Pretty sure the "micro" in "microblog memes" refers to the number of characters, not the font size

I think we need to discard this whole “blue tsunami” nonsense. This wasn’t the American public in its totality rejecting the Republican Party. This was a few tens of millions of people changing their vote this time around.

On average, Republicans still took around 40% of votes. These people never went away. And the few million that switched their vote to blue? What’s keeping them from voting red in the next election?

Very little has changed, apart from a few people getting really really mad about gas prices.

We've still got two years with fascists in control of the executive (including and especially DoJ) and SCOTUS. If there's one thing that history teaches, it's that fascists don't just get voted out.

I think yall need to play up shame more. Its a fantastic biological mechanism for regulating behaviour. Make MAGA a shameful thing to be connected with.

First, the Dems don't have a big enough majority to overcome Trump's vetoes.

Second, more incumbent Dems were re-elected than new Dems voted in.

The Dems are going to have to overcome a lot of die hard GOPs whose strategy is to block up everything and then blame the Left for not being capable leaders.

The oligarchs are still around, so no, we didn’t solve anything. We got a small FU to someone who has been skirting Congress, and it remains to be seen if Congress has any power to reign in the executive branch.

In other words, Trump opened a door to Christian mythology through which larger evils may walk onto the same stage and be much worse than he is.

Naw, that’s normal US Christianity, and authoritarianism is the larger evil. Christian Nationalism runs deep in the US; it arrived here with the Puritans.

Nixon’s Southern Strategy opened the door to all of this, and has formed the Republican base of power for ~50 years. Reagan solidified the bond, and gave legitimacy to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham.

Trump set the bar for corruption and disregard for the rule of law. Those are the new and scary parts.

POTUS has been accumulating power and trending towards more of an autocratic positions for years thanks to congress shirking their responsibilities, but this has mainly been held in check by the people who have held the office. They’ve respected the office and US gov customs.

The US needs to seriously clean house. Get rid of the oligarchs. Get rid of the mega-corporations. Get rid of 250 years of history because quite a bit of it is seriously rotten. Restructure the gov to put reigns on the executive branch and make it so the people hold the power.

Is that going to happen? Probably not, so the best advice is to get out and let it crater.

To make the world a better place, people outside the US should help the left-leaning folks migrate over. It could be a swap. Send the right-wing assholes to the US in exchange for more enlightened people. This fixes 2 problems at once. 😃

Weʻre in a moment where the boss is down to 10% HP. There is an oppurtunity to step on the windpipe of the Republican party right now, and crush it, and actually end them as a party permanently. It depends on Democrats in the House and Senate stepping up and leading. On letting slip ALLL the dogs of war, all the powder, and all the canons at once in this period. This means inside power, outside power, media power, and if need be, labor power in the form of a general strike.

Any one apologizing for weakness on behalf is our enemy right now. We can accept no weakness, and no excuses. We need to be dynamic in our concept of what power is and how to apply it. We need to take the lessons that BLM and Occupy taught us about how inside and outside power works.

The outside power game needs to be prepared to work hand-in-glove with the inside power game. We can-not be above any strategy right now, however insane.

Edit after reading the other comments:

What in the fuck is the shit-libbary in this thread? Did bluesky start leaking?

Both parties are still utterly captured by Israel and kleptocrats too. Some deck chairs on the titanic got rearranged but the captains of the boat are the same, and didnt care what the vote was. Thats what owning both parties is all about. This blue wave was simply a change in middle mangement, and an opportunity to placate the masses for a bit with new deceptions.

The main thing I've been hearing from leftists and progressives (basically the whole political left other than establishment democrats) is that the midterms were just the first step and that we have a lot more work to do. I feel like people arrive at the sentiment in the post by watching Democrat-favorable mainstream media, which loudly ignores (or outright condemns) anyone doing anything more left than the neo liberals.

This will surely be unpopular, but I think the best thing to do would be to break up the country. The US is a huge country and has become basically ungovernable within our two party system. The federal government is hopelessly corrupt. The electorate is bitterly divided and misinformation is all over the place with no real way to stop it. I think it would be wise to break up into smaller groups (I'm thinking the states could become sovereign nations), which would make real change more achievable. Some states would be lost causes, but at least they wouldn't be tanking all of us. Food for thought...

The irony of Europeans lecturing Americans about fascism is not post on me

I think we need to put our complete trust and faith in Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. I also don't understand why people are upset with Haley Stevens. She could have been the next Chuck Schumer. Also, how can people say that Israel isn't our greatest ally in the whole world. With Schumer and Jeffries at the helm Democrats can make supporting Israel their number one cause. That is how they can show America that they've learned the lessons from the past and prevent people from losing faith in institutions.