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anyone else feeling political fatigue?
I'm tired of voting for people that don't seem to listen to us or fight for us
That was precisely why Schumer did this, to put a rising populism in check by cynically sabotaging it while superficially pretending to be against the sabotage like the spineless weasel Schumer is.
Schumer was responding to the "threat" of the likes of Zohran Mamdani (who Schumer REFUSED to endorse which is pathetic) not the threat of Trump and fascism which Schumer does not perceive as a threat whatsoever especially because his donors don't either.
Think of this as a much worse, much bigger version of coming in and breaking a worker strike at the worst possible moment ON PURPOSE as somebody claiming they are "on the workers side" to specifically destroy the solidarity and moral among the workers striking so they will be more pliant in the future towards accepting worse conditions.
This will go down in history as one of the largest betrayals of working class power in the US in modern history. Not in terms of how evil it is, what Trump and cronies are doing is way more evil in terms of raw impact, but this... this took an overbearing desire to undercut those who are resisting the "wrong way" to fascism and there is something SUPREMELY evil about that and I will never, ever forget or forgive.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/04/congress/schumer-ultimately-rejects-mamdani-endorsement-00636312
You think it's ghosts and goblins. I think it was a bad trade for more Epstein files in the hopes they'll topple the emperor.
Do you have a strategy or just hopelessness?
If anything it catalyzes the need to pivot away from limp old Dems to those who will actually defend the Constitution and rule of law.