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Democratic lawmakers have faced eruptions of anger at town hall meetings across the country this week, as constituents have coupled their fury over President Donald Trump’s actions with deep frustration over what they see as a feckless Democratic response.

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[–] [email protected] 227 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (21 children)

Time for the neoliberal world order to end. Want Republicans to actually be scared of Democrats? Fill the party with socialists.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 weeks ago (43 children)

This is correct. Ultimately, the Democratic Party will only be changed through primaries. Not town halls or performative third party voting, but filling the party up with people who think differently.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Agreed.

The democrat dinosaurs will panic, telling us the large donations will dry up, without which a campaign cannot be won.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Democrats hit 27% approval this week...

That's ironically the level Schumer said Dems would start doing stuff when Trump hit.

No one likes neoliberals, or their policies

It's just not an effective political strategy, regardless of how you try to look at it. Even ignoring popularity with voters, even when neoliberals get elected, they refuse to do anything.

The entire purpose of it is doing nothing, it's political nihilism.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Lately my emotions have tended toward anger at the apathetic middle, not the cartoon villains of the Penguin Administration.

I know it’s a minority view but I blame all this on the nice normal people that thought they had better things to do than pay attention to politics.

If you do not see the need for aggressive responses to lawlessness, you let this happen and I find you boring.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

This has been my position since I was a teenager: centrists are the weak underbelly because they can't pick a side and just want a middle ground.

Great sentiment, but you never have a side, a cause, and your "meaning" is always shifting to placate everyone else in the name of middleness.

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