• CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    So now that the DNC predicably lost by running terrible neoliberal candidates like people were warned about and refused to acknowledge, you think it’s now on me to reign in the Republican party? What a joke that people who refused to listen to reason and dug their heals in on failed strategies now want to make the messenger responsible for fixing their mess.

    The DNC was our chance to hold them accountable, but they preferred to abandon their base and run on a platform of right-wing ideals and lost their opportunity to do so. We can now either form a new party that represents the left and try to make inroads in 2026 or blast the shit out of all the neoliberals in the DNC for the next two years (and beyond) until they expel these fake leftists from the party and maybe they’ll start winning elections again.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      you think it’s now on me to reign in the Republican party?

      It was apparently on you to reign in the Democratic Party. What a joke that the Democratic Party needs to be perfect or else you’ll refuse to vote for them, but the Republican Party can do whatever they want and suddenly it’s not your problem. That’s precisely why the country is so fucked, nobody holds the Republicans accountable. Their voters don’t care, and the people who disagree with them are too busy “holding the Democrats accountable” to fucking hold the Republicans accountable.

      The DNC was our chance to hold them accountable

      Correct, and you argued strongly that people should not do so. So now what? Sure, make a plan for a better party in 2026, but that’s 2 years away. What is the plan to hold Republicans accountable this coming year when they start fucking things up by denying aid to Ukraine, giving Israel more weapons and free reign to use them however they want, pass laws specifically to push hatred against vulnerable communities, and ban life saving abortions at a federal level?

      You’ve succeeded. You got what you wanted. The country is getting fucked up now and now you want to shrug your shoulders and say “Not my problem, I’ll be back to argue against doing anything about it in 2 years”?