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Democrats: At least we’re not republicans.
Yeah that’s not enough
Since trump got elected that seems to be all they have. Biden, like him or not, actually had some decent policy. Yes, yes…could have done a lot better, but it was more than “we’re not trump”.
But since trump won? They’ve caved on pretty much everything.
They are already winning, they have all the campagn contributions they need. Why would they do anything different.
Citizens United will be the death of the USA.
How do we overturn Citizens United
Make a new government.
congress and the senate would have to make s new law snd the president would have to sign it.
Citizens United isn't a law, it's a Supreme Court ruling which has its (flawed) logic based on the Constitution. A law won't cut it, because Citizens United would be used as precedent to strike it down as unconstitutional. We likely need a new Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment.
Maybe we form a micronation that's basically like the US government but socialist?
The people it benefits would have to decide to not benefit from it anymore.
So not likely unless the alternative is even worse.
It’s because they’re traitors 
It's so fucking crazy to see liberal Dems get on their soapbox about how "you can't talk about dual loyalty, that's antisemitism" and then show up at an AIPAC conference in Israel Flag pajama pants with an open checkbook to the US Treasury
This motherfucker even looks evil.
How many times does the Democratic Party leadership have to create new and inventive ways to steal defeat from the jaws of victory for it to form a clear composite picture of collaboration?
The Democratic party is such a pussyfest (negative).
And they never will
They'll still be wagging their finger and expressing concern while they're being beaten and hauled off to a private prison.
It's long past time for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries to get the hook, and get dragged off-stage. They are 50% of the reason that Trump is president again.
Imagine if we let Hitler off the hook, and then allowed him to take power again a few years later? These dipshits did that.
People have to understand that Republicans and Democrats are the same thing, its the same serpent which bites its own tail. Its controlled opposition.
I'm struggling to understand your ouroboros metaphor, could you elaborate? I'm not trying to be sarcastic or to tease or anything, I'm asking in earnest.
Need to have Schummer, Jeffries and Martin removed. All democratic senate Candidates in 2026 need to be primaried, for a realistic chance of changing the democratic party.
If we can't do that, we should sit the election out.
We need more progressives and less establishment bourgeois liberal Democrats. Seriously!
Nuh uh. If you don't want to vote for the big two, vote third party instead. Those guys are legitimately appreciative of every vote they get.
Then all the democrats lose their votes, the republicans win big, and the third party candidates are "legitimately appreciative". Now what? This is the kind of stupid suggestion that helped Trump win.
Then either the democrats change to appease the third party voters, or the third party keeps growing until it no longer matters what the democrats do.
If those scenarios seem unrealistic, they are much more realistic than democrats spontaneously deciding to do a 180 and actually fix things.
The democrats lost and haven't changed a thing. The third parties also haven't changed. They still don't stand a chance.
And now we have blatant fascism and a mentally ill narcissistic pedophile with dementia hauling anyway anyone he dislikes in the back of a van while he builds concentration camps for anyone who angers him.
How exactly is this better than Kamala?
I don't think Trump being president is better than Kamala, which is why I didn't vote for him.
If Kamala had won, then she would still be black bagging people to concentration camps. ICE existed before and both Biden and Kamala explicitly support it. The silver lining is that, because Trump is doing it blatantly, as you say, at least more people are aware of it and upset about it. Doing fascism while following the rules and keeping everything out of sight and out of mind is arguably worse, but it's kind of a toss up.
Of course, the strategies I mentioned were and are longshots, which may take a while to work if they will at all. But they have a nonzero chance of working, which is more than "vote blue no matter who" does. That is, if the goal is actually stopping fascism and not just easing into it more comfortably.
I've been yelling this for years. The scary thing for me is that increasingly "dems + lean dem" are no longer the majority and repubs have better numbers. And strong dem registration numbers shrink every year. Dems refuse to acknowledge or act on this fact, and its harder every year to define what "Dem" even stands for anymore. What is the Dem party platform? I used to be sure. Do dems support progressive taxation? No one knows. Now I think the DNC champions whatever viable minimum it can to win an election while sucking off the donors to the maximum extent. If they can win with 51% by allowing the rich to fuck us all over, thats the strategy they will pick-- they arent on our side.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/fact-sheet/party-affiliation-fact-sheet-npors/
We could at least have them removed from their leadership positions. That could happen today if 10 dems would call for a internal vote on it. Evidently we dont have that many willing to do the right thing. I wonder why $$$$.
It wasn't a complete cave...
This midterm election is gonna be close.
They're not "cowards" as much as they are doing the job that they are paid to do by their "donors".
Schumer has made a fortune! Pelosi's family is set for generations! And so on.
Politics are the third easiest way to become wealthy in the USA (easiest being inheritance, second easiest prosperity gospel preacher).