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Let me fix your headline "Sitting incumbents too comfortable to do their jobs annoyed that they are being pushed to do their jobs."
They are mostly all careerists who focus on who's "turn" it is while they are one foot in the grave. Its a major issue on why we have the current situation.
The fact that hold onto power they are either unwilling or too scared to use is infuriating.
The party leadership needs to step down.
You forgot quotes surrounding leadership.
they never will, they are fat and happy right where they are. Even a fascist gov't is preferrable to giving up access to wealth and influence they enjoy right now. I'd say much more likely is a workers party gaining popularity but that kind of pro-worker party is gonna have a hard time receiving the financial backing the dems and repubs get.
They think the gravy train lasts forever, seemingly unaware the fascists would be more than happy to see them in the same camps as the rest of us, and would make that happen the moment they get the chance, without a moments hesitation.
Hey Democrats, why don't you form another couple of committees and release some weak statements condemning the other side while doing fuck-all. Clearly, it's gotten you this far, so why not just keep treading that same old road? It's frustrating to see the Democrats get beaten over the head again and again and learning the wrong lesson. FUCKING DO SOMETHING.
They DO something. Punching down on people that didn't vote for their genocide party. Horrible gloating comments saying it's their fault whenever the israhellis commit more warcrimes and that they deserve it. If that doesn't make clear they are in powerhungry ghouls without compassion IDK what will.
Don't forget "Strongly worded letters" and vigorous finger wagging. Which is what passes for fighting from our passel of corrupt do nothing feckless Dem "leaders".
I hear about slamming on the daily, though. And with their frail joints and bones, too.
Fucking shit heads. I hope they [redacted].
a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups
This tracks.
Democrats are tirelessly working behind the scenes! You just don't see what happens behind closed doors!
Behind closed doors:
a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups
Now I'm not saying that the Republican Party is a blatantly fascistic organization designed to re-concentrate all wealth and power into the hands of an aging white billionaire elite afraid of losing their power and want to "scorch the Earth" in revenge for the fact that they and their very specific view of "how things should be" can not last forever
And that the Democrats are not only complacent, but are actively in on the plan and intentionally aiding this grift by pretending to be an alternative choice of leadership that seeks to prevent this from happening, and doing the bare minimum to keep up that illusion to prevent real opposition from showing up.
Part of that plan is to get people to join up with the Democratic Party to resist the Republicans and steer them away from or at least discourage them from doing anything that would actually stop the Great Ominous Plan....
The reason this is so effective is because due to the way America's Electoral System is, anything outside of the R's or D's is entirely unelectable no matter how many people vote.
Though this also means that if the Democrats ever lost control of their party to people who actually want to do something, it would threaten to destroy the Republican Party, and prevent anything like it from rearing its ugly head again. As it would become as demonized as the Nazi Party is in Germany.
But let's just say that that was exactly the case....
What would the D's and R's be doing differently?
This is where I sit. Either the Dems are controlled opposition, or they're actually this incompetent. Does it matter? Do you even need to get conspiratorial? No, they're unqualified and should be replaced.
Right? Like, I used to think they were just naive, but they're too damn good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
It's like the old saying goes, when Democrats make a firing line the first thing they do is form a circle.
Can Chuck Schumer go jump down a well please? Fuck the DNC's "centrist" republicrat agenda. Return to progressivism you archaic troglodytes.
The party is functionally dead. If they don’t come out with absolute opposition we will be stuck with a single party for the rest of our lives.
The headline almost reads like an Onion article.
Most of them do nowadays.
If certain Dems aren't going to do anything constructive, then they need to get out of the damn way and put people like AOC in charge.
Better get fucking used to it bluedogs.
We need a Democratic Tea Party movement very badly.
Unfortunately, I already know the people who would lead it would also never get past making the rules of who's included, what kind of tea we'll be using, and if it's ethically sourced, and if any members have any problematic tweets in their past, what particular brand of socialism everyone subscribes to, and of course, what we're actually demanding from the government.
Say what you want about the right, but their superficial, Ork-like focus on goals gets them moving. Too bad those goals are usually things like "Vote against our best interests as much as humanly possible."
edit: I love that half the comments below are people disagreeing about how we would organize it and what we would want and who we would include. I both despair and celebrate that I'm not someone who can just hear a single word like "woke" and just laser-focus on uniting with literal crocodiles to take it down. Identify our weaknesses people, stop trying to be smarter than the problem. The problem is stupid simple, we have wealthy elite stealing our lives and futures away and the right is enabling them. Full stop, we should be fucking marching locked-arm with people whom we've been told to abhor to fix this. Imagine if people became scared to associate with billionaires. Imagine if we all did something.
The tea party, however, turned out to be an entirely artificial astroturfed "movement" that got its funding from the Koch brothers. They only came to exist because they were deemed a potentially profitable investment to the one percent. Same goes for Kerry getting "swiftboated". It was always about money.
So they were class traitors who did it for nothing other than hoping to earn the Koch Brothers favor?
some were! The rest were useful idiots--just totally unwitting dupes who had no idea who they were REALLY working for. The groups that handled transportation and logistics took "donations" as "non-profit" organizations but the Koch brothers absolutely did appoint individuals to set it up on their behalf AND provided basically all of the funding. The organizers themselves or the people feeding instructions to them were either class traitors if they knew the resources were coming from one source OR they weren't even legitimate members of the working class in the first place but only pretended to be so as to blend in with their marks.
People forget that the "tea" in "tea party" stands for Taxed Enough Already