And this is why Democrats will keep losing.
Democrats will keep losing because that’s their sole purpose.
Ratchet effect.
The Republicans tug on the levers of power pulling everything right.
The Democrats’ duty is to normalize and rationalize while the GOP resets for the next tug.
There are Democrats that do actually care, but the DNC leadership is well right of center and would rather lose to Trump than win with Burnie.
Democrats will always lose because liberals are right of center nimby turds that will continue to worship capitalism as we all burn.
Anyone expecting the Democrats to save them is ignoring this is the first election in decades no state Democrat contested any result and PA, NY, and NV all show results that are statically impossible and obviously manipulated.
People think the Democrats are losing relevance because they’re “Too woke”, and “No one cares about transpeople when there are bills to pay”
It’s really because they do shit like try to compromise with someone who wants to kill you by agreeing to let them cut off an arm.
Nobody thinks that. This is the excuse democrats use to not own up to their right wing campaign with Liz Cheney.
“I don’t want any harm to me?”
Republicans: I want blood. You have it. Give your body to me to harm.
Democrats: Look he said he wants blood, have you considered they are frustrated with this economy? Maybe a figner as an olive branch will solve this. …not mine.
how will you protect trans people?
Interview question
I’ll follow the law
Harris.
from a four year old campaign no less
People think the Democrats lost…
i wish she’d move to canada and run for office here
No. Send in Schumer again. Surely it’ll work this time.
But he’s so aroused! /s
At this point US needs leaders who can mobilize people and spearhead protest marches in the street. AOC is perfectly positioned to call for such protest march. If she does that and become figurehead of the Dem Allies against MuskTrump axis, she might get elevated to same status as MLK and may be even Lincoln. And on that note, why Kamala is quiet ?
Kamala is 100% corporate Dem, and they helped create this mess. She has zero interest in recognizing that she was and is part of the problem.
Kamala lost and she lost badly. She’s not going to be the figurehead
it wasn’t that badly by the numbers, it was badly by the electoral college….
incidentally trump won every and only states that passed new voter suppression laws….this election was stolen and that’s only one piece of it….
i still hate kamala, but she won.
She lost the ec and the popular vote though
technically but that was hella stolen….
https://youtu.be/F9gCyRkpPe8
And on that note, why Kamala is quiet ?
Kamala Harris is the new Hillary Clinton. The GOP boogeyman and now political poison after she embarrassingly lost to Donald Trump.
Kamala Harris was deeply unpopular both before and during the Biden administration, and (sorry to say it, but it’s true) she was largely picked because there was pressure for Biden to pick a minority female to “balance out” the fact that he was a white man. You know how some people, particularly (but not entirely) on the right, believe that affirmative action means that minorities end up getting positions that they otherwise probably wouldn’t have gotten because someone needs to fill a “diversity quota” or whatever? That’s how a lot of people felt about Harris – picked not because of her qualifications, but because she was a black woman.
She’s basically been the poster child for this as far as the GOP is concerned ever since. And not in a good way. Right now, with anti-DEI sentiment gaining traction in this country at a record pace and DEI initiatives becoming political battery acid, the last thing you want as the face of the movement is someone believed to be the poster child for DEI initiatives run amok.
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I do not think AOC has remote same appeal or adeptness of rhetoric to ever do something like this. Would recommend listening to MLKs speeches if haven’t already. Someone like that will come eventually, but they can’t be forced into that position. Also, the situation has to call for it. If it were possible to wake up and choose to be MLK we’d have a million.
These aren’t Democrats we’re talking about, they’re just more affluent folks trying to keep their pockets lined. Moral bankruptcy is a required trait to be a politician these days apparently
When they’re allowed to fly the democrat flag, then they are democrats and it’s right for us to judge the group based off their actions.
Where are all the 2a folks who are going to stop the ‘tyRAnNicAl gOvERnMenT’
You mean the responsible gun owners who don’t shoot until they have verified the target, cleared the surroundings and are ready to kill?
We’re not quite there yet.
Well good luck out there…It feels like things could get messy
They’re helping a tyrannical government seize power. Time to exercise your rights.
Not american, watching from the outside
It’s our tyrannical government, so it’s okay.
“Tyranny is only when the evil Commie Leftists tell you that its wrong to call peoppe by slurs.”
– Average 2A supporter mindset
you know 2a extends to every american, not just the ones who want to marry kids?
More like they wouldn’t know a tyrant even if one shouted “I’m a fucking tyrant”.
It should not be on her shoulders to explain this moment. The fact that she is able to articulate our current crisis is amazing.
It should not be on her shoulders to explain this moment.
I can think of no shoulders more capable.
It should not be on her shoulders only.
It should not, no. But here we are.
Unfortunately everyone else seems to be complicit.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
She’s one of the most prominent progressives in America there are few more appropriate choices.
10+ brand new accounts commenting in this thread, with 2 of them less than a day old. Did Lemmy get an influx of new accounts or are these bots?
Some Reddit users. Reddit was A/B testing a zuckservative sub Reddit ban, so spooked people probably. I found my way here thru a Reddit thread.
Reddit had a “bug” that banned all NSFW and lgbtq+ subs stating that they were inactive (they were not) and ONLY those subs. So a bunch of people moved here (myself included now that most subs I follow moved here)
Probably both!
Hello, new acct. I have no particular reason for joining besides discovering the existence of this place when booting my android.
Wat?
bots
It isn’t playing nice if you know the people you’re approving are fascists. It makes them rolling over even worse. Republicans had no issue obstructing whenever they felt needed.
