retroracer33 t1_ivkmsgu wrote
Reply to comment by Rage_Like_Nic_Cage in Reports of alleged voter intimidation and interference in NC ahead of Election Day by Zen1
This is one fo teh reasons the dems are struggling. You can't keep campaigning on the idea that the democracy is in a death spiral (which it is), but then get in office and proceed to do business as usual. It's like the house on fire "This is fine" meme.
Rage_Like_Nic_Cage t1_ivknm04 wrote
Yup. Trump is/was a symptom, not the cause. And while that symptom clearly made everything unequivocally worse, Biden and the dems campaigning on “everything going back to normal” without addressing the root issues is nothing more than a pausing the backsliding, if that.
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King_of_the_Nerdth t1_ivl9677 wrote
Democrats haven't any power to stop it though. You'd need a whole lot larger share of congress to be able to make any change happen.
Haunting-Ad788 t1_ivlebce wrote
We could start fucking arresting politicians that participated in January 6th for a start.
_Iro_ t1_ivlrkkp wrote
The primarily conservative Supreme Court wouldn’t comply, which ties back to their point about Democrats not having the necessary political power to push back against extremism
hitlerosexual t1_ivq4j5q wrote
Mobilizing in ways that are outside the establishment might help a bit. the GOP is straight up ready to wage a hot civil war and the Democrats are still putting all their chips on established institutions and legislation to save us. I'm not saying the Democrats should start to fund paramilitary groups like the right has been (although if you're a democrat it'd be wise to consider preparing for things to get ugly because the right wing terrorists groups sure as shit are) but at the very least they should start being significantly more active in union organizing and mobilization, and should work on creating new institutions outside of the government that help to push the agenda. There's a million right wing news outlets and and meanwhile the "left wing" news outlets are either barely left of center, like MSNBC, or obscure and not commonly known, like Mother Jones. Institutions will not save us when the far right controls the narrative, nor will they save us from the American troubles that we are currently in.
VioletBloom2020 t1_ivm2f7n wrote
There’s a guy running for office in NC that was there Jan 6. Ugh
8BitSk8r t1_ivmdjlh wrote
This is these people don’t get. Dems can’t do anything because Manchin and Sinema side with republicans.
King_of_the_Nerdth t1_ivmxsf1 wrote
If we had just one more Dem senator, it wouldn't have mattered. But people endlessly cast blame on those two, so much so that they're going to lose their seats and we'll then have nobody but Republicans to blame. Somehow, we won't blame Republicans right now? For every vote that Sinema and Manchin blocked, 50 Republicans also blocked it.
8BitSk8r t1_ivnuooy wrote
While I completely agree republicans are fully to blame for being the party of “no”, I can’t let those two off the hook. They blocked so much progress. This sountry could have been a much better place if they weren’t corrupt.
King_of_the_Nerdth t1_ivolotp wrote
Sounds like a way of thinking that Republicans are just itching for you to believe. We might even lose Mark Kelly's seat now.
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Hunterrose242 t1_ivlmcpf wrote
And what would you recommend?
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