Haha yeah

Yeah if we all hate the fascists but then condemn the Democrats, we will have the numbers and the shear power to accomplish nothing….

Seriously, if you don’t like the Democrats then fucking vote for Democrats who will steer the party left. That’s what the neo-cons, tea party, maga did to change the Republican Party (and change it they did).

This notion of a progressive third party is just a waste of time by self-absorbed clique-ish people who fancy themselves too good for “the mainstream”. Grow the fuck up and work with your fellow country-persons instead of this weird romantic fantasy of third party revolution by the superior left…

I look forward to your scathing responses and down arrows. Just know that the fascists don’t care what you think because in all likelihood, that down arrow is the most you are willing to actually do….

That's not how the Republican party went further right. They went further right because their previous right rhetoric and aesthetic laster long enough for the economy to continue to collapse and for their constituents to feel real economic pain. So, they had to go further right in order to rationalize the situation in the mind of their voters by blaming the erosion of traditional values even more. It's a death spiral driven by economic realities, not voter ideology.
In the same way, the Democrats are losing because the voters want a solution to the economic problems but the only solution threatens their true constituency - the owning class. So the Democrats can't be pulled further left because that would accelerate the erosion of the power of the elite. And the Republicans are forced to go further right to explain why their previous policies didn't create the change that was needed. Thus, the entire elite, both Ds and Rs are dragged right, back into the original rationalizations for founding a nation in indigenous genocide and chattel slavery.
Voting D will never fix that. The proof is all throughout history. The Ds and the Rs collaborated to purge every leftist they could find in the country - twice. And they may very soon be doing it again, because this is what happens when unions get stronger, when resistance movements get stronger, and when solidarity movements get stronger.
- Delusional half-truths from lemmy.ml, and no one was surprised.
  The Democrats are doing whatever they can to win elections. If you don't want them appealing to billionaires, stop fucking letting billionaires influence you and people you know. Get off of Twitter. Get your family off of Twitter and Facebook. Find ways to reach out to people.
  This both sides bullshit is sabotage to prevent people from useful voting. Vote for whoever you want in the primaries, but in the general, vote for whichever isn't a fascist. Yeah, if you're a neolib and you're scared of communism, whatever, vote for Mamdani anyway. Have this stupid fight in the primaries. The general is against fascism.
- The dems aren't losing.
Thank you!
Seriously, if you don’t like the Democrats then fucking vote for Democrats who will steer the party left
lol ok sure that will work. this time...
- Allow me to expand and clarify… Multiple people run for the same office within primaries. Some of them lean more left than others. You can support them by actually voting in the primaries (and especially in state elections), maybe even donating a few bucks or volunteer time as well. But you have to actually vote. You can also write to existing Representatives and lay out your concerns. Enough people do that on an issue, they’ll understand your concerns at least in terms of marketing. Or just poo poo everything. Write social media comments or mouth off at family dinners, both of which are meaningless gestures that change nothing.
not american but wondering which good politicians you have
Summer Lee in the democrats seems awesome

Officials are actively going against MAGA, esp. ICE, right now. It's not all just tweets. But Trump won twice with the help of social media; other parties embrace it, too. Hopefully in a better way (and I'm not sure Gavin Newsom's is it).

My favorite scathing TMBG snippet:

Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
When you turn around to look it's gone behind you
On its face it's wearing your confused expression
Where your eyes don't go
Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering
It's a nightmare that you'll never be discovering

They’re still doing more than the progressives.

It might suck to hear that about your team but it’s true.

- I like what you did there.
Yes, the libs are working hard with their right-wing collaborators to accomplish their shared agenda.
Serving power certainly let's a person do more, just don't be surprised when people point out how it isn't helping.

It's a simple message, and I'm leaving out the whistles and bells so the room must listen to me:

Filibuster vigilantly.

I destroyed a bond of friendship and respect between the only people left who'd even look me in the eye. Now I laugh and make a fortune off the same ones that I tortured.

"Don't, don't, don't let's start

This is the worst part

Could believe for all the world

That you're my precious little girl

But don't, don't, don't let's start

I've got a weak heart

And I don't get around how you get around"

came here for the TMBG
- 🎵 We die alone
  We die afraid
  We live in terror
  We're naked and alone
  And the grave is the lonliest place🎶

Sadly, DNC leaderships VCRs are still flashing 12:00, so it's unlikely they'll ever see stuff like this. The interwebs are a dog gone mystery to them.

Personally I'm excited to feel smug about leopards eating faces. \s \s \s

i've just been basting myself and gathering bibs
- I would like a leg if no one's called dibs

Can Democrats in the US do anything to stop it? I was under the impression they don't have enough representatives to stop it

Trump could easily override them, but they should still do more.
At the end of the day, their strategy is to give in to the demands Trump in the hopes that it prevents him from destroying their precious institutions. They hope to be able to take over from an unpopular Republican party after Trump dies without really undoing the damage he's doing. The problem with this approach is that it will prevent the system from needing to be properly rebuilt, effectively legalizing most of his abuses of power and prolonging the instability of our country. A big part of this will be institutionalizing the blatant corruption and oligarchy while further rigging elections to make it impossible for popular movements to ever legally gain power.
A Gavin Newsom or Pete Buttigieg presidency will see them ruling as a weaker feudal king than Trump, but only to promote business activity and interests. Relying on the honeymoon period following Trump's removal, they will position themselves as the saviors of "democracy," yet they will do little to actually undo a lot of the election rigging that Republicans are installing right now. They will suppress workers rights and throw the most disposable minorities under the bus, deregulating and burning through all the goodwill they have. They parade the corpse of liberalism around as long as fools will believe it, but it will have been long dead.
In order for actual liberal democracy to exist again in this country, the liberals would need to show a backbone and resist Trump no matter how much he destroys institutions. They would need to risk temporary jail time and potential assassination to invigorate long term support for a rebuilt American dream. Instead they're showing that they never cared about liberal ideals, only the goodwill liberalism afforded their power.
There were the government shutdowns but they always cave. Then there's getting arrested while protesting (not breaking the law BTW, just straight up intimidation), which is honestly the bare minimum at this point. Look up Kat Abu for an example.
They're absolutely powerless. There's literally nothing they can do. If only everybody had voted for them, it would be so much different. \s \s \s
- I mean with a majority in either house couldn't they just vote down law proposals and make different ones and stuff? Not sure how the US system works

The second one isn't even satire. That's the top of what is breaking my heart right now.

Posts like this always get the libs crawling out from under the floorboards.