straining hard not to be annoying by replying "they do not want to" after every post i see wondering why the democrats are not scoring this or that obvious open goal, but yes the answer is that they do not want to
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That's a huge part of it. I'm sure there are many in the Democratic Party who do want to stop Trump. The problem is that Democrats generally want a functioning society, and Republicans imagine themselves to be rugged individuals who would be fine if it all burned down. This creates an asymmetry.
I think that enough people want a functioning society "that functions particularly well for me... everyone else can have scraps" that such an ambition will not deter rightwing populism based on misplaced grievance. In the end, enough humans make the world worse on purpose.
Most Democrats (voters, though I'm sure this applies to some of the politicians) do genuinely want society to keep working and would like to see ordinary people able to make ends meet and put food on the table. Social Darwinism, whereby the weak die or are killed, is mostly unique to the right.
the reason you are thinking of strategies to counter the awful things trump & musk are doing, imagining what could or should be done to slow down and obstruct their agenda, is because you give a shit. & those with power in the party simply do not
I have to say, having the Ten Attendants being neutered politically and Dong Zhuo allowing their presence in the Capitol of Luoyang is a strange farcical twist of history
Here is a serious (and autistic) answers: I don't spend time hoping that human society does the right thing: society does not feed all children, therefore it does not have my morals. I just hope to keep representing my own values, because I do not have control of the values of others.
Get to know your neighbors. Find ways to help each other. Learn their names and contact info. Keep each other updated on the movements of police and fascist sympathizers. Be prepared to smuggle queer folks, anyone who could be "mistaken" for immigrants, etc. We're the hope. They're career sellouts.
WE are the hope. Not I am the hope. The people. I'm doing the things I said, which will contribute to being ABLE to oust Democrats. What are YOU doing?
Not my country, can't interfere in your elections.
What your country is doing will affect me and the UK as my country is likely to deploy troops to defend Ukraine as your country's administration is going to let Ukraine lose the war and let Putin get what he wants.
"they do not want to"
"they can't be bothered"
"your tears do not impress them"
"they'll be well off regardless of how poorly you are treated"
"it is the exercise of power, not of compassion, that most interests them"
When Hot Topic started popping up, a bunch of us punk kids stopped thrifting and just went there instead. "It's so much easier than digging through bins at goodwill!" So we started dumping our cash into a big fast fashion corporation, thinking we were still punk. Dems are Hot Topic. Fake resistence.
They're there to be the simple easy option so fewer people feel like they need to put actual effort into resistance. 'I voted, that's enough, right? Now it's not my responsibility, right?'
They are literally thinking "when we win the next election, we will have an open field to do what we want!" Not realizing they need to push now to even have an election or voters.
Dems always say this stuff, then when they get a majority, they just sit there and compromise with Republicans.
We had the supposed blue wave two years ago: where is the universal Healthcare, where is the equal rights amendment, where are trans rights and abortions rights protected federally? ?
Democratic leadership has wanted for themselves exactly what the Republicans have been doing for the last 60 years. Their self interest outweighs any loyalty to voters or their own promises. The goal is to do as little as possible when they have power.
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If they wanted to do anything, we wouldn't be dealing with Trump right now and he'd be in jail lol They haven't wanted to do anything for my entire life.
Obama is why we got Trump in the first place. We can blame Biden on a lot of things, but the inactions of the Obama administration holding anyone accountable just kept the democrats in a perpetual state of uselessness. Biden doing nothing was the natural outcome.
it's really funny when the worst libs you can find are posting shit like (real example) "Trump took an IQ test and it came back NEGATIVE! XD" while he gets everything he wants and the Dems do nothing, like damn wild that he's totally incompetent and yet your faves have stopped 0 of his plans.
The correct answer is "only when it is profitable"
Democrats and so-called liberal news outlets will benefit greatly from the outrage against the orange man, but they're also the ones who enabled him in the first place.
