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The elephant in the room is that people are stupid and politics is about winning them over by any means. There are only winners and losers and nobody cares how you win when you get immunity and can start doling out lucrative government contracts.
The jackass in the room doesn’t realize that you have to really manipulate the dummies and do some serious showmanship so that you can get the real policies you want implemented that give more money and power to your side whilst simultaneously pulling the rug out from the other side, draining their capacity to resist by barraging them with stupid bullshit that consumes their money, power and influence for things that generally have no impact to 99% of people beyond a psychological one.
Every single day it seems more and more that a French style revolution is the only solution
I swear to God, people spend more time blaming Democrats for not fighting Republicans well enough than they do Republicans for doing things that need fighting.
The ire has to do with the representative government where the representatives are not representing.
Which would, in fact, prevent Republicans from doing things that need to be fought.
When representatives in democracy aren’t representing. You kinda lose democracy.
That’s because after watching mitch McConnell do literally fucking anything he wanted for years, Democratic leaders and the DNC have the audacity to whine about not being able to do anything.
All so Cuck Schumer can suck off Netanyahu.
I hate republicans, and conservatives in general. They are worse than vermin. But democrats deserve a ton of hate for how badly everything is going. The DNC allowed this to happen, Biden failed his oath of office, allowing Trump to even get on the ticket. The Supreme Court straight up granting immunity to Presidents meant that he could have and should have done everything in his power force them to reverse that because that shit isn’t in the constitution.
McConnell managed that because Republicans vote in lock step on basically everything. That’s not the DNC’s fault.
That is explicitly the dnc’s fault
Democrats tend to follow rules. That’s kind of their thing. When society prefers those who aren’t following rules, and explicitly and implicity give them power, the power imbalance is undeniable.
Unfortunately, if Democrats stop following rules, it will make them not worth giving power, power corrupts and all that.
So while it’s very nice to push all the blame on them, the only group of people who actually responsible is that quarter of Americans that still didn’t lost their minds. Their job was to elect nit monsters and continue to push them to the right direction. Instead they elected monsters into all the power and now are surprised why monsters have all the power.
American democracy is completely broken.
You basically get to choose between fascism and fascism-light.
Yes, Democrats are the better choice out of the two, but it’s still absolute shit.
Americans love to complain but hate to take action.
I mean, what’s the larger problem: the operator of the orphan crushing machine, or the guy that won’t try to stop them because there’s a ‘no trespassing’ sign on the lawn?
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The problem with that mindset is that you will never win at violence with nazis. They are much more skilled and ruthless.
You will never be able to match them and if you try you will lose the very thing you wanted to protect.
What you need to focus on is a pragmatic action like in an RTS or game of chess. Strategic thinking.
How can you turn the tides of this Cold Civil War or at least contribute to its, desirable for us, outcome.
The current issue is that the left cannot agree what the desired outcome is and hence cannot effectively act if they cannot agree on what they want.
Right have simple agenda and thus it is simple to rally people around it. Good old times. Can there be something more straightforward?
Left have some several nebulous proposals no one quite fully understands. Of course enemy capitalised on these mistakes creating their own simple narrative what left intends to do that is clear and easily digestible therefore much more vocal and viral.
As if this wasn’t bad enough the left then proceeded to furiously engage with this false narrative trap bait.
Democrats have ~45% in spite of their actions not thanks to them. Just because conservatives are so insane that even their incompetence seems better for many
1. Violence is a Losing Game Against Nazis/Far Right
- Attempting to out-violence or out-escalate hardened extremists is futile. The far right often thrives on street fights, militarized posturing, and martyrdom. Engaging them on their terms risks legitimizing their narrative (e.g., “leftist mobs”) and alienating the broader public.
- Alternative: Focus on asymmetric tactics—legal, cultural, and institutional strategies that undermine their influence without playing into their strengths. Examples:
- Deplatforming: Removing their access to social media, financial systems, and public spaces (e.g., what worked against the Proud Boys post-January 6).
- Counter-mobilization: Mass nonviolent protests (e.g., labor strikes, voting drives) that dwarf their numbers.
- Intelligence and preemption: Monitoring and disrupting extremist networks (e.g., antifascist research groups like Bellingcat).
2. Strategic Thinking Like an RTS/Chess Game
- The left often gets bogged down in reactive, emotional, or ideological purity battles instead of long-term strategy. The right, meanwhile, plays a patient game (e.g., Federalist Society stacking courts, decades of libertarian/religious think tanks).
