The United States is imploding. The reign of Donald Trump is not only challenging and threatening the very foundations of its constitutional democracy, it
In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.
I mean I’m no fan of Biden or Harris and the Democratic establishment deserves some blame. But with a decades long concerted effort by the billionaire class which owns pretty much all relevant media to undermine democracy and gaslight uninformed citizens (and outright bribe them in some cases) it wasn’t exactly a fair fight.
I mean that advantage should have been counteracted by the very existence of Trump. The fact that the DNC failed to capitalize on that is unequivocally their fault.
But with a decades long concerted effort by the billionaire class which owns pretty much all relevant media to undermine democracy and gaslight uninformed citizens (and outright bribe them in some cases) it wasn’t exactly a fair fight.
Sounds like something for the democratic party to have considered when they had the power to do something about it
Absolutely. Which I why I haven’t been a supporter since Obama, it’s clear they didn’t have a plan of attack nor took the threat seriously. But still if one person commits a murder and another person saw it coming but didn’t act in time, you can be critical of the second, but it’s still the murderer that’s to blame.
I think the comment above hits on some important truths:
The country wanted more, not less, populism. Kamala offered good economic populist policies, but failed to message them to the populace in a way that mattered
The entire political machine failed to respond to that the people on the ground are either in support of ending genocide, or at least are indifferent to genocide. No votes were ever won by supporting a genocide. Yet there they were, supporting a genocide and acting like it was the only way. The people indifferent to genocide were far more likely to vote republican in the first place
The democrats failed to hold the republicans responsible for the January 6th insurrection accountable, enabling them to just simply come back and do what they’re doing right now
The democrats failed to use the blueprint the republicans handed them for passing legislation without full bipartisan support because they’re a bunch of decorum addicts
The democrats are now failing to use the blueprint republicans handed them for how to obstruct the shit out of things (why the fuck is anyone voting “yes” on any of trump’s nominees regardless of whether or not they’re good, they fit into an overall system of bad
She kind of did, kind of didn’t. A trend that could be observed during her campaign (I saw this quantified somewhere but for the life of me can’t find it again) was that while she started with economic populism, as the campaign progressed she watered down, took back or outright ignored her early promises and tried to fill the gap with “orange man bad”. This wasn’t a coincidence; corporate representatives would systematically ask for “clarifications” and “explanations” about her policies and have her walk them back one by one into something acceptable to them. So anyway, the result of this was that the Kamala of election day was not running on an economic populist platform.
The democrats failed to use the blueprint the republicans handed them for passing legislation without full bipartisan support because they’re a bunch of decorum addicts
And instead of standing up their still holding on to the decorum. Almost like they’re complicit and getting rich being complicit.
is the democratic party currently destroying every american institution at record pace?
No. They’re the ones who could not beat the most deplorable piece of shit to run and win the US presidential elections.
We all need to recognize this if we ever get a chance to vote fairly again.
I mean I’m no fan of Biden or Harris and the Democratic establishment deserves some blame. But with a decades long concerted effort by the billionaire class which owns pretty much all relevant media to undermine democracy and gaslight uninformed citizens (and outright bribe them in some cases) it wasn’t exactly a fair fight.
I mean that advantage should have been counteracted by the very existence of Trump. The fact that the DNC failed to capitalize on that is unequivocally their fault.
Sounds like something for the democratic party to have considered when they had the power to do something about it
Absolutely. Which I why I haven’t been a supporter since Obama, it’s clear they didn’t have a plan of attack nor took the threat seriously. But still if one person commits a murder and another person saw it coming but didn’t act in time, you can be critical of the second, but it’s still the murderer that’s to blame.
So, just stay the course? We’re good?
The same billionaire class the new DNC chair was fawning over???
I think the comment above hits on some important truths:
She kind of did, kind of didn’t. A trend that could be observed during her campaign (I saw this quantified somewhere but for the life of me can’t find it again) was that while she started with economic populism, as the campaign progressed she watered down, took back or outright ignored her early promises and tried to fill the gap with “orange man bad”. This wasn’t a coincidence; corporate representatives would systematically ask for “clarifications” and “explanations” about her policies and have her walk them back one by one into something acceptable to them. So anyway, the result of this was that the Kamala of election day was not running on an economic populist platform.
It seems to be from her brother-in-law, an Uber executive, who asked her to cozy up to big business more.
And instead of standing up their still holding on to the decorum. Almost like they’re complicit and getting rich being complicit.
Yeah, confirming trumps picks. Pay fucking attention.
did the democratic party lose twice to trump?