• Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        22 days ago

        So what’s the people with actual power we voted into office to stop Trump doing?

        It certainly isn’t even voting no on his choices. They aren’t protesting in the streets. They aren’t hauling the construction of labor camps.

        A literal king is being put into place they just sit on their hands going “We need just $5 from you today to stop this!”

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          22 days ago

          “No if you don’t like that people with power and money aren’t stopping Trump, you clearly support trump!”

          I fucking hate the one dimensional thinking liberals brainwashed themselves into.

  • Sundray@lemmy.sdf.org
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    23 days ago

    Genuinely curious what people want the Democrats to specifically do right now, apart from vague calls of “something” and “more” and “better.” At least on a federal level, aren’t they pretty much powerless at this point? What even can they do?

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      22 days ago
      • Vote no on everything like Republicans did when Obama/Biden tried good things
      • Filibuster every bill like Republicans
      • Give motivated members of Congress more power, like AOC
      • Retire the old blood of the DNC and have people with ideas from after 1982 enter office (my state allows office vacancies to be filled by appointment until election)
      • Listen to the Americans who voted for you to stop Trump and stop whining about that in private meetings
      • Stop voting yes on anything Trump wants
      • Don’t ratfuck young faces because they are running in seats with old people
      • Don’t say everything is okay and normal despite the fact it’s clearly not, it didn’t work both times they ran on it as a platform
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        22 days ago

        All great ideas. Have you mentioned them to the Democrats? They are depressingly poll-driven, but it’s probably worth directly reaching out. My local congress people are probably sick of my shit by now, but if so – good.

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      23 days ago

      My interpretation: the right is broadly successful because they are presenting a compelling narrative to explain the problems in America. It’s “elites” in business, government (deep state), and schools that are pushing an unamerican agenda of “wokeness”, using immigrants to gain power, and indoctrinating through schools and universities. This is enough to get people to vote right because at least the right is doing something to address their concerns.

      What the Democrats need to do, is present a more compelling narrative. They can’t just be the “non-maga” party. They have to actually address people’s concerns about economic insecurity and present a vision for the future. I remain convinced that the first president that runs on economic populism will sweep an election.

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        23 days ago

        Yeah, I remember in 2016 when the Hillary campaign’s response to “Make America Great Again” was “America is Already Great” and man did that go over like a lead balloon. Democrats fucking love to pretend everything is okay.

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          22 days ago

          And then Harris did the same and wondered why she lost.

          “Everything is okay! Sure you can’t afford food, rent, housing, the government spends more on wars than social services, but I might give those with millions a few hundred thousand to buy a house! And I’ll appoint a Republican to my cabinet!”

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      23 days ago

      I mean, I’m not an expert by any means but haven’t the republicans been able to very efficiently stifle democrat majorities before? If they just follow that playbook (delaying things, being pains in the ass, constant insistence on funky rules) they can at least annoy the shit out of them and hopefully slow things down. They’re way too polite for that tho, they’d rather just let it happen and hope they come out okay in the end then to risk the wrath of the annoying orange and his minions.

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        23 days ago

        One thing they could do is stop voting with republicans to confirm Trump’s appointees. Have you seen. how well the Republicans obstruct? They can get everybody in their rank and file out on network TV to call for banning a book by title while the democrats can’t even get their best faces on TV to call what’s happening with NY’s mayor blatant quid pro quo corruption

        EDIT: Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse

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          agreed. that’s literally their job. oppose the other party by whatever means at their disposal. use the press, support union actions, so many ideas. be bold be creative.

          they at least should stop pretending that “playing by the rules” and “trusting the system” is an appropriate response to illegal orders, illegal firings, violations of constitutional doctrine, and open defiance of judicial and legislative oversight. relevant video from InnuendoStudio, sadly aged like wine

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          23 days ago

          Only if the appointees are bad (which, since it’s Trump and “stuff up the deep state” project 2025, there’s probably a lot of bad appointees). If we obstruct appointees that are good, we’ll just keep seeing the pendulum swinging when a new party comes into power.