To everyone who says Democrats have no power: Do they have less political power and fewer tools at their disposal than Black Americans in the Jim Crow south?
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hey were organized and deeply planful, and rn democrats seem not to have a plan of action. I want to organize resistance but I have no idea how to get my message out with my tiny reach. I can’t do it alone but don’t know how to get anyone to help
[thinking…thinking…] Um…no?
And their physical safety and security is of no concern…because it’s not at risk. But they may have to take a little risk sometime.
They just got a new Chair and Vice-Chair. And with Canada and Mexico getting ready to Super Tariff Red States this month, we might see some spines being formed.
Under Biden Republicans had no problems...
-keeping their traitor rapist criminal king out of prison
-keeping border asylum process broken under Biden
-mounting sham investigations on the president's own son
The Dems today are what the republican party was in the early 2000s. Which explains why they seemed shocked that no one supported genocide in the Middle East for the sake of imperialist expansion while letting US citizens suffer to line their own pockets. Daddy Bush would be proud.
There are going to be a lot of Democrats, especially those with nice jobs, government jobs, mortgages, healthcare, who think they can minimize their own personal risk by just quietly switching sides. Not an option Blacks ever had.
I’m going go harder than that. At this point, if they’re not using the power, privilege, and intel at their disposal, they are complicit in this, and I look at it as collusion
Cowardice is no excuse. People are already dying around the world because of their inaction
They do not, however I am compelled to say that it took Black Americans the better part of a century to crack Jim Crow open to any significant degree. That timeline is not encouraging for this one.
Yes, Black Americans were working for decades — but that was because they were abandoned by both major political parties. Democrats, in contrast, ARE A MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY.
Black folks did manage to keep the ball in play for about 20 or 30 years after the end of reconstruction though, before the doors slammed well and truly shut, so there's that to look forward to. We have to do the work all the same, even if we may not reap the ultimate benefits.
That's because they're not afraid to do things to fuck over poor people & Democrats are. In fact, if Trump hadn't been in office during the pandemic I doubt we would have even gotten extended unemployment. They will happily let people suffer & have a media ecosystem which will blame Dems anyway.
You say this like democrats don’t actively fuck over poor people during every administration. Billionaires doubled their wealth during Biden, Dems let the child tax credit expire, they got hosed on student loan forgiveness, and they’re currently confirming all of trumps cabinet picks.
They shouldn't. They should blame disinformation. People who pay attention to politics voted for Harris. People who don't voted for Trump. There's a cost when your voting public gets their news from TikTok.
People who pay attention to politics vote third party because they can see past the blatant bullshit coming from the Dems and Rs. Two wings on the same drone.
Exactly. They're skin and bones and still clutching on to Power because that's how they really made their millions, not by serving the American Citizens, i.e. Nancy Pelosi.
They've had enormous amounts of power that they have chosen to piss away over the years. They get elected with a massive mandate, then immediately bail out criminal bankers who have wrecked the economy. They put a wage increase in a covid bill, the parliamentarian says no, they meekly comply.
💯 and if they have no political power they should be proselytizing everywhere all the time. Making sure the public knows what is happening and who is responsible.
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The working poor, the actual poor & those at poverty levels will be affected the most.
There's another layer - racism. Whether acknowledged internally or not.
This is the fucking emergency.
The is the crisis.
This is the event you've told yourself you'd fight.
This. Is. It.
That hits hard. Bless you for putting it so bluntly.
And their physical safety and security is of no concern…because it’s not at risk. But they may have to take a little risk sometime.
-keeping their traitor rapist criminal king out of prison
-keeping border asylum process broken under Biden
-mounting sham investigations on the president's own son
Surely Democrats could be doing more now.
Cowardice is no excuse. People are already dying around the world because of their inaction
Posting about the price of avocados for Super Bowl parties while Nazis take over the Treasury? It’s so insane it feels contrived TBH
No one in DC is going to be a hero. Their status quo isn’t changing.
Democrats have 92 year old Chuck Shumer holding beer and avocados laughing about prices.
I wish democrats had the heart and will that black Americans have had to have.