The thing to understand about liberal/centrist democrats in this moment is that they view themselves as being a MINORITY PARTY rather than an OPPOSITION PARTY - and they have spent decades telling minorities that power can only be excersised at the ballot box, they are incapable of fighting dirty
They genuinely think "hearing your concerns" is enough to placate millions of scared and vulnerable people, because thats what they've been feeding their voters for decades in lieu of genuine resistance and action
The last thing they want is to have to *actually* put themselves on the line to fight
I don't know why they aren't using their own weapon (DOGE) against them. I am sick of seeing my $$$ prop up Red states that pay in less then they get back and are the bottom of every metric.
But when a blue state gets a natural disaster, they're front of the line to kick people when they're down.
like why is all of their messaging on what they WON'T or CAN'T do, and not the plan on what they will or can do. like, if they came out with a list of things they were doing no one would be yelling about everything not on that list
How about swing at any pitch? Do you know how to swing a bat? Y'know if you want to stretch this baseball analogy, swinging is just as bad as a swing and a miss and if you don't do anything you lose the chance to act.
'Not swing at every pitch' Why the fuck not? These losers don't know that conservatives have been swinging at every pitch for over a decade and that's one of the reasons we've ended up in this situation. They need to grow a spine and start being Mitch McConnell 2014 annoying.
Because we have to pick our fights. We have limited resources and limited power. It's only prudent to fight the important battles. Like right now stopping the coup is more important than fighting the tariffs.
“There isn’t a constitutional crisis, and all of these things ― it’s just a lot of noise,” Fetterman said. “That’s why I’m only gonna swing on the strikes.”
When is the time to abandon your attempts at electoralism under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie? Why do we not focus on the real organizing that happens in the streets? These Democrats are the enemies of the working class, spending time engaging them at all is allowing the fascists to have a win
You spend 3 hours a day criticizing people that will never give a solitary shit what you think, they are not in the same economic class as us and are not threatened by fascism at all. No discussion at all of how to militantly organize against fascism, just crying about capitalists being capitalist
They don't even swing once. They get up and give speeches of how they're going to swing so hard right before collapsing back down into their seats. Then they wipe their brows and brag about how hard they've worked for us, fully execting a treat and a pat on their heads.
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The last thing they want is to have to *actually* put themselves on the line to fight
But when a blue state gets a natural disaster, they're front of the line to kick people when they're down.
better to swing and foul than strike out
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Is that too dated a reference for the room?
“There isn’t a constitutional crisis, and all of these things ― it’s just a lot of noise,” Fetterman said. “That’s why I’m only gonna swing on the strikes.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-john-fetterman-crisis_n_67ad036ae4b02322707893e9
Just say you take every swing man, at least it sounds like ur trying from your privilege, astroturfed, elevated position @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
12 months go by: What are you, crazy? We can't swing now. MIDTERMS!