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"Liberals will win majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, CNN projects"
The one on the right should be "Edgelord leftists posting on Lemmy"
I mean I'm not gonna deny that some like Schumer have been totally useless. But over the last few months "liberals doing nothing" has included halving Tesla's stock price and winning the Supreme Court in a state that went Trump. In prediction markets future races are looking bad for Republicans. Don't like what democrats are doing? Great, go run or support a candidate you do like. Or better yet, run as a Republican and do a hostile takeover of that party so you can challenge democrats from the left in the general too. There's enough anger at Republicans now that it could actually work, especially in safe blue districts.
Dems biggest problem has never been results. They have done that. Time and time again. Fix the economy. Solve unemployment. Shot the steal. Whatever it is. They have actually done it each time.
But i have never seen a group that has been so mindblowingly incompetent at messaging.
Take some fucking credit you dipshits!
Seriously. Biden did almost everything we asked him to do. But the party never took credit or bragged about it enough. So much so that despite accomplishing the status quo, he still came across as a loser and lost the election for his incumbent.
They did what we asked. But we were too timid or pc to take the fucking credit! we lost because of some semblance of decorum or some other nonsense.
Brag about it you pussy ass bitches!
Part of the messaging problem is our lefties who complain that nothing is lefty enough
If a handful of online "lefties" can undo Democrats' billion dollars of advertising, then that sounds like you're agreeing that Dems are mind-blowingly incompetent at messaging.
If Dems can't win until everyone matches in lockstep with no disagreement then either Dems need to fall in line with their base, or get ready for a third Trump term.
P.S. Democrats are a centrist party (at best). It shouldn't be surprising that Leftists don't consider them left enough. Why does the existence of Leftists anger moderates so much?
I agree with you. and power to the people we should be able to express our will over that of some rich guy.
I also agree that Democrats are eccentric party and we do not treat the far left very well. I just consider you to weigh the impact of your vote in the future.
I really don’t want to have to go defend Canada for my own country next time if I could. I’m sure you have other wants to.
Can you tell me why any time I express the slightest criticism of the Democrats, a Democrat has to lecture about voting? I did not say anything about how I voted.
Because VBNMW is the Blue MAGA mantra to deflect any criticism from a candidate who is racist, sexist, queerphobic, because the other guy is a bit more racist, sexist, and queerphobic.
They aren't the ones who are undoing the achievements. The rich rightwingers are doing it. They employ a bunch of different channels, including some amount of useful idiots on the left, who are doing their bidding without understanding.
The right can do it because they aren't bound by any morals, or adherence to decorum, or fear of retaliation, or fear of change in general. Dems are the party of moderate gradual adherence to status quo and maybe moderate change for slightly better, if it's not too bothersome. And the left for some reason hates the second more that the first, so they aren't helping.
If you agree the Democrats are aiming for "adherence to the status quo and maybe moderate change for the slightly better, if it's not too bothersome" and you still don't understand why that isn't good enough for people being disappeared by agents of the state, I just don't know what to tell you.
Of course it's not enough. It's all you have. There is no other big force that can do anything in US. Progressive movement doesn't exist, and whatever disjointed groups are out there can't even elect a representative if their life depends on it (it does). The sad truth is, you either support status quo party in their lukewarm attempts to combat the darkness, or you don't, and darkness consumes you.
America chose the latter, and nobody forced them to make this choice, they did it by themselves.
Holy false dichotomy, Batman!
Maybe you picked the latter, I guess. But feel free to be quiet while the rest of us work to support our communities and try to push Democrats to be less useless.
By sitting on your ass dreaming of firebombing Wallmart, and spamming the word genocide all over the internet, you collectively chose the latter. Now you pretend you're going to push someone somewhere or build something. But you weren't able to build enough momentum to go vote once, with this skill and energy, the only community you're going to be supporting is a community of fungi between your toes.
I don't know, maybe you personally did everything correctly (it's the internet afterall, we're all perfect here on anonimous forums), but judging by this conversation, I assume you were among the online forces trying to come up with new and exciting ways to combine the words genocide and joe together. Which, undeniably, led to some people, when facing the unfortunately real dichotomy of american general election, chosing the dark path.
The fuck are you talking about?
I'm not a despondent doomer, therefore I must be conspiring to blow up a Wal-Mart?
Tell you what....get off the internet, go touch some grass, and work in your community. Whatever your problem is, you need a change of scenery. Feed the poor. Find a community garden. Whatever. Just get off the internet and go do something productive.