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Like 90% of the Dems in Congress need to go. Replacing Schumer will be a start but not nearly enough.
and all of the republicans cow-toeing to dear leader
"kowtowing"
It’s actually camel-toeing
Moose knuckle
Do you think there are Republicans that don't need to get removed?
Could you imagine a government with 30% of the politicians being Independent like Bernie? The corporations wouldnt know who to bribe, politicians would actually need to worry about what voters think. 100% Independent would be horrific for corporations ... and exactly how the founding fathers designed the constitution.
James Madison’s entire reason for creating the Senate was to protect the “opulent minority” (landholders) from the majority (everyone else). The constitution was always designed to protect capital as its prime directive.
if independents are so great what happened to Anus King?
edit: not a typo, his name is Anus now.
Or they'd throw even more money at them
I knew Schumer was gonna fuck it up somehow. The last few days I was finally starting to get a little hope he grew a spine and actually listened to DNC constituents only to have this blow up. We gave up effective air traffic, SNAP benefits, furloughed and laid off government workers for nothing in return after all these weeks. If his constituents don't demand a new rep after this then what hope do we have in the Senate for the foreseeable future?
US would do well to support third party candidates while building the vanguard.
The only path to effective opposition in the United States is through the destruction of the Democrat party. It can't be reformed.
It has been before. Many, many times.
Exactly. Ideological flip. Democrats and Republicans were firmly on opposite side of ideological divide before they switched.
Third party and independents used to be more prominent in congress and senate up until the early 20th century. I think mass corporate media brainwashed people to think within allowable and carefully curated discourse that they can only elect Democrats or Republicans. Hence, manufactured consent.
I feel like the better option would be to target the Republican party, since social inertia is gonna mean a few cycles of losing to whoever we don't destroy first. I don't wanna have to dismantle capitalism and christo-nationalism at the same time.
We replace it with a blue collar "libertarian" party that's just socialism with all the jargon replaced with country songs.
And yet, how? This is a problem that's older than most of us.
I'm tired of hearing people say what needs to happen like they've just rubbed a magic lamp. The reality is that they're are still scores of people okay with this shit.
The best we can do at this stage is get a progressive to start leading them. I don't know if we'll get this, but people are finally very angry at these clowns, so maybe.
How would they do well to lose more seats?
How is it helping to have more seats?
The more seats the more we can do.
It’s all in this handy guide: https://www.ducksters.com/history/us_legislative_branch.php
Not when Dems always have the needed number of turncoats no matter what the situation!
Need two, don't worry, two will fall on the sword and make it (not) happen!
Need 8? 2 who are retiring and 6 who don't have a re election coming up will make it (not) happen!
Anything to stop too much progress from being made!
They've had enough seats to fix these problems plenty of times, but chose not to. They've had majorities twice that I can remember, and spent the entire time building out the systems that the current administration is using.
So once again I ask: How is it helping to have more seats?
Yeah well I disagree, but the alternative is to have less seats. Which we have now.
Is now good? If so, carry on.
The hateful 8
Not enough folks know about referendums, and all the cool things they can do.
Wonder what he got as a kickback. He does a lot of surrendering these days.
My guess is more bombs for Israel.
Fuck chuck the Cuck
Kick his ass out!
The clueless idiot gene runs in the family.
