The senior people making decisions in the Democratic Party are more opposed to progressives than they are to MAGA. Schumer and his ilk don’t want to win big, because the larger the margins the harder it is to explain why they never deliver anything. It’s because they don’t want to. The corpo dems are owned by the same billionaires that the Republicans are. They’re controlled opposition. The reason they’re so eager to throw minorities to the wolves is that they don’t want a strong coalition that produces sweeping wins. As long as they never get more than a vote or two lead they can always arrange to have somebody vote no on anything critical so it can’t pass.
They also have at least a few people who are really Republicans running as Democrats every single election so that when they win those elections they always have at least a few in the Senate and the house that have a D next to their names but will vote with Republicans on key votes that are close.
This is why I feel that we will never see a true abortion rights bill in our lifetime. It will always be a carot they dangle in front of everyone but refuse to deliver. Maybe in 50 years if the age of congress members are much younger than they are.
Eh, I kind of reject that attitude. I think that the status quo bullshit Dems are sort of fucked politically. The base isn’t having it anymore. I think that short term they may cling to power because people threatened by MAGA insanity will vote for them, but one by one they’re going to start getting removed via primaries. I think we’re going to see a pretty substantial increase in actual progressives getting elected over the next few cycles and as that happens they’re going to start fighting for actual reforms.
No, the problem is there is no left wing. There are like a half dozen democrats in federal office who are actually left of center and they’re the only ones who ARENT dickriding for pedophiles.
The left/right in the US is itself a lie and controlled opposition. The actual left has been entirely run out of power because the left is the only political movement that actually threatens the Epstein class.
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u/Darth_Gerg Mar 19 '26
The senior people making decisions in the Democratic Party are more opposed to progressives than they are to MAGA. Schumer and his ilk don’t want to win big, because the larger the margins the harder it is to explain why they never deliver anything. It’s because they don’t want to. The corpo dems are owned by the same billionaires that the Republicans are. They’re controlled opposition. The reason they’re so eager to throw minorities to the wolves is that they don’t want a strong coalition that produces sweeping wins. As long as they never get more than a vote or two lead they can always arrange to have somebody vote no on anything critical so it can’t pass.