Democrats are furious. And they want their leaders to get mad, too.
“I wish you’d be angry,” a constituent told representative Gil Cisneros, a Democrat of California, at a recent town hall. At an event in Minnesota featuring a panel of Democratic attorneys general, an activist voiced a similar sentiment: “Get angry, man,” punctuating the message with a profanity.
The anger roiling the party, slow to build, is now a forceful current coursing through the electorate and pulling in Americans terrified that the country is descending into authoritarianism. Democrats – with no leader to guide them and little power to wield in Washington – are scrambling to harness the sudden fury.
At rallies, town halls and protests, voters are venting their fury with Donald Trump and his empowerment of Elon Musk’s full-frontal assault on federal agencies, stoking what progressive activists believe are the embers of a populist backlash against the president – and the Democratic leaders they believe are not meeting the moment.
I say we pick this guy
Juan Guaido, self declared interim president of Venezuela.
And great meme whenever a power vacuum presents itself.
Probably George Bush or something
Bernie is touring with AOC for a reason. He’s demonstrating the next leader now. She’s already here.
If America were drowning, and a woman offered to throw them a life preserver, America would rather wait for a man to help instead and die. Perfect candidates? Maybe not. But both Clinton and Harris were abundantly qualified, and we chose, CHOSE, a dictator, an unapologetic misogynist, a criminal, a failed business man, a known Epstein associate, the playboy of the 80s, a bona fide piece of shit, instead, the same one, TWICE, even after his absolutely chatoic first term. I don’t want to die due to the ignorance of others, but it’s tough to argue we don’t deserve it.
Let’s not rewrite history, this is Trump’s first win through the popular vote. The American people chose Clinton the first time around, the electoral system set up to appease slavers 200+ years ago is what put him in power in 2016.
But then the country really and truly did vote for him. And that ~36% who didn’t vote at all did vote for Trump. That is not up for debate.
They already refused AOC as house speaker. The DNC still would rather have Trump than Bernie or AOC at the helm.
Which is one of the reasons that going forward, I’m now considering third parties a completely fair choice. If DNC leadership continues to refuse to pull their heads from their asses, I’m not going to give a shit about casting a “spoiler” vote, considering the existing leadership have not only refused to relinquish their chokehold on power, but also because they have shown themselves to be their own spoiler party in most cases, and the outcome would be functionally identical (looking at you, Schumer, you vapid, spineless, fascist enabling cunt).
How about the other grift of trying to fix the Republican party from the inside instead of Democrats?
Well I don’t know about that. Maybe if this current outrage gets enough people to engage in internal party politics the DNC can be reformed? I’m honestly not too knowledgeable about that area of US politics, but my understanding as a layperson was that there isn’t really anything (except for party-internal conflict obviously) preventing registered democrats from trying to reform or even replace the DNC.
But even if that is possible not sure if it would be fast enough. There are probably a host of different internal elections involved to gain the required influence, and the next national midterms elections are probably way beyond Trumps deadline for going completely mask off “I’m your dictator now”-fascist.
I completly agree with you. But…
The DNC would never endorse her and she would get a media blackout as an independent. Democrats would rather be irrelevant but rake in corpo money than pivot to anything progressive.
I’ve heard people saying that Bernie and AOC aren’t progressive enough for them.
I don’t think it’s worth going after people who are looking for any reason not to vote.
They couldn’t vote for Humphrey and we got Nixon.
They couldn’t vote for Carter and we got Reagan.
They couldn’t vote for Gore and we got Bush.
They couldn’t vote for Hilary and we got Trump.
Thank god we have Progressives pushing the country to the Left!
And apparently some people don’t like reality, based on the downvote(s). But we don’t live in a fantasy Democratic-socialist republic with ranked choice voting and districts without gerrymandering and more than two political parties. We live in this current shithole hellscape called reality and the likelihood of AOC getting the nod or being leader of the DNC is less probable than the second coming. It would be very nice but it ain’t happening.
Bernie and AOC have been doing it to great effect. Dumb riddle.
Bernie also has shown he is willing to bend the knee to the Democratic party like in 2016.
And he’s the only opposition that the billionaire owned news is willing to cover.
So I am hesitant on supporting him again.
After 2016 he’s started to give off “controlled opposition” vibes IMO.