Having been born essentially at the very beginning of this age of attrition by enshitification, I'm honestly surprised that it's taken this long for the whole thing to turn into the open smash-and-grab we're seeing now.
tbh i REALLY thought it was gonna happen under Bush. when he got elected I thought that was it. rock bottom.... but nope! turns out hell actually has INFINITE SUB-BASEMENTS 😃
I knew this was a fundamentally unserious country after a decade of listening to Limbaugh-Gingrich drones frothing about "they're trampling the Constitution!" right up until 9/11 was allowed to happen, then if anybody questioned the Patriot Act™ they were a "traitor". Then came the "freedom fries".
The democratic party is basically a walking corpse at this stage. There's a few signs of life in it but the decay is spreading and the brain is basically dead. Unless there is a serious purge of dead weight soon, they'll struggle big time in the midterms.
Look we're just out here saying the point of a system is what it does and if the Dems want to tell us they AREN'T spineless cowards with a fetish for losing maybe they should stop so being that.
I trust polls saying 77% of Democrats support an arms embargo against Israel. Many of the rest at least want some kind of restriction. That jibes with everyday Democrats I know.
They believe this stuff. They have these values.
What they lack is the courage and will to act on their own beliefs.
Democrats for 50 years declined every opportunity to enact laws protecting the right to abortion. Not because they didn't believe in it.
Because they didn't have the nerve. They couldn't stand the pushback, the political cost. They will do the right thing, but only if it's painless and easy
Yup! One lie, one broken promise, or a single neglected responsibility may be a misunderstanding instead. Two may involve a serious mistake. But three lies says you're dealing with a liar, and deceit is the linchpin of conscienceless behavior
As a 40+ year old American I’ve long ago come to terms with the fact that if the Dems weren’t at least A-OK with most of this they would have, at the absolute bare minimum, not have continued Reagan’s media deregulation under Clinton, let alone *motions to nearly everything from 2016 forward*
🤔 Do you mean like having a job? In my experience when you have a job there's a layer of people who hired you and pay you that expect you to do things related to that job.
I would love it if the Democrats would do the many things they could do to oppose the Republicans, but I know they probably won't because they both serve the same wealthy donors. And they don't want to do anything their wealthy donors don't want them to do.
They want to go back to getting rich, securing their do-nothing influence peddling jobs, and ruefully (yet pragmatically) doing the atrocities required to maintain the empire.
Hard to fight for a better world when you just want the bad one we had in 2015.
They're as much of an obstacle to real, positive change as the fascist GOP... The DNC is there 2 prevent any real left wing politician becoming president, by putting up false choice candidates who do nothing but keep the neoliberal status quo while rejecting any policy proposals from the left.
No people need to hear this until it sinks in. Don't worry about being annoying because we want people to get into a mindset of survival and waiting for the dems to do something is contradictory to that.
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What your country is doing will affect me and the UK as my country is likely to deploy troops to defend Ukraine as your country's administration is going to let Ukraine lose the war and let Putin get what he wants.
"they do not want to"
"they can't be bothered"
"your tears do not impress them"
"they'll be well off regardless of how poorly you are treated"
"it is the exercise of power, not of compassion, that most interests them"
We had the supposed blue wave two years ago: where is the universal Healthcare, where is the equal rights amendment, where are trans rights and abortions rights protected federally? ?
When did they even try?
Democrats and so-called liberal news outlets will benefit greatly from the outrage against the orange man, but they're also the ones who enabled him in the first place.
tbh i REALLY thought it was gonna happen under Bush. when he got elected I thought that was it. rock bottom.... but nope! turns out hell actually has INFINITE SUB-BASEMENTS 😃
They believe this stuff. They have these values.
What they lack is the courage and will to act on their own beliefs.
Because they didn't have the nerve. They couldn't stand the pushback, the political cost. They will do the right thing, but only if it's painless and easy
“No. Stop. That’s illegal…. Darkest days… democracy…”
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Often the same people who also donate to Republicans.
And those people, appear to be getting what they paid for .
Hard to fight for a better world when you just want the bad one we had in 2015.
This felt extremely clear to me when Bernie Sanders dropped out of the primary before my state even got a chance to vote for him
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