Even so, I’m not sure I can agree that the best solution to dealing with the right is to fight the centrists first
We aren’t able to use electoralism to fight the right as long as the political platform and messaging of the democratic party is 95% the same as the republican’s.
The criticisms of the dem party don’t amount to “let the right win”, they amount to “the DNC prevents any political resistance to the right, they either need to be coup’d or destroyed if we want to stop the right from winning”
2030 is incredibly optimistic. Musk has been promising your tesla would be able to function as an automatic taxi when you’re not using it for a decade.
Where do you see frequent trash cans and people regularly throwing trash out in the street?
Typically trash in the street means you don’t have enough trash cans, or a bunch of youth or homeless people whom society is failing.
No, fascism isn’t when you break rules to be effective in government.
Would you call FDR a fascist?
Republicans care more about open-carrying to committee meetings than to get anything actually done
So go around them. Did you learn nothing from Obama giving the republicans half of the discretionary budget to appeal to their better nature, which the republicans voted against anyway? Or the compromised republican healthcare plan, Obamacare? West wing-brained libs claimed this was a stroke of genius, because everyone would see how civil and reasonable the dems were by reaching across the aisle.
And then the dems got blown the fuck out in 2010 because republicans saw their representatives fighting for them, and dem voters saw their representatives unilaterally passing republican policy despite having a super majority in the house and senate.
So either Dems have to go low, and lower the bar further, bend the rules more, and be just as guilty of breaking democracy
If you were elected to do X, and the rules get in the way, it’s antidemocratic to let them stop you.
Every time the democrats used the parliamentarian or the villain of the week or the republicans or norms or rules they themselves set in the senate as an excuse to do what their voters want (and their donors don’t want), they are breaking democracy.
Democrats don’t have to be perfect, they have to be effective. Republicans are effective, but only to do bad things. Democrats do manage to be effective sometimes, but only to do bad things, such as when Biden went around congress to keep arms shipments flowing to Israel.
Kyrsten Sinema is in her 40s, Bernie Sanders is in his 80s.
Age is not the factor here.
It just speaks to how dogshit the Dem strategy of chasing the <10% of republicans who claimed they didn’t like Trump was.
There’s 13 other werewolves chained up in the basement.
She must give the best hugs, 8 legs holding you tight, those mandibles wrapping around your head as she nuzzles you
Insects which undergo metamorphosis are kinda born full sized.
If I’m right it was the population who fraught back their oppressive regime but I can’t remember exactly when or where
Nobody knows who the guy was, who the guys who brought him away were, or what he was yelling at the soldiers about.
Sorry, all evidence was censored and everyone who knew those people were disappeared too.
Same with anyone who knew those people and so on.
an LGBT ally
That’s not how that works; someone can only be described as an ally while performing allyship.
The real fur industry isn’t great for the environment in its current state either.
Not quite, I mean more in the way any pejorative they’d use against a furry, that person thinks about queer people.
It’s a proxy for queerphobia.
you lumped me in with some other group that considers itself far-left but I just consider to be wrong.
That is not my experience at all, I’ve had almost no issues at all with anarchists and even confused social democrats and libertarians IRL. People who live in the imperial core, claim to be the left, but spend their time going after actual leftists are fundamentally unserious.
I was banned from there for “misinformation” when I explained MLK’s position on moderates and linked his letter from Birmingham jail.
People elect representatives to represent them, not to compromise and pass the opposition’s agenda.
It’s forgivable if the representative failed to obtain enough power, but if they have literally any means at their disposal and don’t use it, an unwillingness to use all the power the people gave them to do what they elected them to do is a betrayal of those people.