Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party | Common Dreams
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"Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are architects of the crisis that allowed Trump's fascism to arise and succeed," argued one progressive organizer. "They have zero credibility to be leading the fights we face today."

House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

  • @[email protected]
    5•5 days ago

    I don’t think that is a lesson to take away here

    A party with more support for Israel won so if that was the issue then it seems they didn’t support Israel enough

    • @Ensign_CrabEnglish
      2•4 days ago

      it seems they didn’t support Israel enough

      Can always count on democrats to interpret any sensory input as confirmation that they aren’t far enough to the right.

    • @kreskin
      2•5 days ago

      it seems they didn’t support Israel enough

      Seeing as centrists dems cant win without the left I dont think your point matters. The left isnt about to make any deals that include genocide, period. Not hard genocide, not diet-genocide. Harris could have won by breaking from Biden and calling Bidens actions genocide, but she refused to and she lost the voters. And if the next dem does the same they will lose the same. Its really that simple. And yes, the people that left their ballot blank or voted third party will do the exact same thing again, even as Trump burns the country down.

      If we have to burn a country to the ground with murderous war crime enabling policies, our system does not deserve to exist either.

      • @[email protected]
        4•5 days ago

        America’s far left are centrists

        Your point of burning the system to the ground i can get behind but your proposal of doing that by letting fascists decide how to rebuild it instead of using violence (if you’re a terrorist) or public protests (if you’re a pacifist) is not something I would suggest

        • @kreskin
          1•5 days ago

          I’m not exactly in favor of burning it down either if I am allowed that choice, but my actions are limited to: vote Dem, vote republicans, not vote, or vote third party. And I dont see how I get to no genocide plus please dont burn my world down from those choices.

      • @btaf45
        -7•5 days ago

        Harris could have won by breaking from Biden

        By taking a tougher line on Israel than Biden? Possibly yes.

        and calling Bidens actions genocide,

        No, that could have completely sunk her campaign. Because “genocide” is hyperbole. Just because people here rarely bother to point out that “genocide” is obvious hyperbole, does not mean that the vast majority of voters do not know that using the word “genocide” is obvious hyperbole.

        (1) Biden didn’t have any “actions” in Gaza. That was Hamas and Israel

        (2) War crimes are not the same thing as “genocide”. Genocide means trying to exterminate an entire population.

        (3) A war is not the same as war crimes. There has to be intentional killings of civilians.

        • @[email protected]
          7•5 days ago

          No, that could have completely sunk her campaign. Because “genocide” is hyperbole. Just because people here rarely bother to point out that “genocide” is obvious hyperbole, does not mean that the vast majority of voters do not know that using the word “genocide” is obvious hyperbole.

          The Palestinian Genocide is a genocide.

          This is not up for debate.

          • @btaf45
            -6•5 days ago

            Hyperbole is hyperbole. It is precisely because 99% of people know that it is hyperbole, and they know that 99% of people know it is hyperbole, that nobody bothers to point out the obvious to you.

        • @Ensign_CrabEnglish
          1•4 days ago

          Because “genocide” is hyperbole.

          Genocide denier.

          • @btaf45
            0•3 days ago

            Yep. I always avoid bullshit. If it wasn’t bullshit you would have tried to refute my 3 points. But we both know you can’t. Did you really think that 99% of people didn’t know this was hyperbole just because nobody thought this hypobole was important enough to issue a reality check before?