Hopefully, there'll be some decent candidates and not just more of the same "centrists" who just pocket money from AIPAC and other big donors.
"Not the GOP" is not going to cut it.
Hopefully, there'll be some decent candidates and not just more of the same "centrists" who just pocket money from AIPAC and other big donors.
"Not the GOP" is not going to cut it.
I'll believe it when I see it, but the standard is for Dems to do jack shit.
They'll hem and haw and clutch their pearls cause they don't want to be too offensive.
The fact that we’ve gone through all this bullshit in 1 year and there is still a toss up on who will win the midterms is astounding in a “mushroom cloud looks cool” kind of way
Ah yes, here we see Lucy is placing the football in front of Charlie Brown but will she let him kick it?
The economy is consistently better under Democrats. Things consistently get better under Democrats.
I get that it's not as fast as any of us would like, but if you'd loved through it and paid attention, you'd have a better understanding of why. Obama understood he was a centrist, and it's why he centered his first term strategy on being the most bipartisan president of all time.
McConnell saw that strategy and thought it was more important to defeat Democrats than to improve the country.
The real problem isn't the Democrats, status quo or not. The problem is that the Republican party exists. The problem is that every so many years the voters get bored with slow, steady improvement and spend the next several years tearing everything down.
And it's a hell of a lot easier to destroy than to build.
I'd love to be choosing between Democrats and Socialists. I'd love to have two sane choices. I'd love if our dividing issue was whether trans people should be allowed in women's sports, and not whether trans people should be allowed to live.
The economy is not better under Democrats, liberals largely ignore the economy under Democrats. Republicans only exist in their current form because Democrats keep shifting further to the right and their ratchet effect keeps the status quo from slipping back.
And don't forget the possibility of a new government shutdown on Jan 30th. That'll be fun.
Dems will shut it down just long enough to hurt people, but as soon as the airports become affected, and corporations can't move their operatives around the country, they'll fold.
Big difference this time is that holiday time is over. I'm not so sure the corpos care a whole lot about keeping the airlines available for Valentine's Day.
Exactly the point. If it was the MAGAs at war, they would happily leave the airports closed over the Holidays, and try to blame Dems for it.
But reverse it, and the Dems will only fight until it gets inconvenient for the wealthy, them fold over nothing, and take the blame themselves.
MEDIOCRE!
Don't worry, the Republicans agreed to discuss health care this time.
Honestly wondering if the dems did something politically smart here.
They actually let the cuts go in place which means the morons finally feel the pain and everyone already rightly blames Republicans for that. Maybe they'll actually get a win here for the people.
Fanciful thinking but I choose to hope.
Honestly I figured the reason they caved in was that party leaders knew it would fuel midterms to make people suffer, but they themselves didn't want to look that way so they had safe seats to be the fall guys. So yeah, duh.
Pretty sure people here can see the writing on the wall and will at least vote in the primary. Not sure what good it'll do since tactics like that work way too well on average voters, but might as well try.
That's what pisses me off about a lot of Democrat politicians. It feels like they don't see Trump as an enemy so much as a punishment for the voters for not voting for them. No concern, no hard action, just saying "look what you've done. Ready to go back to normal now?"
Nasty worded letters? Shaking fists?
Their messaging is usually terrible and so off-putting to so many of the low-info and the normies.
Watch for the Dems to step on some stupid rake like bathroom bills, men in women's sports, BLM, "antifa", defund the police, etc. it almost seems inevitable that even when the most obvious narrative is right there for them to set up the framing, they let the fucking corporate media and the fascists do all the framing.
Lol. 'they're both the same'. 'party owes me a good candidate, or I don't vote, even if the other candidate is a monster'. 'corporate sponsors', 'conplicit media', 'genocide', 'my foot hurts', 'its a working day',...
If you don't want to something, any excuse is as good as the next.
Good point, we should certainly vote for candidates who will fight for health care and not back down.
Too early. This is a fight for November. The fight for now is, are you fighting to boost the candidate you like who you CAN support? Or just waiting to see what settles so you can just complain about how it's not good enough?
We can't WAIT to Campaign on Maybe Possibly Potentially Almost Sorta Fixing this at SOME Point but ONLY if you DONATE to our Campaign!
-Democrats!
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