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Dems reportedly angry that progressives are pushing them to act like an opposition party (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary

House Democrats are frustrated with progressive groups like MoveOn and Indivisible, which are pressuring them to oppose the Trump administration more aggressively.

In a closed-door meeting, lawmakers complained about grassroots activists driving constituent calls demanding obstructionist tactics.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer defended the party’s strategy, saying, “We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights.”

However, a CBS News/YouGov poll shows 65% of Democratic voters want all-out opposition to Trump’s agenda.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Dear House Democrats,

Fascism is currently destroying the US system of government that you like to call democracy.
Given the influence on the world held by the US, this is a major threat not only to the people you were trusted to represent, but to practically everyone.
If it succeeds in taking over the United States, it will be in no small part your fault.

Kindly do you fucking jobs.
Now.
Before it's too late.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

"We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights," Schumer told The New York Times earlier this month.

Bro is ineffectual in even his own metaphors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 minutes ago

Hilariously fucking accurate take

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago

Yeah dipshit we're not asking you to lie down on the tracks and die, we're asking you to do what russian anarchists do and rip out the the tracks entirely

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

What a well-chosen photo at the top of this article. Two utterly uninspiring men with no ability or will to relate to ordinary people and their problems.

"We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights," Schumer toldThe New York Times earlier this month.

That's a more accurate metaphor than he intended. The fascist train will not even slow down as it runs over him.

Jon Stewart had an hour-long interview with Hakeem Jeffries the other day, and it's just painful to watch. Jeffries resolutely refuses to offer even a single hint of anything the Democrats intend to do beyond expressing vague sympathetic feelings towards unhappy voters. It becomes quite clear the Democratic leadership has no intention of even trying to take part in the resistance the USA needs, and would rather drain the energy of any such movement into their morass of vapid messaging, meandering non-promises and wearying inaction.

The senior Democrats have no intention of fighting for the people. Any effective resistance will have to come from elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

At this point you have to wonder if they're actively complicit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Wittingly or not, it's quite clear they are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

They 100% are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Poor guys. If they didn't like it, they should quit.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean,

Their lives depend on it.

https://loops.video/v/6kDeEVZYNs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

This is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It's hard to understand how dismissive they're being when their own constituents are reaching out to them. Is this article leaving it out or have they given some sort of rationale for choosing their battles instead of going all out?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I’m too cynical, but perhaps they’re being paid not to go all out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I'm sure we all have suspicions about them but I want to know what their excuse is, especially considering the dangerous (for them) possibility their jobs could come to an end if Trump solidifies the level of power he obviously wants to have.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

This is a repost from earlier today.
The top people in the Democrats party are career politicias. They don't accept that people are angry nothing is being done while they continue to make money for themselves.

You can find more discussion about it in the post from earlier today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for the heads up. Was it in this same community? (I'll check here for now.)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"unnamed source" "unnamed Democrat"

Why don't these people grow a pair of tits and put their name to their quotes? They're complaining that the Dem leadership isn't being brave and fighting, yet they can't be brave and put their name to critiquing the leaders...? Figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Because they know if they do, they'll be blacklisted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

You can’t blacklist Spartacus.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like our democracy is dead, if true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

It was dead on January 20th. We're just witnessing it's death throes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

No democracy has survived contact with neo-liberalism. Clinton couldn't roll over for his corporate overlords fast enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

This is news? It wasn't exactly a recent development that made voting a choice between picking a conservative party backed by interests or picking a conservative party backed by self-interests.

The former is better than the latter, but it's not much of a consolation prize, considering neither of them give a rat's ass about the people they claim to represent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Democrats "We're suppose to do something about this? Cause we weren't really planning on anything."