This is super misleading because far more Dems have said something along the lines of "I trust President Biden to decide" which is still entertaining the idea of dropping out as a viable option.
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NAFO libs finally coming around on this replace Biden thing
I think what they mean by power is prominence. Outside of their association with her there is little the DSA could cite to the layperson to attest to their relevance. I respect them for what they did sticking by their principles, but this will materially make DSA a more niche, underfunded and fringe organization than it was already, though it was already flopping due to mismanagement.
The thing people are missing when they scream at Redditors about genocide or Gaza to justify dropping support for AOC is that most people including the leftmost Democratic voter who sheds tears about Gaza still feels an abroad Arab person's life to be of lower worth than a White or Asian life on a visceral and subconscious level. I even include most of the people who attended the Free Palestine protests among this, I am sure some swathe of them will object to this move by the DSA too.
You cannot counterargue with these people effectively by mentioning the Gazan death toll, or even sharing gruesome images of civilian casualties, because Israel-Gaza will always be clocked by them as a pet issue in relation to domestic policy. Americans as a whole have sat through too many wars and their accompanying propaganda, and are too poorly traveled to have any better than an elevated noble savage view of any wartorn impoverished nation's people. Even garnering sufficient support for ending the war and blight relies more on appealing to these people's western chauvinism than their sincere empathy for Gazans as fellow human beings
I want to slap all the liberals who are trying to salvage this by mentioning nonstop that Trump is a pedophile associated with Epstein. If Biden doesn't have the gumption to call Trump a pedophile personally because he thinks it's crass or unbecoming, their screams will just fade into the ether rather than take hold with the larger voter base. Blame your shit candidate for why the most effective attacks against Trump have no salience.
It just looks like some boomer husband who got dragged to a Korean spa
That's not how it works, nothing outlined in Project 2025 is illegal, it was designed by Ivy League lawyers to bob and weave and withstand legal challenges, and the current Democratic party does not have a politics that involves breaking decorum or doing anything they fear might be done back to them like say investigate Heritage for tax fraud or outright say the US is not a Christian nation. I wish the default position on the left wasn't that anything the Democrats are hysterical about is therefore fake.
Their screeching is the absolutely most they can do because their terms of engagement is predicated upon going by procedure. If you are a pushover and I never return the money I borrow from you, it doesn't mean you don't actually want it back or that I am not stealing, it means you haven't the mettle or precedent or actionable vision for how you'd stand up to me, which is the actual issue with Project 2025 being rammed through, not that it is fake.
"My president is furry, my tail plug's lubed" - Young Jeezy
This is not true at all, most internet platforms are designed to connect you with like minded people and severely reduce likelihood of disagreement.
No they aren't if they are just random strangers whose input you did not ask for or know whether to value, and the criticism only comes in the form of wordless downvotes. I mean name one time you have personally improved yourself because your comment got mass downvoted.