Never thought our human rights were worth doing anything about for-profit healthcare, big pharma price gouging, for-profit prisons, for-profit propaganda media. I could go on.
“Let’s do the same thing we’ve always done and expect different results!” Nah, thanks DNC. You’ve offered up nothing but losers since 2016. Time for us to remake you.
True, but we also need to distinguish fighting each other from holding responsible parties accountable. If corrupt losers are allowed to stay in power, nothing will change.
I’m angry. Angry that Trump & cohort, including Musk who no one elected, made their way back to the oval. IMO it’s partly a lack of anger by democrats that’s allowed this to happen. Defiance, yes, indeed, but we need to not just block, we need movement toward; we must speak & act. Anger can clarify.
Donald isn't in power yet and musk doesn't have an agency yet. Donald doesn't have that power until noon on Jan 20th. It is going to get bad, fast. Because of everyone who didn't vote for Harris. But sure blame dems for republican corruption. Like gop has no agency.
odd, i got to angry the morning of November 7th. I go back to earlier in 2024 (April) and a time that said it all. it was Joe on a bike stuck in sand the the headline was STUCK. sorry if I offend anyone but I'm still damn pissed
The fact they haven't been angry, rage-filled, bulwarks against the ever-encroaching, VERY American, fascist movement that's been building for the last 8 years... fills ME with anger.
After Trump starts deporting millions of immigrants, slaps tariffs on everything, and increases grocery and gas prices, we might have some trumpers feeling pretty angry as well.
I’m angry because DNC is just accepting the loss w/o challenging it. Many believe that there was fraud with help from Musk, Russia & republicans. We have nothing, NOTHING to lose by doing a forensic investigation. Why are they not actively pursuing an audit? No more donations if they won’t act.
I wish there was substance to your claim, but our elections have been shown secure. The problem, I believe, is our low election turnout; & it's long been that way. And why was our 2024 turnout less than 2020? I'm afraid sorta like 2016; some sexism.
There were bomb scares that cut into the number of voters who were there to vote but couldn’t in those critical states. There were voting locations closed early during the days up to the election. More people were there to vote but weren’t allowed to. So the chart would not reflect those numbers.
The election was shown secure in 2020. They have not investigated into 2024. Trump said they have all the votes they need before election. I believe him, he had a plan in place to cheat. Those voting machines have been proven to be easily hacked. Trump would be on it if he lost, why not the DNC.
It's the same process every election Shirley. Trump says all KINDS of crap; if his lips are moving, he's lying. We had poor voter turnouts in 2016 and 2024; it's that simple.
(I suspect voter sexism; with perhaps some racism thrown in with the 2024 election.) 🤷♂️
What we really need right now is everyone to TAKE TO THE STREETS and PROTEST AGAINST who has made COUNTLESS ILLEGAL ACTS for being voted in as President! THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED! I don't bow to CRIMINALS!
Because the Dems are weak and have no backbone. They are complicit and have nothing to lose. Some are asking Biden to pardon Trump,,,they still have their cushy offices with their cushy pay and cushy benefits and have nothing to lose while the rest of pay the price
Democratic voters need to PRIMARY & replace EVERY Democrat that's preemptively APPEASING to tRump, starting with Clyburn & Fetterman.
If we don't, then we get what we deserve.
I am sorry, but I am wondering what came of all purged voters in swing states too close to the election and why they didn't the Harris campaign push for extending voting in Georgia after bomb threats. Bush pushed for a Florida recount and ended up as president, and Democrats roll over.
Please explain what that looks like. They’ll use the nuclear option always in the senate. They will outlaw filibusters. They have the majority in both houses. And the SCOTUS. And he’ll have immunity.
I understand, but maybe this doesn’t work nowadays. Cause dictators ALSO do their homework. I from Russia, and here Putin control internet, money and power. And ‘peaceful protest’ doesn’t work here. This 3.5 rule maybe works, when dictator is stupid. But that if hi is not???
As a child of the fifties Ive been saying that since trump first run! When citizens United passed the Supreme Court and the money interest of this country got control we had an issue. We have no means to take democracy back other than Civil Disobedience! They have taken your vote!
