Dear Democrats: It Would Be Nice If You Could Lead, And Not Off A Cliff
Dear Democrats: It Would Be Nice If You Could Lead, And Not Off A Cliff
We really should have two major parties committed to upholding the Constitution. But at the moment we seem to have none. Because not only have the Republicans been captured by the corrupt fascism o…
Liberalism isn't going to save us. Way I see it, if we want a better country, we have three options:
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Violent revolution. This should be a last resort, and I don't think we are quite there yet.
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Wait for Fascism to collapse. It will. Problem is, A FUCKING LOT of people will suffer and die in the mean time.
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Mobilize a viable third party. No, not the Greens. They are just as corrupt as the rest, and they pal around with Fascist traitors. I'm talking about a real grass roots Leftist movement, starting from the ground up. Basically, use the exact same playbook that MAGA used. They spent the past decade taking over social media with their Manosphere bullshit, and suddenly Gen Z shifted hard to the Right, which younger generations almost never do. We need to take back that online space. Take over town hall meetings, take over school boards, take over city councils, show up in huge numbers to vote for actual good (or as good as we can get) judges and DA's. This also means volunteering, phone banking, door knocking, and most importantly of all, some of you need to run for office. Even something local can make a difference in your community. That's how MAGA won. They didn't even have the numbers. They just had the right strategy, and in their hubris, Democrats ignored it.
The third option is obviously what I prefer to happen. It'll take a few years, and we may not even win the White House in 2028. But this isn't about you or me. It's about the future of civilization. If they did it, so can we. Let's not be outsmarted by a bunch of people who worship a man who can't fucking read.
Not saying it can't be done, obviously it can but to many people saying "run for office" is like saying "build a car".
Are there primers on how to start with a campaign for people that have the desire but not the knowledge?
What is all involved in starting and running a successful campaign?
How much time do you need to dedicate to the campaign?
What would be the personal cost for running for office?
Who do you need to hire to help you (manager, donation specialist, volunteer coordinator, etc)?
My guess to this is that the higher the office the more people and money you will need.
I'm not writing this to be contrary but to really get answers - I think more people would be more open to the idea if they could see what a campaign needs to be successful.
I'm specifically barred from holding any public office, political or not until I exit the military. I have about a year left before I can launch any kind of campaign legally. Assuming we survive that long, I plan to. That all said I have no idea what I'm doing and would love to have the answers to the questions you pose here.
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Nope, sorry, I just saw a politico article about Newsom agreeing with Charlie Kirk on trans people in sports that basically boiled down to "FINALLY! SOMEONE understands that this is the most critical topic in America today, and for Democrats to win, they need to become republicans!"
The democrats aren't leading us anywhere. They're not going to save us. They have no vision besides being dollar store republicans and wondering why Republican voters keep choosing Republicans over them.
They have no vision besides being dollar store republicans and wondering why Republican voters keep choosing Republicans over them.
While screaming at anyone to their left for not being enthusiastic to vote for dollar store republicans.
There is a reason the main Democratic leadership is not pushing a more left leaning agenda, they would lose. If the left got a foothold on the national conversation like maga did then the middle of the road Democrats fear they will go the way of the middle of the road Republicans and that is out of power.
Progressive ideals? Democrats can’t even spell it, let alone legislate it without corporate strings attached. Incisive critique of bipartisan failure and urgent call for accountability.
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The Democrats feel like they are more concerned about how the utencils are arranged beside the plate than making sure people have food on it.
look up your local water treatment infrastructure. look up all the suppliers, and their suppliers, so you know who to talk to when you're the last thing between your city and mass dysentery. maybe get some reserve chemicals and commonly broken parts, if you can afford it.
and figure out how to keep your local nazis from destroying all the infrastructure. they love doing that shit.
we don't need the democrats. they will never step up. they have had so many chances. if anyone remembers the 2000 election, you'll know that this is all kind of their fault. they won an election, and gave it up because the nazis threw a fucking fit.
if you want leadership, pick up a fucking banner. you are the government now. and you should be fucking pissed about that.
We need the Democrats. We need 60 in the senate. That's the only way out which doesn't result in things only getting worse.
The fact that Democrats should be raising their voices as loudly as possible against this admin’s moves but instead a sizable 10 of them voted to censure the 1 Democrat who tried to in fact do that, tells you everything about the Democrats’ plans.
At this point, there are only a handful of them who are rallying their constituents and speaking out about this admin’s atrocities, but the majority is completely MIA. Then they wonder why their voters are MIA during the elections.
10 in the house, out of 215 or 214 depending on the exact time of death of Sylvester Turner, not really sizable imo. Also, since there were 0 Republican Nays, it would have passed regardless.
Give those 10 a piece of your mind, yes, but it's not sizable or impactful at all.
It should have been zero. Stop making excuses.
