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“Democrats” are who you call out here? Why would you say that?
I called them all out. I named Democrats specifically, because pushing back against all of this should have been job one from day one. But I have personally watched them flail and fail for 4 plus decades. In fact even recently I've watched some Democrats whom I had previously respected and thought well of appease and enable the fascists. Like Cory Booker. I called him out specifically because we expect better of them. We don't have reason to expect better of them but we do.
So you still choose to whine about dems when they are out numbered? You literally voted them out. This isn’t on dems anymore. Blame the reps standing there and clapping while doing all the wrong things. They are doing this shit. Not the dems.
LOL, you quite literally have no clue. Don't get me wrong I understand. There's a lot of blind criticism without nuance that gets passed around on lemmy.
Despite being an anarchist, and not having anyone to endorse in the National election. I got endless hate for pointing out that Gaza wasn't on the ballot. That it was either going to be a Democrat or a Republican and we would pray that it wasn't a republican. That we should do whatever it takes to ensure the Republicans didn't win. I e voting for the next most likely to win candidate aka the Democrats. That the constant sniping at Biden / Harris over Gaza was only helping the Republican.
I voted for Harris. Because despite disagreeing with the Democrats vehemently on many fronts. Staving off open fascism and all the people now being hurt by it was important. I'm a pragmatist before an idealogue. My criticism of Democrats isn't coming from irreconcilable ideological grounds. Despite disagreeing with them I have no issue working with them when interests align. But let's be real. As a party they've made decades worth of unforced errors. And they still are. They need to be better. They need to push back. Even just making gestures for show. Which they really aren't. Mid terms are coming. They need to show people why to vote for them.