That, to me, is the bar. If someone wants to lead, wants power, wants to be famous etc, they are unqualified. Because it means they really did not understand the job.

Our politicians are chosen to be weak, the corporos fear the left, somehow not so much the right, despite history, preferring the total ruin of dictatorship and ultimate military rule to moderate reform. Such as it's always been. From the late roman republic, to germany with the nazis, to now.

Plenty of people want the job, of senator, but any white populist is simply not welcome and will be character assassinated if not killed in the cradle, because they can challenge the leadership, where the inner city minority populists cannot.

That's the fucking truth.

That and the very serious consequences of challenging and failing. Schumer is a neoliberal conservative. They are as petty and vindictive as any other conservative. Failing can mean no committee positions or draft cosigners until they are gone.

Conservatives like Schumer are pure evil, even when they have a D next to their name. The risk sounds pretty intimidating. You have to know you have the votes before committing.

The reality of the US political system is that the only way to move left in America is via the Primaries. Until there's another Tea Party to break up the right vote, the only way to keep the status quo or move the window is to primary in DSA candidates and break the hold of the apparatchik in the Democrat establishment.

That'll stop the fascists.

MAGA thanks you for your vote. Socialist > DSA > Dems > Reps

The truth is Democrats aren't going to do shit to "save democracy," and anyone who thinks or thought they were is delusional.

Notice, the Democrats never ran on how exactly they were going to save democracy. The reason they didn't is that saving democracy is incredibly unpopular. If you actually want to save democracy, you have to pass very unpopular laws.

Mainly, you need to strip the presidency of all the emergency powers Congress has given it over the years, dismantle the post-9/11 security and surveillance state, and disband ICE.

Here is the problem. Doing any of these things will literally get Americans killed. If you dismantle the unconstitutional mass spying apparatus, inevitably, eventually, there's going to be some terrorist attack that occurs that that spying could have prevented. If you disband ICE, inevitably some person who happens to be an illegal immigrant is going to kill some white woman, and it will be found out that ICE would have deported them before it happened.

In these cases, I would argue that the deaths are worth it. I am absolutely willing to trade some safety for freedom. Freedom is worth fighting for; it's worth dying for. It's worth seeing innocent people die for it.

That's the core problem. The tools of a dictator are also the tools of ordinary law enforcement. If you strip away the dictator's toolkit, you also disempower law enforcement, which means some otherwise preventable crimes will happen. And your political opposition can latch onto those few rare cases and crucify you with them.

This is why Democrats cannot save democracy. Ultimately, they are complete cowards. Saving democracy requires courage and conviction. It requires a politician to look the voters dead in the eyes and say, "some of your children are going to die because of this bill I am proposing, and that is an acceptable loss I am willing to pay to ensure our children get to live in a democracy."

I've never seen a Democrat running on that kind of message. But that's what it would take to actually save democracy. And this is why it will not be done.

Such a childish statement.

he old commie/russia/islamist propaganda machine

This is a bit, right? Otherwise, how are you posting from 2002?

The current DNC Chair supported progressive candidates.

The DNC isn't the same DNC is was in 2016. Or 2020. Or 2024.

Monkey's paw turns into a fist: Mitch McConnell remains Senate Majority Leader

Oh Jesus the chills that just went down my spine.

My rep is a Trumptard and was reelected. Our junior senator-elect is a Democrat. I looked for his info on the Senate's website and it only shows the two current senators.

My condolences

Thanks for the correction. Still think we have some better senators coming in, albeit not that much experience yet...

And quietly getting 230k from Israel. Neat!

230k from Israeli pac j street. J street are self proclaimed “liberal Zionists”

So let’s just go back to status quo from 2015? Absolutely not.

There is an active effort by Israelis online to quietly pivot Americans to support other pro Israel pacs. They know the aipac name is compromised.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1dcckh1/thoughts_on_jstreet/