- Key Moves:
- Localism: Focus on school boards, county elections, and state legislatures (where the right has dominated).
- Narrative Control: Stop engaging with bad-faith right-wing framing (e.g., “defund the police” was a gift to the right). Craft simple, positive messages (e.g., “Healthcare for All” beats “Medicare Expansion”).
- Coalition Building: Prioritize shared goals (e.g., abortion rights, labor rights) over divisive internal fights. The right unites evangelicals, libertarians, and oligarchs despite contradictions; the left can unite labor, minorities, and youth.
3. The Left’s Messaging Problem
- The right’s narrative is simple: “Restore traditional values/glory.” The left’s messaging is often fragmented (e.g., “Abolish ICE” vs. “Immigration reform”) or easily distorted (e.g., “CRT” panic).
- Solutions:
- Simplify: Pick 2–3 universal goals (e.g., “Democracy, Dignity, Fair Wages”).
- Humor/Memes: The right dominates meme culture; the left needs its own (e.g., “Dark Brandon” worked because it was playful and resilient to backlash).
- Pre-bunking: Actively define your terms before the right can (e.g., “DEI = Fairness for Everyone”).
4. The Right’s Insanity is the Left’s Only Advantage
- The left often wins by default (e.g., Republicans nominating unelectable extremists). But relying on this is dangerous—it’s how Hitler rose (the center-left assumed no one would vote for Nazis).
- Proactive Steps:
- Electoral Pragmatism: Support the least-worst viable option (e.g., mainstream Dems) while building progressive power locally.
- Discrediting the Right: Amplify their extremism (e.g., Project 2025’s unpopular policies) without seeming hysterical.
- Alternative Institutions: Unions, co-ops, and community networks can build left-wing power outside electoral politics.
5. Cold Civil War Dynamics
- The U.S. is in a “cold” conflict where the right seeks to exploit democratic systems to end democracy (e.g., gerrymandering, voter suppression). The left must:
- Play the long game: Focus on voter registration, judicial appointments, and constitutional safeguards.
- Deprive the right of oxygen: Economic policies that reduce despair (e.g., student debt relief undercutting incel/white supremacist recruitment).
Final Thought:
The left’s biggest weakness isn’t policy—it’s discipline. The right marches in lockstep; the left overthinks. To win:
- Unite around a few clear goals.
- Stop feeding the right’s outrage machine.
- Build durable power (not just viral moments).
What can invidual do to contribute?
An individual can have a meaningful impact by focusing on consistent, strategic actions that plant progressive seeds in their community, shift narratives, and build long-term power:
1. Shift Mindsets (The Battle of Ideas)
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Talk to people outside your bubble.
- Most political change happens through personal relationships. Have calm, empathetic conversations with coworkers, family, or neighbors—focus on shared values (e.g., “Everyone deserves healthcare” vs. “Medicare for All”).
- Use the “deep canvassing” method: Ask questions, listen, and share personal stories (studies show this changes minds better than facts).
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Combat disinformation passively.
- Share positive progressive content (e.g., worker victories, policy successes) rather than endlessly debunking right-wing lies (which spreads them further).
- Use humor/memes (e.g., “Dark Brandon,” “Unionize Your Starbucks”)—emotion beats logic in viral messaging.
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Be a “bridge” for normies.
- Avoid jargon (“abolish ICE,” “ACAB”)—reframe issues in accessible terms (e.g., “Accountable policing” or “Fair immigration rules”).
2. Build Institutional Power
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Join or support an existing group.
- Local: Unions, tenant unions, mutual aid networks, DSA chapters, progressive religious groups.
- National: Swing Left, Indivisible, MoveOn (for electoral work); ACLU, SPLC (for legal/civil rights).
- Key: Consistency matters more than bursts of activism. Attend meetings, volunteer skills (writing, design, organizing).
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Disrupt right-wing networks.
- Support/watchdog groups (e.g., Bellingcat, Accountable Tech) that expose extremism.
- Pressure platforms to deplatform hate (e.g., mass-reporting violent content).
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Run for something—or help someone who does.
- School boards, city councils, and state legislatures are where the right gained power. Groups like Run for Something train progressives to win locally.
3. Daily Actions (Small but Scalable)
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Voter work:
- Register voters (especially young people) at concerts, fairs, or campuses.
- Volunteer as a poll worker (critical to combat right-wing “election fraud” narratives).
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Money as a weapon:
- Donate to progressive candidates in swing districts (even $5 helps).
- Boycott/support businesses aligned with your values (e.g., unionized stores).
