I was pleasantly surprised that Missouri voted to strike down the ban on abortion AND conversion therapy. I don't want to chug hopium quite yet, but I do think this is somewhat different than the last "blue wave". The question is if enough of them will be able to resist the corporate money, because the progressive sentiment IS THERE at the voter level.
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First there's a couple weeks of ratfuckery, then they will start reaching across the isle. That's then we can go back to call them spineless
We don't elect our leaders, we elect our opposition.
I don't know if you're going to have to do that much yelling. I was listening to the woman from Africa (I think Ethiopia), and she was right there with you. She made Gen Z look amazing. She's ready and young enough to fight hard. Plus, she's a lawyer. Basically, even though there are some light red dems that won, there were a lot of progressives as well.
The democrat party is shaken by change right now. Progressives are taking more and more space. The neoliberal scum is being challenged. Abdul is extatic. I humbly submit that your hatred is justified yet too generalized. Something exciting is going on.
GUYS THE DEMS WON THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE! WE DID IT! WE WON!
Anyway, fuck the Democrats. Party of controlled opposition. Probably gonna pass more right wing laws for Trump to sign in the next few years, and they won't even bother to put left wing laws in front of him. Assholes. We need to do a revolution ourselves, we can't rely on these corrupt politicians to save us.
Given the bullshit Jeffries is already saying as presumable Speaker, I think now's the time 😝
If your values are so easily discarded to support evil, they're not real. In 1 years time you'll be back to telling people to stop talking about the bad things because the elections aren't far off.
And if you can never temporarily compromise to make progress, you will never win. Coalition building is the name of the game, and this time around we have a slightly better coalition. More socialists and adjacent have just been elected then there have been in decades. It's not enough, and we need to push them to follow through on their promises and keep the momentum going but it's something.
Constant despair that it's not perfect will never get you anywhere
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