2 things about Obama.

1. He had no idea what he was doing. He was chosen because he had no experience and would not expect to know how to rock the boat much less try. He was also naive and thought other people could be trusted to at least not hurt themselves in their attempts to hurt everyone else.
2. He only had a Democratic majority for just a handful of months. Bullshit lawsuits kept him from having the majority that had been voted in for almost a year. When he finally got a majority he got the ACA passed, but even then he didn't have enough of a majority to push it through without watering it down to near useless.

I think most of us were pretty disappointed that Obama didn't do more, but looking back, it was pretty clear that he was only brought in as the janitor to clean up after the previous cluster fuck.

So here’s my damper, there was anti-trans legislation passed in blue states and there was an increasing rise of anti-trans rhetoric within the Democrat candidates.

WA state's bullshit is going to die in the courts. I'm sickened that it passed; looking at the districts - king and two other counties rejected it.... but the boondocks voted for it overwhelmingly. you can't put that on the left, on establishment dems, when it's the people in the sticks making it happen.

Now is the time for them to start laying the groundwork for actual changes...

• things like barring lobbying funds from politics (I know, it's the Dems, they'd never do that)
• anything that claws back the government's power and brings mega corps to heel (naïve, I know!)

The trump terms have demonstrated that there aren't enough checks and balances because the GOP have demonstrated following the rulebook is optional. If we can't rebuild democracy, we must harden it.

(I'm a kiwi with no skin in the game here, but now is the time to really start pushing, not celebrating)

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.

With the way they're acting, you'd think that these dudes wanted Republicans to maintain control.

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.

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.

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.

Agreed both counts.

Fuck every Zionist supporter of Israel regardless of which side of the orchestrated divide they stand.

The only war worth fighting in the US is the class war.

The populace standing up is refreshing. The DSA and Dems who are pressuring MFA and abolishing Citizens United have my support.

Just emailed my rep saying I don't want her to support Jeffries.

My rep (Oakland, CA) is very active in the House and has many community events.

She is liberal.