It will lead to nothing. We had 20,000,000 voters supposedly oversleeping on election day while Elon Musk giggled with Tucker Carlson then receive the election outcome info four hours before it happened, and we just took it up the old a$$ without a peep. Except blame Kamala for not going on podcasts
I was angry before and during the election too. I’m going to be angry for a long time to come.
I’m not shifting past it until at a minimum I don’t fear being murdered by my government and can merely describe myself without being lashed out at by peers.
When will Russia get punished for interfering in our elections? We should null the results and have another election without Russian or oligarchs' influence.
I agree 1 Trillion percent. We MUST grow up and rebuild stronger govt check and balance watch dog opposition to ensure new govt will not put us in deeper debt hole as they talk about SAVING BILLIONS TO US TREASURY. Lets see where is the REAL MONEY.
Launching NEW political parties is the solution.
Hahaha sorry, but they are lost, and I don’t see a leadership in our party. They are weak, they need to understand that playing by the book is not enough against a cheatting party (Repubs)
I worked with Greenpeace decades ago before some of you were born. It has never been about my anger, but thats what fascists bring to the table. It is pure disgust. If it were anger I'd shoot something.
Doesn't matter. Today is a new day. We have every right to the term "patriot" as they do. Our job is to speak truth louder against their Russia-supported right wing lie circus with more determination than ever before. It's truly one of the key strategies that will actually work: just Be louder.
The only fuck up I can think of is changing candidates so late in game, they needed to have figured that out earlier, and not being cohesive, other than that Harris ran her ass off messaging was great, VP pick was awesome, they underestimated hate in this country😞
How can you blame the Democrats? How can we except to win, when the GOP cheats in numerous ways…*They get MASSIVE amounts of black money (including foreign money)
*Extreme Gerrymandering
*Daily Brainwashing and Propaganda
*Changing the rules when it suits them
*Paying for favors to name a few!
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Capitalize now on CEO death and Trump Cabinet.
Never too early.
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Embrace the Working Class
And schmoozer/enabler Chuck Schumer is NOT the guy for that task.
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I want Rahm Emanuel in charge
Because to lose so blindingly to the most ridiculous cartoon on the planet TWICE (2016 and today) stands as an achievement that I am sure is unsurpassed by any civilization in history.
The only leader in Democratic leadership is Hakeem Jeffries.
Biden (god love him) needed to be ruthless and get rid of Garland and Wray. And now Schumer needs to go. And maybe Jeffries. . .
They should probably watch the news and be careful what they wish for...
The left will return if they’re given a reason to.
If not, then they’re an opposition party forever.
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The energy of anger can provide impetus/initiative in creating the new forms necessary for constructive opposition.
is that people DONT KNOW that. Even people who watch their local news twice a day don’t get enough info.
How is this free and fair?
It’s the fuel that feeds my dead-ass-tired soul. We all just need to focus the anger like a death ray laser!
ok, so defiant is a work in progress
Christmas,
Coke,
McDonald’s
Walmart,
LA Times,
Jeff Amazon
Starbucks
Coca-Cola
Heritage
Foundation
Project 2025
They're losers
But the circular firing squad has to stop. We can't get stuck in the anger phase.
That's what I'm talking about.
Not just anger... spite, resentment, rage, HATE.
We elected them to protect us.
FUCKING. PROTECT.
(Personally, I voted for both Clinton & Harris.)
(I suspect voter sexism; with perhaps some racism thrown in with the 2024 election.) 🤷♂️
If we don't, then we get what we deserve.
The party is impotent.
Bout time people recognized @nmdems.bsky.social aren't here to play games with republicans.
Look into this state's history. We own the trademark on serving up racist, conservatives from Texas.
A la verga!
3.5% of US pop today = 11.8 million.
Bluesky users 23 million.
We can make change!
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
We need Good Trouble.
Then you have earned the right to quote their words at people.
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I have done this in the past and I will again do it in the future.
Question:
How many Protests, Marches, … have you been to? Because I have lost count on how many.
I’m not shifting past it until at a minimum I don’t fear being murdered by my government and can merely describe myself without being lashed out at by peers.
We don’t need emotional instruction.
Launching NEW political parties is the solution.
✊🏼💙🩵💙✊🏼🌊
#RESIST
#StrongerTogether
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*Extreme Gerrymandering
*Daily Brainwashing and Propaganda
*Changing the rules when it suits them
*Paying for favors to name a few!