Do they ever learn from any fuck up? No. Our next nominee is probably going to be Nancy Pelosi because we all know how much everyone loves her, and she's the perfect age to run.
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Well, it is her turn.
Whoo! First boss-lady President!
And then it’ll be “Vote blue no matter who!”
And “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”
And then “stupid progressives you make us lose all the time!”
And then we’re thrown into camps by JD Vance’s stormtroopers while elected democrats hold up signs.
It's almost like we've been through this all before.
When the country is circling the drain it’s the same shit just faster and faster.
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Nah, they will just run Harris again but lean even harder into trying to sway Republican voters since it worked out so well.
It'll be Newsome running on Prosperity Agenda and slightly more humane El-salvadorian black sites.
She’ll have to elbow out Diane Feinstein.
As if we are ever going to have actual elections again.
None of you realize how bad this is going to get
I read quite well, and understood my history lessons. And I'm armed and practiced. Still, likely won't be enough, but I'll die with my boots on before ICE comes for my legal, and brown, alien wife.
And for all y'all bitching about life's minor inconveniences, wait for Depression 2.0. You'll find out quick what's truly important and what you can do without.
i'm currently watching them fail to learn in VA elections
Idk if it's necessarily fail more than happy to capitulate. Only way out of this will be Luigi style I'm afraid. I mean, I'm all for hoping David Hogg burns out the corrupt but it's unlikely he can do it alone.
It's going to be Gavin Newsom and Rahm Emanuel. They will care about sucking Netanyahu's dick far more than any domestic policy goal. Depending on how badly Trump fucks up, it they might even win.
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It's almost like their strategy for winning is "If republicans fuck up enough, they'll have to vote for us".
Or as George Washington put it:
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
70% of Americans would get 1/4 of their way through the sentence, give up, and assume the writer was an idiot who couldn't communicate.
That is the world we live in now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
In 2023, 28% of adults scored at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3 or above.[1] Adults scoring in the lowest levels of literacy increased 9 percentage points between 2017 and 2023. In 2017, 19% of U.S. adults achieved a Level 1 or below in literacy while 48% achieved the highest levels.[2]
Anything below Level 3 is considered "partially illiterate" (see also § Definitions below).[3] Adults scoring below Level 1 can comprehend simple sentences and short paragraphs with minimal structure but will struggle with multi-step instructions or complex sentences, while those at Level 1 can locate explicitly cued information in short texts, lists, or simple digital pages with minimal distractions but will struggle with multi-page texts and complex prose.[4] In general, both groups struggle reading complex sentences, texts requiring multiple-step processing, and texts with distractions.[4]
Keep trying to tell y'all, we Americans are far dumber than you think. Rating intelligence by comparing your friends, family and lemmy posts is a self-selecting fail. You're not out there interacting with the very dumbest of our population, and no, retail work hardly counts.
This is not lost on our politicians and media. They're aiming for votes and eyeballs. If you want to obtain those things, you aim low and never mind the "intelligentsia", snobs that they are. 🙄
You would think this might have been a learning experience. Not for the Democratic establishment, whose members quickly scrambled to blame — what else? — the progressive left for their own failure, spent the months since thinking their comeback lay in posturing as socially conservative or trying to bankroll podcasters, and have been soothing themselves that they will win the 2026 midterms by default, even if they’re loathed by voters.
Schumer believing they already have a majority cinched going into 2026 is insane.
They don't have anything to learn, none of this is an accident they're just following orders from their billionaire owners
Exact
by design
It's not the democrats who need to learn this lesson, it's voters. We all need to learn that the democrats and the republicans are two parts of one entity, and their priority is to the status quo and the protection of capital. The people's needs are in direct conflict with the corporations needs to make as much money as possible. Which makes "left" and "right" voters allies, they can't have that so they divide us with culture war in the hopes that we won't see this.
We're not going to vote our way out of this.
the general public is dumb as rocks, there will be no learning, just bitterness and fear
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Once again. Best president of my lifetimes (comparison is based on actual presidents we had in office. Not ficticious ideal ones). No disaster here to me. kamala was fine mainly because she came out of that decent administration and biden did well partially from his experience in the obama admin (he knew republicans had 0 sincerity). Further kamala's vp was an awesome pick. Im sorry some idiots voted for trump and others did not vote. I remember all the complaints about gore but wow I still can't imagine what we would have been like without 911 and a stronger paris accord.
I had the same view (he pulled out of the Afghanistan, he mostly ended drone strikes, passed Chips Act, passed extremely watered-down Build Back Better bill, passed The Inflation Reduction Act, dealt with COVID moderately okay, he lowered some drug prices under Medicare, he passed moderate gun control bill), until he decided to unconditionally support a genocide. That just made him another modern American president that is a war criminal under international law. But even ignoring that, what he achived was barely moving a needle for improving the life for the working class. He failed to deliver full Build Back Better bill, he failed to raise minimum wage, he failed to forgive student loan debt, he failed to negotiate prices for all drugs that US government buys, he failed to lower cost of basic goods. That's just what he tried and failed to do.
But the story wasn't even about it. He was a disaster because he was sick, senile old dude that could barely speak and the DNC and their political aparatus protected him at the any cost, including making his brand toxic in the upcoming elections.
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Out of curiosity, best how?
In what he got accomplished in one term with a very adversarial situation. Besides the obudsman bill which concurrently helped with environmental issues and climate change (and some other stuff it was a really good bill), the no surprise billing, he fought well for loan forgiveness and even though they blocked him at every turn he got the loan amount can never go above prinicipal and payments based on income along with eventual forgivess if payments are regularly made, put a floor of 15% for corporate tax so they can't deduct to zero, had the irs work on doing taxes for folks, had a bunch of things with annoying fees and bs regular folk had to deal with (this is something really every legislatore and president should be doing), finally got us to were we are not in an active conflict since basically 911 so finally after almost 25 years, had medicare negotiate drug prices (oh also capped insulin costs), its sad to have to mention it but he supported a science based pandemic response with masking and vaccines winding them down as hospital stopped feeling the strain, all sorts of things that basically had to unwind bs from trump while not breaking the law in doing it. Got rid of no compete and yeah that was overturned but it shows the fight he had. I cannot point to a single term of any other administration that accomplished as much relative good as his did given the crazy ass situation we have today.
Umm isn't the GOP "propping up an obviously declining" wannabe dictator?!? Sure looked that way last time I checked. And didn't the Dems do the ol' switcheroo, and run Kamala Harris? I'm really surprised that this is coming from Jacobin. wtf? Did I switch timelines?
It turns out, “Well the other guy is worse,” is not a winning strategy. (See also 2016)
If only the DNC cared enough to champion popular progressive platitudes instead of kneecapping them. (See “Don’t ~~promise~~ say anything stupid, Tim Walz)
The DNC is complacent with trump because his actions will not negatively impact their lifestyles
The problem (for Democrats) in running on popular progressive platitudes is that some of them might prove so popular that they'd be forced to implement them.
And the rich people who control the Democratic party don't want progressive policies
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