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The Lemmy.ml instance. If you see anyone with a @lemmy.ml after their name, there's a better than 50% chance they think North Korea is a pretty cool palace :>
And that both sides of the current US political divide are exactly the same, yep, exactly the same. The really boring ones who are kinda slow to get with the times and then the ones who are destroying the institutions of government as fast as legally possible and also faster than legally possible. Yep. The same.
Oh I've met those. Honestly they are so absurd it's hard to not think it's sock puppet accounts.
In all fairness "kinda slow to get with the times" is at least a slight underrepresentation of how culpable democrats are for the current political moment 😅
They are not the same. And they are also clearly almost exclusively accountable to their donors, and for a very hot minute now have done nothing to meaningfully adress the countries class-based dysfunction (that disproportionately impacts minorities) while championing minorities in almost exclusively superficial ways that have laid the groundwork for the current cataclysmic anti-inclusionary social movement thats feeding our rapid decent into neo-fascism.
Slow to get with the times is more than just being charitable. They kinda suck. They are not a monolith, no group is, but there is good reason why people call them controlled opposition. I'd like for people to be wrong about that and for them to fix their shit. Because fixing the Democratic party still feels easier than uprooting the deeply entrenched two party system, and there are candidates that make me hopeful... But I'm not holding my breath :/
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The DNC have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years and have never held a SCOTUS appointee majority. They are more progressive now than they've ever been, I highly recommend you read their party platform document, do you need a link to it?
I don't say this to try and be a dick, I think its important to be able to have discussions around these topics, but a party's platform document really is not important to me. Their voting record is. Their actions are. And the more I learn about politics the more their voting record and actions the last 10-20 years frustrate me.
I will 1000% give credit it to Lina Khan. She was a godsend and gave me hope that maybe the american political apparatus could actually be operated in good faith by someone who understands what it means to be a civil servant.
When we did last had a senate majority under Obama he failed to pass a more impactful healthcare reform bill. And we got a version that he said was essentially just Mitt Romney's healthcare bill. I have personally benefited from obamacare. And, we had the opportunity to pass something much more meaningful. And we just didnt.
Democratic foreign policy is horrifying. One of my closest friends is part of an ethnic and religious minority group that was subjected to ethnic cleansing after Obama backed a militant group controlling Egypt because it was momentarily convenient to our interests. If I remember right the statistics she told me were that the population dropped from something like 15% to 5% in a matter of a few years. Because of it she went into intelligence research (as an academic, not working for the government) and now lives with the imagery of people (often her people) being executed burned into her head because she specialized in propaganda and recruitment materials made by radical Islamic terror groups, and lots of radical Islamic terrorist groups love using video of executions and beheadings as recruitment material. She left the field because she can't do it anymore.
We outright refused to engage with the fact that Israel is intentionally killing an entire civilian population as an issue lots of people care about last election. We still aren't even all on the same page about it.
It feels like they have done nothing but present themselves as progressive without actually doing any of the progressive shit that would fix people's problems. Every time we've gotten a genuinely progressive candidate the party's response has been to degrade them and try to undercut their efforts.
And frankly, I think we could have had a much stronger hold of the legislature if we actually put forward candidates that folks believed cared about their issues on any kind of regular basis, instead of just people taking lots of corporate campaign funding and posturing about how much we care about minorities without putting forward policies that would help said minorities in any meaningful way
There are probably meaningful accomplishments that the democratic party has accomplished that I'm blind or ignorant to, and you're welcome to inform me of them. I'd like to have a more well rounded perspective. And at the same time, I don't think its unreasonable of me to be angry with them. They have taken a frankly ungodly amount of corporate money. The DNC's document outlining what went wrong last election was an actual joke, that blamed their loss on voters.
Sorry for the ridiculously long reply. A lot of my thoughts on this subject are still ill-formed and inconcrete enough to be difficult to communicate concisely.
If your single policy vote depends on Israeli-Palestine relationships then you need to start voting DNC, because the GOP official stance from the mouth of Pete Hegseth, drunkard former fox news anchor and current head of the department of war, is "Death or Exodus" of every Palestinian. Trump bragged about delivering shipments of bombs that Biden withheld from Israel. Upon GOP taking control of the 3 branches, all food aid into Gaza stopped and has never recovered to Biden-era levels. If you don't vote DNC and promote the DNC then clearly you don't give a single solitary fuck about any lives lost, any suffering, in Palestine.
My brother in Christ I have voted straight ticket Democrat in every single election I have every participated in, which has been every single one I can. And your assumption that I'm a single issue voter makes me feel like you're making a lot of assumptions about who I am, which is frustrating
I am not a single issue voter. And I consistently show up and vote democrat. Please don't make the assumption that I fit into the caricature of "only cares about one issue and won't vote"
And yet you're in here talking shit about them to everyone who will listen. Great job, asshole.
Yes, I would like better representation than I have, and that means being willing to criticize the party's failings 😅
I don't thing the process of democracy really works if people just have blind allegiance to a party. I'm frustrated that my best choice has consistently let me down, that doesnt make me an asshole.
I'd very much like for them to fix their shit, I think defeating fascism depends on it, and that means recognizing the ways they've fallen short.
Well I would like better representation than the GO-fucking-P but about 6 or 7 Million People who were willing to vote for Joe Biden in 2020 decided to stay the fuck home in 2024. We can talk about which DNC are best after we remove the existential threats from power, maybe even get the DNC enough senate seats to overturn Citizens United.
Here is what I think: I think you're astroturfing. I don't think you give a fuck about progress, you want the GOP to stay in power.
If we're at the part of the conversation where we accuse eachother of being a psyop or secretly pro-fascism because we disagree on how to solve our problems I think probably we're past any hope this might be a worthwhile conversation
You can take a look at my history if you really think that. I think the way I choose to engage with people leaves it pretty unambiguous whether I'm engaging with people in good faith. My previous main is @Cris_Color@lemmy.world if you think three months of history is a red flag of some sort.
Take care.