“let’s wait for the midterms” yeah i bet the colonies are going to rid themselves of bigoted nazis this time for sure
Yuuup. All these calls to “fix it at midterms” are just going to keep happening until more people see that our system is not working for them in a more drastic way.
Dont forget, if dems dont vote its a guarantee that rupublicans will win. Vote early and dont forget to vote on your local elections too. Even a judge can make all the difference
also the fuckery with them rigging the voting machines which are predominantly in republican areas.
If voting made a difference it would be illegal.
Shut the fuck up with your defeatist bullshit. You’re either a Russian bot or doing their work for free you fucking loser. Be better.
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Still thinking that salvation will come from within the system is peak levels of cope.
Thinking that you have support for a revolt when people can’t even fill out a piece of paper is peak levels of delusion.
Ah yes, an entire population of people who have been disenfranchised by the system absolutely don’t have incentives to rally around dismantling the very institutions that oppress them. Obviously thinking so is delusional.
K bud. Cool story. Just keep voting harder, cause that’s been working so well since fucking Reagan.
You misunderstand.
Revolution is often romanticized, but the US literally has the 2nd amendment and easy access to guns, do you see a revolt? It aint happening any time soon.
“2A is gonna save us” is delusion. I’m not against guns, but its not remotely realistic to expect there to be support for revolt.
You survival choices are either (1) vote and hope, or (2) you flee the country, don’t expect an uprising.
Cool story.
Sure lets not vote and make it certain Trump gets equal or more power. Even if you don’t believe change will come from the system, any chance to slow Trump down should be fully used!
Can’t wait for it to be more corporate trash that pushes people into Republican arms!
before that we also need to make sure superpac backed trash don’t get past the primaries.
trump got elected twice because dnc has become infested by shills like pelosi and schumer while sabotaging progressives like bernie and aoc.
pelosi will happily support ice and any anti-working class initiative as long she gets her cut. schumer is an israeli agent who would support brining back slavery if it allows idf to murder more children.
also DNC wouldnt even investigate the eleciton rigging of the machines, 2 times it happened until it was too late, they are totally complicit. yes we know they are going to get called out as rigging the electiona s well.
Blue maga take
Can’t Trump just issue an executive order saying there’s no more elections, or that Democrats are a terrorist organization and just like, not let any democrats win at all? Judges can’t stop his executive orders anymore… he could just abolish congress at a whim.
States hold elections. Sure he can try to send the military, but this is nationwide Bloody Kansas going into US Civil War 2.0. Expect the democrats who live in DC to just storm the white house if they start cancelling elections.
More likely they’d to the Turkey route, and eventually the Russia method. Sham elections are better than cancelling elections (for those in power).
Hahahahahahaha
Not even if the Dems had the vote. I am positive someone would block it for civility reasons.
The dems can not get out of their own way. See Zohran win in NYC.
See Zohran win in NYC.
Why? The headlines on lemmy made me think that he is the good candidate.
- He was running against someone that was
- famously forced out of office for corruption a few years ago
- running on a party platform that was uninspiring and brought Trump back to power in November
- He ran a really focused campaign on lowering cost of living and income inequality
- He’s smart, charming, and authentic - and that motivated a lot of people to campaign for him
- He released a fire track about how dope is grandmother is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVsVNPkPmE
Yes he’s wildly popular.
The DNC is considering not giving him the nomination regardless of his win of the primary.
Andrew Cuomo is running independent with his Super PAC that raised billions of dollars.
Bill Ackman is offering billions of dollars to anybody who can ensure that Zohran cannot win. Admittedly this last one’s a bit of a stretch since this dude’s also a trump supporter.
These are examples of the DNC not getting out of its own way.
The DNC is considering not giving him the nomination regardless of his win of the primary.
The Democratic National Committee does not decide State and Local nominations.
They can’t even “refuse to nominate” for congression races. The only power they have is dictating the rules for the US Presidential Nomination.
Other than the Presidency whoever wins the primary is the nominee under state laws. Otherwise they could’ve just “refuse to nominate” AOC (which they had no legal power to do btw).