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Skill-sharing:
- Offer your professional skills (coding, graphic design, legal help) to grassroots groups.
4. Psychological Warfare (Against the Right)
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Deny them attention.
- Stop quote-tweeting Tucker Carlson or Ben Shapiro—it feeds their algorithm. Mock or ignore instead.
- Starve their propaganda: Share alternatives (e.g., left-wing podcasts, Substacks).
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Flip their tactics:
- Use their nostalgia against them (e.g., “Real patriots tax the rich like FDR”).
- Co-opt their symbols (e.g., “Make America Kind Again”).
5. Protect Your Mental Health
- Avoid burnout. The right thrives on outrage exhaustion. Limit doomscrolling; focus on actionable wins.
- Celebrate small victories. Every union formed, every voter registered weakens the far right’s grip.
Most Important Rule:
Be the “water” (persistent, adaptable, everywhere), not the “rock” (rigid, easily avoided).
The right wins by being relentless; the left must out-persist them.-
You forgot to add the corporations raining down money on both sides to keep things this way.
They’re not doing anything because they are complicit. The DNC and the majority of Democrats are completely fine with fascism as long as it does not impact themselves.
It’s not even a question anymore, every single House Democrat proved it recently by voting in favor of the “Take it Down” act.
It’s not even a question anymore, every single House Democrat proved it recently by voting in favor of the “Take it Down” act.
everyone voted for that except 2 republicans lol
this includes AOC, and i think bernie sanders, some didnt vote at all
Are people not paying attention, or just love to blame Democrats? They’re not asking for compromises. They’re making clear demands and getting voted down. Most recently, the House Judiciary Committee voted on the deportations. Democrats insisted that citizens be exempt from deportation. Republicans voted them down. This is what happens when you have full Republican control of our government. Keep bitching about the minority party fighting for you, and this is here to stay.
You want fresh blood in the seats? Me too. Vote in the congressional midterm primaries next year. We all have a say in who sits in those seats, but only the elderly retirees show up for the vote.
And they’ve been sitting on their hands for years even when they did have power. They routinely allow this shit to happen and it’s a little late to say them asking if maybe US citizens could be exempt shows how great they really are. Like, they should be demanding that any deportation needs far better scrutiny, and that would right there take care of the citizen part while also protecting so many others. It’s basically the meme we’re commenting on!
They aren’t protecting the US from shit, and it fucking shows. Your country is bad and you should feel bad, not be making excuses and complaining about Democrats not getting respect for unsuccessfully doing the bare minimum and then saying “guess that’s that.”
The only time in the last 30 years that Democrats had the same control that Republicans have now, was the 111th Congress. It was considered the most productive Congress since the 89th Congress.
Joe Biden took office directly after J6, allowed Garland to pull pud for four years, then got the biggest fucking stick an American president has ever gotten from the SC, and handed it to Trump.
I feel the Dems can take some blame.
Oh they’re far from ideal. They’re also far from the Republicans. Actively voting in congressional primaries is how we can make them into the opposition party we want.
To vote in a primary election, I would have to join one of the parties holding primaries. I would never join a party that supports fascism and genocide, which means no Democratic party and no Republican party. Joining one of those two is no different than signing up for the Nazi party or the KKK. I would never want to be associated with either party. If I ever join a party it will be the Green party.
You could use it to vote for Democrats not funded by AIPAC in the primaries.
I think you misunderstand. The majority of politicians in both parties fully support MAGA and Israel, though the Democrats perform a lot of theater about not liking MAGA while they vote in favor of MAGA every chance they get. The point is, before I would even consider joining the Democratic party, the party would have to abandon MAGA and AIPAC as a part of their platform. They would have to kick people out of the party for voting with Trump or taking money from AIPAC. Then I might join them.
100% of Dems voted in favor of Trump’s first 2 picks for his cabinet, despite spending hours upon hours grilling them and talking about how unfit for the jobs they are.
It was only after they started getting outraged calls in the thousands per day compared to the usual 30 that they started voting against Trump’s cabinet.
Look at Schumer and Pelosi. Or the party appointing a man practically on his deathbed over fresh blood to one of the most important positions in the party. A man who had to resign 4 months later, IIRC.
The Dems only offer up any real resistance when they’re forced to by us. Otherwise, they vote no, voice a few complaints, and then go about their day like it’s any other.
It’s our job to replace them in primaries if they don’t represent us. It’s also our job to inform them of our stance on issues, just as it’s their job to vote in line with those requests.
