Whomever is advising the Democrats right now is criminally bad at their job. The notion that they can meme their way out of fascism is truly incredible.
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I'm not in Congress. I'm not a politician. I'm nobody. Who cares what I do? But to answer your question, as a writer, I am writing about how I think we find our way forward. And all the other things we're supposed to be doing, like calling electeds, etc. What are you doing?
Constant contact t with electeds DLCC, DSCC, tmw is my 3rd protest, contributing to democrats in special elections, buying local, voter letters for WI Supreme Court, flood White House comms w/ daily questions - not smashing Dems over their heads
And also? STOP asking me for money until you have a coherent, forceful, unified opposition message and plan!! D federal legislators are still getting paid. Do your fucking jobs!
People say that Trump and the MAGAs want us to feel despair. They don't make me feel despair. They make me feel anger and rage.
But you know who does make me feel despair? The Democratic leadership that insists on bringing a strongly worded memo to a gunfight. These were supposed to be our leaders.
Every day, in every way possible they should be screaming at the top of their lungs, “Unconstitutional” but they’re being so mamby pamby…makes you wonder if they’re in on it, too
I think you can divide the Democrats into three groups at the moment:
(1) Weathervanes. (e.g. Gavin Newsom) No morals at all; elected as left-leaning in states where that's how you get elected. Worse than useless.
(2) Extremely Nice Tax Attorneys. (e.g. most of the leadership) /1
Nice people who are exactly what's you'd want if Democrats were in a long-lasting majority. Well-meaning, deeply knowledgeable about policy. Tragically miscast in the current moment, which calls for effective political theatre. Painful to watch now — like a production of Hamilton put on by /2
a university oceanography department.
(3) Effective fighters (e.g. Al Green, AOC). Few and far between, unforunately.
We have to find a way to turn group (2) into group (3), even if it's against their natures, and demonstrate to group (1) that turning red is a fast path to irrelevance. /3
We can't depend on their leadership. People need to take it upon ourselves to organize locally and sacrifice our comforts to boycott, etc.
We need to get into the streets, physically and online, and get people to understand the gravity of the situation. Most people are blissfully ignorant.
I’ve been calling the 10 that voted with Republicans to censure Rep Al Green, they do love to vote to censure a certain type of Democrat.
How can I call my representatives in Texas when Democrats can’t even get on the same page?!?!?!
I hope everyone is delivering this message directly to their congresspeople. Start making calls, Democrats are notoriously bad at contacting their officials. It’s no wonder they’re so disconnected. Please make calls.
Most of the Dems in Congress are millionaires themselves. Many of them don't even know what life is like for common working class citizen anymore.
How can they relate to us barely paying rent when they have several homes, vacation once a month, and money to pay people to clean and watch their kids?
Shit to hit the fan so hard that they can't fuck up another election with their milquetoast bullshit and gain power in four years, assuming that there will be an election and something worth "saving".
I’ve sometimes wondered if the people advising the democrats weren’t secretly maga, and advising them to do all the things wrong. Either that or the dems are just completely incompetent.
The Democratic Party tries hard to sell a message, the actual meaning and relevance beyond an ad is lost to them.
They want to appear authentic, but not actually be authentic
Appear reasonable, without actually using reason.
Claim morality, without actually voting for moral action
Your prior assumption is flawed. There is actually very little evidence that Democrats - elected Democrats - want to get out of fascism in the first place
Democrats are voting for fascist policies and fascist nominees. Democrats voted to fund this fascist government before it took office. They appear poised to do it again. Biden cooperated with the fascist administration during the transition.
They are doing nothing and letting Republicans burn it down thinking they'll retake the house in 2026 because they are the lesser of two evils, exactly like James Carville suggested they do.
Even if that's true, I have a hard time believing that the Dems actually have the balls to reverse any of Trump's choices. They'll say "well, we all miss social security and science funding, but we can't be too left-wing, so lets just give more money to cops instead."
They will blame it on the parliamentarian and or Fetterman/moderate Dems. And bills that do pass to help ppl, they will just tell states to divert that money to more cops like they did with Biden's Covid relief.
