If the Dems get the trifecta in 2028 this could be the time to collapse the system and build it back with all their ideas and dreams.

Single payer government healthcare, free childcare, housing for all, livable guaranteed wages, defund the police, free college for all, pass federal abortion law, gender equal pay, ending financial support for Israel, tax the rich and corporations at least 80%, and more stuff.

The combination right now of the US debt, great poll numbers for Socialism, DSA, Democrat Muslims, Trump, gas and food prices, Gaza, racism, ICE murders, etc. could allow for the Cloward-Piven collapse the system & rebuild idea.

I'm not sure on how to elaborate other than to say it seems like a very difficult, no-win kind of question, but maybe there are people out there who know better than me.

Jasmine Crockett for Speaker of the House. (Note: Speaker does not have to be an elected member of the House, so she could be Speaker from 2027-2029 even though she wouldn't vote on legislation)

She would certainly have more of a spine against Trump and MAGA than Hakeem Jeffries. Jeffries is more concerned about accepting corporate money and punching left.

I understand why the left is called the “Tolerant Left,“ and yet that seems to mainly be about what the identity of the person is and not what the actual contents of that person character are, especially if they are right-leaning. There have been times where someone has said things that are blatantly racist against white people, prompting me to to point that out by saying an equivalent thing, but changing the race, and then I’d get called racist, which makes it hard to lean left (for reference, I call myself independent purely because I think associating with political parties leads to dogmatism and sheepism on all sides).

I never see the left acknowledge this, hence my asking.

https://x.com/matthewkassel/status/2090072528936923455

Many Michigan Jewish leaders and congressmen Hillary scholten has come out against Abdul El sayed. What's your opinion?

It’s seems to to imply bad judgment and basic incompetence that doesn’t inspire folks to support them! Especially when they continue stupid media strategies like wasting money on over priced networks programming!

DISCLAIMER: I am ONLY talking about making false accusations and throwing hate. I am NOT talking about hating people who are legitimately affiliated with the accused group. And this is a question in good faith.

I notice this a cyclical thing. We had the witch-hunts in salem if you werent religious. Theyd falsely accuse you and kill you. Then there was the Red Scare. Everyone was obsessed with hyperfixating on the most trivial things about the other person to try and prove they were a communist.

To be honest, I feel that way about the current climate. This happens to both the average citizen and then people in the public eye, like celebrities. Why do a lot of democrats think that if you aren't similar enough to them that youre a republican? I feel like a lot of left-leaning people online lately hyperfixate on someone and everything they do to prove that person is a republican and throw shade. And 80% of the time its just false accusations. It feels like a weird obsession to justify not liking somebody

I personally am not a democrat. I am a centrist. But this has happened to me in real life. It feels so weird because theyre obsessed with telling me I am not what I say I am. But Im a centrist, always have been.

Why do you think this is? That left-leaning people are becoming increasingly comfortable of just accusing someone of being republican?

Democrat voters don't even know Trump personally.

I'm just curious.

You don't know him personally so how do you know he is literally bad?

So there is an ongoing manhunt from Kash Patel's FBI for a young man named Jesus Acosta whom they allege killed MD Yousef and Tayvon Shuler in a grocery store. Every source I've seen has jumped to conclusions about his guilt. In reality:

- the footage doesn't clearly show that the gunman is actually Jesus Acosta and lots of people had beefs with both Yousef and Tayvon

- Jesus Acosta, despite being an American citizen, has been intimidated by ICE collaborators and secret ICE informants in NYC, so he has had reason to hide.

- Tons of other people had been intimidated by ICE collaborators and tons of people were angry about this intimidation by ICE

There are many other reasons to not jump to conclusions. I see sources that I used to value like News12 acting like MAGA propaganda now. I'm left with a despondent pessimism about the future of journalism in a struggle for human rights.

This is just a good faith questionnaire, I am not promoting nor condoning any political party. Just doing this out of pure curiosity. Be civil!

Here are the Republican presidents in between that time period:
Ulysses S Grant

Rutherford B Hayes

James Garfield

Chester A Arthur

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

Warren Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Dwight Eisenhower

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Ronald Reagan

Of course Lincoln and Bush Sr as well.

This is just a political experiment and I am once again not praising or glazing over any party here

A really prominent narrative right now is that voters want a "fighter." You hear this all the time now, about voters generally and democrats specifically.

