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marcelias.bsky.social • 54 days ago

it is always well worth reading @guitarwatson.bsky.social and subscribing to his substack.
https://theliberaltomwatson.substack.com/p/democrats-are-the-guardrails-of-democracy

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andrewjames66.bsky.social•53 days ago

Also, Democrats are guardians of the economy …

mickey23.bsky.social•53 days ago

So true, what wonderful illustrations proving that point.Democrats care about the people their legislative record from FDR-BIDEN proves. Like Texas Paul says: We do well when all do well. Dems unite vote in local elections, special elections, midterms any election a Dem can run in,2025 & beyond.

mickey23.bsky.social•53 days ago

Dems have to stop being Mr. Niceguy,following the rules, when Repubs get around the rules, threw playbook away decades ago. Dems need to become Gladiators, fight fire with fire. Stop bringing a butter knife to a fight, magas bring an AR-15.

c2snow.bsky.social•54 days ago

I think we could learn from other countries that have been dealing with fascist / nationalist movements for decades.

I see Dems continuing to play nice in DC when 👊🏽 tough action is required.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/lula-fascism-democracy-brazil

shutitalldown.bsky.social•54 days ago

maltesefalcon1234.bsky.social•54 days ago

No cooperation, no collaboration, with the MAGA fascists. Are they out of their minds? Resist!!!!

sarahethelinde.bsky.social•54 days ago

Go to DC! https://www.nowmarch.org

worldfamousdjfish.bsky.social•54 days ago

Democrats are firmly in the pocket of corporations, and will never take the bold steps they need to take. Time to purge everyone under 65 from the party leadership and start focusing on Genx and Millennial candidates. Pelosi and co. have got to go.

jumpnjax.bsky.social•54 days ago

I agree with this.

sgtfella.bsky.social•54 days ago

Aye! 👍🏻

northstar123.bsky.social•54 days ago

the democrats are counted out every time they lose ... and the next thing you know they start winning again --- improve strategy and focus we win

mcgiver1.bsky.social•54 days ago

RESPECT THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY... THAT'S WHAT DEMOCRACY'S ALL ABOUT!

senpaisam.bsky.social•53 days ago

Slightly more than 50% of the votes cast weren't vote for Donnie Dipshit. There is no incoming majority, and you would do well to fucking remember that.

mcgiver1.bsky.social•53 days ago

I KNOW YOU CAN'T EXPECT ''RESPECT'' FROM PEOPLE WITH NO SELFRESPECT... [BECAUSE ''EVERYTHING STARTS FROM WITHIN...''] GOOD NEWS IS THAT FEAR MAY NOT BE THE BEST, BUT IT'S THE ONLY SUBSTITUTE TO RESPECT... SO FEAR WILL DO...!

senpaisam.bsky.social•53 days ago

Are you saying I should fear MAGA? Because they're about as scary as a fuckin skin tag.

mcgiver1.bsky.social•53 days ago

I say that fear [terror] is the only language you know... feel... understand!... and maybe even deserve... and I say that judging by your previous msg...

redgiaisblue.bsky.social•54 days ago

Great essay & I agree with your points. As a woman w/cancer who receives SSDI. it feels like the ground is about to crumble beneath me. Expect: changes to Medicare/caid, insurance, and disability. Scary stuff.
I'll be in Canada w/family during the inauguration-if Canada still allows US citizens!

iconnectionmkt.bsky.social•54 days ago

Gee, I still can’t undarstand how Democrats lost to Trump, man, that was the easiest election to win.

1uniquaphiliaism.bsky.social•53 days ago

jdsteens.bsky.social•54 days ago

Dems' guardrail argument is weak: Finger pointing at Biden justified, but he was was solid voice for democracy, against his advisors who prevailed with Harris (democracy was just another "issue"). @rokhanna.bsky.social raises good Q: how do Ds win over the middle w/o moving to the middle?

winterlightstudios.bsky.social•54 days ago

He wasn't a solid voice for democracy, he was just pandering to the minority for his entire term -- that's the truth about centrists. They're not seeking to serve the majority, they're seeking to appease the violent mob minority.

In the end they are failing everyone but the rich.

birdielb.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yes! Sharper elbows! We much be much more audacious.

sonofirving.bsky.social•54 days ago

This should not be. I know, I know, but we should at least mourn the fact that we won't be able to argue honorably with Republicans for the foreseeable future.

cedar-sherlock32.bsky.social•54 days ago

Excellent article. He's exactly right: Democrats have rolled over, BEFORE THAT FUCK EVEN TAKES OFFICE(!!!!), and plead to work with Trump. Fuck that noise. It's time to fight, refuse, obstruct, abd deny trump, at each and every opportunity.

philipcollier.bsky.social•54 days ago

I'll be so much happier when lawmakers, justices, and media people on the left put their feet down and start asserting that we are NOT going back and NOT going to allow Trump and his fascist billionaire friends to destroy our democracy.

