The Democrats are cowards and fucking terrible politicians. They’re also owned by big money as much as the Republicans.
The entire US Congress except like 4 people needs to fucking go. Not just Schumer.
That's a fair point. Almost seems like a two-party system is fundamentally flawed.
Yeah it’s part of the problem. I think it’s exacerbated by the fact that the US basically legalized bribery with Citizens United.
More legalized. Lobbying was already legalized bribery. Citizens United was just them making sure they get to pick who they bribe.
And also allowed them to bribe anonymously, don't forget that very important part.
I think it's not even the fundamental flaws that make it so bad (they could theoretically be worked-around or fixed), I think at some point the system was captured by a group that to this day ensures both parties remain ineffectual and operate towards the same war goals.
Saying "the whole thing is a pantomine" seems like a lazy throwaway remark from some stranger you meet at a bar or your disillusioned uncle, and yet it's exactly the conclusion you have to come to. We are controlled by the illusion of democracy and illusion of own influence
They’re also owned by big money as much as the Republicans.
Idiotic takes like that are as much of the problem as anything else.
Holy hell, the number of know-nothings who upvoted that nonsense...
If you don't think the Dems and MAGA serve the same Sociopathic Oligarchs, you are delusional.
They are like the management tier in your workplace. Some managers are pretty cool, and some are terroristic assholes who make every moment at work agonizing. But despite the difference in approach, they both want you to toe the company line, and put the company's interests ahead of EVERYTHING. Nice or not, they both want to enslave and exploit you on behalf of the company.
We'd all rather work under the nice manager, but if we really want to make the workplace work for the workers, then we have to make the managers fear the workers enough that they appeal the top. That's unlikely, and eventually we will be forced to bypass them, and take our grievances to the top ourselves.
Yes, there's a point to what you're saying, but to paint with the same broad brush upon them both is not only delusional at best, but in real-world terms, actually toxic in terms of influencing voting bases. Shame on you.
Just look at the public voting records of Congress going back ages, and see how Dems (warts and all) actually do the right thing most of the time. Decade after decade...
When people bang their drums upon 'money playing a part of politics' being outrageous, unexpected and 'breaking the system,' what they're really saying is that they fundamentally don't understand capitalism... the very system they grew up in.
"Both sides being the same" is beyond an idiotic, false narrative, and any decent history or political scholar can tell you just that. It's the message of dictators and oligarchs really, upon close examination.
There may have been more difference in the past, but after watching the Dems do literally NOTHING to blunt MAGA's return during the entire Biden administration, and almost helping them take back the country. Biden put the case in the hands of his AG, and he managed to find the most unmotivated REPUBLICAN of all time to do the job, who gave them a 2 year head start. The Dems deserve a significant amount of the blame.
The Dems obviously don't want to make things to difficult for the Sociopathic Oligarchs. Look at the last shutdown. They let people lose their food assistance for a few weeks, but the minute it started to hit the airports, and the corporations couldn't move their operatives around, the Dems folded within 48 hours, and surrendered with absolutely nothing in return.
Either the Dems are in cahoots, or they are cowardly and negligent. Either way, the result is the same, so who cares if there is a technical distinction?
because the capitalists like him there
Fun fact Chuck Schumer doesn't even pretend that he works in favor of his Democratic constituents. No Chuck Schumer's entire career is based off of serving the needs of the Baileys. A fictional couple he invented that he bases all of his ideals rhetoric and legislation around. They are Republican. Look this up if you never heard before it's the weirdest fucking thing.
Oh yeah, Baileys are the imaginary friends I was referring to. Thanks for reminding me!
His job is U.S. Senator, which he holds because he received the most votes from the state of New York. “Senate Minority Leader” is a position he holds because no one else wants it. It’s not a Constitutional position, like Speaker of the House or President of the Senate, and the U.S. Senate is a house of equals. Being “minority leader”bestows no added power, only responsibility for representing his party when negotiating with the other party. If another Senate Democrat wants to be responsible for negotiating with a senile man-child, they can call for a vote whenever the minority caucus meets.
which he holds because he received the most votes from the state of New York
Technically?
