Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran. He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.
Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran. He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.
Democrats of this period will go down in history as the functional mechanism by which the fascists were able to take over.
I fucking hate that our options for political parties are inept or evil
Schumer and Jefferies didn’t slow-walk votes on war powers resolutions for two weeks before this new war because they thought it would fail; they slow-walked it because they didn’t want to have to put Democrats on record as having voted against it. They didn’t want to have Democrats being held accountable for the manner in which they govern and the consequences which extend from that governance.
The Democrats only appear inept if you misidentify their objectives. When you recognize that most of the party and definately party leadership, by and large, have the same goals as the fascist party, it becomes more difficult to interpret their alleged incompetence as being anything other than performative. They achieve the goals of their funders. If you are Israel, you are getting what you paid for.
This is why I’m giving up on changing the DNC and refocusing my efforts on changing the voting system from First Past The Post to Rank Choice.
But we also need the fascists out of power, and kept out of power.
These two things have to be achieved in parallel. That’s why I vote Democrat, but only until I have Rank Choice at which point the Democrats will become my second pick (and then eventually third pick, and hopefully someday not one of my picks at all)
You can’t do that until you get the people who can and will do that in power. Logically for the US, the way its voting system is structured and how people vote, the only way to do that is primary out the bad within one of the parties. Again, logic tells us which party that is.
Personally I think the only way out of this is a peaceful sustained shutdown by the people or by some miracle it implodes, but the voting system won’t be changed until there are enough people in power willing to do it.
Edit: removed an assumptive paragraph in the middle, I should have paid more attention to your last.
I think this is why we’ll never see ranked choice voting. Both the Democrats and Republicans know that it weakens their power. We’ve already seen multiple states enact laws that specifically ban ranked choice voting for their states.
Yep it just got outlawed in my state by lumping it in with some amendment making it illegal for non-citizens to vote (which was already illegal, but people are morons).
Yup, they’re already trying to outlaw it in many states
Now that would be a beautiful thing. Third party voters such as myself wouldn’t get so much hate if ranked choice is an option.
But we have learned the hard way that Democrats don’t keep fascists out of power.
Yeah well, it’s not their job to keep fascists out if power. It’s OUR job. Us, the voters.
Voting works. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop us from doing it. And once we have Rank Choice we’ll be able to move beyond the “an actual fascist/not an actual fascist” dichotomy. But until then, for fucks sake, vote “not an actual fascist” even if you don’t like the person you’re voting for. I don’t care how terrible they are, if they’re not an actual fascist then you vote for them. THAT’S how you keep fascists out of power.
I did my job by voting for candidates that wanted to stop fascists, then.
excuse me. inept or inept and evil. competent was never a choice
The Chamberlain Democrats. Chambercrats.
Viche Democrats