They could not possibly care less. They have awesome jobs, gold standard publicly funded healthcare, access to insider trading information, and they’re about to get a sweet tax cut. If they get fired, they’ll just turn coat and become lobbyists.
The rot has reached the core, ladies and gentlemen.
That’s what happens when the country is being turned into a fascist state and people being sent to camps, while the majority of them are mumbling about midterms and trying not to rock the boat.
At this point they are complicit in the downfall of America. Although I’m sure they’ll be happy when they retire somewhere else in the world with a big bank account.
Jeffries is trying really hard not to understand how bad he is. In the article he’s quoted as saying something like it’s because of Trump’s policies that people are getting turned off. How intentionally oblivious is that. Everyone knows that it’s hard to stop Trump when you’re in the minority, everyone sympathizes with that. But everyone also knows you have a duty to try really hard, and you didn’t try at all, and that’s your fault. It’s time for you to retire.
Maybe in Order to get BETTER Polling they should Slide FURTHER Right? They MIGHT be able To Get Democrats BACK if they just go FURTHER Right!
They just haven’t reached out to moderates and Republicans hard enough!!!
Maybe if they support genocide even harder, do even less to hold wealthy criminals accountable, throw even more minorities under the bus, and get a few more Cheneys on board, they will peel off exactly one republican vote.
Aw, who am I kidding? They would happily do that regardless of how few votes they got.
Good, give away two supreme Court seats, neglect to put protections into law and abdicate congressional authority to the executive is solidly on their shoulders. The Republicans have been very public with their goals for decades and the Democrats still insisted they could negotiate.
This is why you don’t negotiate with terrorists.
We’re going to vote for them again in the next election in the name of “harm reduction” or “being realistic” and they’re going to keep doing the same feckless shit over and over again.
I’m in a safe blue state. I’m seriously considering leaving parts of my federal ballot blank or doing a write-in if people outside of the old guard don’t win the primaries.
That football is creepy. Is that Pigpens skin…?!
No, we aren’t actually
trump is going to fuck it up again enough to make him lose the next election and there’ll be a democrat in charge for a while who will keep doing most of the same things as trump.
You think we’re still gonna have elections by then?
Anyway, yes, harm reduction and dragging the overton window left is preferable . A company that builds crematoriums was an exhibitor at the Board Security Expo earlier this month.
But even more preferably, these old farts need to get primaried out.
Yes and? I’ve shared this exact meme.
(Ideally)Right now, we have time to primary the old guard out, but if it came down to voting for an asshole and voting for a Nazi, I’ll vote for the asshole, because abstaining in protest will only help the Nazi get in.
The asshole is the servant of the Nazi. You only get the Nazi a bit later and all the more stronger. They are both parts of the same Oligarchy that ultimately wants the Nazi in power.
democrats don’t move the Overton window left.
Voters can. Or well, could have. Instead we let the republicans control the window to the point we’ll probably not have elections again.
Candidates have no responsibility to appeal to the voters. Got it. That’s not what democracy looks like.
Letting the Republicans win went so fucking well this year.
What’s that about not learning anything?
most democrats are unaware that they lost because their fellow democrats intentionally didn’t vote and are also unaware that there were so many that there weren’t enough 3rd party voters make up the difference; so it’s pretty clear which politcal group isn’t learning anything.
So let’s just throw away our votes to a third party? What do you propose instead of voting for the less bad option? What is something you or I can actually do?
Run for office and/or get involved in your local government.
Not something my schedule allows. That’s the point. If you can do it, more power to you. “Be a politician yourself” doesn’t always align with the goal of supporting a family.
Juggling family responsibilities is tough. There’s still a lot you can do though. Talk to your friends, family, and neighbors. Let them know your concerns and encourage them to voice their opinions with others as well. Attend local township meetings and town halls. Even just staying informed can make a difference.
I agree with all of that.
But when it’s time to vote, what can you do that is better than voting for Democrats?
I’m not saying “don’t do other stuff and just vote.” But it feels like a lot of people ARE saying “don’t vote; just do other stuff.”
As much as it sucks, we’re all better off voting for Democrats than not voting or voting conservative or third party.
no one knows has all the answers for what the right way forward is, but we definitely know what the wrong ways are because we keep doing them over and over again to “reduce harm” and here we are w fascists in charge and more in the future.
the only way to fix it is to get involved and even bernie & aoc say so; that doesn’t mean you stop supporting a family, it means you have to figure out what you can do to help and recognizing what doesn’t work so you don’t keep making things worse, like voting for the “less bad option” each time.
So are you not going to vote next time?
Vote for a conservative?
Write in a wasted vote?
Be realistic. How many choices do we have?
Next time we’re standing in the voting booth, what is a better option than voting for the Democrats? I don’t like them either. But right then. Right there. WTF else are we really supposed to do?
If you can do things that make a difference aside from voting, by all means do that. But advocating for anything other than voting for Democrats when it’s time to vote is just irrational. Do the best you can in each moment - even when the thing you’re doing isn’t enjoyable.
Dealing with an emergency and all they have is old men who don’t have what it takes to take on the rabid GOP. Never understood why the US system is dominated by such old people.
Seats on committees and chairmanships are determined by seniority.
Only because that’s the way the Democratic party decides it is. Republicans don’t follow the same practice. These are informal rules agreed upon internally, not anything legally binding
One of the great “traditions” that’s been holding our government together like duct tape and bailing wire
And to get seniority you need to stay in office and to stay in office you need money and to get stable money you need corporate money and there’s always something they want in return.
Committees need to have more formal rules involved… The way they’re currently set up is poor at best
They should just gate the whole American leadership and treat it like a giant old age home at this point
Tell them all that they’ve been sworn in for a lifetime and just pump them all with anti psychotic drugs, pretend that they are actually doing things and having meetings and just contain them all for the rest of their lives.
Yeah, because they suck as Democrats. They aren’t even good Republicans. They are just greedy, unappealing people who don’t have a conscience when they have to do their job of representing their constituents.
Democratic leadership also sucks so they would rather keep their like-minded predators than have anyone with empathy and personality gain a leadership role.
How odd.
The poll surveyed 1,006 adults across the U.S. and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, at the 95 percent confidence level.
Not a very good poll, IMO. However:
Of fucking course their polling is low. They’ve sat with their thumbs up their ass this entire presidency. That’s after running a terrible presidential campaign, that came on the coattails of another terrible presidential campaign, that came on the coattails of a terrible presidency.
My surprise level: 0%
Thats a perfectly reasonable sample size and margin of error. The margin of error for a given confidence level and standard deviation is proportional to 1/sqrt(n) so in order to get the margin of error down from 4% points to 2% they would need to quadruple the number of people polled. However this is worthless if you cannot attribute for systematic errors with a better precision.
Sucks to suck, you bunch of grifters.
