Donald Trump has unleashed a “flood the zone” strategy: a cascade of executive actions aimed at rapidly reshaping the federal government and the country. The scope of changes is staggering: massive reductions in the federal workforce, the dismantling of USAID, signaling departments of labor and education are next, and the firing of Justice Department prosecutors.
Amid this whirlwind, a critical question emerges: Where is the opposition? What concrete steps are Democrats taking to counter this aggressive agenda? Senior politics reporter Akela Lacy says there are some very obvious things the Democrats could be doing. “Movement people are asking the obvious question right now, which is:
Why are there any Democrats — at all — voting to confirm a single Trump nominee? That’s one of the lowest hanging pieces of fruit,” she says. The Democrats had no plan, Lacy says, despite there being “no confusion about the fact that these nominees were going to be coming up for a vote. And still there were Democrats who voted for several of Trump’s nominees.”
I’m referencing the major third parties that have traditionally drawn relatively large amounts of votes in our general elections, mostly green party historically. Parties that stay on the ballot through election day and can draw that meaningful 1% number that sways elections historically.
DSA obviously does a lot and has meaningful seats in Congress and state and local office, but they aren’t the third party that stays in to knowingly sway elections when we get close to election day. They are adults that concede to the lesser evil (in our current broken binary system) when the tea leaves are clear and for the greatest good.
The DSA national org is compromised by Democrats. That’s why they always happily concede. It’s controlled opposition. Which is why there was a bigger push for the PSL last election, though the Dems tried to sue them off the ballot.
Please, hold hard ideal outcomes closely as the things that help shape your mission and personal principles AND THEN figure out how to change the system that exists.
Sounds like you have an outlook on the world that only serves to forgive you personally for not changing anything. You hold that hard line on your unrealistic ideals no matter what… because it’s FUCKING difficult to actually change anything. So you can try, fail, and sleep well telling yourself that you screaming at the sun was noble.
Democracy inherently contains compromise. Grow up, play a longer game, be happy with tangible progress over time that you can hand off to kids following you with a blueprint that can lead to that ideal over time. If not, you’ll spin your wheels with nothing ever meaningfully changing - and then you’ll die having accomplished nothing.
Funny how liberals only talk about compromise with conservatives. Never the left.
Thankfully, the conservative & liberal boomers are dying off. We can end this psychotic devotion to capital above all else.
Stop trying to subdivide, ding dong… I’m left as fuck, protest actions for over 20 years for progressive cause and in defense of marginalized groups. I’ve stood face to face with swat teams in riot great and rifles while shutting down major intersections. Donated a year of my life, without pay in prone earning years, leading up to the 2020 election to get people registered and voting to head off fascism for another 4 years. I doubt you’ve done shit of value to progress, beyond clutching your ideals in online fights - happy for you to prove me wrong though
LoL. “Stop trying to subdivide,” after that’s all you’ve done. Pretending to be a leftist fighting fascism, and brags about devoting your energy to getting a genocidal party more election wins.
You’re a joke.
Yeah, so you won’t prove me wrong. Got it.
Well you better get back to doing absolutely nothing meaningful and then patting yourself on the back at the end of the day.
We get it. You feel entitled to demand things. That lines up with the rest of your behavior.
Last word