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Has it ever?
Then we will force them to pay attention
we need to force them to listen to us, by any means necessary
Yeah, but will we this time?
We have to, we have to force them to pay attention or else
Depends on how much that particular person in the base is giving them.
The DNC official platform document says it wants to:
So, I mean, they understand what I am angry about. Only policy I wish they were better about would be dropping support of Israel but even on that they are infinitely better than GOP policy.
I think you are exagerating the platform quite a bit, or just seeing what you want to.
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf
It says get to a fair tax code where the rich pay their share, and they equate it directly to taxxing them as much as the lower class is taxed. Thats barely "tax the rich" at all.
It never mentions citizens united anywhere in their platform.
It doesnt talk about making voting easier. It rambles on kissing Bidens arse a lot and then talks about restoring voting rights Trump took away.
I give the dems a "c" on climate change. They talk about a few specifics, after talking about energy independence and jobs. And once again, the whole party platform is written to emphasize Bidens weak-ass contributions and paint him as transformative.
Do a search on forests. Where are they promising to work on forests in there?
It doesnt specify food or medical care for all anywhere. Biden was never in favor of medicare for all, and neither is the DNC. They want to slightly expand medicaid by giving states slightly more funding, and offer "'affordable" care to all via Obamacare. Letting people buy in a marketplace is not the same as giving everyone medical care, and your shortening it to that wildly oversells what the platform doc says.
And it doesnt talk about giving everyone food. I dont know where you got that from.
FYI all that account does is make up things to make dems look better
Actions speak louder than words. They're happy to say they will do things that they have no intention of actually following through on while just doing a slightly less terrible version of a republican policy.
Curious about what you think the difference is?
Fun fact, the DNC have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years, but I agree that the many social, foreign affairs, and fiscal accomplishments of the DNC go vastly underreported.
Curious about what you think the difference is?
Vote records where GOP show up as a monolith for Israel while the DNC does not.
Biden admin officials saying peace is the goal. Pete Hegseth making an official statement that "death or exodus" is the goal. Large bombs withheld by the Biden Admin were deliveres under Trump according to Trump, and tanks enterred West Bank for the first time in decades.
Countless charts like this:
Thank you for providing evidence you only care about optics and still think Biden did anything to slow or oppose the genocide.
Also weird you are using a chart that isn't accurate.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/18/gaza-death-toll-exceeds-75000-as-independent-data-verify-loss
Or even the people in Biden administrations flat out saying it https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5515620/israel-gaza-biden-famine
Thank you for supporting my argument? Not sure why you would link that when it directly opposes your statements.
Because it shows Biden doing absolutely nothing
Except for the countless hours of trying to force aid past Israeli resistance, and demonstrably accomplishing much more aid than under the GOP, aside from those they're exactly the same.
Again showing all you care about is optics not action. Biden could have stopped it immediately but didn't because he cares more about Israel than stopping a genocide.
I'm sorry that you hate Palestinians so much and wish death by starvation upon them.
For a so called antizionist you seem to have more in common with Israel than different.
Do you think they weren't starving under Biden?
Look at this idiot still trying to pretend he isn't a Tankie after agreeing with the likes of MrDown and Alcoholicorn in this thread earlier today: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/22993516
Screw off, Tankie scum.
Excellent rebuttal. Really proving you only care about optics and pr not actions
Really not helping the case of they want to things with how poorly they campaign.
Also the DNC is just the organization to get people elected not anything in charge of policy so of course it would not have any of those.