‘Give us a little time’: Democrats search for a guiding principle against Trump
‘Give us a little time’: Democrats search for a guiding principle against Trump
The party’s progressives are diminished, but its moderates aren’t grabbing the wheel either.
We have no fucking time. They told us, explicitly, what they were going to do.
Any halfway decent opposition party would have already had responses ready for each and every one of the executive orders that have been signed
It’s amazing that these assholes need time. Fuck off with the triangulation. It didn’t work in the election and it won’t work now.
The only thing they have to do is take a principled stand in favor of people. Everyone has value (besides Nazis). But they are too interested in appealing to corporate interests and republicans.
Exactly. They need time to figure out a strategy where they can appeal to their base while also proposing contradictory public policy that harms their base. Judging by their performance in the past three presidential elections, this strategy will never exist but it sure as hell hasn't caused them to do any sort of self reflection.
We've decided to rename the Democrat party to Republican Lite in order to appeal to more voters.
Well the republicans are in some kind of hyperfascist accelerationist mode so I'm not sure exactly how much time we have to give them.
I'm wondering where are the big names in the Democratic party and the left?
There is a palpable atmosphere of fear coming from a large population in America and there is silence from the "opposition" party. Why isn't Obama and Michelle organizing and speaking at rallies? Why aren't other prominent Democratic leaders not trying to rally support for a genuine resistance. Not the resistance of 2016, which I feel failed due to no true national leadership from the Democratic party.
Maybe this is happening and I just don't see it, but it sure feels like the national Democratic leaders and influencers just threw up their hands and said "well, we've tried nothing and we are all out of ideas. You're on your own to figure it out. But remember, if your leaderless pent up fear and anger turns to violence we won't support you."
I’ve been wondering that as well and I had a kind of scary thought; maybe there is no opposition party this time around because what’s happening is exactly what all parties involved want to be happening. I’m just so baffled by the state of politics in the US that I can’t help but to feel like we’re witnessing some kind of sea change in the fundamental structure of the government. Unfortunately it is not a progressive or thoughtful change in ideology.
Maybe this is happening and I just don’t see it
Then they're not doing it right.
Shit, even what we had in 2016 was at least something
Translation: "We need time to figure out a way to look like we're doing something without risking actually changing anything."
If we're not careful, we might accidentally do something that the voters like but that our owners don't approve of.
How about the guiding principle that Nazis are the enemy of America?
They'll see that as too controversial, wouldn't want to divide the people...
(/s, just in case)
You've had 8 years, 4 of which you had control of the white house. You've had enough time. You squandered it. Are you really going to do anything useful with even more?
Those dinosaurs have had too much time already.
"we gotta get more racist"
They had 12 years.
That dickhead got roasted for "concepts of a plan", but just when you think the Democratic party can't get any more pathetic they go and show how hopeless they are. AOC needs to break and start a party with Bernie.
It probably wouldn't take much to get Omar and Tlaib on board either.
Spoiler alert: it will be "send us more money!". That's what they always settle on.
Spare some change?
DNC staffers resign with Kamala Harris campaign $20M in debt
Nailed it. This is and always will be the dem’s platform.
“Personally, I don’t want to give Republicans an inch on their claims they care about national security after their pardons,” said Murphy, D-Conn. “My hope is that we’re going to be down on the floor and on TV and back in our states talking about the danger of these pardons.”
At least there's someone awake at the wheel
They’ll figure out some way to reach across the aisle and meet in the middle.
Like "mandatory Nazi salutes in schools but only on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays."
By the time they're done reaching it's gonna look like they too are doing a Nazi salute.
It's a long-distance high five!
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This would make a good cartoon.
From 2015
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You mean what got Trump elected the first time?
Gee. Maybe they should have come up with one some time between 2015 and now.
Ideally people would have seriously punished Ford for letting that Nixon prick get off scot free and fought against the personality cult that was built up for Reagan, but if we’re talking about this century, the democrats should have come up with something as soon as the tea party lunatics got in position to kneecap public sector unions during the first Obama administration.
It didn’t help that the occupy protesters were made to look like their message was a motley hodgepodge of pet causes with no real cohesiveness.
Filibust everything.
Democrats kept the filibuster around for this reason, right? They didn't just keep it around to prevent progressive policy from passing, right?
The second they try to use it, the republicans will nuke it, citing the precedent that the democrats did it first with lower court judicial nominees when they refused to let a single one pass, same way they did with scotus nominees when democrats dared to use it one time in protest against the stunt they pulled with Garland.
Force Dems to reign in minority power the tiniest bit and use that as an excuse to remove minority powers entirely the second they're in the majority is pretty standard Rep SOP now.
Yeah if they were a real party for the people they wouldn't need to search too long.
They wouldn't have lost either.
Pelosi tanking kneecapping any attempt to curb congressional insider trading certainly didn't help. Nor did funding a fucking genocide. Their continued subservience to donors over their voters drives people away.
Yes time and time again they've proven that they're willing to put anything and everything ahead of helping the American people. They want to have their cake and eat it too and are willing to go as far as losing elections if it means they don't have to turn their backs on corporations or foreign governments engaging in genocide.