CandyK
I just have too keep harping on this' Democrats fear of confront the radical left in their party and having a Unified massage on stopping Trump The messages from the left was our job is too stop Harris from becoming president and too elect Trump, They saw this' heard this' and still did nothing.
Pelosi Jeffries clyburn Scuhmer didn't have the guts to confront Tlaib when she pulled this stunt during the Primaries.
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@TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com @lovelylovely@masto.ai All of the above can be true.
IMO the majority of Americans are mindless drones, at this point. Voting should be mandatory.
Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀
Yep, that's the thrust of Bernie's latest attack: we lost because we weren't populist enough.
Bullshit. We lost because of unprecedented levels of interference and manipulation, on top of misogynoir.
CandyK
@TruthSandwich Indeed, Progressive are now calling for the take over of the Democratic party and adapt the populist movement, This is a problem Democrats are going to have to grapple with.
The far-left isn't going anywhere.
CandyK
@TruthSandwich totally, You know I'm very aware of that Bernie and AOC wasn't the problem, Tlaib Mehdi Hassan Nina Turner We know who they are, There magaphone is just as big as MAGA Democrat cannot win election when you have two competing messages within the same party" you are surely too lose. Tlaib must be rained in.
PS) The Left are now celebrating Harris election loss.
Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀
They're celebrating because their accelerationist agenda is fulfilled. The country is going to go to pieces and then the inevitable revolution will arrive, amirite?!
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In their defense, some of the more prominent socialist populists, such as Bernie and AOC, loudly supported Biden, at least at the time. So if they went after Tlaib, the rest would defend her and the DNC would look bad.
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@TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com @lovelylovely@masto.ai I don't want to out-populist the far right, but I think there's a lot of middle ground, there.
I don't mean that we should capitulate to the fake-ass very-online 🌹 "leftists" -- or anything else that would wreck our integrity. I'm saying go local, 51-state style. We have little time to take back our school boards, libraries, city councils, sheriff's office. OH FUCK that last one for sure.
The best thing we can do now is burrow into our community civic structure and work to change hearts and minds.
Political change always follows social change. It's up to us to do that part. And we are! We're just... losing.
Why? Because CRT is spot on, that's why. Sexism and racism are cultural and institutional, and almost invisible in the individual. Magnified by group passions.
A white mob of men, each one a wannabe Trump.
FUCK
Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀
No, it can't be true that we lost from a lack of populism. Fact is, we can't out-populist the far right.
CandyK
@notroot @TruthSandwich Voting will NEVER be mandatory when MAGA are fighting to stop other from voting
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@lovelylovely@masto.ai @TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com Which is why we have to dig in and get ready for a lonnnnnng fight. We need a shared long-term vision of what America should be, and it can't be written for us.
In that sense, I embrace populism as part of a strategy, if it's used like a tactic. Obviously that's what America is in the mood for right now. We gotta read the room, somehow, and put together a groundswell candidate. Someone everyone left of Manchin can accept.
But of course I'm dreaming. America is a nation of mostly garbage people at this point. Ignorant scum who KNEW who Trump was, and voted for him, anyway. Or stayed home pouting over their single issue.
Sorry. I'm fucking angry. I was a patriot until less than a week ago. Now what? The French Fucking Resistance?
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@TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com @lovelylovely@masto.ai Absolutely, there is. And there's cuisine in between, too. Just to carry the metaphor too far... 😉
I've been impressed with AOC, but after the last two failed elections, we all know the fucking reality: we need a Great White Hope. White, male, wealthy, middle-aged, and straight. With no skeletons in the closet.
So, again, this is why I'm hanging onto the Anger stage. It brings ugly clarity. Clarity we need. Clarity that disgusts me, but I have to stare it in the face.
To win the US Presidency, we need a straight, wealthy white man. That's the only way we CAN win.
Who is that mediocre motherfucker? No clue. Newsom maybe?
Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀
There's a difference between populism as seasoning -- like Obama's sloganeering -- and populism as the main dish, like BS/DJT.
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@grootinside@troet.cafe @lovelylovely@masto.ai @TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com Who knows. Most of our troops are probably somewhat representative of most of our citizens, so I imagine there's a majority of white supremacist misogynists among the ranks.
Makes me mad.
Gondor
@notroot @lovelylovely @TruthSandwich tbh as a european i just thought about your troops stationed all over the world😬 doing their so much at home appreciated service.
Would be curious to know how they'll react to hear relatives and friends treated according to the #project2025
Dean F.
@notroot @lovelylovely @TruthSandwich Seriously, fuck this country. At this point, America deserves whatever the fuck it gets.
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@soulexpress@musician.social @lovelylovely@masto.ai @TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com Yup, but it won't end well for anyone.
The mental bargaining to relieve cognitive dissonance is real. Tell yourself it's all hyperbole. It's performative. Whatever you need to get through the day.
I'm hanging onto the anger stage of grief. It brings clarity. It tells me I need to get a gun for the first time in my 52 years on Earth.
It tells me this is a sea change in the American identity, itself. Even if democracy didn't die, the idea that, "We're better than this," was certainly beheaded in an embarrassingly public fashion.
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