Not voting (in your election)

The most important elections coming up will be the primaries. It's the only opportunity progressives have of getting into office. A much better rallying cry than, "We're not voting!" Would be, "Primary all of them!"

I would strongly discourage people from voting third party. I mean, have you looked at the name of the sub?

So what you’re saying is we’re boned

The two independents were Bernie Sanders and Angus King, both of whom reliably caucused with the Democrats.

And "certain situations" means, if the Senate votes 50/50, the VP can break the tie.

So, yes, 50 reliable Democratic votes in the Senate, plus the VP, plus a majority in the House, means the Democrats did "win" Congress in all but the most pedantic interpretations of the word.

The Republicans sure dona great job of getting everything they want with a ghoul in the white house and a split Congress. So why can't the Democrats?

i'll pick the idiot too but I hate the people who defend them like they're gods greatest gift to mankind. No, we need some adults in the room please.

No, no, they're not gonna fly in and save anything. They've basically dropped even implying they're going to do that. Now the party line is "vote for us! We'll do nothing for 4 years! That's better than actively doing bad things. Remember to vote for us again in 4 years. Or bad things!"

And the most fucked up part is that nothing for 4 years is better than active bad things. We need actual 3rd party candidates and socialists doing some real fucking organizing at the local and state levels and building a coalition. We're never going to get a viable candidate from a viable party that isn't complete dogshit in a national election if there isn't a huge movement behind them, and we're not going to get that if we don't stop pretending like it can start at the presidential level.

That said, in a solid red or blue state, get the greens or whoever over the threshold so they get federal funding. But swing state voters have a much harder choice before them.

Whole system is fucked.

Made myself sad.

Going to bed now.

:(

You know what? If I hire someone to guard my house, and my house gets robbed, because the person I hired (1) didn't lock the door, (2) didn't call the police, and (3) was too afraid to confront the robbers themselves, then yes, I will blame the person I hired for not doing their fucking job.

The conceit of representative democracy is that our representatives are public servants. That we appoint them to serve our interests. And when they fail at that task we have the right and the fucking duty to hold them accountable for their failure.

It's like if you got robbed, and then instead of locking the door or taking literally any preventive measure, you just think "surely I would never get robbed twice" and then do nothing

Then you get robbed again, because you live in a shady neighborhood and you're gonna keep getting fucking robbed until you lock the door

this is more like blaming a judge for not locking up a known serial killer

I'm not gonna hold my breath on the Republican Party holding it's contingent responsible. Thus the only other party with power better take some action.

It may not be the victim's fault but it is their responsibility.