I'll keep saying this: it's precious that people still believe The Constitution has any sway and that we are a country of laws. That ship has sailed over the horizon.
I agree, Republicans and Democrats keep taking turns swinging their axe at the tree every four to eight years. The tree hasn't fallen over yet, but it was dead a long time ago.
at best the democrats don't understand the assignment. at worst they understand this to be the assignment
i fear for the core of the party, it's the latter, and that the majority is following that core because they don't know the assignment
so you would take out Bernie and AOC over a law to remove SA content?
trump is already suing media companies openly so he doesn't even need this.
The last guy in charge was a corporate lobbyist so..
At this point a total collapse of the USA's 2-party-system seems the best of all realistic alternatives.
Because the Dems getting their shit together in less than 4 years certainly isn't realistic.
The two party system can't collapse without taking the whole government down with it. It's baked into the constitution. Not in words as such, but in mathematical reality. I just want to be real about "realistic outcomes." Fix the parties or rewrite the whole fucking shebang.
And that second option—there is a lot unsaid there about how that comes about, but it's not by everyone embracing universal brotherhood and sisterhood and mutually agreeing on a better way.
The US government is like a beat up old car we try to keep on the road with Lucasoil and duct tape. We’ve needed to fix it a long time ago but we didn’t.
The car will eventually stop working and leave us stranded if we do nothing, but we also can’t afford to leave it at the mechanic for a week because we need to get to work in the morning.
The government will fall, people will be hurt by it, and we will have to make something new - note I didn’t say better - and it will happen at the least opportune time.
Unfortunately, the two party system right now can probably only collapse into a one party system.
Always has been.
The path to that would have been through Dems taking power and doing something with it though.
It's all a racket. The parties work together
We don’t have a two party system. Jesus fucking Christ. Anyone who thinks this doesn’t understand the system well enough to be making suggestions.
You're totally right. We don't have a two party system, we have a system where only two parties are large enough to win any kind of influence.
The democrats and thier party have been bought and paid for. They aren't going to save us from the billionaires.
Then Why did you vote them out and give Republicans complete control over the government?
This is the new whataboutism strategy. This is the new "both sides".
This isn't whataboutism, the reason things are the way that they are is a direct result of voters choosing this outcome. Not because blue ties aren't screaming on the house and senate floor, not because attorney generals aren't attorney generalling hard enough, but because of how people voted in 2024.
why the hell didn't you vote for delacruz? she's electable if you vote for her. maybe you should have fallen in line and sided with the people you claim are your natural god damn allies after your candidate went obviously senile and clearly couldn't win?
Ah, but they don't work too serve us. They work to serve corporations and billionaires. We can fix that, but it will take a lot of relentless work and vigilance, before, during and after fixing it.
A core democrat stance is removing Citizens United, so it really doesn't align with your alternative facts.
A core democrat stance is removing Citizens United
And what have they done toward making that happen?
Now let's hear how there is never any such thing as a Democratic majority.
It would have been nice if Democrats were in a position but we're in a death spiral of articles like this being critical of them so fat fuck chance of ever winning another election.
fat fuck chance of ever
winninganother electionThe democratic party joined the oligarchs a long time ago, what they did to Bernie was evidence. Now they’re the part of the system that failed. If there is another election, the opposition candidate will need to be a grassroots candidate working to fix the failures that this election demonstrated. Every state senator and house rep will need to support that candidate or the system is lost. And this is if there is another another election. I doubt there will be. And sadly, if there is, I feel that due to Russia and the oligarch’s influence, it will be a sham election to keep fascism in power.
If your shitty party wants less criticism, they should earn less criticism.
Nah, Democrats failed us again last year. Instead of focusing on what matters, they played the exact same play out of their playbook from 2016. Which was to attack Trump over and over. They didn't promise much of anything, only that "well, we're not Trump so vote for us!". We did that in 2020 with Biden and the best Biden did was nudge things but he didn't do that grand of a job. We voted for him because he wasn't Trump. When it came time for a fresher candidate to make history again, what did Harris do? She caved and went the whole "AT LEAST WE'RE NOT TRUMP!" towards the end of her campaign and that didn't do wonders.
And the fact that the Democrats allowed for Republicans, unchallenged, to take the Senate and House? Dude, no balls on them.
They didn’t promise much of anything, only that “well, we’re not Trump so vote for us!”.
Is that not enough? You prefer Trump to not-Trump?
Is that not enough? You prefer Trump to not-Trump?
People are tired of this shit. Democrats have been running on this for 20 years at this point. We're at the point where people would rather see Trump dismantle the entire federal government than vote for one more Democrat promising, that this time, they actually will make meaningful change.
People are just done with this. Democrats have repeatedly failed to make government work for people. If government won't work for people, why would people care if Trump's going to come in and tear everything down?
