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With the way they're acting, you'd think that these dudes wanted Republicans to maintain control. Like, I don't have a lot of faith in democrats to actually get the shit done that they need to, but the defeatism is absolutely absurd.
It's not defeatism. It's acknowledging the reality of the situation. They can pass all the wonderful legislation they want. Trump will veto it and they do not have a veto proof majority. He has already said he is going to become "Mr. Veto".
https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/james-carville-says-he-prefers-gop-win-midterms-because-dems-would-be-hostage-to-dsa-democratic-socialists-of-america
They probably wanted progressive wing to collapse before getting back in the seat. Now people have a reference point to compare them to and hopefully democrats that can't live up to that will get rooted out instead.
I swear to god the double trauma of COVID and Trump during formative periods of some peoples’ lives made it pathologically impossible for them to take a win for even a day or two. That’s how you burn the fuck out. Don’t rest on your laurels, but making people feel like nothing is ever enough is how you get them to stop showing up.
I see it a lot in organizing, like taking even a second to breathe is going to accidentally infect you with an airborne centrist virus.
And then the going gets rough and all the "We can rest after the revolution" types are burnt out so they start publicly infighting at the first disagreement because they're tired and hopeless and miserable.
We have plenty of wins, built on the hard work of working class Americans door knocking, phone banking, canvassing, signature gathering, etc.
I've always been a fan of the color red. Imagine if (let me dream) the republican party falls and the DSA can take red as their color against the establishment dems' blue. Fighting on the red side would feel good then!
Its much more likely that the DNC would assume the mantle of a fallen republican party, and change their color. They were always only pretend blue anyway.
Gonna need like 50 years to wash the stank off that color. Every time I see a red baseball cap I get alarmed and concerned about a very untrustworthy person I should avoid. Usually it's just a sports team hat but it never fails to raise my blood pressure.
Mario cosplayers in shambles right now!
Haha somehow in that context it never crosses my mind
I bet Mario would be pro-union
Believe it or not, the colors were reversed or kinda random for a long time actually. Dems were red, GoP blue. Iirc, that didn't shift until 2000, lol.
As I remember it, the colors were more business pinstripe gray for the conservatives and blue for the democrats.
Oh believe me, they do. I've literally been told how much more awful Democrats are than Republicans. IIRC, the reasoning behind that was some vague shit about liberals watering down true leftism or something. Like, yeah, one side wants to establish a fascist totalitarian government and has literally set out to murdering foreigners and dissenters with ICE, but hey, your identity politics are more important.
Immigrants and dissenters have always been murdered. And children and women.
You'd think that but have a look at hexbear's midterms containment thread. The way they speak about it internally is different. They are very happy the Republicans lost, they jsut don't care that it's the democrats who won.
Hexbear is as toxic as 4chan I'll pass looking at any of their shit.
I blocked the "Tankie Triad" so I don't even see their fascist propaganda. Because I experienced it on multiple instances, I literally can't imagine using the Fediverse while still having see all their bad-faith shit...
I'm so glad my instance is defederated from them
I mean Schumer and Jeffries are out there taking the "high" road again, so the first indication that positive change is coming would be those two fucking off to the other side of the sun.
As "one of those people" you are talking about, we've been here before. Yes, it feels awesome to get such a decisive victory over the republicans. I've seen this before. Over and over again. The pendulum has swung back to the left. But, just because we voted in a bunch of Dems, hell even a bunch of Socialists, that doesn't mean they will, or even can, fix the most broken parts of this system. Democrats have enabled and even facilitated some of the worst aspects of what we're seeing right now from Trump and Republicans. I mean, you yourself even admit it: "I don’t have a lot of faith in democrats to actually get the shit done that they need to".
The difference is, we know what needs to be done. A really famous guy wrote about it over a 100 years ago. Having Blue majority didn't improve anybody's material conditions in the past. Why would it now? Yes, they're "less bad", but Dems are still pretty bad. What makes this time different?
I love the outcome of the election. It was a bloodbath. But I'm not deluding myself that wholesale change will ever come from national electeds. Defeatist? Maybe. I'm just tempering my expectations, even from DSA endorsed winners.
this post sums it up best imo. Prove me wrong. Prove all of us MLs and "tAnKiEs" wrong. Prove to us that voting can and does work, that we can materially improve people's situations without protest.
Don’t get me wrong, I see what you’re saying and I generally agree with your leftist sentiments.
That said, you are incorrect that the Democrats have been totally unsuccessful in improving material conditions for people. I’m with you that it hasn’t nearly been far enough, but they did accomplish significant things for women and black people.
JFK passed the equal pay act. LBJ passed the civil rights act. Clinton passed the violence against women act. These things had an effect that was tangible, even if we need more.
In Texas, my grandmother wasn’t able to have her own bank account without my grandfather signing a permission note until John Connally, a Democrat, passed the Marital Property Act of 1967. My mother never had that problem because a Democrat changed the conditions for women in this country.
Do I want a true left to rise in the United States? Yes. Do I think the Democrats have any hope of fixing capitalism? No. BUT, this victory is sweet, and I’ll be raising a glass to the Democrats today anyway.
All the tankies I've talked to seem to be fully in favor of accelerationism -- just wanting whatever will cause the most damage to the US the fastest. So, yeah -- they were absolutely rooting for the Republicans.
I am hoping that the accelerationism this country needed was a cultural one rather than a violent one -- that the conservatives showed so much ugly to the world that the American people pushed the Overton window a bit away from conservatism and will continue to reject that whole world of bullshit in the future.
It can't just be the gas prices, right?
This is why I always advocate for replacing First-past-the-post voting with a voting system that gives 3rd parties the freedom to run for election without a spoiler effect. But I guess blue maga thinks the democratic party is more important then the United States of America.
When it comes to the party leadership and many politicians, absolutely.
I think ordinary people who are registered democrats and "vote blue no matter who" types are much more receptive to the idea of a sensible voting system. Ranked choice has the name recognition, but there are better systems like STAR.
Even here on Lemmy, we have plenty of debates/arguments of "vote blue because of harm reduction and (first past the post + game theory)" versus "vote for the candidate that matches your ideals even if they aren't one of the two that has a chance of winning." What I do not recall seeing, however, are debates about how first-past-the-post is actually the superior voting system because of reasons XYZ.
Any "arguments" in favor that I can think of are typical conservative bad faith bullshit talking points. The people do not favor it, except probably for a big chunk that gets their information about the world from the talking heads' conservative bad faith bullshit talking points.
The tankies want Trump to win because they think that after he's destroyed the US, a socialist utopia will rise from the ashes.
A theocratic autocracy will rise from the ashes. Unless you kids have done more prep work that you let on, your not winning the war if it goes hot, and the crazies with stockpiles and organization in place have the advantage over unprepared forum users.