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Republicans control Congress, but need Democrats to help avert a shutdown just days away.
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That's called "leftist."
No, we need democrats that move to the center but avoid the billionaires. Which is basically impossible.
Correct -- to the left of where they are now.
Seriously: the Democrats are indeed liberal, which is a right-wing economic philosophy, and that's a big part of the problem. The whole debate over "woke" (social "liberalism") is nothing but a fucking distraction; the real reason the Democrats are losing is that they refuse to address wealth inequality.
Liberals are such a boogieman for lemmy Ill never get it. They should be your partner in this but all i see from "leftists" is attempts to sow division
Yeah, they should be! But they're not, because they've decided to learn all the wrong lessons from Harris' loss and try to appease/collaborate with the fascists instead.
Meanwhile, the left keeps lining up to kick Liberal Lucy's football every single time, because in a first-past-the-post two-party system, WTF else are us blockheads gonna do?
There are two possible responses to this, depending on exactly what you mean by "sow division:"
If you're just talking about the tankies and "punish the Democrats and help Trump win because single-issue Gaza" types: you know damn well those aren't real leftists; you even put in the scare quotes yourself.
If you're speaking more broadly than that (e.g. if you're including what I'm saying in this thread) you need to get your head adjusted and learn to recognize that legitimate criticism of Democrats is a thing. You are not entitled to call people making arguments like mine "divisive" when the Jeffries et al. do fuck-all to meaningfully resist fascism and we rightfully complain about it!
I mean, holy shit, I just got an asinine DNC fundraising email talking about Trump "cutting programs" for his "tax cuts for the rich" and how "the DNC is also working tirelessly to flip the House and the Senate in the next election so we can have a check on Trump in Congress," as if that fucking even slightly matters compared to the fact that Trump is systematically dismantling America's democracy itself and there isn't even going to be a Congress with any meaningful power or a free and fair election for Democratic candidates to even win by then!
The message is basically "hey rube, send us $50 so we can piss it away on Dog knows what while sitting around bewilderedly asking "what leverage do we have," unanimously confirming Marco fucking Rubio, and ten of us even stooping to censure Al Green for daring to show even the tiniest amount of resistance."
If somebody thinks I'm "divisive" for criticizing that, they're just not living in factual reality anymore and that's their malfunction, not mine.
The censure on Green was a total shit maneuver. Those dems should lose their seats. MTG sat in a weird fur coat screaming at Biden and they didn't bat an eye.
Democrats need to go pure anticapitalist, but they won't because of money ... Super PACs.
At this point there is no way to get the billionaires out of government besides an uprising of some form.