This is why we need a real worker’s party, because this party is dead, and refuses to change.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday found that 62 percent of Democrats said “party leaders should be replaced,” 49 percent of Democratic respondents said they were “unsatisfied with current leadership” and 41 percent said they disagreed with the sentiment that they were unsatisfied with leadership.
We’re leaderless, we’re messageless, we’re agendaless.
Don’t worry. If there’s another election, their donors will buy them all of those things.
They don’t have those things now because their donors neither want nor need them. Why spend money on a leader to push the Democratic party to the right when the party in power is already pushing everything to the right?
The radical right isn’t installing fascism. The donors are paying both parties to install fascism. Why pay off an entire congress when it’s much easier to pay off a single dictator?
Well, neoliberalism is dead. Yet, the Democrats continue to cling to its bloated corpse. Many Democrats simply refuse to let go of the paradigm that took control of American politics in the 80s and 90s.
Neoliberalism isn’t dead, it just changed into fascism. A caterpillar doesn’t die, it becomes a butterfly.
Or a moth…
Didn’t know caterpillars can turn into moths, but that makes sense.
Or it gets infected by a parasite that lays its eggs to eat it alive from the inside.
We don’t simply need a workers party. We need a workers revolution. We need to dismantle capitalism.
Good luck, almost all workers see themselves as consumers firstly.
Oh, I guess let’s just throw up our hands and resign ourselves instead of leading by example.
Bro, I refuse to buy anything other than basic-ass groceries and used/local products.
I also started a borrowing circle in my neighborhood where people ask to borrow stuff rather than buying.
Every. Effort. Matters.
No matter how small.
What have YOU done to help?
Then what are you doing here? If your goal is not to demand these rights, what are you doing in this space?
how dare you point out the obstacles and harsh my vibe, bro
Aww, poor baby. Wanted to be coddled and praised for your ignorance? Is that why you invade spaces where you’re not wanted?
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“I mean, overall, when you lose, the party that loses gets, as you know — as I know, personally — attacked and criticized, and they’re the stupidest people that ever walked the planet, and ‘How could you have missed that?’ That’s what’s happening with the Democrats right now. They’re getting attacked from all sides.”
Will this theoretical real worker’s party be up and national in time for midterms?
Too many still thinking they can change the corporate focused party.
What’s the big dem messaging for fixing anything for midterms? 🦗🦗🦗
Stopping trump?
is that too liberal? Maybe they can make it something like “workers stopping trump”? With a raised fist?
When they voted against impeaching trump, is that stopping Trump?
Or was voting yes on his cabinet picks also stopping Trump?
When they voted to censure Al Green for standing up to Trump in the State of the Nation address, is that stopping Trump?
When they are quiet on Trump bombing Iran without approval of Congress because Israel asked him to, is that stopping Trump?
they can’t do anything because they don’t have the votes
oh now they have the votes but 1 or 2 people are suddenly against it unless it does effectively nothing and gives them money
oh sorry courts said no because reasons, guess we can’t try anything else
But yeah dems totally are working for the people
But they are not stopping Trump. Do you hear them call for any healthcare options, let alone M4All, any free college options, student loan debt issue, stopping any wars (most are for it,) lowering prices in consumer goods/gas/grocery, taxing the rich? All of these would render Trump useless because it would bring back the working class. Nope…they are a uni-party at this point, always have been. It is pointless.
Sure, they call for those things all the time. And how do you expect them to do that without a majority in either chamber? Let me guess - that’s their fault too. I know.
It’s all well and good to shit on the Democrats - the Democrats love to do it - but when it comes down to election day, your fights should be won or lost and voting against fascism should prevail.
For reasons beyond understanding, many people commenting on Lemmy chose to let fascism prevail eight months ago. And they still have no viable alternative. They have slogans. They have much attitude. There’s local work in a few places. And that’s it.
Getting out of the democratic party is a viable alternative. How have they helped any working class member in the last decade? Things have only gotten worse, and that is not because of the orange turd in the white house. NAFTA…which is a large part of the problem today, was Clinton’s baby. Obama, bailing out the banks who cause a housing crash, instead of the working people who lost their homes. Yeah, there is nothing to see here, orange man bad.
How have they helped any working class member in the last decade?
Either you’re trolling or just don’t know much. How have they helped the working class? In the last decade? Well, That would put us at Obamas final year, four years of trump and four of Biden.
We do this all the time, and it’s just a pose for some people to sniff at and claim it’s nothing, but they don’t know shit. It’s not nothing by a long shot.
• The Biden-Harris Administration has strengthened privacy protections for patients and doctors and defended in court women’s ability to access medication for abortion.
• President Biden issued an executive order directing the Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor and HHS to explore ways to:
- Improve access and affordability for over-the-counter contraception.
- Ensure the right to travel across state lines to receive care.• 14.8 million jobs were created in the first three years of the Biden-Harris Administration - more than any period in US history.
• The unemployment rate has held below 4% for the longest stretch since the 1960s.
• Hispanics, African-Americans, and people with disabilities now have near-record low unemployment rates.• A $15 minimum wage was established for federal workers and contractors.
• Under the Biden-Harris Administration, the number of employees eligible for time-and-a-half pay significantly increased.Democratic state legislatures have enacted proposals to increase voting access, resulting in the enactment of 153 laws in 38 states.
• Although blocked by the GOP, Democrats have worked relentlessly to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. Should Dems control Congress in 2025, voting rights bills will be a top priority.• The Inflation Reduction Act provides $369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote clean energy technologies.
• Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement, an international pact aiming for all countries to slash their greenhouse gas emissions.The Biden Administration:
• Canceled loans of $153 billion for 4.3 million borrowers.
• Helped more than 700,000 people access Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• Increased the maximum value of Pell Grants by $900 per year.President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act to enshrine marriage equality for same-sex and interracial couples into federal law.
• The Pentagon eliminated restrictions on transgender troops, imposed by the Trump administration, and unveiled new rules designed to end discrimination and provide medical care for those service members.
• President Biden appointed Jessica Stern as the US Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons.There’s more but if you read all that and don’t get it, okay then.
LOL, nice that you copied Biden’s presidential bio. Although a few of these are good bandaids, such as the $15 min wage (although it needed to be more for a real impact given the state of Biden’s economy,) nothing here that really helped the major issues which is why the working class either sat the election out or voted for the orange man. Grocery/gas/utility bills were at an all time high under Biden, his economy sucked, and he did nothing to prevent it. Open borders under Biden, who left them open, whether you agree or not, was one of the biggest campaign voting issues for the workers, and Trump. Healthcare costs are bankrupting workers, Biden did nothing. He lowered only a few drugs for the boomers, but again, nothing to impact the working class. Do you see the bigger picture, no real working class issues addressed, same for cackling Harris (Hillary’s girl, I mean half her campaign staff was from Hillary’s campaign.)
Oh and lets take a snapshot of what is happening right now with the dems in NY as noted by Abraham Aiyash;
Democrats who ripped apart Trump’s character for his conduct with women, etc, then proceed to endorse serial sexual harasser @andrewcuomo for mayor because they’re afraid of progressives like @ZohranKMamdani is exactly why people don’t trust or respect the Democratic Party.
Chuck @benigma2017 replies
The fact that Democrats will sell out EVERY SINGLE THING they claim to care about - whether it’s political corruption, or a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, or arming and funding genocide - is the reason people no longer trust or respect the Democratic Party.
