Yes, the fight against capitalism and the fascists that back it is an existential issue for all peoples. So it is incredibly important to point out how the Democrats are controlled opposition and waiting for them to save us will just allow us to sink deeper into the shit.

What Lemmy threads have you been in for the last two years? The constant refrain in every political thread was about how the Democratic Party, in control of the executive, should not march into genocide, fascism, and hand Trump a second term. Those people got heavy resistance in every thread likewise without fail. There were those who felt a stance on Gaza was hypocritical and that a genocide should not have any place in their politics.

This is the entirely preventable and predictable reality.

The point is that the Democrats aren't doing anywhere near enough to resist the fascist takeover and that had been true pretty much since day one. They are so hell bent on preserving the status quo that they'll rather hand the country to the fascists than support any meaningful change.

Republicans are certainly to blame for all their crimes, but the Democrats are accessories before, during and after the fact, when they should be the cops.

No, citizens are the opposition to the GOP

What country are you from? In the United States we have a form of Government known as a 'Representative Republic'. A type of Democracy where the people elect representatives to enact our will in Government. The people who the citizens elected to oppose the GOP are the Democrats. It is very much their responsibility.

That doesn't mean that citizens shouldn't make our voices heard as well, I encourage them to do so, especially in light of all the do-nothing Dems not doing jack shit to stop them.

The citizens’ work of putting pressure on the government would have been so much easier right now had “both sides” mentality not elected Donald.

This narrative needs to die. Yes, a significant portion of Americans believe that both sides are bad, and with good reason, but the ones that believe that are not so stupid as to think that both sides are equally bad, and didn't vote for Trump. It was the millions of Americans who are cool with a fascist dictatorship that voted for Trump, and they don't believe their side is bad. The rest of us held our noses and voted for Harris despite her being far from Ideal. All of the people who didn't vote were never going to vote in the first place. People are fully capable of believing both sides are bad, but one side is objectively better at the same time. It's called harm reduction.

Had Harris won, criticism of democrats would have been far more effective.

In what way exactly? If they are fully willing to ignore the will of the people now, what makes you think they would not ignore the will of the people if they were in power? It makes no sense.

He was confirmed 52-48, it's absolutely not irrelevant.

Edit: my comment above got posted twice for some reason.

Not voting to confirm him might not have changed the result, but they wouldn't have to hang their heads in shame over it.

Republicans use every dirty trick in the book to try and stymie progress when the Democrats are in, but when the Republicans are in, the Democrats roll over and let them so whatever they want. Even merely symbolic resistance is better than that.

If the dems voted not to confirm him it wouldn't have mattered

Oh, well if it didn't matter if they chose to confirm him or not, why did they do it?

Complaining about the dems everytime a republican does something barbaric is just excusing their behavior.

And you're excusing the Democrats for confirming an anti-science wormbrain to the highest medical office in the land.

I get not wanting to blame the Democrats when the Republicans are shitty, but that only really works WHEN THE DEMOCRATS AREN'T PART OF THE REASON IT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Generally I'd be with you in trying to shift the unwarranted blame, but it's not unwarranted in this situation at all.

If none of it mattered, why tf would Dems vote to confirm him? It’s spineless leadership that spits on voters who are sick of not having any representation. The establishment Dems are complacent and can’t bothered with showing any form of resistance. It is not excusing the GOP to say the DNC is complicit trash.

They can fight resist and delay. But they are doing literally nothing. They could have blocked the budget. But they said "nah, it would harm the people blocking it". So yeah they're doing nothing to stop them.