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Why Dems Keep Saying Trump Has “No Plan” Instead of Calling to End the War With Iran
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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Saying he has "no plan" is more effective because it attacks his self image.
Democrats calling to end the war would just be ignored.
Also it would piss off their bosses, Israel and the military industrial complex
We can't be giving the people what they want, now can we?
We call this one "Democrats can never fail, they can only be failed"
Explain your end game.
You tell people not to vote for the Dems, then the GOP keeps getting elected.
It's almost as if you want the GOP to win.
And if you're trying to build a strong, independent Left party, it's not working either.
Anti-republicans need to nominate better candidates.
The current Democrat party is controlled opposition and everyone who supports it is part of the problem.
That's not on the people who criticize the Democrats, but the people who defend them.
If it weren't for people slavishly defending the Democrats no matter how grotesquely right-wing they get, they'd have no choice but to shift back towards the left. But with their dedicated "less bad is good" apologists, they can keep on shifting right just so long as they remain a little bit less fascist than the Republicans, which means they can keep on raking in the corporate soft money in exchange for fucking all of us.
And they will.
It's liberal morons who always defend the Democrat party. No matter what facts we give them, they'll always make excuses for them & their politicians. It's one of the reasons why they're very despised by both leftists & conservatives & why I've become an Anarchist.
You're right. It's why a two party system just can't turn out right.
So, no end game?
No actual plan?
Your questions have zero useful context. Are you asking about Trump's end game? The Democrats'? Their critics'? Their apologists'? Mine?
I apologize for overestimating your reading skills.
The first step to mastering your fear is to face it.
Again, you display poor reading skills.
"I apologize for overestimating your reading skills."
Nothing I wrote indicates fear.
In and of itself, no, it doesn't.
In context though, it's a dismissive evasion, and they generally do.
Keep apologizing for the failure of Democrats and see how many wins you rack up with that approach.
My endgame is very simple: The extinction of the human race.
Terrible as they are, the GOP is too soft to see my endgame through. They want enslavement, not annihilation.
The end of the human species really isn't as bad as it sounds.
K, you first.
I must be the last human to die.
Exactly. We say end the war because there is no logic. No plan.
If we just say end the war with no reasons given, it's not as strong of an argument.
With all the muslim-hate, we can't hope to stop the war on moral reasons alone.
Making it about money is one of the better strategies to get Congress to stop it, (as shitty as it is, that's the truth).
Yeah, but here's the thing... Dem leadership is not saying they want to end the war.
Thanks for reading the article.
Well the dnc is corrupt. I guess I was talking about the non corrupt ones.