Democratic voters express intense dissatisfaction with party leadership, calling them spineless, sellouts, and incompetent. They praise progressive leaders like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders for clear messaging and action. Voters overwhelmingly choose progressive over moderate candidates. How can Democratic leaders ignore this anger and continue to cling to power? #ProgressiveLeadership #DemocraticParty #PoliticalChange

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43473370

Feb 18, 2026

The newspaper spoke to 13 Democratic and independent voters including retirees from Indiana and Michigan, working people from states such as North Carolina and Nevada, and an unemployed voter from Iowa. The topic of discussion was the participants’ frustrations with the Democratic Party as it faces the Trump administration and the president’s aggressive deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the country.

“Spineless” was one word a participant had for the Democratic Party when asked to describe it. Another said the party appears “paralyzed” while a 46-year-old Latina woman from Nevada said Democrats in Congress are “sellouts and suckers.”

  • exaybachae@startrek.website
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Because ultimately people want our society to progress, get better, so that the quality of their lives can improve.

    Holding back our progress isn’t healthy.

    Reverting to less functional practices is dumb.

    These are basically our political choices any time we vote on something that’s not purely about the methods we employ to achieve necessary tasks.

    Evolve, remain stagnate, or devolve/regress.