Democrats are furious. And they want their leaders to get mad, too.
“I wish you’d be angry,” a constituent told representative Gil Cisneros, a Democrat of California, at a recent town hall. At an event in Minnesota featuring a panel of Democratic attorneys general, an activist voiced a similar sentiment: “Get angry, man,” punctuating the message with a profanity.
The anger roiling the party, slow to build, is now a forceful current coursing through the electorate and pulling in Americans terrified that the country is descending into authoritarianism. Democrats – with no leader to guide them and little power to wield in Washington – are scrambling to harness the sudden fury.
At rallies, town halls and protests, voters are venting their fury with Donald Trump and his empowerment of Elon Musk’s full-frontal assault on federal agencies, stoking what progressive activists believe are the embers of a populist backlash against the president – and the Democratic leaders they believe are not meeting the moment.
They couldn’t vote for Humphrey and we got Nixon.
They couldn’t vote for Carter and we got Reagan.
They couldn’t vote for Gore and we got Bush.
They couldn’t vote for Hilary and we got Trump.
Thank god we have Progressives pushing the country to the Left!
Bernie voters overwhelmingly voted for Hilary - around 80%.
Hey good things most of them voted for Joe Biden who not only delivered jack shit to the American people, but also spent over $20 billion of their tax dollars aiding and abetting a terrorist nation committing genocide against the Palestinians in a crime against humanity many if not most Americans do not support.
Imagine if sleepy Joe did something that actually helped the citizens and made everyone WANT to vote for him?
Hard to push the country to the left when there are a bunch of braindeads tying themselves to the do-nothing-democrats (yes - Bernie and AOC are democrats) or the radical republicans and blaming other citizens for not sipping either flavor of the kool-aid.
Proves my point.
20% saw Donald Trump and noped out.
And fuck the idea that Biden/Harris had to earn anyone’s vote. That’s like saying you’d rather drown than get into a lifeboat where somebody has the flu.
Aside from the total lack of democracy in your closing thoughts - if the flu is actually genocide then you deserve what you get.
20% is a lot less then the amount of PUMA people that didn’t vote for Obama. (The point here is that the left rallies behind the centrist and right of the party far more then the centrists do. And yet you still blame the left.)
Maybe if the Democratic party wasn’t addicted to feeling self righteous, and it your comment reflected reality (it doesn’t) then the DNC would recognize the left as a voting block they have to appease to, you know, win.
You know, actually do politics rather then look down their noses at people demanding unreasonable stuff like health care.
lol!
You are one to talk about people acting self righteous.
Wow, that is some cope there.
Nah, fuck off with that noise.