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You know you are far left when the far left croud here thinks you are too left.No, Dems are just complicit. Hence my focus is on correcting Dems, the only ideological lean I have any remote influence on. Dems are the resistance to fascism, supposedly. The good guys. Am I wrong?
You can draw a straight line from Trump 2016 to Biden 2020 to Trump 2024. Its the exact same strategy.
Since your policy preferences seem to be a list of Obama-Biden policies, that will, unsurprisingly, require winning the White House again (and probably getting Congress back, too). But yeah, that would be good!
"1, 2, 4, 5, 6, possibly 7, 8, 9, 10, are largely rejected by the Democratic party. Overwhelmingly."
Yep, **** Democrats if they can't resist fascism. What are they there for? To be fluffers?
You got the president and the foreign policy agenda you wanted, and yet you're still blaming Democrats for the foreign policy of a Republican trifecta government. Marvelous.What do you envision as the future of the Democratic Party? Should there by any Litmus Tests or "Purity Standards" outside of defeating Trump? Or is that asking for "perfection"? Because it seems to me that Dems have largely created the situation we currently have.
Well if people like you who supposedly don't want wars aren't going to vote for Democrats, then you shouldn't be surprised that the remaining Democrats are less sympathetic to your goals. Politicians go where the votes are, and obviously the Dirtbag Left cannot be relied upon to provide any. Fair enough, savvy politicians will look elsewhere.Half or more of the Democratic Party is onboard with much of Trump's foreign policy (as with Bush during the Iraq Invasion). Schumer was attacking Trump on foreign policy from the right. Biden didn't reenter the Nuclear Deal and explicitly continued Trump's policies. Because they're operating from the same playbook. MAGA is being played for fools. Where is the opposition party?
I think the democratic party has a bright future. If not a bright future, at least one in which the democrats return to power. Although they do have way too many litmus tests for the average American. There was a time when the democratic party was known as the big tent party, the party of the working man. But that party is long gone. The big tent party from roughly FDR until Reagan averaged 45% of the electorate.What do you envision as the future of the Democratic Party? Should there by any Litmus Tests or "Purity Standards" outside of defeating Trump? Or is that asking for "perfection"? Because it seems to me that Dems have largely created the situation we currently have. Half or more of the Democratic Party is onboard with much of Trump's foreign policy (as with Bush during the Iraq Invasion). Schumer was attacking Trump on foreign policy from the right. Biden didn't reenter the Nuclear Deal and explicitly continued Trump's policies. Because they're operating from the same playbook. MAGA is being played for fools. Where is the opposition party?
This is the Iraq Invasion 2.0. It's all a lie. Netanyahu has been banging on about Iran for like 30 years. This is a war of pure aggression and hegemony, not defense.
Eyes wide open. There are no excuses.
You got the president and the foreign policy agenda you wanted, and yet you're still blaming Democrats for the foreign policy of a Republican trifecta government. Marvelous.
Well if people like you who supposedly don't want wars aren't going to vote for Democrats, then you shouldn't be surprised that the remaining Democrats are less sympathetic to your goals. Politicians go where the votes are, and obviously the Dirtbag Left cannot be relied upon to provide any. Fair enough, savvy politicians will look elsewhere.
I think the democratic party has a bright future. If not a bright future, at least one in which the democrats return to power. Although they do have way too many litmus tests for the average American. There was a time when the democratic party was known as the big tent party, the party of the working man. But that party is long gone.
The big tent party from roughly FDR until Reagan averaged 45% of the electorate.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/feature/party-id-trend/
From Reagan until Obama the democratic party was still the largest party, averaging 35%. Today the democratic party has shrunk down to 28% of all America. The republican party has finally pulled even with them having averaged around 28% from Eisenhower to today.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
The litmus tests from both major parties has seen a rise of independents, the non-affiliated, the less to non-partisan group of voters from 30% of the electorate in 2006 up to 43% today. I think the litmus tests developed by the democratic party over the years is the main reason for their shrinkage. The same for the GOP, their litmus tests have prevented that party from increasing their percentage of the electorate.
The problem, even though independents, the non to less partisan group of voters now make up a plurality, because of our two-party system, they must choose between two sets of litmus tests every election even though they dislike both. These litmus tests are the reasons they left the democratic party along with being the reason they refused to join or become a republican.
About that bright future I mentioned. I expect the democrats to regain control of the house in the 2026 midterms. Mainly because most Americans don’t like the litmus tests the republicans are now forcing on us. That the democrats will regain the presidency in 2028, but promptly lose the house in the 2030 midterms as most Americans will have become very dissatisfied the litmus tests being forced on them by the democrats. Then look for a republican to occupy the white house after the 2032 election. Also look for independents, the non-affiliated, the less to non-partisan group to be the majority of 50% plus by 2032 as both major parties continue to shrink.
Can't you just, you know, say **** Republicans once in a while?
Continue the Obama/Biden health care improvements and expansions of public coverage.
Do Biden's expanded Child Tax Credit Again.
Appoint Biden's FTC appointee again.
Do Biden's Build Back Better.
Do Obama's Iran deal again.
Do Obama's Paris Agreement again.
Thank you for the fresh new ideas, I'm now convinced the Dems need a clean break with the past so they can move in this bold new direction.
