A Trump administration will jail opponents, accelerate oil and gas drilling, and help to destroy the world that much faster.
We don't have any chance to improve things if they win one more time.
Want a better world? It might be possible to still build one. You can't look at Joe Biden and say "Eh, not good enough."
If his plans aren't enough for your tastes, organize and do better. Inspire others around you.
It's not gonna be easy, and it might not even be possible. But each person who just gives up makes it that much harder for everyone else.
Me, I'm 50. I don't have a ton of hope. But I'd like to still have a chance to leave a world to another generation that isn't completely overrun by fascism.
Brazil pushed back. So did France and the UK. We CANNOT just give up.
Brazil and France pushed back like we pushed back in 2020.
Republicans learned what stopped them and installed people/will install people who will make sure we cannot rebuke them again. The DNC only learns the lessons they want to learn like "incumbent presidents should be run again" and ignore lessons like "the polls are fucking horrible and we literally need a massive lead in polls just for us to squeak by in the general election." Because every fucking election is like that... Nice leads in the polls and the outcome turns out horrible...
Blaming those with the least power for not bending the knee to the "leader" the powerfull have imposed on them instead of blaming those with the most power for not putting forward somebody worthy of the loyalty of the rest is a pretty interesting take for somebody posting in a supposedly Progressive forum.
Edit: There’s some legalese that the DNC is shook about, so fair enough to be worried about Republicans and election shenanigans.
If his plans aren't enough for your tastes, organize and do better. Inspire others around you.
This would be a valid point, if the DNC wasn’t trying to force a primary confirmation vote early, in order to ‘lock in’ Biden. Despite Biden welcoming challengers to make a play to delegates at the convention.
Might be irrelevant given the latest on Biden dropping maybe, but this is still the official line:_
"no voting will begin before August 1." They add that the vote is set to happen before the in-person Democratic National Convention that starts Aug. 19
They’ve now explained the nuance and reasoning, which does change things a fair bit
In June, Ohio passed a bill to move its deadline from Aug. 7 to Sept. 1. But because that law technically does not take effect until Sept. 1, the DNC said they are keeping their timeline of a pre-convention virtual roll call in place due to concern of litigation. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose suggested earlier this month that Sept. 1 deadline to certify a candidate would stand.
If Trump gets what Project 2025 wants him to have, SCOTUS will repeal term limits, and he’ll challenge the results of the next election using his party-loyal Article F State Department.
He’ll be “President” the same way Putin is “President.”
I support a wide range of resistance tactics and I'm not about to tell people to give up, but I will say don't organize online. Do it in person and leave your phone in another room..
I was responding to the defeatist tone of your comment. You're basically telling people not to vote, in my eyes, which is bullshit. Voting is the first line and if we can't even do that then we're fucked.
The time for electoralism has passed. Vote if you want, but stop relying on political parties to solve your problems for you. Start organizing locally and taking action to make the world suck less.
The 2016 election fell within the margin of error of the polls. Don't act like Hillary was a shoe-in, nobody who was paying attention was surprised after the shit she and the DNC got up to in the primary.
You do not get to insist that everything be the way you want it to be.
Grow up and use the power you actually have rather than spamming your discontent everywhere.
Work for what you want to happen. Or just roll over and invite the fascists in. Those are your two choices, and you're saying the first one isn't a choice.
You do not get to insist that everything be the way you want it to be.
It's a free country. I can insist on whatever I want, just like you are free to ignore me.
Grow up and use the power you actually have rather than spamming your discontent everywhere.
I'm almost 40 and I've been banging on this drum since Bush v. Gore. If you don't like having a political conversation with someone who demands better from the Democrats and our government then you're going to want to stop engaging with politics entirely.
Work for what you want to happen.
I'm trying, but people like you keep telling me to resign myself to Biden's inevitable loss because we can't do any better.
Or just roll over and invite the fascists in. Those are your two choices, and you're saying the first one isn't a choice.
Of course there isn't a choice, we either vote for Biden or we get Trump. That's not a choice, that's a hostage situation.
At least with everything the same we maintain the chance to turn it into "make everything better", as easy as it is to get disillusioned with the system at present, nobody can deny that it's a lot easier to achieve anything within than a defacto fascist autocracy
The amount of change we’ll see will be directly related to congressional control. SCOTUS Justices aren’t going to impeach themselves. AOC can write anything she wants, but it won’t pass a vote with congressional minority.