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Democrats i.e. centrists seem to be dead set on throwing gender issues such as trans rights under the bus right now. I’m not even sure what they stand for anymore.
Trans issues are cheap that’s why both corporate dems and GOP like to center on them .
Most people want to solve real issues - healthcare, social net, housing costs etc all of those require touching oligarchs and ofc dangerousThey aren’t that cheap. People are starting to figure out that if you’re not willing to stand up for some of us, you might not be willing to stand up for any one of us.
Either you stand for human rights or you don’t.
as shitty as it is they stand for getting reelected, which when compared with “not the overt fascists” should be a pretty good platform… if only they learned something from trump and realized that being loudly pro-your-issues is a positive and being quiet and non-committal is a death sentence
being loudly “we can’t let this ever happen again and here’s how we strengthen the system” should be their platform
When did the Dems ever seriously champion these issues since the 90s? They have capitulated to corporate interests to pad their pockets every step of the way playing lip service to these problems they have no intention of solving.
Why single out Democrats? That’s unfortunately much of America under oligarchs.
Doesn’t much matter, because at this point even a DSA sweep of the elections is unlikely to turn things around before the train wreck hits, leaving devastation everywhere. For which the DSA will then take the fall - something the Dems used to do before they fully committed to the dark side.
Republicans gained a ton in the same time period: the repeal of Roe, bans on labor rights, a variety of environmental deregulations, and even secret police disappearing people in the night.
Because they’ve held hegemony off opposition to MAGA but use it to just capitulate to MAGA.
Listen, MAGA is the devil you know. He’s gonna rape your kids but he tells you to your face. Democrats on the other hand sell you to him while pretending to be your savior. I don’t personally spend too much time talking shit about MAGA here because water is just wet, not much else to them.
Because no one worth arguing with doesn’t already know what the rest of the oligarchy stands for, yet we still have a myriad of imbeciles trying to go to bat for the Democrats as if they are or have ever been on the side of the working class.
30 fucking years late mate…
Neoliberals threw all that away in the 90s.
Obama could have saved the party in 08, but he abandoned it and assumed some other line wolf would just show up.
He didn’t understand the value of the Dem party, so when he got a chance to pick the sole person in charge of it, he just handed a bankrupt party to the neoliberals, so Hillary bought it and the 2016 primary for nothing while bankrupting most state parties for 9 years.
We fixed all that shit.
Billionaires just won’t let people say it on the media they own.
The reason progressives are winning all over isn’t that they’re suddenly popular, it’s just that the neoliberals aren’t sabatoging them anymore
You better be talking about the suits, not the voters
Obviously. That would make no sense