GOP Grows More Unpopular, More Desperate

There's a quote attributed to Churchill (which was probably never actually said by him) that says "you can trust America to do the right thing, after they've tried everything else." I do believe that we'll do something about what's going on, it's just going to take the shit really hitting the fan.

I'm sure if you were here you'd show us how it's done.

sorry. for me...Ike doesn't count anymore.

First, I am DEFINITELY not confident that Democrats will vote to ban further unprovoked attacks. I am DEFINITELY not confident that they'll threaten to, let alone actually, stop supporting Israel with ammunition for Lebanon. We may just have a fundamental disagreement there. Schumer SUPPORTS this war, according to reporting. He supported unconditional aid to Israel when they were literally starving children--why would he suddenly not support them attacking Iran or Lebanon? What is an "unprovoked attack" to our leaders anyway, if they can just say "Israel has the right to defend herself against Hezbollah and the Ayatollah, lest they attack Israel if they show weakness. Besides, Iran has been attacking Israel this entire time, that is sufficient provocation. It isn't unprovoked at all." If you're going to pick a topic that paints the Democrats in a comparatively positive light, this isn't the one. If they're so committed to stop supplying Israel with ammunition, Biden could have made this clear in a 5-minute phone call and the genocide would have stopped immediately. "You drop another bomb on a school and we're boycotting all Israeli products for the next 5 years, and you can fight your wars yourself from now on," and that's the end of Israel sabre-rattling about Iran and Lebanon. But Biden didn't do this, Harris didn't indicate that she would do this, most Democrats didn't call out this practice, and they're STILL not saying even now that they're not going to fund this war. "The president has to come to Congress and give us a reason" is not a No, and it's not like they're trying to put pressure on Trump to stop this war, Democratic leadership is barely even out there on TV to say things like this. Second, I want to defeat the greater evil. You do that by getting people to vote for Democrats, and you do that by pressuring Democrats to be a party that connects with voters. I think their approval rating is still below Trump's right now. We've tried saying "everyone just be quiet about Democrats, aim all of your attacks at Republicans and praise Democrats for everything," and it doesn't work. Trump not only continues to win elections, his numbers keep GROWING in every cycle. You need to call out Democrats and either get them to improve or find better Democrats, because they are totally unfit to fight against fascism, they have shown this 1000 times in a row. They don't even understand the moment, let alone how to fight against it, let alone having the will to actually do what this requires. I'm trying to HELP them defeat the greater evil. They're never going to get that message if all their voters give them is "You guys are bloody saints, keep doing exactly what you're doing because it's better than Trump." People have shown that they're not motivated enough to support the lesser evil, especially when on some issues, they're still pretty damn evil.

Absolutely. Republicans took the lead on this with the Powell memo and the late 70's SCOTUS decisions, and then it was a 5-4 Republican decision on Citizens United. However, it is not factual when people say that the Democrats were innocent little lambs. Tony Coelho in 1980 had the opportunity to reject corporate money and instead fight Republicans on the principles of them being corrupt, but he decided that Democrats should instead try to outcompete Republicans for corporate money, and this begat the DLC age and Bill Clinton spending most of his presidency selling out the Democratic Party and aligning it with Center Right corporate power. Coehlo's protege in the House? Steny Hoyer, who was STILL pushing for the party to bathe itself in corporate money as late as the middle of the Biden presidency. It wasn't just that Republicans were laser-focused, it's that the Democrats simply didn't care enough to fight. "Feckless" may be overly kind, vs. "complicit."