Why did they pass the ACA when we gave them 58 senators? Why did they ban lobby and PAC campaign funds in 2003? Why did Biden audit the rich? Why did Obama enforce immigrant holding time limits against the private prison industry’s wishes?
Seems to me we just haven’t given them more than 48 senators in over 13 years and now everything sucks.
It originally had a public option, which wasn’t in Romney’s healthcare plan. That needed just one more vote to pass, but midterm voters decided to give it many fewer votes instead.
So you oppose giving healthcare to 70 Million people? And btw, the DNC plan was closer to German Healthcare until a lone independent required to reach 60 votes forced the current version.
No, that’s the opposite of the truth. They’re a paid jobber party. They don’t oppose the Republicans, they job them. You know, like in wrestling when a wrestler is paid to lose a fight on purpose.
The best thing we can do to fuck up their plans and screw with the billionaires is vote for the Democrats and persuade others to do the same. That’s the thing they least want us to do. They want bad PR and low voter turnout. But if we register with the party, go to local primaries to support socialist candidates who actually believe in improving things, and then help those candidates win (and keep the Rs out by voting for the jobbers when we have to), then the billionaires are fucked because the true believers in the party, even the libby ones, will raise taxes. And Trump won’t be able to lower them.
I can get behind primaries pushing out the establishment and neo-liberals, but honestly if we don’t succeed in that you’ll find me hard pressed to vote blue no matter who.
I’m guessing that’s because you think voting for a candidate supports them in more than one way?
The first way that voting for a candidate supports them is that it helps them beat the opposing candidate, the R fascist. So you’re giving them the “better than actual Nazis” award, I’m sure you agree.
But I’m guessing you think voting for a candidate gives them support in more ways than just that one?
I’m just curious, where in the realm of conservatism is their views acceptable and not acceptable? I’m not confused but many people seem to give neo-liberals a free pass when that’s the ideology of Thatcher and Reagan. Becoming mainstream in the Democrat party while the Republican party tilted further into conservatism, especially after Gingrich said essentially no more compromise with Democrats.
There are only 45 dem senators and a minority in the house. They can’t choose to do a single fuckin thing but block certain bills and force others to vote.
You do realize they could be campaigning on these things. Making noise, drawing more attention to Trumps policy failures.
Maybe it’s just the reporting of it, but the only person I actively heard making a big stink within the party was David Hogg. The party had a big issue with his approach that they used a technicality to remove him from his position in the party.
David Hogg clearly didn’t care enough about his ideals to participate in the redo election for his seat. To clarify, though, the other DNC chairmen didn’t oust him on a technicality, the woman he won against did because she rightfully filed a complaint about the gender segregated pairing of the election which violated DNC rules.
I’m just puzzled that there are a not insignificant number of people on this site who literally believe that Democrats keep losing elections on purpose.
Because that’s the only reasonable explanation for their actions. They can’t possibly be as incompetent as they’re pretending. “They’re not trying to win, they’re trying to ensure you keep enough faith in the system to prevent you from revolting” is the Occams Razor explanation.
Honestly, I think it’s more foreign psyops than anything else. The Lemmy developers are devout Tankies who openly support the invasion of Ukraine, Chinese takeover of Taiwan and Hong Kong, etc. There is proven tankie bot activity and the majority of downvotes are from a handful of IP addresses.
The CCP both supports the Trump admin and at the same time violent insurgency in the USA, Europe, and other nations around the world, because they don’t care how we destroy ourselves as long as it gets done.
Dems know exactly how they could get a massive landslide in the midterms, and are choosing not to do it.
If they win by too much they woukd lose all their excuse to work against the people.
It would ruin them.
Why did they pass the ACA when we gave them 58 senators? Why did they ban lobby and PAC campaign funds in 2003? Why did Biden audit the rich? Why did Obama enforce immigrant holding time limits against the private prison industry’s wishes?
Seems to me we just haven’t given them more than 48 senators in over 13 years and now everything sucks.
Oh yes the ACA, Romney’s healthcare plan lmao
It originally had a public option, which wasn’t in Romney’s healthcare plan. That needed just one more vote to pass, but midterm voters decided to give it many fewer votes instead.
So you oppose giving healthcare to 70 Million people? And btw, the DNC plan was closer to German Healthcare until a lone independent required to reach 60 votes forced the current version.
Lmfao you’re such a bad faith moron.
You argued against expanding healthcare and somehow that makes me bad faith?
That’s cause they’re trying to lose on purpose. Their corporate donors told them to.
Paid opposition party.
No, that’s the opposite of the truth. They’re a paid jobber party. They don’t oppose the Republicans, they job them. You know, like in wrestling when a wrestler is paid to lose a fight on purpose.
The best thing we can do to fuck up their plans and screw with the billionaires is vote for the Democrats and persuade others to do the same. That’s the thing they least want us to do. They want bad PR and low voter turnout. But if we register with the party, go to local primaries to support socialist candidates who actually believe in improving things, and then help those candidates win (and keep the Rs out by voting for the jobbers when we have to), then the billionaires are fucked because the true believers in the party, even the libby ones, will raise taxes. And Trump won’t be able to lower them.
I can get behind primaries pushing out the establishment and neo-liberals, but honestly if we don’t succeed in that you’ll find me hard pressed to vote blue no matter who.
I’m guessing that’s because you think voting for a candidate supports them in more than one way?
The first way that voting for a candidate supports them is that it helps them beat the opposing candidate, the R fascist. So you’re giving them the “better than actual Nazis” award, I’m sure you agree.
But I’m guessing you think voting for a candidate gives them support in more ways than just that one?
It’s more of neo-liberal Dems are fascist, they just have a nicer visage about it as they provide more of the boots.
You shouldn’t round so imprecisely.
I’m just curious, where in the realm of conservatism is their views acceptable and not acceptable? I’m not confused but many people seem to give neo-liberals a free pass when that’s the ideology of Thatcher and Reagan. Becoming mainstream in the Democrat party while the Republican party tilted further into conservatism, especially after Gingrich said essentially no more compromise with Democrats.
There are only 45 dem senators and a minority in the house. They can’t choose to do a single fuckin thing but block certain bills and force others to vote.
You do realize they could be campaigning on these things. Making noise, drawing more attention to Trumps policy failures.
Maybe it’s just the reporting of it, but the only person I actively heard making a big stink within the party was David Hogg. The party had a big issue with his approach that they used a technicality to remove him from his position in the party.
David Hogg clearly didn’t care enough about his ideals to participate in the redo election for his seat. To clarify, though, the other DNC chairmen didn’t oust him on a technicality, the woman he won against did because she rightfully filed a complaint about the gender segregated pairing of the election which violated DNC rules.
I’m just puzzled that there are a not insignificant number of people on this site who literally believe that Democrats keep losing elections on purpose.
Just stop.
Because that’s the only reasonable explanation for their actions. They can’t possibly be as incompetent as they’re pretending. “They’re not trying to win, they’re trying to ensure you keep enough faith in the system to prevent you from revolting” is the Occams Razor explanation.
Honestly, I think it’s more foreign psyops than anything else. The Lemmy developers are devout Tankies who openly support the invasion of Ukraine, Chinese takeover of Taiwan and Hong Kong, etc. There is proven tankie bot activity and the majority of downvotes are from a handful of IP addresses.
The CCP both supports the Trump admin and at the same time violent insurgency in the USA, Europe, and other nations around the world, because they don’t care how we destroy ourselves as long as it gets done.