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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Be careful of how "people" (re: partisan entities) spin these polls declaring that voters are sour on the Democratic party. People arent angry at Democratic POLICIES, they are angry at Democratic weakness. Its about time, I've been screaming about for DECADES.

If Dems turned it around, grew stainless steel spines and brass testicles, they would get enormous support from all Democratic voters, and most indies as well. But they have exhibited spineless weenie behavior for so long, that it has become their legacy and reputation, and voters are beyond sick of it. Despite screaming at Democratic leaders to fight back against the rise of the Far Right, they did literally nothing to resist it, and now we find our nation on the edge of enslavement by Russia and Sociopathic Oligarchs.

Just because Americans are angry at Democrats for their fecklessness, doesn't mean they support MAGA Treason.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

"We just keep caving and everyone seems to get more and more mad at us!"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

"We've done nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"

[–] gravitas_deficiency 9 points 18 hours ago

Guys no calm down you gotta give them a break. They got really tired from doing nothing and had to take a nap before conceding the entire democratic system. They’re doing their best. Interpretation of that last bit left as an exercise to the reader.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 18 hours ago

"Schumer has announced that they have heard their donors' concerns and will be shifting further right."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The Democratic party is dead. Hopefully progressives will become the new Democratic party. Or even more hopefully we will enact ranked-choice voting nation-wide.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago

We'll get ranked choice in America at the end of a gun or nothing, like every other meaningful reform.

[–] yunxiaoli 26 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe dem voters want something that is not Republicans. Maybe Dems could, you know, not be Republicans, if they want votes at least.

Maybe bragging about an endorsement by the embodiment of absolute evil, the Lord of the nine hells, the architect of imperialist nightmares beyond human comprehension Dick Cheney and his equally evil daughter or whatever the fuck happened that caused Liz Cheney's entering of this plane of existence, was a bad idea.

Nah it's the citizens who are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They have very successfully cast AOC and Bernie as radical "crazy" leftists, and in doing so have pushed themselves further right to build a divide between democrats and whatever name of the week they give those two. When AOC was first elected, I honestly thought she was the future of the party. Now we're here and she's not even really considered part of it, just an outsider

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Dems keep trying to move right in the futile attempt to capture red votes. They don't understand that the moderate right has more in common with the far left than the moderate left.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Progressive party time

[–] gravitas_deficiency 7 points 18 hours ago

I have called and yelled at Schumers answering machine for two straight business days, and I’m looking to establish a streak

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

It's like not standing for anything and sacrificing your party's morals in the name of "compromise" isn't a solid strategy