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I'll take "fail to pass anything progressive" over "actively try to destroy the country with every bill" any day.
This is why Republicans get free rein to actively destroy the country every four years.
Could just stop letting them win altogether and just support progressive candidates in primaries, but I got sick of explaining this and just left the country. I'll be back if/when people figure out "let the republicans win" is not "fixing the democrats".
I don't think this is a question of "letting them win". Ds and Rs are the two wings of Capital. And like any good capitalist enterprise, the underlings must be made to fight it out to exhaustion in order for the master to maintain control.
If Dems ever actually obtained an FDR-style enduring majority, the capital class would have to bifricate the party in order to keep any populist movements held in check one against the other.
Given what's been going down in damned near every major city in the country with ICE, I can hardly blame you. America's going to be drowning in blood before too long if shit keeps up the way it has been going. We're already treating civilians in Minneapolis like they're Turks or Egyptians. How long until we start treating them like Iraqis or Afghanis... or Iranians or Gazans?