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MAGA tried to hold the Dems hostage, demanding our health care as ransom, and if we didn't comply, the richest in America would LITERALLY starve the poorest in America, to death.
Instead of caving, the Dems held out, and won a MASSIVE election victory, then, with all their new political capital, they voluntarily flushed it down the toilet, and gave MAGA everything they wanted, and got absolutely nothing in return.
Schmuck Schumer has to go, and every cowardly Democrat must be primaried. A handful need to be brought back (Bernie, AOC, Frost, Crocket, et al), but the rest can go.
I'm so sick of these weak, cowardly Democrats. No wonder MAGAs hate them, and bully them. They have no self-respect at all. Truly pathetic.
They are not cowardly, they are part of the same team as their so called opponents. Different flavors, same late stage capitalism.
BOTH THINGS CAN BE TRUE!
(Watch the latest episode of Elsbeth, it was hilarious).
Never underestimate the Dems' ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Oh, yeah, sometimes I think they do it on purpose. They seem to want to constantly prove that they are better losers than the MAGAs.
They absolutely do it on purpose. The party is expressly neoliberal capitalist. Progressive policies are anathema to them.
And when two parties exist in a FPTP system, with one being extremely regressive, Americans expect the other party to be equally progressive in their approach!
Instead, as with the Rachet Effect, the Dems can't onboard progressivism because they're captured by corporate donors and consultants.
Primary 'em out!
Mainstream dems have been in failure theater mode for at least a couple of decades
They earn more money as the minority, promising to codify Roe v Wade, keep the DREAM Act, protect queer rights.
Why would they ever actually do it when they would lose money next election season?
its the fact the congress flights were getting threatened thats why they cave.
Take a fucking bus, losers.
you think these people would want to be associated with sititng nex tto PLEBs, no way.
Some think it was Trump's threat of removing the filibuster
i heard it too.
I contacted my democratic representative.
If you didn't do the same, you have no right to complain.
I have homes in NYC and Florida, and my Reps are AOC and Max Frost, whom I know personally. I don't have to call them, I know they're on it.
I'm not wasting my time calling the other dickheads like Schmuckie Chuck or Convicted Criminal Fraudster Rock Scott. Fuck those traitors, they know what I want, and they don't care. My time is better spent on social media, spreading the hate for MAGA and their cowardly Democratic lapdogs.
Wow, what an exclusive circle of friends you belong to! You're in a very rare position. You're luck to have these powerful tools and it's really too bad you're not willing to use them to improve the lives of the other people in your life. If I was rubbing elbows with AOC and Max Frost I wouldn't be bragging about it on Lemmy, I'd be sitting with them to discuss progress. You're either lying about who you know, or you're lazy and selfish. Pick.
They are already doing the things they should be doing, and I'm not going to waste their time telling them to keep doing the things they are already doing. They aren't weak Schmuck Schumer-style Dems. You think they're just laying around, waiting for me to put a boot up their ass to get going? Or they need to have policy discussions with me to know what to do?
Like I said, my time is better spent online, convincing people like you to pull their heads out of their asses.
What?