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House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration's authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 days ago (2 children)


If only the fought as hard as they spam & grift

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It really pisses me off that the ONLY outreach I saw were requests for money. Hundreds of them (many may have been scams, not sure).

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Democratic Party doesn't get paid to win elections.

It gets paid to run campaigns.

The Republicans have decided that that is unreliable and have simply gone with open corruption.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So the Republicans can act like an opposition party but they can't? Have they had their heads buried since the beginning of Obama's term? Or is this their snide way of confirming complicity?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The rich want to end democracy. They dont want to stop Muskler.

And almost everyone in Congress and the Senate is rich.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Democrats are officially a dead party.

"Disgraceful and humiliating surrender from these Democrats as they continue to hit your inboxes and messages begging (spamming) for money."

That's all the careers care about.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago

When they win elections, they refuse to use power to help people, but instead blame Repub obstruction. When they lose they wag fingers, but mostly just go along with Repubs (ie, confirmations) and they FUNDRAISE. Then they use that funding to defeat left dems in primaries.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (8 children)

The Democrats in question would likely say they're upset progressives are getting mad at Democrats as if they have the power to pass bills or do much of anything. Yelling "do something" isn't helping when your party doesn't have any power.

Ironically the most power Democrats have is thanks to the filibuster, which Progressives campaigned against for years.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Constituent pressure? How frustrating!

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago

Or... Just act at all....

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