Liberals Are Giving Up on America
Liberals Are Giving Up on America
In their despair at Donald Trump’s victory, liberal pundits are concluding that the masses, especially the working class, are irredeemably terrible. That’s apolitical nonsense.
I’d say you can lead a horse to water etc etc but the Democratic Party can barely even lead the horse anymore.
In this analogy I don't think the Democratic Party knows what a horse is.
Pundits are losing their minds, but I don't think the Democratic party leaders are giving up.
My hunch is that they are playing the long game. They are counting on three things. First, Trump's plans will crash the economy. Second, the Trump White House always turns on its own. Third, with a GOP trifecta there isn't much Democrats can do to stop Trump - for now.
So any demands they make now will be ignored, and even used in the future to blame Democrats as obstructionist. I think they are lying low and giving the GOP what they need to hang themselves. When the public is furious about the economy, it will be time to start making demands.
Basically, it's the political equivalent of the Willy Wonka gif
My hunch is that they're in denial, still trying to treat the situation as "business as usual," and will make for very surprised corpses when Trump's thugs put them up against the wall.
The Democratic Party resembles the horse, or at least part of it.
You know what you call people who voted for fascism? Fascists.
I mean, yeah.. I don't blame them. America has spoken and they aren't interested in education, science, ethics, honesty, integrity, and certainly not any intellectualism. That is all sucker nerd shit. Good luck getting ahead with any of that sucker. I like people who just take what they want. - America
Tbf I expected way better of Americans than to fall for Trump twice.
The Democratic Party might as well give up if they are still going to try to keep rooting for same old, same old. Blame media both sidesing and sanewashing, blame unlimited money in politics, blame your average voter's lack of critical thought. If the party leadership doesn't want change, if media doesn't want actual change, then it's hard to expect anything good from them for the time being. Governor Kathy Hochul is a prime example, she keeps kneecapping good policies at the last second like proper right to repair and congestion pricing, thinking like playing political games is going to help anyone. It's not, it only hurts us.
All blue states and blue cities in purple and red states can do right now is show themselves as shining beacons of democracy and progress as the remainder of states get absolutely screwed by the feds. The Dem party as a whole needs to take a moment and rethink its strategy.
Civilizations are born, then they live, then they die.
The US is critically ill, and at this point, it looks terminal. It might not be, but the odds are that it is.
And that, as they say, is that.
TFW you read the article, read the comments, then reread the article assuming you must have missed something.
You didn't.
undermines the foundation of democracy to make line go up
is shocked when it starts to collapse
The article is okay but I'm struggling with the author's conflation of misanthropy and misandry. Both are mentioned, but only one applies. It could be that the author made a typo, but the tone of the article to me suggests otherwise.
Fixed my own typo.
I think this is what they were talking about about when labeling liberals with "misandry":
“White men without college degrees are going to ruin this country.
Finally, a Jacobin article I agree with.
Most Americans don't understand what an election is they just think it's funny content like pranks or something
Op can you please just move to Britain and stop bitching