So vote on lifting the income cap.

Then take everyone who voted “no” out back and put them down like the rabid dogs they are and then vote again.

I feel the preceding was actually a little unfair. Dogs don’t choose to be rabid, people do choose to be worthless, greedy fuckwastrels.

Daffy > Donald

If the rest of your ideas are as trash as your politics I can see why.

See ya in a few months when I come back with your award!

Lol, the ShitLib with his head in the sand thinks he’s worth a new zinger.

You’re not even worth a Certified Refurbished ™ zinger.

No, but I’m the one who answered.

And anyone genuinely dedicated to building a revolutionary movement wouldn’t need to ask “WhY aReN’t YoU dOiNg It”?

“Anyone who questions my precious narratives (that I take from billionaire owned media and a center-right political party) is obviously a dirty foreigner” and other fairy tales Liberals tell themselves to explain why reality keeps running counter to their belief system

that work you put in helped get us in a more progressive space today.

But it didn’t, because we haven’t. All that’s happened is the same old party machine has revamped its branding a bit. Half that crop of DSA freshmen are Third Way plants or other dissembling opportunists using the current zeitgeist to further their careers, and the other half will never be allowed to be anything but the bait that keeps dragging left-leaning Liberals back to the center right party.

I hope that in a decade, I do not end up as pessimistic and sapped of hope as you are currently.

As long as you never look under the hood of the party to see how its power structures work and never question any party narratives about why policy keeps moving right no matter how much the voters want it to move left, then you probably won’t. But you’ll also never see the world you think you’re voting for.

Because despite saying you’re here for it, youre not here for it enough to be willing to take up arms to defend the person running the guillotine from the state violence capitalists will always use to defend capitalism.

I’m not really here for that either, but only because there aren’t enough people who would join me to make it anything but a really complicated suicide method.

First you have to build the revolution. Then you’ll have no choice but to fight the revolution. So you can vote for more of the same, or you can join an actual communist party and start helping to build the revolution. Hell, you can even do both. But one of those things is like praying for rain, and one is like picking up tools for the dirty, sweaty, unpleasant job of constricting an irrigation system.

Hell, used to be you actually had to scratch the Liberals. Now you can just question their narrative in any way that actually causes a little cognitive dissonance and watch the show

He actually will, in the exact same way that Hillary and Biden were able to.

Party Leadership sets the primary rules and has already stated in open court that their position is that they have a perfect right to stack the deck however they choose.

If DSA doesn’t come out as more antagonistic soon, electoralism will become even more useless.

Spoiler alert: The DSA will not come out as more antagonistic in any way that actually matters, and electoralism can’t actually get any more useless.

I spent a decade as a campaign staffer for progressive Dem candidates. I know whereof I speak when I say that’s all a waste of time if your phone calls, door knocks, and organizing are running through the Democratic Party, because the people who control the levers of power inside the party will never allow anyone to the left of Kissinger to touch them. They’ve created all the rules to guarantee no body can stop them or take away their ability to gatekeep.all the meaningful power in the party.

But don’t take my word for it, take your own advice, bust your ass for progressive campaigns and see how far it gets you. Once you see it for yourself, you’ll basically be me.

Pretending that DSA Blue is in any way meaningfully different than Third Way Blue is an exercise in idealism and a refusal to learn anything at all from history. Your Fell For It Again Award will be along in 6-12 months when the fig leaf falls off and the naked neoliberalism is back on display.

everyone shoulda stayed home and not voted, you so right.

An election with < 10% turnout would have been far more useful than the Blue Tsunami was. At least that would rob the ruling class of legitimacy. As it is, half the voting public is now convinced that the good guys are back in charge and already checked out to go to brunch, and the other half is convinced they’re about to be gulag bound when the evil commies take power and is eyeing violent revolt as a way to maintain their preferred ruling class puppets in power. No part of that is a good thing, since “Nothing has Fundamentally Changed”.

Lol, ShitLibs are always convinced their idealism will pan out this time. It’d be funny if the rest of us didn’t have to live with the consequences of your inaction.

I’ll swing back by in 6 mths to a year, once the exceedingly likely has become exceedingly obvious, to give you your Fell For It Again Award.

And the Democrats will once again ignore any mandate from voters that conflicts with the orders they get from their donors.

There’s a warehouse full of shiny new Fell For It Again awards waiting to be handed out to all the optimistic ShitLibs who saw the returns Tuesday night and are already checked out and back at brunch.

Good luck with that. I already vote for a communist against my local D Senators every primary, so i wish you the very best, by which I mean I hope this teaches you that the party is rotted beyond saving and corrupt beyond redemption and the only answer is to stop supporting it or anyone who joins it. Including this new crop of DSA sheepdogs.

Will Democrats put their voters over their donors? What are you smoking that got you high enough to think they’d start now? And more importantly, where can I get some?

“progressive” is a meaningless marketing term intended to fool Leftists into voting for Liberals.

There were actually more Democrats in the House and Senate than have actually been certified so far in this Blue Wave, and (briefly) a filibuster proof Supermajority in the Senate.

And just like we’ll see them do again over the next two years, they whined and hid behind procedure and started all negotiations with the GOP from an already compromised position and generally helped the country continue slouching rightward so efficiently that a naked fascist started getting traction in the next GOP primary.