Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party
https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-progressive-groups
Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party
https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-progressive-groups
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Are they stupid ? They are the opposition party. We are so cooked.
Let me help Jeffries and Schumer and the others. You’re either in opposition to the Nazi dictator, or you’re in support of him. There is no middle ground. So for the good of all of us, the nation, and their next damn election, they need to step the fuck up and act like the opposition.
Oh, I’m sorry… we’re only facing the end of our democracy here.
Trump literally is bargaining disaster relief with my state and also flooded it. And we’re the biggest economy in the US.
I thought the headline would be an exaggeration but from the article
> Citing unnamed sources, including a senior House Democrat, Axiosreported Tuesday that the private meeting “included a gripe-fest” directed at “groups like MoveOn and Indivisible,” which have “facilitated thousands of phone calls to members’ offices” and pressured the party to use its considerable power to disrupt business as usual in Congress, including by opposing all unanimous consent requests from the Republican majority.
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> Reports of internal Democratic frustrations with grassroots progressives come days after Jeffries questioned the leverage his caucus has to stop the Trump administration and unelected billionaire Elon Musk from imposing their will on the federal government.
> “They control the House, the Senate, and the presidency,” Jeffries told reporters late last week. “It’s their government.”
If you haven’t already, make sure to join one of your county’s Democratic clubs/caucuses to help the party become more aligned with the base.
*Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), meanwhile, has said Democrats are “not going to go after every single issue” in the fight against President Donald Trump.*
Primary Schumer in 2028.
I am calling all my reps constantly telling them they need to get with the program or move the fuck on, or we will move them the fuck out. Please do the same <3
This is why it’s tough to consider myself a democrat lately. They’re just so fucking weak. I’m tired of playing nice.
If establishment dems can’t punch left they won’t punch at all.
There’s no working-class populism there, just rich fucks worried about their stock portfolios. At this point it’s obvious they serve as controlled opposition and are laughing all the way to the bank.
So we pull what the GOP did during Obama and Biden, slow walk everything and gum up the works as much as possible. Or don’t show up to committee meetings so they don’t have a quorum.
Could the generation that has overstayed its welcome in the halls of power PLEASE go home to their grandchildren and great-grandchildren?
For god’s sake, have enough humility to know when you don’t understand the world you govern and its time to pass the reigns to those who do.
(…looking at Senator half-glasses…)
“65% of Democratic voters want the party to “‘oppose Trump as much as possible,” up from 46% in January.”
The other 35% are why us on the Left are pissed.
They have nothing to offer anymore. The scraps they have been offering people are no longer enough and since they work for the same donors as the gop they can’t run on anything that would actually benefit the average person and be popular because that would threaten their donors profits.
Their messaging sucks too. Even when they did do something no one noticed. At least the gop knows how to put on a show.
The Democratic Party is exactly what leftists have been telling you it is for the last decade. Fuck them too.
It’s not just Progressives that are pissed at them. It’s the whole base outside the Donors.
It’s just so amusing that Jeffries keeps saying “it’s their government” but the very second the Democrats have a supermajority in government Republicans declare full on war and do everything in their power to unite against the Democratic agenda – Mitch McConnell is a masterclass in wielding power while in the minority. They need to act like fucking Republicans. Throw their decorum BS out the window.
Democrats had control of the Presidency and Senate in 2013. What do I remember politically from that year? Nothing about Obama or the Dems – just Republicans screaming at the top of their lungs about ACA and Clinton/Benghazi. Acting like straight up fools and causing a ruckus…all while they were the minority.
But of course, they are far too high and mighty and actually fighting back would require the party to learn something from the GOP or admit any sort of fault that which they could learn from – neither of which the DNC will be willing to do.
They are still operating on the “When they go low, we go hi!” mantra. Get that shit out of here.
That is literally your role and the least you could do you old insider traders. You are beyond weak. Beyond soft. And beyond pathetic constantly trying to appease republicans. You have no fight in you and it is ridiculous.
Primary them all and start this party over from the literal ground up.
You’ve tried neoliberalism for 40 years and you have been an abject failure and given us fascism either in slow increments by them somehow having a veto when they’re in the minority that you do not apparently have when you’re in the minority or in quick bursts when you lose by trying to be diet republicans. If you’d ran an actual progressive or someone left, we would not be in this mess and I literally guarantee it.
r/newdealparty
Neoliberalism helped get us here. The older Democrats won’t do anything as an appeal to centrists and libertarians.
Dems are doing a very good job at convincing me they’re willing to throw away democracy before weakening Capitalism’s grip on us.
Losing losers lose some more.
> “We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights,” Schumer toldThe New York Times earlier this month.
not quite sure ‘lay down in front of this train so you can get railroaded’ is quite the metaphor he was looking for lol
>”Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are architects of the crisis that allowed Trump’s fascism to arise and succeed,” argued one progressive organizer. “They have zero credibility to be leading the fights we face today.”
That’s a true statement, progressive or not.
Who in the ever loving fuck cares if Schumer and Jeffries are angry? Make them resign.
How in the ever loving fuck would one suggest we oppose that which needs opposing without being oppositional?
I’m sick of them acting like the corporate centrist party.
I see nothing from them, it is making me sick. We have some lame ass leaders.
***YES***
Because that’s what you should be when the other side is orchestrating a fascist coup!
Meanwhile that old fart Bernie Sanders knows how to use social media and is regularly spitting fire on his youtube channel along with his progressive colleagues.
Oh. I’m sorry? There’s an existential threat to humanity. Could you, pretty please, do something about it?
Apologies, again. Don’t want to be a bother.
For fucks sake. YOU’RE TRYING TO FIND COMMON GROUND WITH FUCKING FASCISTS! STOP IT. OR I’M GOING TO START CALLING YOU FASCIST AS WELL.
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