If the street must solve this on its own, it won't be pretty.

winterlightstudios.bsky.social•54 days ago

There is no other option left.

solidporcelain.bsky.social•54 days ago

meh. doesn’t sound like your guy gets what life in America is like for us working poor.

phaseblowly.bsky.social•54 days ago

Thanks for sharing, Marc. I’m a fan of Tom and it’s an interesting read for sure. Tho there’s a glaring hole in the premise; the Democratic Party that Tom rightly says we need now hasn’t existed in 80+ years and isn’t going to re-materialize any time soon. The Dem donor class will never allow it.

tribalscribal.bsky.social•54 days ago

womanatmile0.bsky.social•54 days ago

They haven’t so far! They should’ve taken executive action when Trump attempted the coup and they did not! That is the most dangerous thing to have happened during my lifetime

oakstave.bsky.social•54 days ago

You got it. We had our chance. All Biden had to do was not put in a traitor to the Constitution in charge of Trump's prosecution, and he failed.

Our options are few now. Democracies are voted out all the time. They aren't voted in.

winterlightstudios.bsky.social•54 days ago

And four years later, moron Biden hasn't figured out that he quite literally sold the country to musk...

oakstave.bsky.social•54 days ago

Or has he?

For Biden to be a 'good' President, I have to pretend he has no access to US intelligence, has no idea that Trump tried to end Democracy, and had no idea Oligarchs and Russia were rigging elections.

My faith isn't that strong. He's not just a bad President, he could go down as worst.

winterlightstudios.bsky.social•54 days ago

He's definitely the worst.

As I've said and fools deny, Biden's legacy will be the loss of civil rights for women and the end of the US republic, because he chose not to try to protect either.

Either of those should be enough to define his legacy as that of a colossal failure, but both?

winterlightstudios.bsky.social•54 days ago

Both of those colossal failures marks him as the nation's worst presidolt.

His own imbecile general weaponized the DOJ against the country and the dems...

How stupid does a presidolt have to be before people figure out that he's a fucking idiot?

suvro1776.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yeah right. Merrick Garland, Louis DeJoy. What guardrails of democracy??

gaymonk.bsky.social•54 days ago

Excellent article!

libertyjustice.bsky.social•54 days ago

I'd change one thing in his piece: Trump didn't "win" and the proof is here:
1 He "won" the popular vote
2 We had missing votes, voters and voter suppression
3 We had bomb threats (etc.) at polling places to keep voters away
4 He lost in a landslide last time around
5 Most voters aren't that stupid

johnmaun.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yeah, peace with honor worked so well with the NAZI's, I'm sure it will work with MAGAt. They seem so open to reason and logic.

10periods.bsky.social•54 days ago

A second revolution will be required.

This idea of letting the south off has failed. Jim Crow.

Lincoln was wrong about our better angels.

It is likely too late.

philipcollier.bsky.social•54 days ago

I offer up here that the second founding of America was the (first) civil war and reconstruction, and that we need a third founding...

genxjase.bsky.social•54 days ago

Welp as the past 4 years have shown the D’s are weak, feckless weenies who still get wedgies and shoved in lockers so it wont be them. 🙇🏻‍♂️

winterlightstudios.bsky.social•54 days ago

And since for the past four years everyone has been depending on these idiots who have been failing us for decades, there are few options remaining.

cybahguy25.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is a joke correct?

Democrats have already started warming to Trump and Elons plans…

They are on board

dasquires1.bsky.social•54 days ago

D party needs a leader with the charisma, vision & oratory skills of JFK, and FDR's resilient, unbending backbone and courage to uphold democracy at home and abroad--to go to war to defend it. Someone who leans into the microphone and speaks the truth with real facts. A once in a generation leader.

jumpnjax.bsky.social•54 days ago

I don't see any fight in democratic representation save two. Raskin and AOC. CONNOLLY WILL BE THE WORST MAJORITY LEADER.

head-cannon.bsky.social•54 days ago

Nothing changes unless more people vote.

magafree.bsky.social•54 days ago

Also: nothing should be off the table as far as tactics go. Americans have fought for
Democracy in the past and can do so again if needed.

ericlackner.bsky.social•54 days ago

“Go for the throat or get out of the fucking way.”

indifferentbliss.bsky.social•54 days ago

The crappy AI art is a total dealbreaker. Looks like a South American Facebook spam factory post

codybodey.bsky.social•54 days ago

Please don’t blindly tie Ro to progressives. Most progressives are in front of liberals talking about not collaborating with the enemy, as Jeffries suggested he would do recently, the enemy is the establishment centrists.

athenagabriel.bsky.social•54 days ago

Act like it. Take action. Be proactive

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