Their main power is mostly just money to buy propaganda. If people can just be smarter and ignore the propaganda, they could take over easily. The only reason the establishment maintain their power is because the people allows them to keep their power.
Yes if people could ignore the propaganda the world would be a much better place.
Too bad the literal function of propaganda is to sway people’s opinions for people who don’t give a fuck about politics.
The dems can not get out of their own way. See Zohran win in NYC.
So vote to expand the progressive side of the dem party
You mean to say our votes can override an organization that argued in court that since its a private service they could just ignore the vote of the people and pick who they wanted?
The same organization that always manages to organize and attack leftist like Zohran and Bernie but can’t find any footing against Trump?
Yep. That will work. Just gotta vote harder.
Correct, so show up. We need to vote, and we need to protest.
Head is so deep in the sand. Keep coping bud.
I really really don’t think that will change anything. People been trying to change the democrats for the better part of ten years.
Name one landmark foundational thing they have done in the last ten years thats really benefited the majority of Americans.
There isn’t one that isn’t a major concession that undercuts the original proposal.
Name one landmark foundational thing they have done in the last ten years thats really benefited the majority of Americans.
Billions for renewable energy buildouts?
Yep that’s definitely helped Americans get Universal Health Care, reduce poverty, increase purchasing power, make housing work accessible, and meaningfully lower the number of homeless in the United States.
Oh wait it didn’t do any of those things. It made rich people richer while holding lip service for the climate conscious people
Jesus fucking christ dude. You don’t see how big investment in renewable energy helps everyone?
lol at only 10 years
You’re right and part of that is people like you not showing up. None voting has had the most votes in all those elections.
maybe because thre is no one worth voting for in USA?
And if we don’t work to grow our progressive movement then there really never will be.
I am under no illusions that even if and it’s a big if the Democrats managed to take back enough seats in both the house and the Senate to actually impeach and prosecute Trump that they still won’t do it that they will be spineless and that they will offer supposed Olive branches across the aisle.
We had one guy win a primary in a mayoral race. You guys are acting as if this changes everything. It’s interesting to watch for sure and there are lessons to be learned but that does not mean that everything is changing. It’s not even guaranteed he’ll win the Mayoral race. The DNC is even considering not giving him the nomination despite him winning.
The billionaire class is already mobilizing to try and ensure this guy never gets elected. Do you think they’re going to make it any easier when he’s in office?
By all means we should engage in electoral politics but we should not be under any illusions that it will fix the system we have nor should we be under any illusion that our politicians will save us from the problem that is Donald Trump. If anything the Democrats seem more than happy to capitulate to what he wants since they’re not in the majority.
Do you think they’re going to make it any easier when he’s in office?
No, but your writing is that we should give up prematurely. That is why we also need to protest.
The first step is to crucify any Democrat that isn’t willing to actually fight.
It’s time to take our fuckin country back
Never going to happen until the mega rich (who run the country) are afraid to walk the street.
The seats that need to be taken I don’t think are sided towards the Democrats getting enough. States like Alabama have had a Democrat Senator in recent years but for it to flip from a Republican back to a Democrat seems tough with how divided and how far right some states have slid. (Nearly 65% voted for Trump there in 2024).
Kyle Sweetster may be their best shot of a democrat winning , but it’s a long ways away and who knows what could change. https://www.kyleforalabama.com/
I swear it’s always the fucking South dragging the rest of us down…
Democracy isn’t real
I laughed a bit harder than I should’ve at this
lot of trolls in .ml
It’s not like I’m hiding those comments. I didn’t delete them.
In the US? Or as a concept? Because I have a few things happening in my country that are the definition of democracy.
High likelihood your country is not consequential geopolitically. That or you’re fooled.
Oh, so now democracy doesn’t exist if you’re country is “not consequential geopolitically”? Either it exists or it doesn’t.
Nice moving the goal post, no wonder I have you at -20 net downvotes organically.
