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This was how you lost 2016. This was how you lost 2024.
This is how you're going to lose 2026 and probably 2028.
You fucking morons.
It's almost as if the system is working as intended...
I'm so sick of voting for the least evil. Democrats slowly move things to the left while carefully following the law. Then Republicans come in and smash everything with a sledgehammer.
Revolution is pretty much inevitable. If we can't get what we need to survive legally, it isn't going to be very fun for anyone.
Democrats slowly move things to the left while carefully following the law.
Are you looking at the same country I'm looking at? From the outside it looks like they're a right wing party being dragged gradually rightwards by a far right wing party.
Democrats as a party have never shifted things to the left, they talk one thing while tossing us stale table scraps then vote like Republicans. That's how they've gone from people like Jimmy Carter to denying a genocide, that they are paying for, is occuring. If we overlaid today's political scale with the political scale from 1980, Democrats would be to the far right of Ronald Reagan. 40 years of liberal "lesser evil" has actually been incremental fascism
Democrats just come in wagging their finger all like "Now now now, you know that was a bad bad thing to do, Republicans. We're going to pussy-foot around the law and not make as radical of a change as you did. We're going to stagnate and follow the law, taking our time to clean up your mess you bad little boy" in a very motherly tone.
The revenge will feel cathartic though.
I mean, 2025 elections were a +15 D landslide in New Jersey and Virginia. Nevermind the municipal races.
But the people Dems ended up electing (Governors Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger) were, for the most part, the same corporate schlubs and military apparatchiks that have been dragging the party down for decades.
Less the problem of "losing", I see a problem of Dems "winning" with a wave of Henry Cuellars and Marie Gluesenkamp Perezes, then folding right in alongside the "moderate Republican" block that's been doing Trumpism via the US Congress for the last 40 years.
It's by design, the current corporate Democrats have to show some effort of resistance but is rigged to lose in the end.
Exactly. You have to give the people just enough hope to think things might change but without actually doing anything. The Democrats are very good at it. They've been doing it for a long time.
The Democratic primaries need to be an absolute bloodbath this year. Unfortunately Schumer is with us until 2028, so we'll probably mostly be dead or he will by then.
He could be fired as leader though. Make that a campaign issue for any Senate race.
Could doesn't really apply to good things in politics, but I appreciate your optimism. He will in all likelihood step down peacefully if he's not gunned down first. Maybe a massive progressive wave could change that, but I think it'd be a big ask even if that happened this year. It'd have to be multiple elections worth of progressive waves I think. Given the growing special interests in democratic primaries, I think the real fight is going to be out front in most of these cases.
The primary comes first, and it's the first time we'll have fair primaries in decades....
But you never give up on plan A till plan A fails, that doesn't mean it's the only plan.
Oligarchs are desperate for Americans to hand over freedom in the hopes of security, they want us to pre-emptively coalesce around a neoliberal and focus on how they're not as bad as trump.
The most important step to beating trump, is getting a charismatic candidate with popular policy to the general.
The most important step is beating fascism, which includes Democrats and Republicans. Our current conditions did not rise in a vacuum, fascism cannot become a dominant force without the complicity of a weak liberal party. Only focusing on Trump, who is a single cog in the machine, will result in nothing changing. Liberals are focused on the emperor when they should be focusing on the Empire
Democrat leadership doesn't care if they win or lose elections. They'll all be rich and comfortable regardless. So they drag their feet and pretend to be the opposition party but in reality they are in a limbo contest with their friends on the other side of the isle.
This isn't about a purity test. It's about putting the right person in charge. Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer don't care about your issues. They will always side with capital when rubber meets the profits.
They’re campaigning like the fascists are going to follow the rules. They won’t, they aren't, and they never have. Take the fucking gloves off and stop pretending like anything less than forcibly removing them and putting them in a jail cell for the rest of their lives is going to do much of anything.
When you face the reality that they are part of that fascism things become much more clear as to what path to take
Democrats are campaigning as if the 2026 election will be ~~fair~~. That's a mistake.
Even Russia has "elections."
Democrats are campaigning as if we don't remember that they are shit