Is it too much to ask for America to have someone who's only quality is that they're not Trump? How about credulous capability? How about a spine to tell corporations to shove it? How about an actual move to progress things that should've been apparent in the present X amount of years ago?
Simply just not being Trump is not enough. Because what you do not care to realize, is that sets a low bar. You're saying, you're okay with someone not Trump even though they may not be any better. Don't mix my words around, idiot.
Kamala Harris tax plan was to never raise taxes for those who make 400k, to tax unrealized gains over 1M, to remove the pointless social security upper limit of taxable income, and to start taxing corporations fair effective rates.
Instead we all collectively decided to fuck ourselves with another pro-rich GOP tax plan. That's what was on the table in 2024. The effects of this election will reverberate for decades at the least.
Oh they've been wasted in the back of this party bus for a while telling everyone to calm down and stop being so frantic and everything's fine.
The Dems fielded a candidate with potential, in a binary race against the absolute worst candidate ever.
Voters chose a felon with a pattern of grifting and lies.
Those are facts.
Here's the opinion: stop blaming the party for the people's mistake. Just secede and be done with it.
Uh, you missed a few steps. Like the people voicing concerns over Biden's mental health and being told to shove it while the party hid him from public view as much as possible. And then when they couldn't hide it anymore they still tried to gaslight us that we didn't see what we just saw.
And then finally they succumbed to that public pressure when it was far too late to have an actual primary and rally as a party, instead being told to vote for someone who was candidate-by-default.
The Dems constantly try to pander to the right which only fuels their real enemy in elections: voter apathy. If they actually governed and gave more than lip service, they'd never lose another election.
The first job of a political party is to win elections, because that predicates action on any issues they care about.
Saying we shouldn't blame the party for losing is like saying we shouldn't blame a mechanic for not knowing how to open the hood of a car.
Centrists would rather lose to trump than win with a progressive. You got exactly what you wanted.
The Dems fielded a candidate with potential, in a binary race against the absolute worst candidate ever.
I am sorry but this is nonsense. Kamala Harris’s best point was that she wasn’t Trump.
Kamala Harris toned down her attacks on big business, she made no plans to improve America’s health care system other than vague promises to cancel debt, touted the endorsement of war criminal Dick Cheney who wanted to invade seven countries in five years and whom was partially responsible for the deaths of a million, spent half as much time focusing on the most important issues during her campaign compared to Trump, and touted a Fortune 500 investment banking company‘s endorsement for her economic plans which made her look like an out of touch elitist.
All Harris brought to the table was “freedom” meanwhile Trump came out with right wing populist rhetoric and people seemed to like Trump’s rhetoric more considering that they have long since become disillusioned with the Status Quo.
How dare you say that on Lemmy, or Reddit for that matter! Democrats and liberal ideology can do NO WRONG in these parts!
Right? Look at how downvoted OP is as well as all the replies that are also critical of Democrats...
... Oh wait, it looks like you're full of shit.
I think the democrats are applying the age old adage: "Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake."
Or they could be in the minority in both house, senate, SCOTUS, and white house and they can't do shit besides filibuster and sue.
ONE member of the democratic party acted appropriately for a parliamentary resistance. one. and I would argue it's several years late.
if they were serious about this, the white house lawn would have been covered in gallows on january 7th. trump would have run from prison. nazi groups would have been hunted by feds like they were fucking communists who'd just blown up a pipeline. every day of the biden administration would have had FBI kill teams slaughtering groipers who'd fled to argentina or some crap.
they didn't do any of that, because they were not serious. they don't care. they are not and will not ever be the resistance. please please wake up. please fight. we need you.
What democrats really do is "never interrupt your enemy ever because decorum", though this adage would be assuming they actually consider republicans as enemies. They'll point and scream about trump and then promote other republicans like dick cheney who largely have the same policies as trump but who act according to decorum better.
Looking for leadership from the current elected officials is probably a waste of time. We need to take a tip from Republicans and find leaders outside of the government. Like Rush and Tuckers of the left.
Do we even have any of those? Notwithstanding the thought makes me sick. Rush was a lying, pompous, bloviating pedophile. Tucker is no better, and a Russian asset. These are not examples I'd like us to follow, even if they would be on "our side" whatever that would mean in context.
To be honest, HasanAbi is the only one I know of who is sort of a Rush replacement.
I'm not suggesting we support bad people at all, if that's what you are thinking.
We really should have two major parties committed to upholding the Constitution
ZZzzzzzZZzzzz... Not interested in worshiping your holy fashy scriptures.
Politicians aren't leaders. Stop expecting them to be. They exist to serve the people. If they don't, then give them the boot.
They exist to serve the people.
They don't do that either.
If they don’t, then give them the boot.
We can't because the money-packed system self-selects for greedy assholes.
Just because they don't, that doesn't mean it isnt their purpose. And yes you can, you just won't.
We can't give them the boot for a good while. In the meantime, what would you have us do?
Nom nom.