I hope you’re right, but I’m pretty sure the inaction from Dems comes from the donors. Which means the donors are okay with what is happening or think their riches will allow them to survive it. 3.5% just means we now have enough people that understand that they are experiencing a coup
to start to organize another 3-5% so we can start the non-compliance phase. But, while I was happy enough to have a big Dem tent, it is clear the neoliberal Dems are not. The way they attacked Mamdani, as just one example, demonstrates that they are more willing to fight progressives than MAGA.
This is not just ideology. It's politics and power. They don't want new power to come in. One that threatens the money of their donnors. Corruption is the same everywhere. Those are politicians not the electorate. The voters will vote for what makes sense for their and others' economic situation.
I hope do, but people are rarely so rational. The money buys a lot of propaganda. But hopefully the near-complete inaction of the establishment Dems has opened some eyes.
I don't think it's near inaction for them. Turns out parties out of power can't do a lot in authoritarian takeovers. If it weren't for Schumer. They'd have stopped the gov quickly. Which takes guts. Schumer has to go. Besides that it took a while but what they're doing is about it. S Korea,
Poland, the Philippines, and Romania were all done through peoples actions. Mass protests, courts, press, satire, and direct action. It's all about us. And if we win back our country. It will be up to hold the dems accountable to get things we need done.
They have all sorts of power which they are choosing not to use.
Like what? And why is it the same for all countries that end up like this? The one thing they could have done. Schumer killed. He has to go. This gets fixed when the party in power feels the heat from us consistently and in larger numbers.
Totally agree about Schumer, but every day the neolib Dems make decisions to comply, to be “bipartisan”, to confirm wildly incompetent people, etc. Every decision is an opportunity.
A few voted to confirm in the beginning. Since then, they've held all night vigils protesting nominees and bills with procedural filings. That's all they can do for reconciliation bills and nominees. On the budget bill. I'm asking my rep to hold unless it's democratic. And holds repubs accountable.
So, if we are “on the front lines”, so to speak, we can expect “friendly fire” from behind, from our own supposed side? Neolib Dems are more loyal to their ideology and the billionaires it created than to the party, the people and the country.
The only known antidote to neoliberalism and fascism is progressivism. If the “centrists” keep clinging to their failed economic ideas and attacking those trying to plot a course out of it, I don’t see how we win. But the fact that they can’t even even pretend until we are out of this is telling.