Summary
House Democrats are frustrated with progressive groups like MoveOn and Indivisible, which are pressuring them to oppose the Trump administration more aggressively.
In a closed-door meeting, lawmakers complained about grassroots activists driving constituent calls demanding obstructionist tactics.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer defended the party’s strategy, saying, “We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights.”
However, a CBS News/YouGov poll shows 65% of Democratic voters want all-out opposition to Trump’s agenda.
How many Democratic members of Congress (and their donors) are going to be richer thanks to Trump tax cuts?
How many of them own stock in companies that are regulated by the institutions that musk is meddling in?
We need a progressive party.
progressive groups like MoveOn and Indivisible
I’ve seen a lot of people asking how they can get involved and make a difference. Well, there’s your answer. If those are the guys the Dems are mad at then they’re the ones making the most impact.
This is why they lose.
Spineless corporate shills. They don’t want to do the hard work of governing either. They just want a fat corporate paycheck from lobbyists and insider information for stock trades.
Don’t you see? They’ve earned it by being in Congress since the 80s and doing nothing but dismantling the government for kick backs. Now let them retire in office in peace, it’s a lot to ask an 80 year old to put up a fight.
The Senate: the only tax payer funded nursing home that is suitably staffed.
“We are getting paid to lose elections.” Yeah, thanks for the update dickhead.
Dear House Democrats,
Fascism is currently destroying the US system of government that you like to call democracy.
Given the influence on the world held by the US, this is a major threat not only to the people you were trusted to represent, but to practically everyone.
If it succeeds in taking over the United States, it will be in no small part your fault.Kindly do you fucking jobs.
Now.
Before it’s too late.What REALLY pisses me off is that feeling that I’m being fucked. My ass has been pulled around to the front like a fucking contortionist and they fucked it right in my face.
Every email with the “stop fascism” this “stop fascism” that with the goddamn donate button like they’re actually doing anything to stop it OR that they actually believe it in the first place. You know what? They don’t. It’s politics as usual for these people.
Trump skipped Joe Biden’s inauguration.
These assholes are always pretending to be the good guys, he gave them a free pass to skip his inauguration when he went on and on about the election being stolen. Or, I don’t know, when he had them all running for their lives on January 6.
Seeing all of the former presidents sitting there at his inauguration (including Bush, who by the way has said out loud that the man is a threat to democracy) legitimized his position and everything looked like no big deal to all of the people who aren’t paying attention.
It lends legitimacy to the claim that people are experiencing some derangement syndrome when everybody comes to the big party and it appears to be business as usual.
And you know what? It mostly is. At least to them.
These are a rare breed of people who are nasty enough to seek power in the first place. They get it by being two faced. They get it by exaggerating their feelings. They get it by calling a fellow human being whatever nasty name they can think of and then turn right around and shake his hand with their fake smiles and their suits that cost more than my car.
I. Am. Done.
I’m done responding to them with donations. I’m done being bombarded with cries of threats that they don’t take seriously except to say what they need to say to raise funds.
I’m staying out of it. I’ll vote for the lesser of two narcissists/egos when it’s time to do that.
As others have said. It’s time for a progressive party.
This isn’t the time of magazines and newspapers telling folks who to vote for. If the internet can’t make a viable third party stand a chance I don’t know what can.
This isn’t the time of magazines and newspapers telling folks who to vote for. If the internet can’t make a viable third party stand a chance I don’t know what can.
You’re trying to light a match underwater. A third part cannot survive in the current American electoral system.
It has happened before, so it isn’t impossible. But it would be so difficult that impossible is pretty much the only word that comes close.
“We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights,” Schumer told The New York Times earlier this month.
Bro is ineffectual in even his own metaphors.
Hilariously fucking accurate take
Seriously. His idea is to lay down on train tracks with an train coming.
Yeah dipshit we’re not asking you to lie down on the tracks and die, we’re asking you to do what russian anarchists do and rip out the the tracks entirely
Careful,people who don’t understand the trolley problem are gonna complain again that there are only two options.
the trolley problem doesn’t end by throwing the switch lever. you divert the trolley and then you work to stop the trolley.
the trolley didn’t get diverted, so more people are in its way and chuck’s performatively jumping on the rails “in solidarity” but unlike me, he’s not tied up and will get up and leave when it gets close
Democrats have way more leverage than they’re willing to use. The GOP is as fractured as ever and they have the house with a razor thin margin. Now is exactly the time to play hardball. The GOP will likely need their votes to do anything.
But instead I foresee Democrats making weak ass concessions at every turn because “we can’t risk having the government shutdown!?!?”
the chuck schumers and nancy pelosis act like they don’t know what this is and like mitch mcconnel didn’t hand them the blueprint
What a well-chosen photo at the top of this article. Two utterly uninspiring men with no ability or will to relate to ordinary people and their problems.
“We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights,” Schumer toldThe New York Times earlier this month.
That’s a more accurate metaphor than he intended. The fascist train will not even slow down as it runs over him.
Jon Stewart had an hour-long interview with Hakeem Jeffries the other day, and it’s just painful to watch. Jeffries resolutely refuses to offer even a single hint of anything the Democrats intend to do beyond expressing vague sympathetic feelings towards unhappy voters. It becomes quite clear the Democratic leadership has no intention of even trying to take part in the resistance the USA needs, and would rather drain the energy of any such movement into their morass of vapid messaging, meandering non-promises and wearying inaction.
The senior Democrats have no intention of fighting for the people. Any effective resistance will have to come from elsewhere.
At this point you have to wonder if they’re actively complicit.
Wittingly or not, it’s quite clear they are.
They 100% are.
It’s hard to understand how dismissive they’re being when their own constituents are reaching out to them. Is this article leaving it out or have they given some sort of rationale for choosing their battles instead of going all out?
Maybe I’m too cynical, but perhaps they’re being paid not to go all out.
I’m sure we all have suspicions about them but I want to know what their excuse is, especially considering the dangerous (for them) possibility their jobs could come to an end if Trump solidifies the level of power he obviously wants to have.
This is a repost from earlier today.
The top people in the Democrats party are career politicias. They don’t accept that people are angry nothing is being done while they continue to make money for themselves.You can find more discussion about it in the post from earlier today.
Thanks for the heads up. Was it in this same community? (I’ll check here for now.)
This is amazing.
That’s fine. Elections have no relevance in America now that Republicans are in total control.
No one has explained to me why they would ever willingly relinquish power now that they have all of it on a federal level.
Sounds like our democracy is dead, if true.
It was dead on January 20th. We’re just witnessing it’s death throes.
No democracy has survived contact with neo-liberalism. Clinton couldn’t roll over for his corporate overlords fast enough.
“unnamed source” “unnamed Democrat”
Why don’t these people grow a pair of tits and put their name to their quotes? They’re complaining that the Dem leadership isn’t being brave and fighting, yet they can’t be brave and put their name to critiquing the leaders…? Figure it out.
Sometimes it’s strategically necessary to not put a name to yourself if you want to actually be able to influence how things are happening within your organization.
These people are actually in the thick of it, you’re not. Don’t be so quick to assume you know better than them how things work.
Because they know if they do, they’ll be blacklisted.
You can’t blacklist Spartacus.
Poor guys. If they didn’t like it, they should quit.
