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And this is why Democrats will keep losing.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Both parties need to split up into new parties. However, the money flowing is incentive to prevent them from doing that. Party splits have happened before several times in US history. This time the billionaires are funding all of this chaos thanks to legislation they started passing since post Watergate. How do we get them to split? Take the money out or give them more money than the billionaires can. Both resolutions that should not require drawing blood. How do we do that? I have no idea how to fund more money than billionaires, but being somewhat of an optimist, 99% of the population can probably figure out a way once they stop this tribal mentality of red vs blue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

the population can probably figure out a way once they stop this tribal mentality of red vs blue

which is never going to happen. one side has to lose. buy guns.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 19 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

"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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

Sounds very democratic of them

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

Fuck the democrats. Let's take BERNIE and AOC, and replace the rest in the next election.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's part of what the republican partys done that's made them so successful. If your representatives don't represent you, primary them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 day ago (5 children)

AOC and others who are prepared to fight this bullshit need to spin off their own political party. I figure it would only take the departures of a handful of high-profile progressives to make the whole house of cards fall. The country is being pillaged, and the Dems’ response has been completely fucking impotent. Time to build a new party that isn’t run by geriatric milquetoasts.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

spin off their own political party

I think the idea behind organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families Party is to have party-like organizations that work within the Democratic party so they don't act as "spoilers" given the 2-party system. (I could be wrong about that tho...)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago

This is how they lose.

If you had a party actually for the people, you would get a lot of the Trump votes as well. Most of MAGA weren't about racist bullshit or half of what's happened since the changeover.

They are tired of the corporate and government corruption and Trump promised (lied) to do something about that. We need to offer the same hope without all the hate. We need to offer change without just saying the other side is evil. It isn't the 'other side' that is the problem. It's the corrupt people in positions of power and the ones that tell you to blame the 'other side'.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Who the fuck cares about spoiling a vote between mask off and mask on fascist. The democrats are lost we need real leadership.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That they were so ineffective and unable to mount a campaign against an obvious felonious, grifting, lying rapist is all the proof I need that they're incapable of leading.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We need to take it over like those wackadoos toom over the republican party

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

Exactly. Getting rid of all the shitty Democrats is a tall order, but the Tea Partiers didn't do that, they just took as many of them down as possible and scared the rest into obedience.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 22 hours ago (22 children)

The elite Democrats aren't worried about fighting back.

They are trying to figure out how they can win the next round AND HOW THEY WILL USE THE SYSTEM TO THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE ONCE THEY REGAIN CONTROL.

We need another party that is actually for the people.

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Playing nice again nazis always worked out fine. Remember how we defeated Hitler by just asking him politely to stop killing people?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago

Is Neville around? We should ask him.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

If there’s one thing corporate dems hate more than the Republicans, it’s AOC and her squad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Most of the long timers are rich white people in safe seats, so Republicans are no threat to their personal interests but a challenge from the left is.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (6 children)

@inclementimmigrant

IKR?!

WTF Dems...?

Stop enabling a tyrant. This is gonna bite you in the ass quicker than you thing.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I mean what the fuck are they even doing?

When the Republicans were out in 2020, they pushed back on everything and everyone, fuck the consequences, which there never are any, and let their base know they had their backs regardless, and even if they voted they damn well made it known they did so reluctantly.

Here you've got Democrats who aren't even putting things up for a fight and then they have members going on air touring how great these guys are, fucking Fetterman.

There's no spine in any of these Democrat assholes so why the hell would I vote for any of them at this point if your going to make it easy for fascists? There is no lesser of two evils now, just sickening enablers.

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