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- usa@midwest.social
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52742400
How the Senate Democratic leader and his Gang of Eight keep trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
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Vote in/ allow to be voted in psychopants and weak willed and you get a crumbling society. It’s not complicated.
… trying?
Weak leadership is why we are in this Trump era in the first place. Leadership comes from the Top down look at how Republicans emulate Trump.
And the Democratic party will only ever allow weak leadership. They complicit, and the sooner people realize it the sooner we can move on from this idiotic two party mentality.
There are good people who have good intentions who run as Democrats, no doubt, but they either get nowhere or they capitulate and give up too much in vain hopes of changing things from within, but the shackles never get loosened.
The Democratic party is in full swing whitewashing war criminals and normalizing boot licking and veteran warship in order to swing the Overton window to the center.
two party mentality.
The two parties are not a “mentality”. They’re an inescapable consequence of FPTP voting. If you pretend otherwise you will simply lose. And most likely get more fascists.
Forever relegating the party’s future is a silly move. There is no viable progressive party. It’s been a year since he was elected, there’s still no viable progressive party. The best we’ve done is some well organized protests, but it’s the information age, darlings, protests would have to grow to violent mobs before anything is achieved, and I don’t see that happening anywhere, even as fascism is abducting citizens off the streets, repelling into their apartments off helicopters.
We don’t have years for a party to come together, identify leaders, establish roots at all levels. We are under full attack, now. If we can’t get a single violent mob together, then the next best step is to metaphorically do it to the DNC so we can at least use its infrastructure and mechanisms to get a new movement going.
I would love to spend real, thoughtful time devising a new form for a new party, but I am not seeing how, beyond being really upset, people think that’s going to simultaneously happen while we get also get the 270 electoral votes behind a single person in just 3 short years, with enough of a charisma lead that the next Jan 6 doesn’t turn into a military coup.
Because that’s his nature, presumably
Wonder if he’ll get “primaried”. Chuck’s definately lost touch with the democratic base. How he handled the NYC mayoral race demonstrated that.
My pet theory is that Schumer will agree to not run again, and AOC will take over his seat without primary opposition, as long as she promises to not run against Newsom for President.
My fingers are crossed for a Walz/AOC ticket.
AOC will take over his seat without primary opposition
I have bad news for you about how the DNC operates
What do you mean? Making a backroom deal to get the Next One Up across the finish line is exactly how they operate
yeah but AOC is someone the public could get behind as a genuine crusader for the small fry.
DNC historically backstabs people like that the hardest, in order to push the totally-not-republican-in-everything-but-name candidate on America.
The DNC backstabs those folks if they run for President, but would have no problem backing a certain victory for a Senate seat.
They just backstabbed someone running for mayor…
Well, they tried to, but he won, and now they are all going to cozy up to him as long as he keeps winning
I wont vote for him again
“Why does Schumer keep trying to cave?”
How will we ever find the answer to this complicated question? I mean, if you just assume that he’s compromised trash, and barely better than his GOP colleagues, then everything would be explained, but that obviously can’t be the solution.
barely better than his GOP colleagues
His GOP colleagues are trying to send anyone who’s Mexican to a prison camp and make it illegal to oppose them.
Schumer is a bunch of dog shit smirking in a suit all hunched over like Igor, but they’re not in the same ballpark in terms of the damage they’re doing.
This almost reads as if you are trying to defend Schumer.
He continues to let these atrocities to occur as long as his nest egg is safe.
This almost reads as if you are trying to defend Schumer.
I am not
He continues to let these atrocities to occur as long as his nest egg is safe.
Absolutely 100%. He basically doesn’t give a shit as long as he keeps getting a paycheck. Can we fuckin’ primary this guy? I would donate money to that.
This constant trying to compare the terrible leadership to the GOP only shows that you have zero understanding of how sinister and evil the GOP actually is.
Because he’s a corrupt piece of shit, owned by the same moneyed interests that own the Republicans.
His imaginary Republican family told him so.
Because if they get rid of the filibuster he might have to start doing his job.
It’s Schumer, that’s what he does, that’s what he’s always done.
SACO == Schumer always chickens out
Schumer Almost Never Does What I Could Have
Schumer Pledges Ineffectual Tripe
Schumer Happily Upholds Tradition, Upsets Proletariat
Schumer Chucks Reasonable Option Through Ulterior Motive
Schumer Crumbles Under Minor Bullying Appeasing GOP
Can this be a poetry anthology please
You’d call this poetry? Honestly I assume when I fall into doing stuff like these that they’re really just gonna be an exercise for my own amusement and barely glanced at by anyone else.
P.S. Several Users Polled Expressed Deep Sincerity (Quite Unsurprising) Implying Real Respect, Even Love
You’d call this poetry?
Your mom did
Why am I hungry?
Subtle Overpowering Using Psychology
Why Does Water Keep Trying To Flow Downhill?
Schumer is more centrist than liberal.
Liberal can be a centre or centre-right position, as the term is used in many contexts. But it has a range of meanings, which can cause confusion and misunderstanding.
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