You just said they do their job, like it’s a bad thing. There are Republicans getting lambasted in town halls that go right back to DC and do whatever Trump wants. How is that the same to you?
They were voted in to oppose Trump, among many other things. They voted 100% in favor of Trump’s candidates. How is that “doing their job”?
Assuming that the party will still exist in 2 years, how can we replace them when they refuse to entertain any candidates that don’t follow the old guard party line of minimum effort to keep their seat? They outright said that they didn’t have to primary Bernie in 2016 and that they wouldn’t, despite him polling better than both Hillary and Trump.
They don’t respond to the many issues that their voters have, such as trans rights (which they said should be sacrificed to win the election this past time) or the housing crisis, low wages, and a myriad of others that Millennials have been fielding for almost 2 decades now.
This isn’t people suddenly being angry at the Democrats. It’s 40 years of frustration finally boiling over as many in the party leadership put up the barest of resistances against a fascist regime.
That’s false. They voted against most of the candidates. Republicans had majority with Vance as the tiebreaker.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/29/us/politics/trump-cabinet-confirmations-tracker.html
I’m aware of the frustration. As someone who has been active in politics and to the left of the Democrats since the 90s, I blame the voters. Democrats get 20% attendance in midterm elections, and even less in primaries, yet people always complain that nothing changes. You know who never misses an election? The elderly. I’m always the youngest volunteer there.
The state of our nation is a direct result of complacency and apathy, and the same people who don’t vote are the loudest critics. It’s pathetic.
You know why the Dems only get 20% attendance? Because election days are days that people have to work, and older people are much more likely to be in a more secure financial position and job, increasing the likelihood that they can take the time to vote. And that’s before you even get into voter suppression tactics that are all designed to make it harder for leftists to vote, and then on top of that you can add the piss poor political education we get here (in terms of everything from candidates and what they stand for to when voting days are and where you go to vote).
The system is built to make exercising your right to vote as hard as possible, and the MAGA cultists have pushed it as much as they can in their favor. Another perfect example is the fact that I need an account to view that NYTimes article, but I can view as many Fox News articles as I could ever want for free (not that I would want to).
The people who only turn out once every four years are one thing, and the systemic issues that hurt voter turnout are another, but the fact remains that the Dems criticized Trump’s cabinet picks up and down, but still voted 100% in favor of the first two and it wasn’t until they got thousands upon thousands of angry phone calls that that started changing. It wasn’t until like the 6th cabinet pick that the Dems were voting 100% against.
When a black man got into office, the Republicans stonewalled and shut down the government over and over for a decade. When a fascist got into office, the Dems clutched their pearls over the handful of their own willing to filibuster and call a spade a spade because of “decorum.”
Sign up for mail-in ballots if you don’t have control over your schedule.
And this is why they’re making it even harder to get access to mail-in ballots. In places where Dems have made it easy to get and use them, they get tons of use. In Republican-controlled areas, they make it hard to get them because they’re used largely by left-leaning voters.
Democrats should have demanded the removal of most of the republican party from office via the 14th amendment. Refuse to cooperate with this illegitimate government.
So what about 2021 - 2022, when the Dems had the Senate, the House and the Presidency? Where was the push to codify Roe v Wade? Why didn’t they put Trump in prison, pending trial? There were dozens of things they could have done when they had power. The don’t want to do any of the things they SAY they want to do. They want to ask for campaign donations to fight the MAGAs but they don’t actually want to fight. They’re scammers.
You talk about blaming people but that’s a waste of our time. We actually want to make things better in the future, and to do that you need to look at how we got to where we are, and it’s clear that we got here by corporate Democrats caving to Republican and corporate interests. That’s been going on for the past 30 years. Of course the Republicans are more to blame than the democrats, but if you can’t recognize that the old Washington Democrats are largely worthless sandbags, then there’s no way you’re going to make things better in the future. They simply lack the values that we have, they don’t actually want to make life better for the average American, and that’s never going to change.
If you want to ask what more the Democrats can do, I think there are a ton of good examples. They can obstruct the process in so many ways, they can have independent press conferences, they can generate a ton of PR by creating videos for Facebook and YouTube and TikTok. They can go visit prisoners held in Central America. Just go look at what the active newer generation of Democrats are doing, go look at what Bernie Sanders does, and ask yourself why we don’t have hundreds of people doing that every day. Quite simply, we don’t see that in large numbers because most of those people have s***** values. Most of them are out to protect their own power and their own seat and that’s it.
