Qasim Rashid, Esq.It's beyond frustrating to watch Democrats in power complain they can't do anything because they're in the minority like we all didn't just watch Mitch McConnell continue to find ways to derail Dem efforts on key bills when Republicans were in the minority.
Woozle Hypertwin@QasimRashid What 2024 taught me is that the Democrats aren't so much the "party of less evil" but "the good guys who play to lose, so they don't ever seriously threaten the status-quoligarchs".
Gilbert Pilz@woozle @QasimRashid To me the best analogy for the Democrats is the Washington Generals, the "exhibition" basketball team that plays against the Harlem Globetrotters. A Globetrotters show is a type of entertainment that uses the forms and structures of basketball but which is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a basketball game. The Generals are part of those "forms and structures". Nobody expects the Generals to win, but they need to be there in order for the show to work.
@gpilz ooo yes, that makes a lot of sense.
(fwiw, I remember when the Globetrotters were a big deal in the early 70s or so. There was a cartoon...)