They had 12 years.
That dickhead got roasted for “concepts of a plan”, but just when you think the Democratic party can’t get any more pathetic they go and show how hopeless they are. AOC needs to break and start a party with Bernie.
It probably wouldn’t take much to get Omar and Tlaib on board either.
Spoiler alert: it will be “send us more money!”. That’s what they always settle on.
Nailed it. This is and always will be the dem’s platform.
Spare some change?
DNC staffers resign with Kamala Harris campaign $20M in debt
Step 1: put AOC and Bernie in charge
Step 2: Let em go ham
At least do…something.
Bernie is not a member of the Democratic Party right now.
Might be the best reason to put him in charge.
I’d love him to be in charge, but I doubt it will happen. I’m actually surprised he hasn’t retired yet considering his age. I’m glad he’s still fighting the good fight though.
We have no fucking time. They told us, explicitly, what they were going to do.
Any halfway decent opposition party would have already had responses ready for each and every one of the executive orders that have been signed
Oh no, they may be forced to put out likable candidates?
Or treat the left as though they are voters with agency?
Am I so out of touch?
No, it’s the voters who are wrong.
Both? Both.
It’s amazing that these assholes need time. Fuck off with the triangulation. It didn’t work in the election and it won’t work now.
The only thing they have to do is take a principled stand in favor of people. Everyone has value (besides Nazis). But they are too interested in appealing to corporate interests and republicans.
Exactly. They need time to figure out a strategy where they can appeal to their base while also proposing contradictory public policy that harms their base. Judging by their performance in the past three presidential elections, this strategy will never exist but it sure as hell hasn’t caused them to do any sort of self reflection.
We’ve decided to rename the Democrat party to Republican Lite in order to appeal to more voters.
They’ll figure out some way to reach across the aisle and meet in the middle.
By the time they’re done reaching it’s gonna look like they too are doing a Nazi salute.
This would make a good cartoon.
It’s a long-distance high five!
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Like “mandatory Nazi salutes in schools but only on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays.”
Well the republicans are in some kind of hyperfascist accelerationist mode so I’m not sure exactly how much time we have to give them.
Translation: “We need time to figure out a way to look like we’re doing something without risking actually changing anything.”
If we’re not careful, we might accidentally do something that the voters like but that our owners don’t approve of.
I’m wondering where are the big names in the Democratic party and the left?
There is a palpable atmosphere of fear coming from a large population in America and there is silence from the “opposition” party. Why isn’t Obama and Michelle organizing and speaking at rallies? Why aren’t other prominent Democratic leaders not trying to rally support for a genuine resistance. Not the resistance of 2016, which I feel failed due to no true national leadership from the Democratic party.
Maybe this is happening and I just don’t see it, but it sure feels like the national Democratic leaders and influencers just threw up their hands and said “well, we’ve tried nothing and we are all out of ideas. You’re on your own to figure it out. But remember, if your leaderless pent up fear and anger turns to violence we won’t support you.”
I’ve been wondering that as well and I had a kind of scary thought; maybe there is no opposition party this time around because what’s happening is exactly what all parties involved want to be happening. I’m just so baffled by the state of politics in the US that I can’t help but to feel like we’re witnessing some kind of sea change in the fundamental structure of the government. Unfortunately it is not a progressive or thoughtful change in ideology.
Maybe this is happening and I just don’t see it
Then they’re not doing it right.
Shit, even what we had in 2016 was at least something
Gee. Maybe they should have come up with one some time between 2015 and now.
Ideally people would have seriously punished Ford for letting that Nixon prick get off scot free and fought against the personality cult that was built up for Reagan, but if we’re talking about this century, the democrats should have come up with something as soon as the tea party lunatics got in position to kneecap public sector unions during the first Obama administration.
It didn’t help that the occupy protesters were made to look like their message was a motley hodgepodge of pet causes with no real cohesiveness.
From 2015
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You mean what got Trump elected the first time?
Filibust everything.
Democrats kept the filibuster around for this reason, right? They didn’t just keep it around to prevent progressive policy from passing, right?
The second they try to use it, the republicans will nuke it, citing the precedent that the democrats did it first with lower court judicial nominees when they refused to let a single one pass, same way they did with scotus nominees when democrats dared to use it one time in protest against the stunt they pulled with Garland.
Force Dems to reign in minority power the tiniest bit and use that as an excuse to remove minority powers entirely the second they’re in the majority is pretty standard Rep SOP now.
Then the only point in preserving the filibuster was to block progressive legislation.
At least Democrats didn’t have to codify Roe or pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Trust me, I’m in agreement with you there. They really need to get their heads out of their asses and stop acting like the GOP fascists are going to follow the rules and act with integrity.
And I’m being awfully generous here with assuming there’s a chance it isn’t malicious on their part, that maybe they really are just that incompetent to have missed the reality of this situation. Even though I don’t have much hope of that anymore.
You’ve had 8 years, 4 of which you had control of the white house. You’ve had enough time. You squandered it. Are you really going to do anything useful with even more?
