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It's rather optimistic assuming that Republicans would act like they gave a shit about rule of law if they were the ones who wrote them. Laws are just for everyone else, in their minds.
A Democrat would never do it. You'd need an actual Leftist. They'd be the only ones with enough spine to sacrifice their own political career and reputation to get it done.
Yeah, but a bj in the oval office? I mean, have you met Hilary???
if Democrats ever win I fully exepct this:
"Now is a time of healing. To better unify our Great Nation™®© we are going to let Republicans fill every committee and pick every judge, we are even looking into how we might let them have the presidency. If we can't, do not worry, we will behave as if we were Republicans and will do as they wish."
I think Bernie's Fight the Oligarchy Tour is changing this, but more people needs to push this.
So is David Hogg, the new Vice Chair of the DNC. He’s a Gen-Z school shooting survivor who’s committed to primary out the centrists and turn them into a real opposition party.
committed to primary out the centrists and turn them into a real opposition party.
I can only say good luck to him. I think the party still wants to be R-lite again.
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I’m talking about Congress. Next November is our next chance at stopping Trump.
Yep, that's what Obama did with the Bush people and the people that caused the GFC. And now all these people are back for round 2 with nothing learned (well, they learned there are no consequences no matter what they do).
Yea, the "democrats" will want to "reach across the table" and work with these fucking traitors. Why? Because most of them are likely in on it.
Fucking hate how true this is.
Democrats are centrist liberals. They are capitalists. They are cop-loving authoritarians. They will never fulfill your leftist liberatory desires. Stop deferring your political will to wishes they will never manifest. You have Stockholm Syndrome. Go do something yourself that matters to you in your own community.
Well said, I'm still going to post my opinions but there's really nothing you've said that I can refute.
I should probably add: I don't mean to be a dick. I say all this stuff because I care, I hate seeing comrades efforts and dreams and desires frustrated by this deadend political party year after year, election after election. I imagine if all the passion we drained into the DNC instead went into creative modes of organization and direct action in our own towns and cities?
“If” doing some heavy lifting there
As a dem voter I'm use to betting on precariously placed 'ifs.'
There isn't going to be another government or another free election until the current regime is put to the sword.
If it isn't entirely obvious that's the next play, I agree.
That's literally the opposite of what the Dem leadership ever does. Expecting them to put the outcomes for regular people over system rules and norms (and their owner donors) is like expecting a sheep to become an obligate carnivore.
Neoliberals don't change the system, they ARE the system. You're not going to get systemic change from someone whose raison d'être is protecting the norms and rules at all costs.
old guard dems are just GOP in disguise, because they often work together behind the scenes making deals, they both of the same megadonors, additionally they hope to get by being "not-republican" candidates.
Pandora’s box is opened, and once that happens, it’s almost impossible to close it. I’m going to be honest, the next election cycle, I’ll consider voting for the blue equivalent of Trump. Now that we know presidents can act like kings, it’s time progressives capitalized on that. Why not lock up rightwingers and hatemongers, slap tariffs on oil, and deport Zionists in order to fight Islamophobia?
Presidents can act like kings if they have the Legislative and Judicial branches in their pocket. No progressive ever will.
This is how it looks like:
Biden: "I need y'all to execute the traitor Donald J. Trump"
Military: "I'm sorry Mr. President, I'm afraid we cannot do that."
Trump: "I need y'all to round up these democrat [n-word] thugs"
Military: "Can we just shoot them?"
They would need to grow spines first.
lmao what
you still believe in these fucks?
System's broken. We don't need a different party in charge of the system we need a new system.
Agreed. The US is over. These people are bouncing the entire stock market up and down using tariffs and doing insider trading on it ... there is no justice whatsoever.
Not to mention the concentration/death camps and lack of free speech.
If we manage to have another presidential election, I will be behind any progressive or Democrat that promises to use the presidency in the exact way as Trump.
Forcing an rewritten version of the Constitution that eliminates flaws and loopholes, enacting term and age limits on all elected offices and the judiciary, deleting the electoral college, and so forth?
I am in.
The US needs a proportional voting system first and foremost
Presidential immunity gives a democratic incumbent the right to slap a republican senator daily
Start by sending a handful of Republican Senators and Congressfolk to El Salvador.
Is this how liberals fantasize about revolutionary action while still staying as milk toast as possible?
Edit: I appreciate Lemmy for the simple fact that I can use "liberal" in any sub and not be considered a conservative by default when I'm criticizing that perspective.
Sorry, I get the spirit of the meme and it’s nice to daydream but fuck no. I don’t trust the Democrats to do anything in the interest of the people.
I wish, but that's the opposite of the goal of the democratic party. They don't see themselves as the opposition to the Republican party. Only priorities are maintaining the status quo and getting funding. That does tend to be better for us than the alternative, but any downstream benefits are mostly a happy accident.
You think the laws will be fair? Check out how they're going to give Trump a 3rd term but keep Obama ineligible.
They'd just have rolled it all back on Jan 21.
I mean, there was plenty of time between November and Jan 21 to rendition 3 justices, anyone in Congress tied to Russian money, the entire trump campaign and all of the Republican money middlemen that launder Russian money for political campaigns
