“I don’t think we should bomb children”, “I think medial-debt shouldn’t be the largest cause of bankruptcy in our country”, “People should be able to oppose genocide”, “cops shouldn’t be able to assault innocent people without consequence”
“isn’t perfect”
I think your definition of “perfect” might be a little off, as I think those are all fairly reasonable to ask of the DNC.
But they didn’t deliver when they had the majority. I already pointed out the things that they didn’t deliver on, and you keep ignoring them. I pointed out how they didn’t deliver on the things you claimed, and you keep ignoring that as well. I always find it funny when Libs argue that others are arguing in bad faith, when they won’t address the concerns brought up by others.
I haven’t ignored anything. They did a small handfull of good things, but they spent the majority of the time failing to deliver on easy wins.
You spent a bunch of time pointing out why they haven’t delivered. So which is it? Do they deliver? or do things keep them from delivering?
From what I’ve seen, they’ve had plenty of chances, but mostly chose to throw them away to keep their doners and rich friends happy. Maybe you are happy with them, but it’s clear that the voters are not.
Yes, I’m not ashamed to say that I think a party that backs a genocide, bombs children, and screws over it’s voting base is not doing good enough. Especially when they seem to have plenty of time to help out the other party, and their corporate doners.
They’ve had plenty of time and opportunity to fix plenty of things, but chose not to. You keep saying that they “only” had 2 years, but I saw them waste those years.
You are also correct: I will never show up for a party that wants to bomb children, or picks a rapist as their candidate, or backs a genocide, or continuously caters to the rich instead of their voters. Why would I support a party that fights against what I want?
edit: Also, when have the Democrats catered to the left? I see them consistently run to the right, but I usually only see them “cater to the left” verbally, on stage when they want votes. Once elected in, they immediately turn back to the right.
Obama delivered a terrible, watered down healthcare change. Biden could have pushed a lot more money out for studen debt relief, but thought that spending the money on the border wall and weapons for Israel was more important.
They could have done drastically more, but spent those 2 years sucking up to corporate doners, and giving consessions to the Republicans instead.
You may think that “please don’t bomb children”, or “please stop giving our tax money to the rich” or “maybe medical debt shouldn’t be the biggest cause of bankruptcy in the US” or “please, make education affordable” is asking too much, but I think it’s not asking enough, and the Dems wouldn’t even deliver on those. They could have, but chose not to.
bombs children backs a genocide backs down on the majority of their promises screws over the working class bails out the rich runs torture programs
“…if Dems aren’t perfect…”
I think you might have a skewed understanding of the word “perfect”
Do they deliver? Did Biden “cancel all student debt for an entire generation” like he said he would? Did the Dems stopped sending weapons to back a genocide? Did they get Medicare for All? Did they make housing affordable? Did they stop our overseas torture programs? Did they stop drone-striking children?
Because I don’t remember them delivering any of that.
I don’t wonder why progress is slow, as it is pretty clear: The Rebuplicans are regressive, and the Democrats mostly impede progress.
It’s not a lie though. If the Democrats don’t want to appear to be “remotely similar”, maybe they could try distancing themselves from the Republicans, instead of adopting the Republican policies.
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”
While those things had an affect, I don’t think they were the main reason. The Dems sitting on their ass when they had a chance to fix things, their pandering to the rich, their pro-war stance, and their general disdain for the desires of their voting base were a much bigger reason.
Agreed. Lets wait and see
What has made me hopeful and excited though, is that the Democratic voters are going against the DNC.
I’m down for that. I’ve been celebrating it since I saw it
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You can delay messages to yourself with Signal if you long-press the send button. I also run my own email server, and schedule messages in the future to remind me about things.
Voting for Dems demonstrably hasn’t helped. It would be a good idea to try a different tactic
I actually love email. While yes, this post is accurate, email is the most filterable communication system that I have. Since I have my own email-server, and I know how procmail rules work, I can tightly control who is allowed to contact me, and what folders their messages go into. It also has great crowd-sourcing of known spammers, that I can pull from to help me filter out spammy IP addresses.
Every other message system only has a “report spam” button, that is dependent on the service admins, and doesn’t actually stop people from sending me annoying junk-mail.
Yeah, that’s a pretty common belief-system among Democrats. I actually copy/pasted my reply from another conversation since I come across it so frequently