Getting rid of Chuck Schumer isn't going to fix the Democrats. Throwing them into the sea and starting over will.
It's obvious that the party itself is rotted to the core: the cadre of Senators that "defected" were all strategically selected as the least vulnerable (except for Honorary GOP Sen. Fetterman, who has a clear expiration date on his political career and would have made this vote anyway).
I know it's comforting to think that if we just trim this person or that person, scapegoat a couple of folks, throw another tax rebate at the upper middle class, we can save the Democratic party. But it's a dead duck, poisoned by decades of neoliberal cruelty and corruption and Centrist extremism.
After months of quisling accommodation, they are no longer a credible alternative to MAGA, notwithstanding their aborted barricade against the ACA become even less effective than it already was.
So what do we do? Not a clue. I've never lived through the self-inflicted, deliberate destruction of a 100-year-old global empire. You?
Empire? Not to quibble about semantics because I’m with you, but…
America has been accused of imperialism and has acted at times in ways that might justify the accusation, but I don’t think America can be America and be an empire. That’s the presumed greatness Team Trump thinks we should have ‘again.’ He doesn’t realize that America is the rebel alliance, to put it in terms of Star Wars.
Honest question here: Does anyone think there was a real chance to get those insurance premiums reinstated under this administration, under the budget direction Russell Vought? I don’t think that was a possibility, but I still wanted to see strength and solidarity.
Too many leaders, across many industries, have shown themselves unable to navigate these times.
No, there was no real chance. But the choice was "no real chance with solidarity in the face of the administration" or "no real chance with craven surrender and complicity" and Dems chose complicity. That should surprise no one after their failure to indict Trump in 2021, etc. etc. etc.
Reminds me I taught a physics lab at the U of Nairobi, ca 1972. Went with the sociology club and met with some Maasai in the Rift Valley. Lotsa giraffes and flamingos in and near Lake Naivasha.
Getting rid of Chuck Schumer isn't going to fix the Democrats. Throwing them into the sea and starting over will.
It's obvious that the party itself is rotted to the core: the cadre of Senators that "defected" were all strategically selected as the least vulnerable (except for Honorary GOP Sen. Fetterman, who has a clear expiration date on his political career and would have made this vote anyway).
I know it's comforting to think that if we just trim this person or that person, scapegoat a couple of folks, throw another tax rebate at the upper middle class, we can save the Democratic party. But it's a dead duck, poisoned by decades of neoliberal cruelty and corruption and Centrist extremism.
After months of quisling accommodation, they are no longer a credible alternative to MAGA, notwithstanding their aborted barricade against the ACA become even less effective than it already was.
So what do we do? Not a clue. I've never lived through the self-inflicted, deliberate destruction of a 100-year-old global empire. You?
Empire? Not to quibble about semantics because I’m with you, but…
America has been accused of imperialism and has acted at times in ways that might justify the accusation, but I don’t think America can be America and be an empire. That’s the presumed greatness Team Trump thinks we should have ‘again.’ He doesn’t realize that America is the rebel alliance, to put it in terms of Star Wars.
PRIMARY ALL OF THEM!!!!
Honest question here: Does anyone think there was a real chance to get those insurance premiums reinstated under this administration, under the budget direction Russell Vought? I don’t think that was a possibility, but I still wanted to see strength and solidarity.
Too many leaders, across many industries, have shown themselves unable to navigate these times.
We'll never know, will we?
No, there was no real chance. But the choice was "no real chance with solidarity in the face of the administration" or "no real chance with craven surrender and complicity" and Dems chose complicity. That should surprise no one after their failure to indict Trump in 2021, etc. etc. etc.
Hej!
Reminds me I taught a physics lab at the U of Nairobi, ca 1972. Went with the sociology club and met with some Maasai in the Rift Valley. Lotsa giraffes and flamingos in and near Lake Naivasha.