Incumbents usually have an inherent advantage, but at this rate by 2026 I wouldn’t be surprised if incumbency is a bad thing. R’s are running the country while the D’s managed to print a few small signs indicating they might be upset
When the Dems didn’t turn to Stacey Abrams when she did so much in Georgia and they did not ask her to help on federal organizing, running the party, that was the nail in the coffin for what the Democratic Party could have been in this time.
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They spent all of campaign season warning us that Project 2025 was the plan and that we should all be terrified of it, now are acting like they're blindsided by the fact that Project 2025 is being followed line-by-line.
Their lack of a coherent response 4+ months after election day indicates they were caught flat-footed by all of it and are more than content waiting for the midterms to fix it.
They're saying they need to stay quiet and wait for people to feel the pain from Republicans wrecking the country, rather than trying to limit the damage and drive the narrative about what's happening. Most people don't even know what's going on so far!
This! All campaign it was a 5 alarm fire about the end of democracy (rightfully so) and now Dems are like, ‘just chill and ride it out til 2026’ - meanwhile people are lo
I worry that their gambit is "let it all go to shit and we'll win the next election with our 'stable', 'centrist', 'nothingburger' politics", ignoring that things could be damaged beyond repair, all faith in the party could be lost, and there might not be a "next election".
If they could have gotten even 1/2 the dudes to wear pink it would have been an awesome show of solidarity. That meme would have been everywhere. But they couldn't get 1 to put on a salmon colored shirt.
It’s also possible that none of the OG white walker Dems in the Dems listen; it’s how we got here. No one listened when we told them to go on podcasts or post daily SM clips. Just bespectacled Schumer’s monotone, boring AF speeches
Kamala given 120 days? FT
It's almost enough to make you believe that the top Democrats really aren't that upset with what Trump is doing, doesn't it? There's a reason Bernie isn't a Democrat.
If you're the leader of your party, you make it pretty damn clear that no one votes yes to censure one of your own especially when the rest of you just sat and watched Rep Al Green get removed from the House Chamber during Trump's speech and did nothing about it.
I'm Canadian and only semi-familiar with the American system. Does the American system not have party whips? (The person whose job it is to make sure the rest of the members fall in line when they need to)
We have them, but our party system is weak. The Republicans are weak as a party because they're actually disciplined by the far-right billionaires and media ecosystem. The Democratic leadership is weak because they're disciplined by the beltway media, billionaire donor class and Reagan-trauma.
I agree 100%. I just think it’s worth being very specific about who we’re taking about so that the constituents of those ten who voted “yes” can take strategic action.
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Let them know what you think of their cowardice and capitulation
- Ami Bera
DC: (202) 225-5716
CA: (916) 635-0505 (Sac)
- Jim Costa
DC: (202) 225-3341
CA: (559) 495-1620 (Fresno)
CA: (559) 749-9330 (Visalia)
The most vibrant, broad-based policy Dem politicians could use to regain the Republic is "Overturn the Oligarchy."
A few familiar voices are doing their best, but mainstream Dems, and especially the mummified leadership, won't go there. Because all they know is dialing for big dollars donors.
I really think AOC and Pete B. should be in charge. They seem to be the only ones who get it. Btw where are the Obamas? We kinda need them right about now.
Exactly. Even the old guard. Condoleeza? Hillary?? Idk somebody, anybody. Jasmine and AOC cannot keep this going on their own. And Pete. They are all great. I also like the rebuttal.
I am so frustrated that no one is calling out Trump's behavior as ABNORMAL. He's not well. Dems need to say this over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. He gives us new examples every single day!
I agree. The Democratic strategy often feels out of touch, relying on surface-level engagement rather than substantive action. Combating authoritarianism requires more than memes - it demands strong leadership, clear messaging, and real policy wins that resonate with everyday people.
I need a post divorce nutrition support group. I’m serious. It really could be any form of grief. Doesn’t have to be divorce-specific as long as divorced people are are welcomed.
If we are to have any hope of taking our country back we have to first take our party back and primary a lot of their lazy asses out of office. They seem to have forgotten who they work for
Dems better wake the fuck up!! And stop being such weak sniffling cowards!! Gloves Off!! I've never been more disgusted in our party. Especially those idiots who censured. Unbelievable
It is beyond my understanding. There are such obvious things they can do- hold town halls in republican enclaves, focus on people who lost their jobs and put them front and center, hold daily news briefings, turn Jasmine Crockett and AOC loose on the press, let Buttegieg discuss the day's news, etc.
