Amazing how theres always just enough democrats to pass this shit.
and its never the same democrats that voted to pass the last shit.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Are we allowed to say both sides are bad and the entire system needs to be replaced yet?
Or you could say we’re not a cult blindly following an orange idol. We include a diversity of opinions
Plus congressmen should represent their constituents, no matter how spiteful and close-minded
You would have voted for slavery & segregation if it had been the will of your constituency.
All but Fields represent swing districts, with Cuellar, Davis, Gonzalez, Kaptur and Gluesenkamp Perez considered particularly vulnerable in November’s election. (Fields’ safely Democratic district is likely to be eliminated by GOP gerrymandering, though he could choose to run for reelection in a far more conservative seat.) Republicans, who have seen the public turn against them on major issues like inflation and immigration, continue to believe they have an advantage on transgender issues ― particularly when it relates to how they are handled in schools and in kids’ sports. All of the vulnerable Democrats are likely to face attack ads on transgender issues in the fall.
The curse of the big tent. You accept conservative democrats who will break from the party sometimes or get a conservative Republican who will be a rubber stamp for Trump on everything.
I wish American politics were different, but here we are. If you want to change things then organize with your community, go down to your local Democratic party headquarters, and coopt their infrastructure from the ground up.
Or tell people to vote 3rd party (Any third party, it doesn't matter!) and then whine online that suppressing votes for Democrats didn't fix things, I can't tell you what to do.
"For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia. And you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin” -Chuck Schumer 2016
Man you're right, don't vote for a Democrat, stay home.
Let’s just not bullshit each other about why the Democratic Party exists
It exists because we have a shitty democracy in the United States that relies on the electoral college and first past the post voting.
It's also an organization comprised of thousands of local offices that you can go to today and start influencing. It won't be easy and it won't be immediate, but life is unfair and we have to fight to unfuck the mistakes of all our ancestors if we want to build a better world.
Until we get a better democracy "don't vote for a Democrat" only helps the fascists.
Until we get a better democracy “don’t vote for a Democrat” only helps the fascists.
Until we get better democrats, they'll keep losing and you'll keep acting like every last criticism of even the vilest behavior is telling people not to vote.
I never said anything about who to vote for, but we all know the Democratic Party is a private institution that is not obligated to follow the will of its constituents. Just look at national public policy polling and where the party diverges. Look at how the party leaders ignore and work against massively popular progressive candidates like Graham Platner, Ilhan Omar, Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, etc.
Do you honestly think they want to “win”?
The Democratic Party exists as a honeypot to attract and neutralize progressive policies and politicians, and to ensure that the Overton Window of American politics never moves left. They are a right-wing party that runs cover for republicans. They don’t agree with you, they want to stop you.
The curse of the big tent.
Trans people aren't welcome in your tent. They upset the fascists you're trying to impress.
I think they meant to title this "Why these eight lying scumbags need to be primaried to prevent continuing slide into fascism"
Gluesenkamp Perez is almost always on the wrong side of decisions like these. Unfortunately, her district is very mixed and not remotely a Democratic stronghold. A more progressive Democrat would be unlikely to win in her district.
Unfortunately Cuellar and Gonzalez won their primaries.
Party leadership showed it preferred Cuellar over any progressive, and it's exactly because of votes like this.
Cuellar was pardoned by Trump and clearly captured. What the hell is wrong with his district in Texas?
What the hell is wrong with his district in Texas?
The party demonstrated that it will do whatever it takes to defeat progressive candidates, so they stopped running.
Wouldn't a democratic voter pick a ham sandwich over someone pardoned by Trump and has voted in line with everything Trump has asked of him since the pardon? Seems like a good opportunity to get a progressive candidate in there.
Wouldn’t a democratic voter pick a ham sandwich over someone pardoned by Trump and has voted in line with everything Trump has asked of him since the pardon?
The last time a progressive ran against him, the party threw everything it had behind Cuellar. This was before trump pardoned him, but after he made it clear that he was an anti-choice anti-labor pro-nra candidate. Cuellar won by something like 500 votes.
Any progressive candidate has to fight against the Democratic party to win the nomination and then if they win anyway, they have to fight the Republican candidate with a depleted war chest and no support from their own party. Or as Mamdani showed, active antagonism from their own party.
I would have hoped there may have been active antagonism at this point. Cuellar worse than Fetterman or a Republican and squishy brained Dems still voting for him.
As long as the party backs him up (and since he does everything party leadership wants, they will keep doing so) his district doesn't have anyone with the means to fight two major US political parties.
Not to mention, Cuellar has a documented history of corruption. I'm certain he has no problem abusing his office to kneecap opposition. After all, he's a centrist democrat.
Party leadership showed
[Citation needed]
Party leadership threw its weight behind Cuellar in the 2022 primaries. He won against his underfunded opponent by something like 500 votes.
Progressives have to successfully fight two parties back to back in order to be elected.
The system is corrupt and must be destroyed.
the system is working as intended and must be destroyed :)
It also bans teachers from talking about trans people at all.
This should be an easy overturn, but we all know the "freedumb of speech" crowd got their puppet "justices" (misnomer if I ever heard one) on the SC to only interpret the phrase in a particular way.
Wait, how can they out the students if they can't talk about trans people?
"Thank you for coming in, parents who are either so antagonistic to their child or so checked out of their life you don't know a fundamental aspect of their being before a teacher does.
I am required by law to tell you something about your child, but I am barred by the same law from saying what it is. Hopefully you go home and just feel bad about yourself rather than becoming violent with your child. I love that my poorly paid job now makes me complicit in this."
Don't bother looking for logical consistency in right wing legislation. It isn't there, and drawing attention to their hypocrisy will drive you insane cuz none of them care.
The only thing that's ever consistent is the cruelty: the goal is always to hurt some out-group. Often at the cost of hurting themselves, but so long as the out-group is hurt too, they don't mind falling on their own sword to make it happen.
Bigot bills rarely make sense.
Let me guess, no such ban on talking about pedophiles?
Nah, that's fine just so long as they're not Republican ones.
ETA: Oh, wait... I guess there IS such a ban.
Let me guess, none of them are up for reelection this year?
Everyone in the House of Representatives is up for election every cycle.
Okay, Cuellar was the free bingo space for being a shitbag but Vindman after what they did to him? Also Perez right between Portland and Seattle?? We need to primary everyone who did this
Vote bloooooo
Relieved to not see Golden on this list of Republican Democrats