It’s nice to see the senate opposition functioning.
Edit: 18 hours of holding the senate floor, giving voice to the american people. Lots of tears as american suffering is read out loud for the congressional record. Testiment from Americans across the country. This is the voice of the people. Please click the link, share and watch. The media needs to know we care about the opposition more than we care about trump rambling on a plane about fort knox.
Can we finally stop the both sides nonsense.
Individual people who are Democrats can be good people. The Democratic party has been asleep at the wheel when they’re not ignoring the will of their constituents since mid-Obama and allowed us to slide into this disaster.
DNC bad, DNC suppress good democrats, and elevates bad ones. Lets figure out who the good ones are and empower them outside of the DNC.
I mean I remember back in 2008 when dailykos would frequently say “elect more democrats and better democrats”
The idea being that we could fix the dnc from within. Progressives just needed to vote for better Dems.
The dnc realized that they had a real hard time beating republicans in the general but boy oh boy could they whoop the progressives in the primary.
Blue dog dem, here’s the dnc gold card and the PIN code.
Progressive dem, we will spend any amount of money to keep you off the ballot.
And we see where it’s led us, the dnc is now good at one thing and one thing only, raising money for the dnc. Oodles and oodles and oodles of money and losing the nation to autocracy
Fully agree. They had their chance in 2016 to listen to the popular calls for bernie. Policies would have prevented this incredible rise of billionaires into the very seats of power we hold dearly. DNC needs to be completely replaced by new leaders. They need to be a democratic organization if they want to be called democrats. They make me sick. I hope we can get rid of them or force them to spend money on good candidates.
The DNC essentially handing Clinton the nomination was the height of hubris on both party’s sides. Clinton for thinking she was owed the presidency and the DNC for purporting to be the more left leaning party while actively ignoring the majority of their voters to move farther right. In the nomination process the only vote that a member of the DNC leadership gets should be their vote in their precinct, but instead they get supervotes that are weightier than the aggregate votes of entire regions.
Fuck these blue posers and their rigged game. We gotta make our own party farther left - pro union, pro taxing the rich at at least 75% on income over $500k, pro actual healthcare paid for by taxes, pro social welfare programs paid for by taxes, pro environmental reclamation and ACTUAL green tech… you know, all those things that make sense and lead to a stable, productive country.
I’m really hoping a viable third party emerges and can get a large majority to end the rule of DNC RNC. If you build it they will come. Someones gotta step out and make it. Plenty of people willing to support it.
Asleep at the wheel is a nice way to put it while they are wearing eyeshades and earplugs.
No. Republicans filibustered overnight on medical care as well.
…Oh, wait, that was Ted Cruz speaking against the ACA.
When the Democrats grow a spine and start actually blocking all progress like the Republicans can magically do every time they are the minority.
Fair point. They’ve always defaulted to Shumering because shutting down the government causes a lot of pain for people dependent on public services, but with the idiots in charge already dismantling everything, there’s zero reason not to, most of the people dependent on the government are already getting fucked DOGEy style anyway.
Correct, right now they are proving that they will hold the senate floor all day and prevent legislation. I’m hoping they have discovered a way to block everything. Scream and bitch and never give up the floor. No new laws. No new budgets, no tax cuts. endless sit in.
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I think this is that thing. They have found a way to shut down the congress. They just need to hold the floor for 2 years. They need to be encouraged to hold the senate floor for 2 years. The ultimate sit in. You want your representatives doing something? Obstructing congressional progression is that thing. Endless sit in.
He’s been going all day and nothing passed, i hope they can keep it up.
I’ve been trained all my life to never count on Democrats for anything, it would be better late than never
No apparently we must undermine any moral opposition that aligns with our own, and all suffer the consequences of trump together while doing nothing.
My life goal right now is to figure out why people on the left are still critical of Biden, Harris and dems doing their JOBS while having nothing to say about how to oppose mango and Minsk
They like complaining and “being right” is more important to them than being helpful. Whether they are right or not is immaterial to the facts. Whatever the issue is they just need to be seen being right about it.
Incidentally that’s a common trait among narcissists.
That’s my new angle with them. It became apparent last night that if they can’t have their views be popular, then 330 million people should suffer.
No need to reflect on how fringe and minority those views may be. No need to reflect on the suffering inaction will cause.
Claim the moral high ground and never let anyone up with you!
No one should know any peace until first past the post voting is replaced and 3rd parties are free to participate in elections with no spoiler effect.
No more holding noses.
No more hostage situation.
Democracy. Sure republicans dont want it. How about the democratic party? Is this a purity test that the democrats can pass? They say they support democracy, time to prove it. Shouldn’t be hard to convince them.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
STAR voting
Alternative vote
Ranked Choice voting
Range Voting
Single Transferable Vote
Mixed Member Proportional representation
I don’t think your post directly addresses my point but your point is extremely important. One of the reasons we’re so fractured is the lack of proportion representation of people in government and that is because of the broken FPTP system that’s so prevalent.
When we have a side that rejects the corporate bribe take and has an overt agenda to fight the capitalist profiteers in defense of the people, sure.
Until we dig ourselves out by rejecting private profit/growth/metastasis at the expense of the people at the bottom of society, nothing can improve.
Since Reagan got his former opposition party on the take, all we’ve been voting on is the speed of decline as good cop(D) and bad cop® encourage us to hate one another and be divided over the social issue symptoms of the captured economy we don’t get a vote on.
I vote blue out of harm reduction. But democrats still don’t give a shit about mass murder for private profit, mass homelessness, income inequality, on and on. They affirm your identity instead of scapegoating you, which is nice, but is also free for their mutual donor’s quarterly profit expectations.
What good is being free to be who you are when you’re dying of exposure and police brutality under a freeway for failing to produce enough value for the owners?
If there’s another real presidential election, and if a democrat gets elected, we’ll get four years of relative quiet but the situation will continue to grow darker as the DNC will not allow the capital markets to be reigned in, which means even if we avert this fascist march, the table will still be set for them to continue their march in four years. Wall Street must end. And it will, by our hands, or capitalist made climate change in a couple decades when it no longer matters for our species.
I think democrats do care about a lot of that issues. They just can’t get any good ideas that will create bipartisan support. It’s a failure of imagination and leadership. It is a failure to stand up to corporate interests. But at least the dems care. Im listening to 10 of them right now who really care. Watch the video please its important to boost media numbers and give a voice to this opposition.
Nah.
We’re too busy believing immigrants are eating people’s fucking pets in Springfield, Ohio because a felon rapist habitual liar told us so.
Americans are weak as fuck man. Weak and stupid. So we’ll continue ignoring all available data and believe the falsehood that both sides are equally bad.
I share your sentiment but I still chose to believe we are losing an information war. People are not that stupid the right wing media system is truly powerful. We’re not going to get people back by belittling them. It’s a cult we need to treat it like a cult. Plenty of research on how to get people out of cults.