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Can we finally stop the both sides nonsense.
Fuck no. This is exactly the time to hold their feet to the fire and demand they be better and do more... They're handing everything over to the fascists to try to get the oligarchs back on their side
The last thing we should do is believe they're an effective resistance
Yes, that's correct. What I'm trying to get away from the "both sides" thing is because it does the exact opposite which is foster complacency.
Correct. Brooker standing up and talking all night long, for 18 hours to give voice to Americans who have reached out to him is democracy. This is the good side. These guys are crying tears as they try to hold it together and get the longest filibuster in history.
This should draw support and applause from everyone. This is holding them to the fire. No one sleeps. No one negotiates. Endless filibuster until Congress gets reigned in.
And I applaud Booker
Where are the other 40ish senators and why aren't they helping him?
Why are all of you coming here and commenting without looking at the video im trying to share? I want to talk to you about the content of the filibuster that's been happening for 20 hours. How do you think he's been standing for 20 hours straight? There's 10-20 other Dem senators there helping him by taking questions, giving speeches and allowing him to get bathroom breaks.
Because both sides aren't the same but serve the same masters.
There's two kind of "both sides"... There's "we need a middle ground" which is horse shit, it leads to a choice between fascism and fascism-light
Then there's "our politicians are decrepit zombies, so let's do a leftist version of the tea party"
People want change, not stability. Not anymore. Everything sucks, so who are they going to vote for... An openly fascist snake oil salesman saying he's going to fix everything, or someone composed insisting things aren't as bad as they seem?
It's a toss up, apparently.
Change. Remember that campaign slogan? Because it won, and Obama delivered so little of it
Maybe when the Democrats stop taking the corporate campaign dollars that align them financially with their Republican colleagues and kick out the blue MAGA assholes like Fetterman.
Maybe if more than 20% of voters showed up and voted in the primaries instead of incessantly bitching about term limits, we wouldn’t have so many capitalist centrists in Congress.
It's just like you can make these gerrymandered racist districts disappear and reform by wagging a finger at them.
Individual people who are Democrats can be good people. The Democratic party has been asleep at the wheel when they're not ignoring the will of their constituents since mid-Obama and allowed us to slide into this disaster.
DNC bad, DNC suppress good democrats, and elevates bad ones. Lets figure out who the good ones are and empower them outside of the DNC.
I mean I remember back in 2008 when dailykos would frequently say “elect more democrats and better democrats”
The idea being that we could fix the dnc from within. Progressives just needed to vote for better Dems.
The dnc realized that they had a real hard time beating republicans in the general but boy oh boy could they whoop the progressives in the primary.
Blue dog dem, here’s the dnc gold card and the PIN code.
Progressive dem, we will spend any amount of money to keep you off the ballot.
And we see where it’s led us, the dnc is now good at one thing and one thing only, raising money for the dnc. Oodles and oodles and oodles of money and losing the nation to autocracy
No. Republicans filibustered overnight on medical care as well.
...Oh, wait, that was Ted Cruz speaking against the ACA.
No apparently we must undermine any moral opposition that aligns with our own, and all suffer the consequences of trump together while doing nothing.
My life goal right now is to figure out why people on the left are still critical of Biden, Harris and dems doing their JOBS while having nothing to say about how to oppose mango and Minsk
They like complaining and "being right" is more important to them than being helpful. Whether they are right or not is immaterial to the facts. Whatever the issue is they just need to be seen being right about it.
Incidentally that's a common trait among narcissists.
When the Democrats grow a spine and start actually blocking all progress like the Republicans can magically do every time they are the minority.
Fair point. They've always defaulted to Shumering because shutting down the government causes a lot of pain for people dependent on public services, but with the idiots in charge already dismantling everything, there's zero reason not to, most of the people dependent on the government are already getting fucked DOGEy style anyway.
Correct, right now they are proving that they will hold the senate floor all day and prevent legislation. I'm hoping they have discovered a way to block everything. Scream and bitch and never give up the floor. No new laws. No new budgets, no tax cuts. endless sit in.
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I think this is that thing. They have found a way to shut down the congress. They just need to hold the floor for 2 years. They need to be encouraged to hold the senate floor for 2 years. The ultimate sit in. You want your representatives doing something? Obstructing congressional progression is that thing. Endless sit in.
No one should know any peace until first past the post voting is replaced and 3rd parties are free to participate in elections with no spoiler effect.
No more holding noses.
No more hostage situation.
Democracy. Sure republicans dont want it. How about the democratic party? Is this a purity test that the democrats can pass? They say they support democracy, time to prove it. Shouldn't be hard to convince them.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
STAR voting
Alternative vote
Ranked Choice voting
Range Voting
Single Transferable Vote
Mixed Member Proportional representation
Yeah fuck off, accelerationist fuck.
To still be saying this stupid shit after witnessing the suffering that's already being caused... Gross.
I don't think your post directly addresses my point but your point is extremely important. One of the reasons we're so fractured is the lack of proportion representation of people in government and that is because of the broken FPTP system that's so prevalent.