Cue Lionel Hutz Democratic Leadership.
Try? and Stop.
-Us
No the Dems new motto should be get the old fucking Dems who put us in this mess out of the fucking way. The only thing that is stopping the Dems is the fucking Dems themselves. Corpo fucks=facist aligned.
Preemptive surrender has been the Dems most offputting quality for a MINNIT
Done! They stopped us!
-LITERALLY Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer!
Yeah, the new guys really need to avoid being threatened or indoctrinated by the old guys.
‘Make life a living hell’, yeah? Nah, serve the people, not the party. You protect the people, they’ll keep voting for you. You don’t have to listen to the old guys who need to retire, or weak guys who need a new career, etc.
Jeffries and Schumer undermining us is more worrisome.
But predictable?
The “Centrists” and “moderates” of the party are demonstrated to be utter frauds. Any one who claims that mantle is basically saying “I’m here to sabatoging this for the Dems”
As always, they’d prefer to lose to the right than win with the left. The latter is a threat to their power in the party and fundraising. The former might kill millions, but they don’t care.
I just want to extend that thinking beyond party political actors to daily drivers of moderation and centrism. Those among us who make the same claims being defended as moderate or a middle ground, are no less cynical in their expression of politics.
The friendly handling of Haley Stevens by the Democratic leadership was a real eye opener for me.
It’s hardly the first one - Joe Lieberman was my introduction to the rotating villain.
I’d rather they do something meaningful instead of promoting a slogan.
Democrats should not limit themselves to what Republicans might or might not support. Instead, they should fight to advance a maximalist agenda and force Republicans to go on the record blocking or obstructing limits on corporate power.
This is how Democrats can force this administration and corrupt members of Congress to make a critical choice in public: Get behind popular policy, or step in front of the locomotive of public opinion.
After getting Hegseth’s impeachment thrown out, maybe this article should have waited until January to be published…
Yes, this. This so very much.
Roll back as much of the big bastard bill, defund and harass everything related to ICE, reverse the assault on our science and technology, and so on.
Rolling back is the bare minimum as the article states. Democrats need to go beyond that bare minimum of getting back to the crappy status quo of the Pre-Trump second term which is that the article and a lot of the newly elected Democrats and Progressives are calling for.
Try? Has no one heard of the veto?
You can point to all the vetoes when campaigning in 2028 but guess what? Fox News will say nothing got better despite the Democrats having Congress, leftists will go along with that message, and the voters will reject Democrats.
You’re saying Democrats won’t do anything, then bitching about leftists saying that Democrats don’t do anything.
You see the contradiction there?
I am saying Democrats can’t do actually do anything but put on a performance. The article is not about changing the law or policies. It’s about trying and failing, then telling Joe Voter that it was Trump’s fault you failed.
I’m skeptical Joe Voter will be able to absorb or hold onto that knowledge. I don’t think the performance will work.
Gotcha, the tone of
leftists will go along with that message
is what seems wrong. Leftists are actually describing what Democrats do - nothing.
If you want to say it’s not their fault, that they can’t do anything . . . .well then, why are we supposed to elect them again?
The midterm win means the Republicans can stop making things worse. To really make things better will require a Democratic President.
Maybe if we all pool our money, we can buy Jeffries and Shumer… What’s that? Elon already matched our donation? Fuck.
More like
‘Let’s try to start … again’
I generally agree. I’m fine with starting out with the high-consensus mandate from the people: End the Iran War, End the Tariffs, reverse Medicaid cuts.
That’s a place to start, sure. But that’s not progress. That’s repairing only some of the major damage this Republican administration has done.
After that? Bring Medicare For All to a vote and force Republicans to block it or Trump to veto it.
Keep doing it over and over and loudly tell The People through these next two years who is responsible for impeding progress, and that in order to effect change and progress, to Primary out the DINOs and to give Democrats a supermajority and the White House in 2028.
What many people don’t seem to be understanding is that the Dems are not a monolith and many are compromised. As recently as the Hegseth vote we can see the blatant corruption on display.
The call is coming from inside the House.
No it won’t. It will be
“hey look at us, we are little butches and bitch out like we always do”
And they will do nothing useful as always.
