AIPAC has every politician kissing the ring at their conference. It is not even a contest.

If Russia had the same level of influence as Israel, America would be invading Ukraine with Putin.

Or centre right, Biden was the closest they’ve been to centre right so they replaced him with a candidate further right

(Yes you can point out random other centre right members but they haven’t had power in the party)

Considering we have a far right and a controlled opposition party, never.

Probably after we switch from a First-past-the-post voting system to something more representative.

Then people could vote outside the two party system without a spoiler effect.

We can make these changes at the state level. Alaska recently voted to keep using Ranked Choice voting. Conservatives were mad because Ranked Choice voting allowed alaskans to choose a more moderate conservative over Sarah Palin and pushed to have a referendum to go back to FPTP voting.

So why do Blue states use FPTP voting when it’s clear republicans prefer it?

When people on the left stop just circle-jerking on the Internet and actually get involved in their state and local Democratic parties, vote in the primaries and run for office.

Yeah, he fucking nailed it.

Honestly the fact that 75% of Democrats voted against it is actually kinda surprising. In the past close to 100% of both parties were knee-jerk pro-Israel votes. This means there’s actually a good chance it won’t pass the senate. If people wanna call their senator instead of complaining online, maybe it won’t. I’m in DC so I’m allowed to just complain online until you give me my two senators.

Do the 75% of the Democrats call out and throw out the 25%? Like the whole ACAB thing, how are these people allowed to represent the party?

If fewer Republicans voted for it, more Democrats would have.

AIPAC is ready to fund them

Not surprised that Dean Phillips (MN) voted for this, but I am mildly surprised Angie Craig (MN) did. Her district is purple tho. Still shitty

of course that rat wasserman schultz voted for it.

People like that make me want to believe in God, just so I’m comforted by their eventual placement in hell.

Fucking evil rats, all of them. Reichstag rodents.

It would be nice if this were sorted alphabetically by state, but thank you regardless!

You’re not a 1%er, the only people our government represents. Culture wars are a distraction

(https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/)[The bottom 90% of income earners have a statistically zero level of influence on policy.]

It’s not you who isn’t American, it’s the current governing body.

Only approximately 30% of the eligible voters in this country voted for Trump. They are not the average person.

What we need now is some polling on the average person’s views on the ICC and this in particular.

Third party corruption investigations and prosecutions are needed on every branch of high level government.

The tone is set from the top. Hold the top accountable and the rats will cease to try and climb.

It’s easy to say but the solution takes a lot more critical thinking for people to vote ethically or even just in their own interests rather than for the team they’ve been trained to vote for.

Most people either don’t have the available time to research, the interest to put the effort in or the capacity to understand the consequences of their choice.

Simplification to “trusted source K recommended by trusted source L says I should vote for team B” is the default solution. “Surely everyone in recommended team B is a fine upstanding person who will fight tooth and nail for my best interests?”

Most people need to be engaged and critical or the system defaults to whoever controls the trusted sources.

If we keep acting like anyone with a D by their name is perfect we’ll never fix shit.

Progressives usually don’t (value based on group membership). You know those disappointments only got into power because they were the least-bad option. Because progressives don’t value loyalty; progressives need to fall in love.

Thing is, they have just one option, and it’s merely the lesser of two evils. They need more less-evil choices. They need more people saying “people have the right to defend their land” and blow the dog whistle, and then say “that’s not their land. That’s not defending” when they get in.

I say that’s 45 disappointments, but it’s only 45. Promise me you’ll get it to 44 and lower if they’re in your area. Do what you can, at least.

This isn’t a movie script; it’s a continual slog with a progress report every 2 years. This is one time when “line must go up” from the pit it’s in now. So. And I mean this after all that rambling.

Primary their asses.

Know how to get shouted down on lemmy? Make a comment about how rotten the Democrats are, comparing their sins to Republicans. And here’s the secret sauce…

Let the next comment say, “fuck your ‘both sides’ bullshit!”

That’s all it takes. No matter the original comment, first reply sets the tone.

Sprinkle in some approved slogans to really rack up those points. A real point scorer is, “the suffering is the point!” Or, “capitalism”, or “racism”. Context be damned, just comment the right words and you can lead these kids around by the nose.

And down voted when you bring it up. So many people think the Dems are entitled to your vote simply because they aren’t Republicans. I feel the same way posting on FB. My friends don’t want to hear it, or hear that they are voting for a party that actively supports oligarchs.