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Every day I am forced to confront that the the Democratic Party won the White House and Congress in 2020 and instead of doing the smart thing and ending the filibuster, packing the court, and going scorched Earth on the GOP which, mind you, had just tried to overthrow the election, they kicked back and proceeded to do absolutely nothing of note except cut a blank check for the most televised genocide of the last 30 years.
A disciplined party could have un-fucked everything trump did in the span of a few month, but they chose not to. They chose not to, and now we're all paying for it.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
You know what? If I hire someone to guard my house, and my house gets robbed, because the person I hired (1) didn't lock the door, (2) didn't call the police, and (3) was too afraid to confront the robbers themselves, then yes, I will blame the person I hired for not doing their fucking job.
The conceit of representative democracy is that our representatives are public servants. That we appoint them to serve our interests. And when they fail at that task we have the right and the fucking duty to hold them accountable for their failure.
Oh, there's plenty of blame to go around. I'm not going to support conservative corruption. I'm also not going to waste my time and money supporting an organization that's clearly unable (or unwilling) to fight conservative corruption.
But hey, it's your time and money. If you want to piss it away on the corrupt, incompetent, Democrats, people who've proven they can't stand up to the Republicans and will waste any opportunity the voters give them, be my guest.
Supporting those losers comes with a hell of an opportunity cost, though.
Yet you are more than willing to waste your money on supporting a party that has proven that they are't willing to defeat a corrupt administration, even when they have all the power?
Giving speeches, teaching, doing interviews and debates. I know, because I saw them. It turns out, that when you don't pay attention to someone, you end up not knowing what they are doing.
I don't disagree. But here you are, shitting on people who actually want fascism to stop.
But you do you.
"Don't criticize my party for failing to stop Trump, that makes you a Trump supporter." is their bad faith argument.
You just said that can’t be blamed in your last comment but now they can be blamed but also it’s still not actually their fault… please get an actual argument.
No logic, only vote blue no matter who!!
What are you talking about “should they be blamed?”
Yes. Neglect for some things is, in fact, a crime. You can absolutely blame people for neglecting things.
I'm not gonna hold my breath on the Republican Party holding it's contingent responsible. Thus the only other party with power better take some action.
It may not be the victim's fault but it is their responsibility.
this is more like blaming a judge for not locking up a known serial killer
they are not the victim, they had the power to intervene and chose not to
if you are a judge and you are brought evidence of a serial killer murdering people, and instead of convicting them you let them go free, it is your fault if they murder more people. You did nothing to stop them when you were handed the chance to
We did catch them. That's literally what the post is about, we saw all the horrible things trump did in his first term, we got the chance to stop him in 2020, but nobody did anything. And now hes doing even more horrible things what a fucking surprise
I never said they would have. We need to hold people accountable regardless of party, that is the only way to achieve change
Your analogy doesn’t make sense.
You have no idea what my perspective is. This is the first time we have interacted.
All I said was your analogy didn’t make sense.
And that may very well be the case but instead of explaining it you immediately got mad at me for shit I did not do.
The people who hire undocumented immigrants are good people and understand the positive impact they have on those seeking a better life. I would know, I was once one of those immigrants and got the fuck out of that hellhole of a country as soon as I could. The only assholes I see are the people making it harder for people seeking a better life. It's already hard enough to live anywhere as it is without your help.
I clearly wasn't replying to your main point, bud.
It was a side comment not meant to follow along, Champ. Ironic how you're having trouble following that.
They're a troll, ignore them.