The Democrats had the power that Republicans have now only for two years in the last 30. The 111th Congress was the most productive Congress since the 89th. They’re not all good. Far from it. That’s what primaries are for. If people actually showed up and voted, we wouldn’t be here at all.
In 2021, President Joe Biden issued 42 executive orders in the first 100 days of his presidency, more than any other president since Harry Truman. However, in 2025, Donald Trump became the president to issue the most executive orders in his first 100 days with 143, surpassing Franklin Roosevelt’s 99.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had another FDR? A real firebrand, you know. Someone who actually wants to do something and isn’t just filling a seat.
Executive orders are temporary measures. Biden spent his term on damage control, recovering from a pandemic and the damage Trump caused.
There will never be enough fresh blood.
Even if the democrats were all progressives and had 100% of the entire government things are too fucked to be fixed before the collapse.
Also, I vote in every primary and they always lose. Turns out we’re just a conservative country.
Only 22% of the nation voted for Trump. Many of them already regret their votes. Trump won on the apathy of the majority. Defeatism is simply fuel for that fire.
Well then he’s gonna win again because most people are apathetic and this country is doomed.
Serves me right for trying to do the right thing.
Spreading apathy through pessimistic defeatism is the right thing? In that case, I’d rather be wrong.
We got here through division and disengagement. Only unity and action will get us out.
I’ve been engaged for 25 years and we still got here anyway.
You think a constant stream of pessimism is engaging others? C’mon. You know what you’re doing.
I have yet to see evidence to the contrary.
The alternative is me drinking or shouting at traffic at it whizzes by.
Convince me there is literally any hope at all and I might stop.
Or just block me. I don’t care anymore.
Your name is “Doomergod”. You’re just spewing doom for lols.
What a jerk.I wish this was for the lols but I’m legitimately hopeless. I keep looking for an argument that this hopelessness isn’t accurate but I just get the same platitudes.
I would argue total hopelessness is inaccurate because things can change in ways we don’t anticipate. The US will collapse as all empires have, and the world will become a better place, but it will be a rough transition and things will get extra fucked as climate change worsens. Many more people are working to make things better for each other than there are people working to fuck us over, they are just better organized right now.
But anyway the level of hope you feel is more likely to be dictated by whatever material reality you are experiencing. If you are actually looking for a logical argument against hopelessness in an effort to reduce it there are better ways.
Many more people are working to make things better for each other than there are people working to fuck us over, they are just better organized right now.
This is what it has been my entire life. Since 2001 the world has been on a cyclical descent into ruin, missing every chance it had to do something, failing at ever call to action.
My personal reality is pretty awesome, though. I just want to keep them safe from the rest of the species as it descends into barbarism.
We all need to do what we can do to fight back including civil disobedience. One of the most powerful but unfortunately forgotten ways of fighting back is protesting. The powers at be don’t like it because they have no control of the information. Reddit perm banned me for being too outspoken. So here I am. Please people rise up and get loud!!!
Absolutely. Republicans aren’t afraid of losing their seats with 5M people in the streets nationwide. We need a lot more of us to scare them into dissent.
Ever since Trump won I sloooooow walllllkkk everything at work. It’s been great for my mental health. I can’t give up my job because I have a family to feed. But I can slow down machinery at work and cause lots of inefficiencies. Fuck you, trump voting industry.
imagine functioning as controlled opposition while not even being controlled opposition. those desk jobs are way too fucking nice
If you assume that Republicans will ever compromise, it makes an ass out of you and me.
Unpopular opinion: The problem is the people, roughly 30%-40% of them but continuing to grow, and their inability to cope with modern propaganda herding techniques through big data, social networks, and now AI.
What we have today are governments, whether they be two party or more, being divided into the ideological parties, those willing to operate within the framing and intent of their constitutions, to those willing to game it. Those willing to game it and those attracted to oligarchs and easy lobby wealth only seem to have an ideological factor to them because they adopt the political ideologies of least resistance - which they will gladly go back on, and have done so as their attempts to game the system have led them to the sort of voter menagerie they have now.
People blaming the “democratic party”, in this context the US democratic party, are ignorant enough to not realize that a “party” in the US is just a donor list to finance candidate race’s for congress and that it is very easy for a corrupt candidate to run for the “party” in states where it is beneficial for them to do so - as long as they can cajole that list of donors long enough. This isn’t like some other countries where being part of a party actually means something. In the US, both parties have a significant degree of corruption, and it was already arguably an oligarchy.
