It's super messed up but If they don't pass anything that'd still be an improvement compared to congress now.
I really hope they do more than nothing though.
If they win and don’t loudly and publicly start undoing shit then voter turnout will be abysmal in 2028 and they’ll lose everything again.
Just according to Keikaku!
Translator note : Keikaku = plan
yeah but they'll make a lot of money fundraising off of it which is their one true goal
they are the ones that peacefully handed over the keys. it's not turtles but bankrolled politicians all the wayyy ddooowwwwnnnnnnn.
Not only will they not pass anything even remotely progressive they will completely fail to prosecute anyone who committed a crime, fail to revert any of the damage, and will beg for forgiveness from the right by offering infinite concessions
More likely than not, they'll become complicit in much of the Republican criminal enterprise by inertia. Then, their inability to roll back any of the deeply unpopular Republican positions will tank their own popularity. And finally, Republicans will come roaring back into office to be the Enthusiastic Fascist Party rather than the Reluctant Fascist Party.
But hey, DON'T SAY ANY OF THIS TOO LOUDLY. If people hear you casting dispersion on the liberal party, they might become sad. And if they become sad, they might not Vote Blue No Matter Who. And if they don't Vote Blue, Republicans will win. And then Republican Fascism will be YOUR FAULT!
I started tagging peoples usernames with different levels of shitlib from like baby shitlib to ultra shitlib and holy fuck do those people comment a lot. it's basically a wall of green usertags on basically every political post.
People on .world hate when you say anything negative about libs or reactionaries, I reccomend joining us over on dbzer0 :3
I mean, I see you guys posting from here. And I'll admit, after my experience with Hexbear, I'd rather be in the shitlib instance heckling my leftism with impunity than in the leftist instance getting yelled at / banned by the admins for defending DSA or whatever.
I'll take "fail to pass anything progressive" over "actively try to destroy the country with every bill" any day.
This is why Republicans get free rein to actively destroy the country every four years.
Could just stop letting them win altogether and just support progressive candidates in primaries, but I got sick of explaining this and just left the country. I'll be back if/when people figure out "let the republicans win" is not "fixing the democrats".
Could just stop letting them win altogether
I don't think this is a question of "letting them win". Ds and Rs are the two wings of Capital. And like any good capitalist enterprise, the underlings must be made to fight it out to exhaustion in order for the master to maintain control.
If Dems ever actually obtained an FDR-style enduring majority, the capital class would have to bifricate the party in order to keep any populist movements held in check one against the other.
I got sick of explaining this and just left the country
Given what's been going down in damned near every major city in the country with ICE, I can hardly blame you. America's going to be drowning in blood before too long if shit keeps up the way it has been going. We're already treating civilians in Minneapolis like they're Turks or Egyptians. How long until we start treating them like Iraqis or Afghanis... or Iranians or Gazans?
I Just want to point out that those graphs are from a betting site and not some reputable survey
I trust the betting sites and the surveys about equally.
Honestly, for many things, betting sites are more reliable. But not for elections.
I look forward to hearing all their "olive branching" and trying to reach across the aisle and proceed to GET NOTHING DONE WHILE STILL MANAGING TO SUCK OFF THE PEDO PROTECTOR PARTY.
We do not want ANY olive branches. They proved who they are. Everything they ask for needs to be shot down immediately (aka vote no), just like they always do. Put them in the corner, shame every one of them that keeps their job.
They proved who they are.
So did the Democrats. Over and over again. You're not going to get anything you're asking for and you're delusional if you expect otherwise. Their job is to calm people down so we can ratchet towards fascism again in a few years.
There are a lot of Democrats that are not in any way progressive. For domestic issues there will always be a few that the GOP can count on to dissent and break the Democrat majority. For isreal-related there will be dozens beholden to AIPAC who will vote however the Israeli government wants.
This is the secondary danger of Trump being terrible: democratic party doesn't have to actually change or improve to win. They just have to exist.
They pulled the olive branch from the dime, you better not offer up another fucking olive branch Dems. (but we all know you will because you still think unhinged MAGA voters will somehow come around)
(but we all know you will because you still think unhinged MAGA voters will somehow come around)
That's not why. Not really. It's because leftwing populism is contrary to the desires of the oligarchs (campaign donors / etc) who own them, while rightwing populism is either acceptable or more often actually beneficial.
Republican / Democrat is offense / defense for the same team owners.
Controlled opposition is the term
Controlled opposition is AOC / Bernie / increasingly-looking-like Zohran. Most Dems don't even pretend to be effective opposition, unless you're 50+ and think a strongly worded letter counts as opposition.
I think you are misunderstanding the term. You're referencing actual opposition. Schumer/Jeffries and the majority of the rest of the party are opposition controlled by the oligarchs.
Anything less than burning through the Epstein list and arresting every single one of them, while making the biggest effort they can to undo everything that's happened during the Trump terms should not be accepted
This is a screenshot of a betting app. You can easily influence these numbers with large bets. This is just viral marketing masquerading as hopium
It’s not actually a poll or anything real…
The Democrats are losers. They will never do anything. Every opportunity that they have is wasted. Don't expect them to do anything. All those old 80 year Dems are just sitting on a pile of money, they don't give a fuck about anything the right does
What do you mean?! They allow us to pretend our country is merely dysfunctional instead of nakedly evil, thereby absolving us of any serious mandate to take action to protect our fellow man!
some fuckstick will appear that blocks any kinda of meaningful progress, same story from lieberman to manchin, rinse and repeat
the repubs have drawn us into the last three wars. the head of the repubs is joking about running a third term. he's sending federal agents into cities. he's turning other countries away from the dollar.
the last dem presidents might be too friendly with corporations, but it's them or losing America.
The main way they won’t pass anything is by not having a president who will sign their bills into law, Bae. Elections matter.
Until we have a meaningful difference between Red and Blue, it will be more bullshit for longer. Let's have a clear-out and swing away from ultrconservatism like NY has. Please!
Has anyone back tested polymarket?
Winning by default and then thinking you must be doing the right thing
UK Labour in a nutshell
what's the polymarket ~~bet~~ sorry, "prediction" for "there is not going to be an election in november"
Woah what a productive and useful take to have. Thank you!
Even if the Dems do get control of the Senate there's still the matter of the filibuster unless they have 60+ seats which seems unlikely. Of course they could do away with the filibuster, but that also seems unlikely.
They need 2/3rds to override a Veto. In opposition it's going to be much more about putting the brakes on Trump. Anyone publicly expecting forward movement on progressive goals without a progressive president is not speaking in good faith.
Presidental Veto.
If there is an election are you ready for the hand wringing?
AOC wouldn't mock that guy for being too stupid to understand what a veto is :(
still no backbone, probably
the senate could be 98 Dems to 2 Republicans and the Dems would still go "they're not letting us pass anything that would help you 🤷"
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