It's never been more clear that the Democratic Party needs an injection of new voices in both the Senate and House and top of the 2024 ticket. The 2022 primary needs to adjudicate a complete rebrand of the party. We need youth, energy and compassion, not fecklessness and cowardice.
Sorry to say this, but;
The democratic elected officials need to summon the same energy(positivity) Majorly Taylor Green summons. They must be disruptive like they are protesters. We have zero time or patience for diplomats/righteous norm followers.
think a lot of them can't speak passionately to the moment because they aren't affected by it directly. So many of them are insulated by wealth. Chuck Schumer is useless because he's not actually feeling anything, because he's not actually affected.
Having a hard time figuring out which ones to be more mad at.
1. The ones saying more centrism is the answer.
2. The ones saying the right thing but doing nothing about it.
3. The ones doing the most feckless symbolic shit you could imagine.
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But you know who does make me feel despair? The Democratic leadership that insists on bringing a strongly worded memo to a gunfight. These were supposed to be our leaders.
So there's one name 🤷🏻♀️
(1) Weathervanes. (e.g. Gavin Newsom) No morals at all; elected as left-leaning in states where that's how you get elected. Worse than useless.
(2) Extremely Nice Tax Attorneys. (e.g. most of the leadership) /1
(3) Effective fighters (e.g. Al Green, AOC). Few and far between, unforunately.
We have to find a way to turn group (2) into group (3), even if it's against their natures, and demonstrate to group (1) that turning red is a fast path to irrelevance. /3
We need to get into the streets, physically and online, and get people to understand the gravity of the situation. Most people are blissfully ignorant.
The word you want is either bribing or blackmailing.
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
How can I call my representatives in Texas when Democrats can’t even get on the same page?!?!?!
How can they relate to us barely paying rent when they have several homes, vacation once a month, and money to pay people to clean and watch their kids?
They want to appear authentic, but not actually be authentic
Appear reasonable, without actually using reason.
Claim morality, without actually voting for moral action
They're fake.
It's a one-way ratchet.
We've seen this song and dance before.
And this is the outcome.
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Huh???? What Dem is suggesting they were blindsided by P2025??? Voters, maybe, sure. I've seen plenty of stupid Dem voter comments. But electeds? Who?
If they could have gotten even 1/2 the dudes to wear pink it would have been an awesome show of solidarity. That meme would have been everywhere. But they couldn't get 1 to put on a salmon colored shirt.
Like... attention, airtime and action matter.
We need all fronts not 0.
Kamala given 120 days? FT
that’s useful right? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Pathetic all
Let them know what you think of their cowardice and capitulation
- Ami Bera
DC: (202) 225-5716
CA: (916) 635-0505 (Sac)
- Jim Costa
DC: (202) 225-3341
CA: (559) 495-1620 (Fresno)
CA: (559) 749-9330 (Visalia)
A few familiar voices are doing their best, but mainstream Dems, and especially the mummified leadership, won't go there. Because all they know is dialing for big dollars donors.
This is a feature not a bug of a fully purchased system.
We have 2 right wing parties in this country
Far right and center right.
The left is a graveyard.
That's why they're yelling at their voters who grass them to resist instead of actually resisting
This country would benefit greatly from a relevant green party, but stein is no Nader
That's the issue here
The democratic elected officials need to summon the same energy(positivity) Majorly Taylor Green summons. They must be disruptive like they are protesters. We have zero time or patience for diplomats/righteous norm followers.
https://bsky.app/profile/roxanegay.bsky.social/post/3ljpzkjvzd22e
1. The ones saying more centrism is the answer.
2. The ones saying the right thing but doing nothing about it.
3. The ones doing the most feckless symbolic shit you could imagine.
Primary them all!
don't hate the game, hate the dumbasses playin'...
How do they expect to be taken seriously if they nope out of the fight as soon as the fascists start wielding power?
And the base does not like what we are seeing.