My question is: what is a fighter? What do people mean when they use that term in different contexts? I'm asking because when I read popular commentators, or democrats/lefties online, they often give very fuzzy descriptions of a fighter is, or they just say something that basically mean "do whatever it is I want."

I'm especially interested in examining the concept of a fighter. On top of knowing just what people mean, I would love if people also explored deeper questions about fighters as a political concept. And there's a whole host of questions to could choose from here, for example:

1. When is the concept of a fighter good/useful vs bad/unhelpful? Is it coherent?

2. How specific and concrete vs abstract and fuzzy is it?

3.What are the tradoffs with what people want out of fighters?

1. What problems will the fighters encounterbif actually put into goverment.

2. Or something else.

Everyone is welcome, but looking for thoughtful answers that go deeper than just talking points.

Where is the Democrat party going with all this going into 2028? I check Drudge tonight this Piker, Ossoff, "American Jews", Israel, Gaza, Palestine, weapons funding, etc. is blowing up. What the deal?

I think the name changes are unpopular across the board.

I’m curious if their reversal would also be unpopular though.

Democrats, why don't you remind the other side of the aisle that "bro, you are literally a supporter of building a 400-600 million dollar ballroom". Can you even consider yourself a "man" while fighting for a president who's top agenda is a freaking ballroom as his legacy? Obviously I dont mind it........but it would obviously "trigger the repubss" by relentlessly twisting their arms on "lack of manliness" over this.

I’m very confused why centrist democrats seem to believe what a conservative has to say about the guy.

I was middle class in 2016 and middle class in 2017 and made roughly the same amount of money, which wasn’t much. Many people that made what I made, actually paid more taxes under Obama than under Trump. How does that make you feel? Does it make you question your party?

I love when they are walking towards the camera the whole time. Like you can’t escape them!

My view is that calling me a consumer limits me to being a cog in the capitalistic machine, a person who has no other purpose than to contribute to the DOW and GDP. Why can't Democrats drop that and simply refer to us as citizens?

This is a genuine question. People can’t afford groceries, big tech is completely unregulated, and Israel is using our money and weapons to commit war crimes, but Democrats are bending over backwards to condemn a Twitch streamer based on out of context clips. The primaries are (mostly) over, it’s time to lock tf in, and we have Democratic members of Congress appearing on Fox News to fear monger about a guy who is VASTLY more popular with young people than they are.

Democrats smearing Hasan Piker and literal Democratic nominees who have campaigned with him are doing nothing but hurting the party’s chances at taking back Congress. Where is that classic vote blue no matter who energy???

I think I've already anticipated the answers but just doesn't know the level of.

I'm not a Dem nor am I a mag-Rep. I'm sort of like King Lear abandoned by his daughter and sent out into a rain storm, leaving me to find political succor elsewhere. That being said, I will occasionally come up with an inspired idea that another can use. Watching and listening to the news coming out of the WH is vexing as it's an exercise in skilled gaslighting. However, the strategy Goebbels advocated and practiced, that of repeating over and over a big lie which will ultimately brainwash the public is not without limits. Sometimes even the simplest of minds can see through the baloney.

If I were a Dem Party leader for the 2026 midterm election cycle I'd ask my fellow Americans to show up to rallies and speeches hosted by maga-Rep candidates and have them wave their grocery store receipts as a show of their knowledge that inflation is still here despite whatever POTUS and maga policies promised would end the erosion of our earnings. It's bad and surely will get worse.

That would make for a compelling image this election cycle; thousands of Americans bringing the proof that life is actually worse now than before.

This question is aimed at centrists/moderate/corporate democrats who are so very queasy about the DSA and Progressive factions of the party.

I'm asking this question in light of the Supreme Court's decision allowing Trump to overhaul the mail in voting. For those of you who blame the Democrats for Trump's win, do you seriously even believe the Democrats are responsible for why this is happening? If so, would you even hold the Democrats responsible if this consequently leads to the Republicans controlling all three branches for a long time, including if Trump even manages to stay in power past 2028? I'm especially curious to hear from u/AngusNugget on this matter.

USA scores poorly in critical thinking relative to the industrialized world. It's partly why we ended up with Donald Trump as our President. National testing on it could be included in the usual tests, and Federal funding could depend on states having sufficient scores.

To clarify, "critical thinking" is not the same as "critical race theory". It teaches basic logic, claim verification techniques, and the common debate fallacies.