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The Dems are like the Keystone Cops bungling around while a wannabe dictator continues to take America apart.
Even if the Dems had decent candidates, their strategy and tactics are ineffective.
It’s like we get the worst of anyone who wants to be a politician, either side of the aisle.
Simple reason is....it takes a ton of fucking money to run a campaign. Even small county judge races cost at least 50-80k. How many good, down to earth people can drop their job, spend 80k on campaign shit and get out alive?
Even with party money, you'll still be struggling. Plus, who wants to be holden to the same old bullshit system?
Very good points. It’s why money needs to be taken out of politics. Many other countries have figured that out.
Citizens United really was the nail in the coffin for American politics.
100% agree. If we do have a landslide in 2026 without MAGA's cancer. Maybe we can end Citizens United!
Democrats have been campaigning on and doing nothing about Citizens United for years.
Exactly. Because they're not prepared to do what's actually necessary - reform the filibuster to allow it to be removed. Democrats have all these high-minded plans, but they all require a margin in the Senate they will never reasonably achieve. And even if by some miracle they did get 60 seats in the Senate, there will always be a rotating villain to throw a wrench in the works. Mamdani won not just because he had plans, but because he had very specific plans. He could tell people exactly how he intended to pass those plans. Democrats don't actually have a plan for repealing Citizens United. They just have vague notions about repealing Citizens United.
They're not willing to. The filibuster is democrats' perfect excuse for not passing things that they ran on but never had any intention of ever implementing.
Of course they don't. You don't plan to do things you don't intend to do.