But the dems won't do shit
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Kamala wants to run again.
Newsom sees himself as a frontrunner.
Mamdami isn't recognized by Dems and they can't figure out why he won.
The Democrats continued to drop their balls when they folded after the gov strike.
Yeah we're looking at another shit year. They'll just fund ICE less now.
Someone needs to get Jeffries out of there before he finds new ways to score own goals.
Yeah, when the Midterms are over, it will be time to get rid of Jeffries and Schmuck Schumer. If the Dems take one or both Houses, then it's time to go to war, and these dipshits aren't in the game. They let the four years of the Biden administration go by without firing a shot, and that can't happen again.
No kidding, if the next Dem administration is just a repeat of the Biden administration, instead of a full-blown crushing and purging of MAGA, and MAGA ends up back in power, I'm leaving. Not kidding. I don't see the point of staying here, caring, fighting, protesting, writing, etc., if the people we appoint to fight for us simply refuse to do it.
I'll just retire to an island or beach somewhere, and watch America burn down from a distance. My family is already talking about it, and comparing options.
I'll believe nothing until I see it. I'll be voting Democrat.
Also be on the lookout for Republicans in sheep's clothes running for local elections. You can easily tell them apart but I won't say how. Just read the pamphlet or if they fucked up and you didn't get one go to the website and read about the candidates. For local I've been picking people by their background. For example for superintendent for the school district pick a teacher. For fire fighters pick a firefighter. For other things I've picked engineers and science background candidates. We gotta get rid of the retarded politicians and the carrier politicians that just waste our tax money on defense and military stuff.
Great. Then they can do fuck all.
lol. The great blue tsunami? Probably more like great blue tear splash. Never underestimate their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s by design.
I’ve heard that the guy leading the Democratic Party right now has been pushing for a 50 state approach as well as pushing for all levels of government, even state legislatures. Putting more money into state parties as well. Seems like the right approach at least.
The last guy who had that idea got absolutely railroaded for showing enthusiasm during a stump speech.
That is certainly a better start than years past where they simply ignored everything except top level offices. Including their voters.
But it still won't help anything if they try to run the most focused group tested, middle-of-the-road, oligarch approved, bland candidates. Mamdani and others are showing another path. But so far, local and national Democrats have always seemed to want to fight their kind.
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And they'll bust it with their tried and tested method for failure: trying to court the right by moving right and abandoning leftist causes.
abandoning leftist causes
Actively opposing leftist causes
Dems put more effort into opposing Mamdani than they did into prosecuting Trump over J6 💀
Only if progressives throw their hats into the primaries in 2026.
I've seen a disturbing lack of progressives readying up to kick out establishment dems, just like every year.
Dems broke their spirit.
MAGA took over the republicans without bitching that it was hopeless.
The Tea Party gave Repubs the courage to be the racist Christofascists they already were, the left side of American politics is far less homogeneous.
MAGA did not try to upend the pro-buisness nature of the Republican party. MAGA and old school republicans serve the same masters.
Progressive reformers have a much steeper hill to climb, as it would require a near-total destruction of the Democratic Party status quo in order to effect meaningful change.
Both D and R politicians are deeply addicted to dark money donations; we have legalized bribery and corruption. Ending this addiction, even in one party, is not a small, simple act- it is a revolution.
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If there's a way, no matter how small, for the Dems to squander this opportunity and wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory, they will leave no bland page of the most moderate and uninspiring speech unread to a near empty chamber.
My thoughts exactly. I can't wait to see the controlled opposition "accidentally" fumble a guaranteed win.
Schumer's and Jefferies are currently working directly against Democrats abilities to storm into a majority. If you only have the ability to lead in fair weather and favorable winds, you don't have the ability to lead.
These two in particular are doing material damage to Democrats abilities to barnstormer November.
Surely the Dems wont blow this on some terrible tactical decision around optimizing corporate and foreign government bribes, ignoring what their constituents want, and reflexively beating up their left flank.
They have this chance, yes. I hope they're able to capitalize on it. But, I know Schumer and the geriatric democrats have an uncanny way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Narrator: But they won't.
As any lingering hope drained out of his body, he smiled and masturbated himself one last time to the idea that he was right to never dare to hope in the first place.
Even if this were true--which I am skeptical that it is--we cannot wrest our republic from the brink by winning every election by wide margins. If we can't find a way to reconcile the degree to which we can't agree on a basic set of facts and institute government that is responsive to the needs of the people, then the seemingly impending authoritarian age will come to pass.
I gotta ask, like what's the plan even if there is a big blue wave? The current dream scenario it seems is just a centre-right single party state where the Republicans poof into thin air and leave just the Democrats. Your guys' country needs more parties
The last time the Democrats won control of Congress, they tried to pass a very large electoral reform law.
This bill bans partisan gerrymandering, requires Congressional constituency lines to be drawn by independent boundary commissions, introduces new limits on campaign finance, requires polls to be open for at least two weeks, introduces an automatic voter registration scheme, makes the final day of voting a federal holiday, expands postal voting, makes obstructing voter registration a federal crime, restores voting rights to felons when they leave prison, bans lying to voters about when or where to vote, introduces public financing of elections, limits the amount of money that political parties can spend on an election, requires candidates for president or vice-president to disclose their tax returns, imposes a code of ethics on the Supreme Court, and bans companies from making big donations to inaugural committees.
This bill did not pass because the Senate was evenly divided and the Democrats suffered a backbench rebellion from two "centrist" senators.
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Democrats will just go more right in response
That happened in Canada's federal election. Our Conservative party was acting like Trumpists, so people flocked to the Liberal party, our left-ish parties collapsed, and the Liberals took a big step right.
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Hmmm, I wonder if Trump will use executive orders to circumvent congress completely, and the Supremes will back him up per Bezos instructions?
Nah, that's crazy, I'm just paranoid.
p.s. Senate will continue ignoring actual law and insist on following Senate rules (not law; can be changed at any time with simple majority vote) per cloture to avoid the "filibuster"; this blatantly unconstitutional "rule" was magically created to prevent another New Deal
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This is the chance for Dems to once again wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory.
We need a better party. Dems are centrists; we need a progressive. One who won't olive branch the traitor party.
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With a true left-wing leader, someone with leadership like FDR in the 1930s could be worth something. This bunch of cowards won't change anything, at least nothing that really matters.
We are literally surrounded by ignorant Nazis raging for the machine who voted for a pedofile con man 3 times….don’t hold your breath
I am waiting to see what will be the excuse of dem votes to not vote one more time.
I'll believe that shit when and only when it happens. I'm so sick of having only false hope.
Even if they win every election they will find a reason not to do anything
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Somewhat..
This would require a complete shift change in leadership long before the races begins. Democratic leadership is still polling at historic lows and they're dragging the part down with them. A bluenami has already been knee capped by Scumers and Jefferies disgusting weakness, cuckolded by both power and influence.
Absolutely the conditions are ripe. but it requires excellent communication, strategy, a bold vision for the fight that can actually galvanized the base that Democrats have worked so hard to erode.
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