The republicans are bringing back fascism but they are at least doing awful things their constituents want.
I disagree with these things, but they deliver on their stupid backwards promises.
I’ve voted for the democrats for my entire adult life, the very first vote I cast was for John Kerry.
Here’s the thing though. Are you a liberal, you wonder why the party is hated, have you ever seen Last Week Tonight?
Jon Oliver gets on tv every week and talks about some horrible problem that started with Reagan or Nixon and has just been going strong ever since. There are so many of these. And which ones can I look at and go “well the democrats sure did fix X when they finally had the levers of power”
I can’t think of a single thing. The most important project they’ve undertaken was the ACA, and I don’t know if entrenching health insurance companies permanently and legally into the fabric of our nation is all that much to celebrate.
Do they do some good things from time to time, sure. You can point to a policy here or there that are nice. But it’s a party of not-even-half-measures.
Can we have single payer? No How about a public option? No What can you do? Romneycare… great
Can we have immigration reform? No What can you do? DACA and that’ll be rescinded the moment we lose power.
Can we reign in the banking sector? Nah
Can we close Guantanamo? Too difficult
Can we enshrine the right to abortion in law? No, but we will ask justices to pinky swear… oh they just removed it, nevermind
Can we do anything to help the common man? Let me check with the donors, nah they don’t like that, but if you like some tweets about how trump is bad, I’ve got those for you.
A party that refuses to use the power you give it is not much use.
And before you type up your essay about how Ackshually! There was only one weekend in 2009 when they could have passed any kind of legislation at all. Fucking stuff it. Then they should have sat there all goddamn weekend and passed bill after bill fixing this shit box nation. Their lack of any kind of foresight and planning and doing anything but building a better and better donation collection machine has led us to fascism.
They can collect a billion goddamn dollars but have to text me to see if I can give them just $27 more dollars before they can pass a bill. We need a new party to represent the people.
“well the democrats sure did fix X when they finally had the levers of power
Dems only had “the levers of power” for 4 months out of like 40 years, when they weren’t stymied and blockaded. That’s a big to-do list for so short a time.
This is really well thought out and written, and the most popular comment on this post.
Please consider adding links at the bottom for some movements we can get behind to achieve this goal. The time for a new candidate isn’t when Biden suddenly wants to drop out and fuck us over, the time is now.
I can’t think of a single thing. The most important project they’ve undertaken was the ACA, and I don’t know if entrenching health insurance companies permanently and legally into the fabric of our nation is all that much to celebrate.
Yes, and don’t forget that the ACA was modeled after “Romneycare” that Mitt Romney had implemented in MA, which in turn was modeled after a plan from the Heritage foundation. In other words, the ACA was essentially a Republican/conservative plan. The main reason Republicans hate is that it was Obama who implemented it nationwide.
Single payer was killed by Lieberman, Hillary Clinton actually pushed for it. When it became clear they didn’t have the votes in the Senate they tacked to an idea implemented by Romney after some Republicans hinted they would support it - none did.
Always the victims and never responsible.
gestures broadly at the Democrats behavior the last 10+ years gee it’s a real mystery guys.
Huh - apparently just being not-the-Republicans isn’t enough.
The important question is, will the DNC learn anything from this?
I’m guessing no.
It’d be bad enough if that just meant that the US is for all intents a one-party system, but at this particular point in history, the future of the country and the lives of millions depend on effective opposition to those who are building a plutocratic/fascist oligarchy, and the exact institution that should be the vanguard for opposition is just a bunch of greedy pigs and cowards.
Couldn’t beat the bad guys on easy mode with every advantage.
A billion dollars thrown at their garbage political consultants and they lose to Angry Orange’s dumber brother.
Again.
Yeah, it’s a “poll” problem 🙄🙄🙄 not a “we antagonize and betray our base and voters constantly” problem
Definitely not because they are spineless either
Be fair. They stood absolutely steadfast when pressure was applied to abandon Netanyahu’s genocide.
What pressure? No major businesses were against it and most seemed to support it.
Oh wait, you mean public pressure? The thing that hasn’t existed and no politician has cared about for almost a decade? Why would that matter? It’s not like the public are the ones
bribingdonating money.Oh wait, you mean public pressure? The thing that hasn’t existed and no politician has cared about for almost a decade? Why would that matter? It’s not like the public are the ones bribing donating money.
They sure caved to public pressure when they adopted republican border policy. They caved when they ran anti-trans hate in their own ads.
The alternative is that many of them agreed with the policies.
Eh.
Give it 4 years (at least) of non-stop increasing fascism under Republicans and people will begin having a more favorable view of Democrats.
Then give it a few more years for dumbass Americans to forget all about the darkness and vote their abusers back in because Democrats didn’t fix every problem known to man.
We’re not asking Dems to deliver a utopia, but to have standards that go beyond “normalcy”. Those dumbass Americans have standards, that is why more people didn’t vote for Trump than did.
Its crazy that people didn’t want a return to the status quo that had already been failing them.