What do you mean?
Technically, he's in office because he won an election. But he did that by being in the pocket of numerous lobbies and in the good graces of the Democrats' campaign operation. If you don't do those things, your odds of winning are vanishingly small. So he's borderline untouchable.
Oh, the other Democrat candidates withdrew and no other parties are popular:
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_New_York,_2022
I would expect lobbies to play a decent part in this but I'm not sure I've seen the mechanics fleshed out.
As a voter in New York, what are the options coming up to the next election that help remove him and impede the far right groups?
When you consider that the Democrats' job is to offer only token resistance and lose elections, you realize he's doing his "job" very well.
The fact of the matter is that if Democrats had been elected, there would have been no invasion of Venezuela, nor Iraq two decades ago.
Let us not kid ourselves. Non-voting eligible American voters let trump take the reins again, with control of Congress and the Supreme Court, knowing he could pull shit like this at any moment, yet still sat on their lazy asses TWO Election Days, fondling their purity, bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL, and now they're like... "C'mon Schumer... dazzle me and my most excellent purity over here!"
Elections have huge consequences, so spare us the righteous outrage. Whatever blood gets spilled, it's also on those soft, tender, lily-white hands of non-voting deadweights.
Also, twice is a pattern: "Vote for a woman?!! Me?!! When PIGS FLY!!!"
There hasn't been a single war that the DNC hasn't been bloodthirsty to get into. Iraq was bipartisan and Biden expanded the bounty on Maduro to $25m. House Democrats just gave $8b more in funding than what was requested for war.
Correct. Instead, dems would have declined to roll back any of those laws "so we have something to campaign on next time" until voters get fed up with their ineffectiveness and vote R next time. THEN, we get the invasions.
Biden increased sanctions on Venezuela.
During the Venezuelan election, when the US-backed opposition leader said that he wouldn't give the oilfields back to the US, Biden had their financial support cut off and arrested opposition members living in the US.
The Venezuelan policy is bipartisan.
It’s pretty simple really he gets money from Israel and the oligarchs to pretend he’s opposed to things in the weakest and least convincing way possible. He’s doing a good job at the job of pretending to be opposed to facism while preventing any movement left so he continues to get paid to do that.
This is, sadly, how it seems to be. Both he and Hakeem Jeffries seem to obstruct real opposition from the Democratic Party against Trump and the Right in any meaningful way.
It's every democrat since Clinton and every Republican since Reagan. Carter was the last real president this country had.
Think of it like a ratchet mechanism. He's not there to move things left, he's there to keep things in place while the right takes a little break to twist up the tension even more.
That's how the left works in the US now: They're not actually there to create change or movement, they just hold the place and keep things from moving until the right can get back in power. They don't do anything but act as a placeholder for real change - they hold their position until the right puts their screws into things again and twists us further to the right.
It's...ridiculously obvious once you notice it.
They're the party of the status quo. They'll probably take 50 years to reinstate the rights lost by this administration.
I can alreadyhear them now. "We need something to campaign on next time." As though doing your fucking job isn't something you can campaign on.
Major chunks of the country will always vote for the same party. That's why you hear talk about blue states and red states. He's in a safe area, so he has a negligible chance of losing even if he does a terrible job.
.. because he was elected.
AFAIK he was OK during Trump's first term, back then it was Pelosi holding back.
Now he is making the same mistakes Pelosi did.
Mistakes, yes. Unintentional, no.
His job is to lose and stall when instructed to by nazis, and he is a goddamn genius at doing it (though a dumbass for failing to see how dumb it is to do that)
Point is, he's doing his job: losing.
Gerrymandering criminals.
The Baileys' votes each count as 100,000+ votes
The problem is simple. Congress and Senate treat their job like jobs. Not sworn duties.
At the end of the day they don't give a damn about the USA and will always accept checks from special interest.
politicians are the least accountable poeple in Murica (probably in the continent)
What mechanism would you suggest be used to change that?
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