I’ve tried talking to Trump voters. It’s fucking impossible because they live in an alternate universe and see a completely different reality than everybody else.
There is no way to get through them tbh. They worship rich people want to be the next wealthy billionaire no matter what the cost. They have no demands of policy net positive for their own countrymen at all.
You are a weird, see it with your eyes, or congress.
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real?
i have a question - where is Kamala Harris in all this ? She lost the prez race and decided to just give up on her dreams of creating a better USA? This is the perfect moment for her to step up, invite people for resistance, lead that resistance and be the leader she claimed to be.
She was a failed candidate in 2020, picked based largely on identity for VP by a presidential nominee that was really only liked as a remnant from a administration for which he was also picked largely based on identity. Towed the party line during increasing displeasure with the party heads, then failed spectacularly in an election.
Even if I believed she truly had dreams of creating a better USA, it’s best for her to not be prominent member.
AOC is 100% correct.
She’s saying the thing the Radical Tankie Left has been saying since the Clinton Era. It’s good to hear someone in her position repeating the message one more time. But the fact that it has to come from a fringe member of a fringe caucus, rather than - say - Hakeem Jefferies or Dick Durban, is depressing.
We’re so far away from a McConnell style “We’re going to make Obama a one-term President” moment. Liberals simply cannot understand politics as conflict. Its always just make’n deals for your district’s rich friends and stuffing your own pockets along the way.
Liberals ✊✊✊💦💦💦
Updoots to the left
She suggested the full dem party to stop focusing on pronouns and idpol way back when Biden was still on ballots.
She took her pronouns out of her bio which is 100% correct, no one cares about that shit
She took her pronouns out of her bio which is 100% correct, no one cares about that shit
Except for the people with gender neutral names
Do you think that people understand that trans people don’t want to be political? I feel like somehow people are blaming trans people like it is their fault that the republicans decided that they would be the target of hatred.
The people getting angry at pronouns sadly don’t care or don’t think about it.
They just want someone to be mad at
And this is why Democrats will keep losing.
Do people not understand yet that we have moved beyond that world now? No more Democrats vs. Republicans and any of that “how to win an election” stuff. It’s over.
“We’re literally losing our democracy!!!”
votes for it to continue for the 200th time in a row
“How could this happen?!”
helps them do it again
Sounds very democratic of them
A vote for the democrats is a vote for Trump.
Uhhhh
I’m pretty sure they’re being sarcastic.
Right?
Right?
Fuck the democrats. Let’s take BERNIE and AOC, and replace the rest in the next election.
That’s part of what the republican partys done that’s made them so successful. If your representatives don’t represent you, primary them.
Shit, Democrats don’t even give us a chance to primary, they just pick whoever they want.
In NJ, they had what was referred to as the county line, which would basically put the Democratic party’s candidate first on a ballot. It was abolished this year, but the idea was that the positioning on the ballot made it easier for people to just vote down the line, but the result was that you didn’t necessarily have a fair vote.
They’re not even good enough. Both of them are turncoats. Bernie “the word genocide makes me quesy” Sanders is voting in Trump’s nominees. AOC endorsed Kamala and reinforced the “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” bullshit, every two minutes she’s folded on something new.
AOC endorsed Kamala
Right, I’m sure the current situation is better than endorsing Kamala…
Okay but she endorsed Kamala, and we are still in the current situation?
I disagree with dx1, and think they are worth keeping around, but the criticism that they fell right in line with a genocidal regime, and refused to stand for their principles is fully true.
So between the two options available to her: try to get Kamala elected or increase the likelihood of Trump being elected, which do you think was the better option to pursue?
I think there is an honest way to try to get Kamala elected that doesn’t involve going to the DNC and lying about her tireless work towards a cease fire.
You know what, I’d take “not good enough” over “actively dismantling our democracy”, but fuck me I guess
Great, so we’re already “lesser of two evils”-ing our hypothetical new party designed to replace the Democrats. Just great.
Here’s an idea. If we’re replacing the Democratic Party, let’s ONLY include people who aren’t traitors. Can we find five or ten people like that amongst the American population of 330 million people?
Can we find five or ten people like that amongst the American population of 330 million people?
probably not, no
Nah, I’m just saying you’re being too picky. Right now, I don’t really think there’s anything wrong with rallying around a message of “Not Trump, Not Fascism”. You know, considering those are the things that are currently dismantling our democracy.
Calling people turncoats when they should be considered allies does nothing to fight the real, current threat in office. All this infighting just sets us back and puts us further down the road to fascism. This quest for the perfect liberal party is a waste of effort because it’s so pie-in-the-sky and borderline impossible to actually achieve in any meaningful length of time.
It sucks, but that’s reality. Our democracy is fucked, and trying to find even more idealist liberals to replace the likes of Bernie and AOC isn’t gonna fix it.
I could not have been more clear - I completely reject the idea that we should be preemptively compromising our morals in a hypothetical new party designed to replace the morally compromised Democratic party. This is literally INSANE. Like, can we as a society even brush our teeth without compromising with the perpetrators of genocide and global empire? You’re already PLANNING a moral compromise for a political party that doesn’t even EXIST yet?
K good luck making any progress or solving any problems whatsoever then*. One day you might realize that the real world is shitty and messy and requires compromise.
The moral compromises we’re talking about are literally giving up on solving problems preemptively. You’re talking about making plans for the future, designing new things from scratch, you have every tool in the world at your disposal, a blank canvas, and you take a huge paintbrush and dip it into a whole house-sized can of black paint and just start smearing it everywhere.
I mean I disagree, but I am curious. Who then?