I’m saying voting for class president isn’t the same as voting for the leader of a sovereign hegemon. Maybe Belgium, for example, has a “democracy” but ultimately Europe is a footstool for the United States. It can act ‘independently’ only as long as it pays tribute to the regional power. This is same for countries in Asia, the Middle East, Eurasia etc What use is your democracy if it functions within a false paradigm? The political equivalent of “playing house”.
We have a “leader of a sovereignty” with a GDP above Spain and Australia, though?
It sounds to me like you think not having a perfect democracy gets in the way of having a good one.
Both Spain and Australia are within the United States sphere of influence and that’s just two countries. There are really only a handful of countries with actual sovereignty. The US, China, Russia, India, Israel and to a far lesser degree Iran and maybe Brazil. Even if all other countries were perfectly functioning democracies they would fall under the influence of one of these hegemons. This means there are things you can’t vote for and more often than not your democracy is only tolerated and often defended by a larger power that is a democracy in name only. You are a mock congress in a civics class. Power always wins out. That’s not a political opinion it’s a fact. Votes have little to no power. Hordes of enraged peasants DO have power which is why they are placated with activities like voting. Artificial agency.
Perhaps, but fascism has no place in the 21st century at all.
Who are you responding to?
You.
You said democracy isn’t real. I said perhaps, but also that the people of the United States shouldn’t tolerate fascism as it has no place in the modern world.
Which part aren’t you understanding?
If democracy isn’t real which government do you propose?
You tell me. You’re the one who said it isn’t real.
You granted I might be right. So I asked (first) what our options are if this is the case. You’re evading the question.
Turn-out for primaries is minuscule. If you’re in a deep red state that has fully open primaries, you can request a republican primary ballot. I guarantee if you fully look into every primary candidate there will be a reasonable person who is at least open to impeaching or otherwise opposing Trump.
If it’s a partially-open primary state you will have to switch to independent to vote strategically in primaries.
If you’re in a deep-red state with closed primaries, it’s worth considering switching affiliations just so you can have some say in who represents you.
I know it’s like sifting through shit to find an edible kernel of corn, but it’s what has to be done to stop this in deep-red states.
I am utterly convinced that it won’t matter, but damnit we still have to fucking try.
I honestly quite afraid they are gonna rig the fuck outta the mid-terms somehow. I realize I have little to no evidence to support that, but doesn’t mean it couldn’t still happen under this regime.
You’re not the only one.
2024 seemed to be rigged at the top only. That’s how we ended up with so many people voting a straight Democratic ticket, except for HitlerPig at the top, which Dems have been trying to convince us is perfectly normal, which it isn’t.
Its one thing to rig the vote in one race in seven swing states, it’s another to rig 435 Congressional races around the country. That would be nearly impossible. It would take multiple operatives in every district, and at some point, somebody would squeal.
The Senate races pose other challenges, although they only really have to identify a handful of close races, and make sure those fall to MAGA.
The MAGA Nazis can’t afford to let either chamber flip, or the Democrats will have control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers. If that starts, it will end with prison terms for many.
So I’m convinced that they will “suspend” elections using Martial Law, or the Insurrection Act, or some other legal atrocity.
people voting a straight Democratic ticket, except for HitlerPig at the top, which Dems have been trying to convince us is perfectly normal, which it isn’t.
What. The dems saying that’s normal? Where!
So I’m convinced that they will “suspend” elections using Martial Law, or the Insurrection Act, or some other legal atrocity.
They’re stupid enough to do it, but I doubt they’ll get all the buy in they’d need.
“33 Senate Seats are on the ballot”
LMFAO.
Let me introduce you to Staggered Elections
Only Maine’s seat is even winnable, the other ones up for relection in 2026 are all safe Blue or Safe Red states
Currently its 53-47. Highly doubt that Dems can win 3 in Red States. (Unless we get a White Boi Hillbilly Revolution?)
The House cannot block juidicial nominations.
Judicial nominations are not subject to Filibuster.
So…
Not to be a pessimist, but…
Looks like an uphill battle…
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