I get madder at Democrats every time I think of them because my mentions are full of citizens who have been convinced that Democrats are powerless. “What are they supposed to do?!” I’m asked, and my response is to point ar Brazil, at South Korea, at places where they act aggressively. Why not here?
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That’s all I’ve got at this point. 🤷🏽♂️
oh wait it's hard and uncomfortable and scary
NO WE CAN'T
https://bsky.app/profile/flyingpace.bsky.social/post/3lfav7owvgs2q
Until there is strong public sentiment for direct action, our political leaders won't be able to follow. It's we who have to organize, mobilize, and give leadership a movement to follow -- leaders never do that on their own. Not in my experience anyway
None.
I don't like it, and maybe we can change it, but asking your team's leaders to commit political suicide is a sure way to lose repeatedly
I'd like to see that happen before I buy into it, though -- especially the way that Trump already demagogues the issue by calling us antisemitic every time we object to Zionist criminality. Too many voters can't tell the difference
In general Biden failed at messaging and defending his own record, though.
What are they waiting for?
The nature of democracy is to reject in elections those leaders who are ahead of their time.
And they (we) think democrats are powerless because our elected leaders have years of experience doing jack-shit when it really matters.
Any of those things should have used.
Nothing, just business as usual.
I’m muting you now because I just take any more of this. Wasted 40 years of my life on this so-called democracy.
The bulk of the party are center left. With a bunch of cat-herding of more progressives further to their left.
And then we have the #VichyGQP which is proto-fascist.
The US has a messed up spectrum.
Portugal is another one (51 years ago)
It seems that as the generations that lived through dictatorship die off, fascism –with its “easy” solutions– rises up again.
https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-election-2025-hungary-national-liberals-social-democrats-law-court/
"We would rather work bipartisan to make bad things happen, then being called obstructionist for not letting them do bad things"
You always notice way too late
ALSO D - "CAN IT BE AFTER THE FOOTBALL GAME"
Simple.
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