What do you envision as the future of the Democratic Party? Should there by any Litmus Tests or "Purity Standards" outside of defeating Trump? Or is that asking for "perfection"? Because it seems to me that Dems have largely created the situation we currently have. Half or more of the Democratic Party is onboard with much of Trump's foreign policy (as with Bush during the Iraq Invasion). Schumer was attacking Trump on foreign policy from the right. Biden didn't reenter the Nuclear Deal and explicitly continued Trump's policies. Because they're operating from the same playbook. MAGA is being played for fools. Where is the opposition party?
This is the Iraq Invasion 2.0. It's all a lie. Netanyahu has been banging on about Iran for like 30 years. This is a war of pure aggression and hegemony, not defense.
Eyes wide open. There are no excuses.
First you stop the arterial bleeding.
I do, however, agree with AOC and Hogg that a good chunk of democratic congressmen and senators need to be replaced.
Did they stand by while Trump got elected, to show off their purity?
The problem here is that BOTH parties have been doing the bidding of AIPAC for decades. Israel says Jump, both parties say, "How high".
Frankly, one of the more disgusting things Democrats did in the Aughts was they were 100% for the war (well, maybe 80%) when it started, but when it started to go south, and our soldiers were knee-deep into the manure, they started treating Saddam like he was a clubbed baby seal.
Yes, let's get rid of people who know what they are doing and replace them with more nuts like AOC.
No, they just dug themselves into a hole on immigration, transgenders, inflation and let Trump push in the dirt on them.
Which people should Dems throw under the bus to prevent fascism? I'll help you out. It's a trick question: You can't get to fascism without throwing groups under the bus.
The first half of your post is at WAR with the second half.
It was a Republican-derived healthcare plan and it sucks. It's just better than the garbage before it. It's not a solution and half a million people go bankrupt each year from it, not to mention the deaths.
The Dems did not renew them, thanks to their right-wing members. Gotta maintain that big tent, otherwise they couldn't do those big progressive policies.
Kamala was being pressured to remove her by her donors. Since there was not ideology within Kamala, she listens to her donors.
Which Dems sabotaged.
Which Biden promised he'd rejoin, then continued Trump's policies. And here we are.
While also stoking hostilities with China.
Did Biden stop Trump after being given the tools and power to do so in 2020?
No, it isn't.
It's possible to hold two different opinions.
The Israeli Lobby has too much power in this country.
The Socialist idiots like Commie Bernie, Hogg, and AOC are destroying the Democratic Brand.
As Otto von Bismarck once observed, Politics is the Art of the Possible.
Transgenders are less than 1% of the population,
but Democrats were willing to throw parents of teens under the bus to appease them.
Undocumented immigrants aren't even American Citizens and have no legal right to be here, but Democrats were willing to throw regular Americans under the bus to appease them.
As I've stated many times, Trump's biggest gains in 2024 were among Hispanics, Asians, and people making less than 50K a year. People who were impacted by illegal immigration and, to boot, had to put up with their daughters showering with boys.
The Democrats decided these were the hills they wanted to die on, and they did.
I agree with you that Obama-Bidenism is good, I'm just sort of surprised to see you insist it be the future of the party. But yeah, let's run it back!
The big lie was actually the nuke deal that Obama signed the US into.What do you envision as the future of the Democratic Party? Should there by any Litmus Tests or "Purity Standards" outside of defeating Trump? Or is that asking for "perfection"? Because it seems to me that Dems have largely created the situation we currently have. Half or more of the Democratic Party is onboard with much of Trump's foreign policy (as with Bush during the Iraq Invasion). Schumer was attacking Trump on foreign policy from the right. Biden didn't reenter the Nuclear Deal and explicitly continued Trump's policies. Because they're operating from the same playbook. MAGA is being played for fools. Where is the opposition party?
This is the Iraq Invasion 2.0. It's all a lie. Netanyahu has been banging on about Iran for like 30 years. This is a war of pure aggression and hegemony, not defense.
Eyes wide open. There are no excuses.
So AOC for president?
What the **** are you talking about?Frankly, one of the more disgusting things Democrats did in the Aughts was they were 100% for the war (well, maybe 80%) when it started, but when it started to go south, and our soldiers were knee-deep into the manure, they started treating Saddam like he was a clubbed baby seal.
This is a war of pure aggression and hegemony, not defense.
Given the way things are going for Democrats right now, they might be better of putting themselves out of their misery and pulling a Jonestown.What do you envision as the future of the Democratic Party? Should there by any Litmus Tests or "Purity Standards" outside of defeating Trump? Or is that asking for "perfection"? Because it seems to me that Dems have largely created the situation we currently have. Half or more of the Democratic Party is onboard with much of Trump's foreign policy (as with Bush during the Iraq Invasion). Schumer was attacking Trump on foreign policy from the right. Biden didn't reenter the Nuclear Deal and explicitly continued Trump's policies. Because they're operating from the same playbook. MAGA is being played for fools. Where is the opposition party?
This is the Iraq Invasion 2.0. It's all a lie. Netanyahu has been banging on about Iran for like 30 years. This is a war of pure aggression and hegemony, not defense.
Eyes wide open. There are no excuses.
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