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They really want to get people locked up and killed for no reason because they’re bored and mad things aren’t happening faster. The American people made 100% sure in 2024 that the Dems wouldn’t have any power to defend the country.

When the rule book has already been torn up, continuing to believe the rules still exist is a form of self delusion.

They didn't answer the question because it was asked in bad faith, as was just described to you.

Almost none of that is true. It’s all defeatist talking points with zero substance. > If you read the interviews and investigative articles about the campaigns you'll see how complacent they were for like all three of the previous elections, but most especially the last 2. What interviews and investigative articles? What does complacent actually mean in this case? > Instead of getting new people who do the work and do it right, they kept old staffers that were super cliquey and comfortable and ineffective just because they've been around a while. Source? They used their experienced teams *and* they hired tons of new people. > They constantly just sit around and give up and just let the reps run roughshot without any attempts at opposition in any sense because they basically treat it as the GOP has some "mandate" by the people because they won. Not true at all. But the Dems can’t stop the GOP from using their majorities in Congress. The voters simply did not give them the power to do that. > As well as constantly giving them wins and giving them inches and then miles in hopes they change, even though the last like 60 years have shown that's literally never going to happen. Still no actual examples or evidence, just empty rhetoric. > There's actually a bit of a divide in the party internally where many state politicians are asking the national party to be more aggressive against the GOP but chuck is like "no we're fine, we'll just keep doing the same thing, it's bound to work this time". Schumer has never endorsed Trump’s status quo and has been loudly against the War in Iran. > They have like 0 social media presence, Also not true. > Musk literally bought Twitter and turned it into a propaganda and misinformation mill and somehow the Dems still don't have shit to speak for besides cory booker cooking videos and think that's perfectly acceptable. Take that up with the Democratic Musk, which would be Bill Gates or some shit. The Dems don’t have Elon Musk money. And that shouldn’t be surprising, considering Musk is the richest person in the world. > Like, you'd expect the profession known for being manipulating the public, taking tragedies and twisting them, and pretending to care about issues by giving super dramatic reactions, would idk be loud and angry? Spectacle and political theater are literally the things everyone expects of politicians and yet even when we want that, the Dems still fail. I don’t particularly want the Dems to be liars and manipulators or to twist tragedies or only pretend to care about issues. And when the Dems do stand up and say something dramatic, y’all condemn them for grandstanding instead of doing something concrete. They can’t win. There’s a narrative set either way. > This is a culture war, this is a meme war (yes, cringe, but true), this is an information war, a propaganda war, and the Democrats are losing BADLY. We don't live in an age of reason, we're in and age of spectacle. The Democrats need to realize that when you're playing chess and the other guy just start punching you and the audience is cheering it on and the judges are in on it, that trying to still win by playing chess and calling for the judges to do something about an illegal move should be the least of your worries because you just aren't playing chess anymore. You're in a brawl. This applies more to *us* than the elected Dems. Republicans aren’t winning the culture war because their elected officials are churning out content for the culture war. They’re not the drivers of that wave; they’re just riding it. So I’m not sure why you expect our elected Dems to suddenly buy or build a giant content mill for the culture war. If anything, that’s something *we* should be doing, building a cultural narrative that our elected officials can ride, while Dems in Congress do the legislative functions they were actually elected to do.

The judge(s) has been systematically bought by the guy punching to be allowed Todo that and the moment you stop playing chess you're immediately DQ for not doing so. This has been going on for the better part of a decade. Not sure why you think they can just act wild as if social media presence matters when our government is currently in rules for thee not me mode.

Yeah. Some of the people sitting out are only out because the behaviors you mention from Dems give the illusion of complacency. People are looking for action, not complacency. The old way of politics is gone and Dems need to stop clinging to it if they want to attract and mobilize voters. I’ve heard multiple people say they think Dems will be ineffective at punishing the GOP, even with a majority. Some people are starting to think it’s essentially a one party system. Why shouldn’t they think that way when one party is allowed wanton freedom and the other party doesn’t impede or improve on the damages?

I think people just want the Dems to ignore laws and procedures like Republicans without realizing that the Republicans can do that because they're the majority party everywhere it matters.