This article does a good job explaining what is going on, while also shaming the Democrats who fell for the trap: https://jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-two-resolutions-75-dems-join-gop-in-resolution-praising-trumps-mass-deportation-regime-15cf590770ea
If any of the Democrats on this list represent you, give them a call and ask them why they agreed to this resolution.
Holy wow, I am shocked my singular Dem Blue Dog voted against. But he should have been retired long ago and has done so much damage to the credibility of voting blue. Maybe he got rich enough and/or has health concerns and plans to retire. Maybe he had a change of conscience. Idk, but I'm so shocked he voted against, I don't know what else I feel about this, other than "that's better than nothing after all these decades."
There's plenty of Reaganites that drank the Kool aid, and when you're rich as shit you don't see all the actual effects on the country, just the line going up.
Eventually though, some of them see the government doing fascism and and realize it's what they've been screeching about for forty years, even if they can never admit to themselves the part they played in creating it.
See the traitors: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025158
Another one of those worthless do-nothing resolutions. They probably didn't even read beyond the title.
My representative is good, thank fuck
All "my" representatives are fascists anyways, WHEW, close one.
News flash. If they're praising the blatant illegal activity of ICE and the Tyrannical-Rump administration, they ARE NOT democrats. They're Fascist plants. Vote them out and if they don't go, start rolling up your sleeves.
They are Democrats. Praising and enabling "law enforcement" while casting oneself as the savior from tyranny is part of the essence of the modern Democratic Party. It's those who don't who are the exception.
Honestly man it's time to examine the actual structure of the party you're talking about. It's completely locked down by a donor class that prefers losing a hundred time to allowing one victory for the left. There's more room for criticism of the forever wars on the right, even of it's only performative Tea Partyesque babbling about how they were mismanaged and a waste of money. Of course, the wars aren't designed to be won, they're designed to cripple regions economically to uphold dependency relations and make the MIC some money. And nobody like JD Vance or Tulsi Gabbard will really try to put a stop to that. Just saying even they are less unilateral in their support of our wars than the post-911 democrats.
Omar got how many? The other guy got 75?
Yeah. I'm not voting blue until they earn it.
Yep, letting Republicans take over will certainly help. I should know as someone from a state whose entire Federal representation is republican. We get some of the most egregious and stupid punishing bills imaginable past. And it's really helped us I'm sure somehow.
However I can't help but think that maybe voting is the minimum we should do. And that we should vote conscientiously and strategically to keep Republicans from elected office even if that means voting for a Democrat. But more importantly we should primary all Democrats and all republicans. Not just vote for who the inadequate ones in charge think is good. Vote blue to keep the Republicans out if we have to. But primary them all.
That's how you earn fascism.
The people we voted for to stop fascism are voting with the fascists.
And you.
They're not wrong. But we have to focus on step two of that equation which is primary everyone and not to let the people who carelessly support this keep their safe offices
And look at what they're doing to David Hogg for trying.
And? David's gonna focus on step two still. Now the leadership had clearly marked themselves as a core part of the problem is all.
Correct, right now this should be our focus. Let's get candidates that people actually want to vote for. Get those boomers out at a minimum.
vote for fascism light because otherwise you'll get fascism.
Unfortunately the lesser of two evils is the ONLY choice in a 2 party system.
there isn't really a lesser of two evils.
when one is a fash, and the other one is a fash enabler.
I'm sure you didn't vote blue in the last election or the one before that.
So what's really changing?
Remember to VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO if you want ~~Change~~ to PRAISE the People KIDNAPPING CHILDREN!
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