STOP. VOTING. FOR. CAREER. POLITICIANS. (rep and dem alike; they are all inhuman monster pieces of shit.)
The regression in the US is just staggering. It's like watching an empire devolve into monkeys.
And this is how you lose elections.
But blue no matter who! The lesser of two evils! No one is perfect! Do you want Trump to win!? Disingenuous argument that tries to cover for how shitty neo-liberals are.
I'm a registered Democrat and vote for /contribute to individual candidates I like, but I keep throwing away fundraising mail from the party itself and replying STOP to their constant texts, and this is one reason why. Regrow your backbone, folks. I know it's in there somewhere. We've got to repeal Citizens United and do other things so our politicians can say no to big money.
I don't think I can justify donating time or money to the Democratic anymore, there are few indicators the party is interested in winning and wielding power except under strict continuations of the status quo, and the status quo is now fascism so.... I think pretending like the DNC will ever behave in our collective best interests has become a dangerous impediment to actually building a true resistance to fascism/rightwing extremism.
I will absolutely support individual candidates especially if they are progressive but every single damn time I see that something is associated with the party leadership of the DNC or any kind of broader national level Democratic party DC thinktank crap I immediately delete it and become just a bit more unwilling to ever, EVER give the Democratic party a dollar or a minute of my time damn it all.
For me something or someone willingly associating with Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries is equatable to something exhibiting the signs of plague, I know the thing is already brutally dead just from that indicator.
I know I am not alone on this.
The Democratic party terminally refuses to get the hell out of the way, so if we have to move it out of the way to make progress, that is what we have to do.
And there it is, the real reason nobody trust America anymore.
Not simply the trans persecution, people have their opinions and feeling about the topic and YADA-YADA, This isn't about that.
It's clear Americas politician are ok with Donald even if they pretend to hate him in front of the cameras, weak people in office only looking out for themselves. That nation can't be trusted.
I don't blame people for not voting, the idea I have to vote for one of 2 shit birds because "democracy" is braindead and willfully ignores the issues at hand, to the people who feel this way I would them tell them to leave the country For a socity that would appreciate them, it's the only change they can make in their live that will actually help them.
If solidarity can only be found in the wailing and gnashing pit, then let's get there. So many Democrats have shown their true allegiances this year.
I know who I won't be supporting but rather actively against. You don't care about people that I love, get the fuck out.
It's be nice if the names were all at the top of the article. But I did see a couple of names skimming through (I woke up late and we have a guest to entertain). I'll come back to read it later to learn more.
Once again, go to hell, bigots.
Literal Nazi shit.
Vote blue no matter who! 🤪
Democrats say they can’t just be the party of pronouns. WHAT ARE YOU, THEN? “The party of greed and corruption with less overt racism” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
Right wing party members vote for right wing bill.
Is there anybody surprised by this? The Democrats are only "the left" by American standards. The rest of the world has them centre-leaning right wing.
Bingo. There is no left party in the US, despite what MAGA has been brainwashed to believe. And, a giant issue in the US is having two parties only.
And no, it's not that both parties are the same across the board. That's a libertarian cop-out. There are clear policy differences.
However, one issue which unites both parties is money. Both parties are bought and sold by corporations, and that needs to be handled. Crucially: there is no system in place to allow voters to correct this.
There are two parties of billionaires with only a very small number of non-shared members, yes. Which is why the billionaires don't really care who's in power. They care only to push the drama that distracts the public from the reality of the country. That helps ward off the guillotines.
Yeah, agree. It feels like more than an issue with two-party voting itself in some/many ways.
The Dems used to be to the right of Canada's Conservative party.
That's not because they moved to the left unfortunately.
They're the same party in a different color, FFS.
8 congressional Democrats are added to a list.
The eight: Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), and Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
My state is on here but it's not my district rep. But fuck them anyway.
I just emailed Laura Gillen to tell her what a piece of shit she is.
Usual suspects. See that (D-TX) on the wrong side of just about everything.
Cuellar is painful because Cisneros would've been such a boon for both Texas and the Progressive caucus. In 2022 the DNC and Pelosi intervened personally on that primary race in favor of Cuellar.
While Roe v Wade was being overturned and there was a push to codify it, they picked the anti-abortion candidate.
They are not against supporting trans people. They are more about finding shitty excuses to withhold money Stirring the hate pot is just an added bonus for them.
Democrats are just the non-spicy flavor of Corporate America 🙄
It's the organic, free-trade, shade grown brand, though!
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