• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    You people need to stop seeing them as an opposition party, because they’ve literally come out and said they don’t want to be that.

    Democrats in 2024: “We are the last defense you have against totalitarian fascism! We are the thin line between democracy and dictatorship! You want us on that wall! You need us on that wall!”

    American voters: “After all the gerrymandering and disenfranchisement and other dirty tricks, we only gave the Republicans a three vote margin in the House and the Senate. See what you can do with that.”

    Democrats in 2025: “Rubber stamping everything the GOP throws across our desk. Resistance is futile. The best thing we can do is see how much money we can bilk from donors before 2026.”

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      20 hours ago

      we only gave the Republicans a three vote margin in the House and the Senate

      Many USA states have the vote counting operated by oligarchs with no oversight, using tools that have no transparency or double checking, and the results fail exit polls.

      This has been talked about for decades except not by the liberals in the USA. The Democratic Party has sidelined paper ballot progress, stomping down on criticisms of unfair ballot counts, while losing influence in large areas due to ballot manipulation.

      The result after 30 years of this is that most American liberals scoff at human witnessed ballot counting, resist talking about it, and have no clue .

      Nobody competent can cite voting results across all 50 states without using air quotes or cracking a joke

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        18 hours ago

        Well, look at what happens even in liberal hotbeds like NYC and San Fransisco. Democrats are so obsessed with appeasing wealthy reactionaries that they’ll do obnoxiously anti-popular moves like Hochul delaying congestion pricing (what a turn of face that’s been) and Dianne Feinstein raising a Confederate Flag above the mayor’s office.

        How else do you get a crook like Eric Adams or Henry Cuellar or Bob Menendez in these positions of entrenched power without the party endlessly running cover for them. Fucking sickening.

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          17 hours ago

          No real leaders to rally about, anywhere, that I know about. Just a slow decline into increased corruption