If you've read American history books, there is absolutely nothing new about this.
But that's also a reason to be optimistic. It's happened before and it didn't last.
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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If only a large amount of dem voters had tried to warn people that Israel weren't our friends before it was too late...
How many people are still happy we didn't hold Biden accountable when we could for violating US and international law to provide arms that would be used in a genocide?
If we can't protest when it's a Dem doing it because it makes them look bad to voters, and we can't protest when it's a Republican because this will happen...
How are we supposed to address the fact that Israel bought the leaders of both political parties long ago?
The only way we can fix the country is fixing our own party first, and one of the big steps is voting out anyone that takes AIPAC money.
It's not really a party problem specifically - they're more of a symptom. In reality, the FPTP winner-takes-all (with questionable SCOTUS and congression checks and balances), high risk, expensive break down then rebuild then break down then rebuild full pendulum swing incentivizes these mechanisms that result in no one winning, and a generation of setbacks every time you take a step forward.
In fairness, Trump is trying to "fix" this - you just may not agree that an authoritarian corporatocracy with him as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic is the right solution (and, frankly, most wouldn't).
if it's genociders vs terrorists which side is your party going to support?
Sadly, I don't have your faith that the system will allow us to fix it. It's not our system, it never was, and the people in power have no reason to abolish themselves and put democracy in charge.
There is no "fixing it", the real question is how we'll navigate the interesting times ahead.
Neoliberals are pussies and we got a solid head of the DNC that won't blindly back incumbents and understands the Victory Funds nonsense is why Republicans have the House.
The fight over the party happened like a month ago, we won bro.
You're not hearing about it from mainstream news, because it's all owned by conservative billionaires.
This is the best shit we've had to fix the party in 30 years. Don't throw it away because you're a pessimist, we'll still need all the help we can get to do it.
I've been burned by too many promises like that to get my hopes up for a political party, but I'll hear about it if they start acting like they want my support.
The fact that they haven't started kicking out DINOs and corporate financiers bodes ill for the odds that we'll see a face-turn.
Cautiously going to say I'll take your word for it but I'm not putting my faith in anything except my own abilities to agitate, organize, and disrupt govt functions. If there were a mechanism for creating real change able to be used by congress we wouldn't be allowed to vote. System's working perfectly. It lasted long enough to let a despot and his cronies infect every aspect of the system, just to tear it down and replace it with the open face nazi government the oligarchs have been demanding since 1865.