GodlessCommieThere's always money in the banana stand
TheFrogThatFliesSomeone is profiting from the war and no one profits from those other things
Simply not true. All those reforms would be a huge economic stimulus to all of those sectors. Imagine how much activity would be generated in all of those sectors, and activity equals money.
The problem isn’t profit, it’s that those things help people, and more importantly, it EMPOWERS them, and MAGA doesn’t want that. They wants us to remain weak and struggling, and dependent on them.
We have the money, it is just managed by people who want to spend it on enslaving us instead of freeing us.
😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈This has always been a WHOLE political problem. Not just the assholes in red hats.
You’re right, the Dems haven’t done their part at all, but we all know the biggest problem is going to be the MAGAs. We can elect enough Progressives to get to a place where we can actually get legislation for Universal Health Care, but EVERY MAGA will vote against it.
Any politicians that are a potential threat to the status quo will never be put into positions to challenge that status quo. People can elect them all day long and they won’t have any power.
This is part of the problem. When you send the message that you expect them to do nothing, they will absolutely do nothing, and that’s YOUR fault for surrendering in advance.
We have to let them know that we EXPECT them to act decisively, and them punish them on Election Day if they won’t do what they are told. The Reagan Republicans did that, and took over their party from the old guard, and it led to them having far more power than they should.
The Dems have to reproduce that success, and they will have the advantage of Trump’s death in the not so distant future. When that happens, the Trump Cult of Personality will fracture, the knives will come out, and the back-stab ing will begin. The Dems should have a plan in place to capitalize on that chaos among MAGA.
Decades of history have already told us that they are not going to do what they are told. We don’t need to wait till Election day, at that point, it’s too late. They wouldn’t even release the findings of their own research of how they failed in 2024, because those findings showed that it was self inflicted. Politics of the 80s are not the same as politics of today, Up until Bill Clinton, it was a very distinctive Democrat Party, a very distinctive Republican Party. At this point we have two right wing factions fighting the working class to stay in power.
I don’t care about history. These are unprecedented times, and they require unprecedented solutions. We SCREAMED for justice for Trump and MAGA during the Biden administration, and they all but ignored us.
That will NOT happen again, or they will leave us no choice but to deal with it ourselves, and if THAT happens, stubbornly cowardly Democrats are going to find themselves standing right alongside the MAGA criminals.
They WILL do what we tell them the next time, or else. It is time for the good Citizens of this country to stop being polite, and demand justice, OR ELSE.
I actually think we may get that. The next crop of new Congressional Rep’s and Senators that will almost certainly give the Dems the majority in both Chambers, and they aren’t running for office to provide Business As Usual. They are coming in to reform the system and they will have The People behind them. The old guard is going to have to welcome them, and give them what they want, because those new elected representatives carry the people’s mandate, and they all know it, and more importantly, WE know it, and are going to insist that that new mandate leads the way.
We aren’t asking for much. We aren’t looking for political retribution like MAGA is. We are only looking for justice for their CRIMES, which are many, and notorious. They all need to be charged and prosecuted for what they have done to this country, and it’s citizens, and to outsiders who deserve the protections of our laws.
We are only looking for justice for their CRIMES. Is that too much to demand?
These are not unprecedented times, they’ve done this time and time again, which is why their history does matter. Liberals thought the same change was gonna change when the squad got elected. None of them were given any positions of power or influence until they started parroting the same party bullshit, and the ones that didn’t are never talked about anymore. They thought Hope and Change™ was gonna bring about progress, but we ended up with another Reagan in blackface, or as Malcolm X called them, a house negro.
They’ve been given multiple chances over multiple decades, they have no interest in allowing the system to change that they benefit from so much. Which is why the party and their voters fight harder to prevent leftists from gaining a foothold than they do Republicans.
These are not unprecedented times,
Let me stop you right there. As far as we in the 21st century is concerned, these are unprecedented times. We have never had a president that launched a violent Insurrection, stole hundreds of classified documents to sell to our enemies, is a convicted rapist and conman, got into office with an open election fraud scheme, and is confirmed to be one of the most prolific Pedophiles in history. NONE of that has EVER happened before, we have never had a Corrupt Traitor and Pedophile steal the presidency, and proceed to destroy the World Order. These are definitely unprecedented times.
As for The Squad, you are entirely wrong. We can expect a lot more Progressives to get elected in the Fall, and most establishment, corporate Dems are going to have trouble. Nobody wants those old losers, any more than they want MAGAs.
Sure, the leadership is trying to hold them down, but it isn’t working. Take AOC, for example. Her FIRST appearance in front of the nation as a Congressional Rep was during Michael Cohen’s Congressional appearance before he went to prison for helping Trump in his pornstar hush money/ obstruction of justice case. He wanted to tell his story, but all those assholes from BOTH sides were more interested in bloviating and posturing. Then it was AOC’s turn, her first time in front of the American people since her shock election:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) questions Michael Cohen
By this time, Cohen was getting visibly frustrated. He wanted to tell the story for which he had pled guilty, and was about to go to prison, and nobody would ask him the right questions, they just wanted the standard tired old Congressional Dog & Pony Show. So she warned him immediately that she was going to move fast, and started firing questions at him, and he answered every one, including naming the crimes, and who was responsible for them. She was so prepared and confident, that she looked like a 10 term Rep, and not as green as it gets.
That testimony formed the backbone of Leticia James’ case that eventually found Trump guilty of 34 fraud felonies, legally certifying his characterization as fraudster/ grifter/ conman.
That alone proves how effective AOC is, and if the leadership won’t let her have more power, their actions alone have inspired and energized a legion of young ( and old, like me) voters to get energized about Proggressives, and many are even running for office. The more that get elected, the more powerful their lobby will become, and The Squad will become The Mob, and if the leadership won’t play ball, The Mob will just take over.
That’s what’s the Limbaugh Republicans and the Tea Partiers did in the Republican Party, and it eventually gained power as MAGA. Progressives have to do that as well, and we can “trust” them more, only because their core values are sound, while MAGAs were evil out of the gate. Y’know, as much as we can “trust” any politician, even Progressives. You got to keep an eye on all of them, they’re ALL snakes.
