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minus-squarekreskin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-222 hours agoIts not that they are trying and aren tsucceeding, its that they never even try and do not have a party platform at all. How many betrayals since mid January from our own party? dems voted for laken riley to massively increase deportments and limit due process https://rollcall.com/2025/01/20/democrats-senate-laken-riley-act/ voted to lets trumps budget proceed, https://time.com/7268499/senate-democrats-budget-vote/ voted for the take it down act to gut free speech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws voted against gun control https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-vote-against-gun-control-surprise-move-2067263 voted to gut climate laws https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/six-democrats-break-ranks-to-help-republicans-overturn-biden-climate-regulations/ss-AA1BOn6C#image=2 Joined republicans to pass a law to massively increase defense budget https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/29/congress/dems-join-gop-to-boost-defense-spending-00317618 Joined republicans to take control of university partnerships and relationships with foreign universities https://jonathancohn.medium.com/31-house-democrats-join-the-gops-latest-assault-on-higher-ed-redux-90503b4ea3bd Had enough Dem members “absent” that they couldnt block a tarriff vote https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5278333-senate-democrats-tariff-vote/ Joined republicans to vote to censure Al greene for protesting Trumps speech https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/al-green-censure-trump-protest-house/index.html Joined republicans to threaten nonprofit groups that voiced any concern for Palestinian lives https://www.commondreams.org/news/hr-9495-passed Joined republicans to advance trumps crypto grift plan https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-are-joining-republicans-trumps-alarming-crypto-agenda-opinion-2041377 and https://youngkim.house.gov/2024/05/23/democrats-join-republicans-to-pass-fit21-act-a-new-era-for-crypto-regulation-in-the-u-s/ Joined republicans to kill drilling environmental rules https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/25/congress/democrats-republicans-cra-drilling-rule-00206128 Joined republicans to ban any sanctuary city policies in the state of New Hampshire https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/02/07/house-democrats-join-republicans-in-passing-anti-sanctuary-city-bill-pointing-to-compromise/ voted against their party on new voter ID laws that make it harder for married women who changed their name to vote. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-democrats-who-voted-pass-save-act-2058404 all reaching across the aisle and folding on important fights, just Like Biden urged them to do in his farewell address https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-urges-incoming-democratic-lawmakers-to-reach-across-the-aisle-during-trumps-term And then they whine that they are simply powerless after they betray us again and again.
minus-squarejimmy90@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agogood references i read them all dare i say it BUT GROW A SPINE AND VOTE DEMOCRAT
Its not that they are trying and aren tsucceeding, its that they never even try and do not have a party platform at all.
How many betrayals since mid January from our own party?
dems voted for laken riley to massively increase deportments and limit due process https://rollcall.com/2025/01/20/democrats-senate-laken-riley-act/
voted to lets trumps budget proceed, https://time.com/7268499/senate-democrats-budget-vote/
voted for the take it down act to gut free speech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws
voted against gun control https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-vote-against-gun-control-surprise-move-2067263
voted to gut climate laws https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/six-democrats-break-ranks-to-help-republicans-overturn-biden-climate-regulations/ss-AA1BOn6C#image=2
Joined republicans to pass a law to massively increase defense budget https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/29/congress/dems-join-gop-to-boost-defense-spending-00317618
Joined republicans to take control of university partnerships and relationships with foreign universities https://jonathancohn.medium.com/31-house-democrats-join-the-gops-latest-assault-on-higher-ed-redux-90503b4ea3bd
Had enough Dem members “absent” that they couldnt block a tarriff vote https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5278333-senate-democrats-tariff-vote/
Joined republicans to vote to censure Al greene for protesting Trumps speech https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/al-green-censure-trump-protest-house/index.html
Joined republicans to threaten nonprofit groups that voiced any concern for Palestinian lives https://www.commondreams.org/news/hr-9495-passed
Joined republicans to advance trumps crypto grift plan https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-are-joining-republicans-trumps-alarming-crypto-agenda-opinion-2041377 and https://youngkim.house.gov/2024/05/23/democrats-join-republicans-to-pass-fit21-act-a-new-era-for-crypto-regulation-in-the-u-s/
Joined republicans to kill drilling environmental rules https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/25/congress/democrats-republicans-cra-drilling-rule-00206128
Joined republicans to ban any sanctuary city policies in the state of New Hampshire https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/02/07/house-democrats-join-republicans-in-passing-anti-sanctuary-city-bill-pointing-to-compromise/
voted against their party on new voter ID laws that make it harder for married women who changed their name to vote. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-democrats-who-voted-pass-save-act-2058404
all reaching across the aisle and folding on important fights, just Like Biden urged them to do in his farewell address https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-urges-incoming-democratic-lawmakers-to-reach-across-the-aisle-during-trumps-term
And then they whine that they are simply powerless after they betray us again and again.
good references i read them all
dare i say it
BUT GROW A SPINE AND VOTE DEMOCRAT