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ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate both Democrats and Republicans
I love how, in the same thread, you credit Republican opposition with stopping the Democratic agenda and then claim that Democrats are powerless to do the same.
Why are they powerless?
***Because they’re voting with Republicans and helping them steamroll us when they get a chance to withhold their votes and draw concessions or filibuster, which yes, is something they deserve full credit for doing as a party. ***
Nope, but I have seen the Democrats hand away their leverage and capitulate to fascists.
Hence point #1.
On average, between 4,000 and 5,000 bills are considered in Congress every session.
Democrats should filibuster every one that makes it to the floor until Trump is out of office. Zero wins.
Correct on both counts.
Their opposition is purely performative.
I did, however.
They are not powerless. They just have to fight dirty, which they should damn well be willing to do after watching the government get plundered for the last three months.
I remember Kamala and Mike Johnson being all smiles on Inauguration Day.
To me, it means a general sense of shame.
I’m glad I live in a place of general abundance and I have everything I need and some of what I want, but being someone who reads extensively, I keep finding myself learning things that were deliberately withheld from me in the public school curriculum and I understand why the rest of the world hates us. (Some examples, the Tulsa Massacre, the Battle of Blair Mountain, railway strikes in the 1800’s, etc.)
I don’t stand up for the national anthem either, because even though I was born here, this country doesn’t represent the values important to me. (living wages, health care, leaving people the fuck alone even if they’re a different religion, etc.)
It’s punctuated every election season, when I watch 49% of Americans make excuses for genocide, poverty, and endless war while the other 49% pretends to give a shit just because the other team’s guy is currently in charge. There’s never any meaningful self-reflection by either 49% in the wake of massive negative change.
Nope. It’s all because of the Dems. They did this. Those bastards.
You’re being sarcastic, but yes, part of this problem goes back to that. History has proven that inventing superdelegates to subvert democracy in their own primary process was an absolutely horrible idea. It was also a fascist one.
They not only broke their own primary process, but they got sued for it in Florida and argued it was their right to do so.
Patently absurd, but they did it and got away with it.
They just need to stop crowning candidates.
You know what’s uneducated?
When voters tell you exactly what they want, and for the most part, it’s only two things, and you ignore both.
They wanted food prices to come down because staples were becoming cost-prohibitive, and they wanted the US to stop sending WMD’s to a child genocide.
The candidate you expected them to vote for said they wouldn’t change anything and that these people, who are having problems affording food and are sick of watching their friends get bombed to “just be joyful”.
Your education, and that of other Democratic voters, didn’t do much for their critical thinking.
It’s like they slept through the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations.
I suppose, in a way, they did.
I respect you for that tremendously. I didn’t vote for it every time, but Obama was the last straw for me, and is why I vote Green now.
LOL
Thank you for your commentary.
Did you happen to see the video of Trump and Obama yukking it up together at Jimmy Carter’s funeral? This was, what, mere weeks after consistently making Trump/Hitler comparisons.
I think if you look at the practices I described above and how they’ve escalated and become normalized over time, across multiple Democratic and Republican presidencies, that yes, it’s hard to come to a reasonable conclusion that there’s a meaningful difference between what’s happening now and what happened in the 2000’s and 2010’s.
And that’s particularly true because Obama and Bush were re-elected and thus rewarded for escalating fascism in America.
The only difference is that we’re getting a closer view to it and the information isn’t coming out in leaked or declassified documents. It’s always been just as sensational as the video we saw yesterday.
prison labor camps is SEVERAL STEPS
This happened regularly, and was reported on, during the War on Terror. Teens and the elderly were likewise kidnapped.
The difference is there wasn’t a camera on every corner.
Do some introspection here, and maybe, I dunno, read a history book.
These memes are stupid.
These same things have been happening for two decades: The Patriot Act, extraordinary rendition (ie, kidnappings), foreign black sites (Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, etc), torture, and genocide against civilians. Obama even invented the term ‘enemy combatant’ so his military wouldn’t have to record how many civilians their drones were killing. Hell, Tom Homan was an Obama appointee.
AND YOU ALL VOTED FOR IT.
AS DID I.
We could have stopped this in its tracks, but we rewarded it, and now it’s normal.
And remember how the guy who lead the My Lai Massacre got house arrest? (But only after documents on the case were leaked.)