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And while the political environment has worsened for the president and his party, Democrats have yet to convince voters that they offer a compelling alternative. The poll indicated that Democrats have not improved their political brand, even after more than a year of trying to demonstrate that they understand the concerns of voters and can stand up to Mr. Trump.

Just 26 percent of voters said they were satisfied with the Democratic Party.

The discontent includes a significant number of Democrats who expressed reservations about their own party. Forty-four percent of Democrats described themselves as unsatisfied, while just 23 percent of Republicans said the same about their party.

“They’re just not fighting back hard enough in my eyes,” said Matthew Berryhill, 35, a recruiter from Marietta, Ga., a pivotal battleground area in the state’s key Senate race this year, who described himself as a progressive Democrat. “They come out with strong statements and strong words, and no action to back it up.”

Have you thanked the Supreme Leader today for defeating the GOP in Pokemon Go to the Polls?

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[–] test_@hexbear.net 51 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-official-biden-was-preparing

Former senior Biden advisor Amos Hochstein said during an interview on Sunday that the Biden administration had been preparing to bomb Iran if they had won re-election in 2024.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And we did, we did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.”

Did they do any war games where they won?

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If history is anything to go by, they lost several in a row and then placed arbitrary limitations on the Iran side so they couldn't possibly win

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Yes probably assuming massive civil unrest followed by assassinations totally mess up the country as planned so they can't even fire their few shitty missiles.

Who knows what "Intel" and "planning" Israel was feeding to those dopes.

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Biden 2 would be so bad we might actually get literal facism from the blowback in that timeline. Maybe JDPON Don and losing to Iran now is truly the harm reduction timeline

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

I take it back when I said only trump would be stupid enough to do this. Sleepy Joe might be the only president in history dumber than trump

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Biden invading would have locked us in. Trump invading has gotten enough push back we had/will have to back out.

Either way everyone loses. :(

[–] Lurkmore@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Not everyone, just 99%

porky-happy

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

70% approved by Republicans which is half the fucking country

It's why this place can't be saved. This country is fucking COOKED

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah it's super fucked seeing shit like the % of people who think you can just work hard to better your life going from 67% to 47% in the last ten years, that's still half of fucking everyone just so brainfucked they can't see reality in front of them

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

Never has there been a populace in greater need of re-education

Good thing each one of them owns 10 rifles

[–] MarxMadness@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

It's a poll of voters. Let's say that's 50% of the country, and Republican voters are 50% of that, or 25% of the total population. 70% of 25% is 17.5%, or a little over 1 out of every 6 people. That's a big problem if they're organized (and they are, but only to an extent), but far from insurmountable.

My takeaway from the 93-5 split among Dems is that this is a tailor-made agitation point among them. Virtually any Dem you talk to is opposed to the war, but there's been no serious party effort to stop it. They won't even talk about primarying John Fetterman, who isn't even a Democrat anymore and doesn't even want to be there, over killing the War Powers vote.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Also, the bigger problem is that the vast majority of Americans are hollowed out dullards who have no strong opinions about anything and will be corralled into whatever nazi bullshit like the cattle they are, so even the percentage that doesn’t approve can be cowed into supporting it if you offer them a chocolate bar

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And every last one of them considers themselves a "free thinker" who "does their own research".

[–] Des@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

the facebook mom i work with has shifted from right wing coded conspiracies (MAHA nonsense, antivax) to more left wing over the last year (network state, thiel, billionaire cabals, etc). i could probably easily get her to listen to TrueAnon but i'm waiting until Liz is back to actually pull that trigger. i've been working on explaining the difference between "conspiracy theories" and parapolitics to her, and she's been receptive.

what's funny is this woman is very collectivist at her core. she would make a great comrade and organizer if the brainworms could be dislodged. she lives and breathes mutual aid and builds connections with everyone in her community. then just pumps them full of every ridiculous antivax and sovcit conspiracy she has heard while getting food and resources to people who need it.

there is legit potential out there but the internet has really poisoned minds in ways that there is no simple antidote to.

[–] InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I fully agree that this country is fucking cooked, but let's be accurate with the numbers here.

70% of Republican voters is only like 8% of the total US population, not 50%. See @trabpukcip@hexbear.net's comment here. I'm taking his word for it on the number of registered republicans and the total population is 342 million. 27 million is about 7.9% of 342 million.

So that 70% of Republican voters is a good bit less than even a tenth of the country, not half.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Somehow that feels worse

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

even after more than a year of trying to demonstrate that they understand the concerns of voters and can stand up to Mr. Trump.

is that what they've been doing?

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

the thing is the 93% number does not feel sincere at all. the entire democrat messaging was "drumpf is an idiot who can't do a proper war, elect us and we will be the ones to end the CHILD AND WOMEN KILLING EVIL TERRORISTremoved REGIME of THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC." the reality is that trump and israel simultaneously fucked 8 countries and killed tens of thousands directly, and fucked 80 countries and killed millions indirectly, but the entire US media ecosystem is "gas prices are higher" vs "gas prices are higher but it's worth it because nukes". if democrats were in charge dems would be 50/50 while republicans would be 30/70 against.

also i can't be bothered to check their methodology but there's a massive generational gap between boomers and zoomers in the republican party over this war. any slight bias towards older people inflated the support massively.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just 26 percent of voters said they were satisfied with the Democratic Party.

