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And this is why Democrats will keep losing.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Both parties need to split up into new parties. However, the money flowing is incentive to prevent them from doing that. Party splits have happened before several times in US history. This time the billionaires are funding all of this chaos thanks to legislation they started passing since post Watergate. How do we get them to split? Take the money out or give them more money than the billionaires can. Both resolutions that should not require drawing blood. How do we do that? I have no idea how to fund more money than billionaires, but being somewhat of an optimist, 99% of the population can probably figure out a way once they stop this tribal mentality of red vs blue.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

Stop salty or buttering it up.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It isn't playing nice if you know the people you're approving are fascists. It makes them rolling over even worse. Republicans had no issue obstructing whenever they felt needed.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She's saying the thing the Radical Tankie Left has been saying since the Clinton Era. It's good to hear someone in her position repeating the message one more time. But the fact that it has to come from a fringe member of a fringe caucus, rather than - say - Hakeem Jefferies or Dick Durban, is depressing.

We're so far away from a McConnell style "We're going to make Obama a one-term President" moment. Liberals simply cannot understand politics as conflict. Its always just make'n deals for your district's rich friends and stuffing your own pockets along the way.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"We're literally losing our democracy!!!"

votes for it to continue for the 200th time in a row

"How could this happen?!"

helps them do it again

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Sounds very democratic of them

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fuck the democrats. Let's take BERNIE and AOC, and replace the rest in the next election.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's part of what the republican partys done that's made them so successful. If your representatives don't represent you, primary them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Shit, Democrats don't even give us a chance to primary, they just pick whoever they want.

In NJ, they had what was referred to as the county line, which would basically put the Democratic party's candidate first on a ballot. It was abolished this year, but the idea was that the positioning on the ballot made it easier for people to just vote down the line, but the result was that you didn't necessarily have a fair vote.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The elite Democrats aren't worried about fighting back.

They are trying to figure out how they can win the next round AND HOW THEY WILL USE THE SYSTEM TO THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE ONCE THEY REGAIN CONTROL.

We need another party that is actually for the people.

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