But within the democratic party, due to the aforementioned biases, it has less members willing to outright game the government and more of those operating from an ideological basis. An ideological basis is basically the only thing a government can be built around, once parties start getting in that don’t operate from an ideological bases, you are just voting on who scams you. Yet nowadays the portion of those action from an ideological position within the US government is no longer the majority. There was even a rift in the Republican party a few years ago, and because it is inherently the party dominated by those most willing to game to government instead of serve it, it was MAGA that won out.
More to the point, an ideological basis limits what candidates do to working within the constitution and actual good faith.
So people blaming the democrats are people who have a deluded world view, blaming a governing minority party who by their very nature will operate in a handicapped ideological fashion versus a dominant authoritarian insurgency willing to do anything to game the system and make it that much more subservient. They are the sort of people who think they will still get fair elections for the midterms and subsequent elections, and they don’t realize their democracy is now over and that what they will need is either secession into a new governing entity (not going to happen any time soon, because today’s Americans can’t comprehend things like the UK being able to leave the EU and the EU and UK continuing to exist and having that be the normal way federal and state interactions could occur, never mind the shadow of debt being a chain to the central government) or a Civil War (and while Americans will virtue signal all the way to kingdom come, it is in their ignorance, those countries that were democracies but are today authoritarian states, that shows most of society will be quite willing to bend the knee - if US society were for some reason different than the rest Trump wouldn’t have gotten so far).
At a personal level, what people can do and will do is resistance, and be honest, let me ask you, supposing 1/3 of the US was doing the same effort, the same investment at resisting that you, personally are doing right now, given that 1/3 are inert “undecideds” more likely to get caught and the other 1/3 is MAGA, and keeping in mind that the authoritarian government is operating outside of society and is choosing to game it, what change would you really affect? How about we make it an even easier question? What if the authoritarian was a foreign monarch in Europe with an ocean of distance between them and you, if the most advanced form of travel was by ship and there was no AI, no big data, no social network herding, no instant communication, if your actions right now were representative of what the rest of society was doing, how much of a change would they be likely to make?
1/3 of people don’t vote. They are disenfranchised or politically apathetic. 2/3 of people are propagandized or coerced into voting for parties that don’t serve anything besides capital, greed, and their own lust for power.
We need a new system. The concept of “political parties” is harmful to human progress. We don’t need people on imaginary teams playing tug of war with each other while the world burns.
What we do need is strong and principled leadership, that is not poisoned by capital or team politics, that is motivated towards improving the planet and actually working to solving critical issues instead of worrying incessantly about “cost” at every single step.
There’s no need to play the blame game, but if we want a future that is not undesirable, it necessitates positive action and a willingness to identify what is blocking or stagnating us as a species.
So, no real solution, just more and even vaguer ideology versus an authoritarian regime. I’ll be sure to materialize this positive action out of my ass to help out.
When the shelves are empty because everything comes from China or relies on imports from China, when there is a food crisis and people are sent to the fields because Trump deported a significant chunk of our agricultural labor force (40% of US agricultural workers are undocumented immigrants), when people become unable to afford groceries and other essentials, and so forth - that is the moment that change will happen.
Trump et. al have already done so many things that are blatantly against the law. Contempt of court and not respecting his oath to uphold the constitution being the least of them. Where are the Democrats when you need them? Writing strongly-worded letters to Trump?
The obvious solution is to stop playing games, stop waiting for the Democrats to save us, and seize the moment. That includes creating a real American democracy.
Because food crisis are so reliable at taking down authoritarian regimes. The democrats are at the same place people are, working within the system and the designated ways to protest and expecting change to suddenly come out miraculously out of their virtuosity. The US hope is basically that the authoritarian in power is too incompetent to keep it when they’ve been preparing for this for several years now. It’s not a bad plan if it were only Trump, unfortunately it’s far bigger than him now.
If we are going to be vaguely idealistic, the obvious solution is for all things bad to stop so that all things that are good grow into things that are more good.
I wish the Democrats, and the people who trust them to save them, the best.
I’ve just been told too many lies and seen the American people been gaslit too much.
There have been too many atrocities that Democrats have directly enabled, there are crises in every area of the human experience, and what they are overall proposing to address those issues and the consequences of their past inaction and misbehavior is inadequate.
When Democrats start taking substantive legal action en-masse against this administration, like they do against third parties, I’ll be more open to the idea that they aren’t complicit or apathetic.
Vague protests about oligarchy aren’t sufficient to deal with oligarchy. We can’t even get them to back universal healthcare, how can they fight oligarchy?
Let’s talk it out!