The discontent includes a significant number of Democrats who expressed reservations about their own party. Forty-four percent of Democrats described themselves as unsatisfied, while just 23 percent of Republicans said the same about their party.

“They’re just not fighting back hard enough in my eyes,” said Matthew Berryhill, 35, a recruiter from Marietta, Ga., a pivotal battleground area in the state’s key Senate race this year, who described himself as a progressive Democrat. “They come out with strong statements and strong words, and no action to back it up.”

The best time to start organizing with PSL is yesterday, second best time is now

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

PSL is at best a SocDem party... And that's my showing good faith toward them.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate?

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Let me see:

Predilection for electoralism instead of building working class' power in the manner of Leninism.

Their program reeks of reformism instead of revolution, trying to alleviate the symptoms of Capitalism instead of overcoming it. With the appeal to some kind of nostalgia toward the 60s (Vietnam's 60s???)

Lack of rupture with the system (better housing laws instead of abolishing that shit), their optimism kinda keeps the corpse fresh instead of burying it once and for all.

Too much emphasis at being the voice of reason for the Democrats instead of creating a revolutionary party.

And to me they can't be comrades without a revolutionary praxis.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

  1. They do both. A large part of their cadre wouldn't have heard of them if it wasn't for the electoral campaigns

  2. Not sure what you're referring to, their program is to decommodify food, housing, energy, etc, nationalize the 500 largest companies, end finance, establish a unitary governing structure with popular input through unions and other orgs, and use planning to set the economic agenda. Alongside giving native americans, African Americans, and all oppressed nationalities liberation. They want a system like china but much further down the path to socialism to reflect our material conditions

  3. They want to decommodify and socialize/communalize housing, the book Socialist Reconstruction goes into it

  4. The rhetoric works on a lot of people. You could definitely argue it's a trap that could eventually bring people back to the democrats (assuming democrats overcome their class character and pivot to the left, which has yet to be observed), but a mission of PSL's is to massively grow the party without compromising in the slightest on the revolutionary program. I'm not sure if you're referring to something specific, but getting people to talk about their frustrations with the Democratic Party is an easy way to get them interested in an alternative. And historically, I'd argue the republican party was a revolutionary party when it was founded. It had success due to people's frustration with the whigs and democratic parties

  5. They have a revolutionary praxis, they see their current work as the path to a proletarian revolution and educate their members in marxist theory

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'll refrain from making more criticism before reading the book.

But let me put out this cynical question: how communist can the average USAmerican be? You guys are strong individualists. The collectivism is, in a certain manner, anti-Americanism. I can see other late-stage capitalist dystopias like Japan and South Korea becoming communist because the cultural path is there. But you guys are too egoistic, too pecuniary brained, too hopeless for that.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think having revolutionary optimism is critical here. The working class will need to relearn how to organize and assert its power. The inability to have a revolution is, at least in part, propaganda. 100 years ago we had militant unions and socialist/communist parties that threatened the two-party system. It can happen here again. The alternative is not organizing, which means we'll never have socialism

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

But is that really a revolutionary optimism or just idealism? Since you have alluded to Gramsci, what are the material conditions to collectivism reach the hegemony in the USA?

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

best opportunity for third party to fuck up dem plans to just coast, and of course its stonewalled by media gatekeepers

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Frankly the fact a third party can't take advantage of this unprecedented collapse of popular support for both parties, unfortunately proves the two-party system is structurally rooted past even the foundation and into the bedrock of this country

This was the year third parties were supposed to become viable; instead, their inability to scale has become a unique political phenomenon that has reached the point where it's safe to say third parties are de facto structurally illegal

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

but it is rather interesting there is just intentional silence on them trying in any mainstream media (including podcasters here). that aside legal challenges greens and psl get during national already point to some illegality of thought.

obviously, as an outside observer, if something is not reported by internet or msm, it doesn't exist for me, if they are doing a lot of door knocking campaigns, but polls still report only r/d races, it's still wont register as anything until observation (election)

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

In western liberal democracies elections are won because voters hate the other guys, not because they like the winners.

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

70% of republicans lmao fully 100 million people in this country live on a totally different planet. alienation maxxing

[–] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

39 million registered Republicans * 70% approval = 27 million people. So, like 10% of the United States

[–] Des@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

yeah they are pretty outnumbered. i think it's just the outsized power and influence that make people feel the true believers have overwhelming numbers on their side

checked out normies who hate all politics probably make up a solid majority of the total population.

[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Without a giant purge of the Democratic Party leadership, the party and the country will continue to move towards stepping off a fascist cliff.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

31% agree with the war and the genocide. What does that say about USAmericans? A whopping ratio of 1:3. Your neighbor is a shithead and you can't escape the shit because you ate it too.