Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder : usa

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 107 points 2 years ago

Voters: Free Luigi, eat the rich

Elected officials: 💁‍♂️

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

Exactly.

Eventually something minor cannot be done, we want democrat politicians to stop cooperating with Republicans... but no, they just roll to expose their belly and vote in the budget bill.

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[-] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 2 years ago

Democratic leaders blearily looked up from their mid-afternoon cocktails on the decks of billionaire's yachts and said, "They want us to what?"

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Indeed, they're just too status quo.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 57 points 2 years ago

Trump is actively killing democracy. Some Democratic politicians have chosen the most pathetic, inexcusable response possible: bland indifference.

I’m torn between fear that our government will collapse, and the cynical realization that maybe it deserves to.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago

So, trumps polling all time low numbers, democrats are polling low numbers.

I feel like if I release T-Shirts that just say "Everything sucks", they would be universally popular.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

*gestures broadly* T-shirts

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago

Person wearing "gestures broadly" t-shirt standing next to someone wearing a "Thanks, I hate it" t-shirt.

[-] drtaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

I'd vote for that ticket.

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[-] aramova@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago

And those same people won't vote for an AOC or Sanders in their district because... Reasons?

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Right seriously

"Erm Bernie isn't viable because he's too radical"

As if Biden or Harris had any appeal aside from not being Trump????

I'm still mad people didn't care that the dems essentially skipped their primary as a way to cheese their candidate selection and not because they actually didn't have the time to complete a primary.

[-] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

C’mon, they waved those little signs and all that.

[-] DyingWorld@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately I think the people need to start fighting first. Neither side can count on their elected officials anymore. One side is just too stupid to realize it yet...

[-] interested_party@lemmy.org 4 points 2 years ago

Need some serious, if not injurious protests. Time to fight and make some noise.

[-] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Democratic party is the party of status quo.

Conservative party is the party of destruction/cancer.

The people want a party of progress.

The people will never get what they want with these two parties in charge of everything.

Just a sad fact. Things will get worse before they get better.

[-] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 15 points 2 years ago

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[-] Draces@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

She should have never been the candidate. Biden put her in an unwinnable position. The old geezer's ego cost America it's democracy.

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 2 years ago

Harris didn't, at least not alone; 2024 was a party platform problem.

[-] Heyting@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Democratic party is owned by capitalists. They will never fight for policy that actually improves living conditions of the working class, and thus their sole ‘popularity’ has to stem from people who think they will fight against fascism (they won’t and they don’t).

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[-] elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

We need a new party. Or burn it all to the ground.

[-] RozZakton@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Electoral politics are clearly a fools errand at this point anyway

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[-] x00z@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

fight rather than compromise

Why are there so many stupid people that can vote? Because that is how fascists and authoritarian governments get to grab power.

History has given us some of the best documented examples of how it can go terribly wrong. Specifically Hitler and how he first destroyed democracy. Every step Trump is taking is the same as Hitler did.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago

Hungary is another good case of how the right got into power and then changed laws to make it extremely unlikely they will ever be unseated.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Man I wish they'd get rid of this phony nerd routine this guy pulls with his idiotic rolled up sleeves and over the top presentation. Theres plenty of real data nerds out there who'd do a better job.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I dream of a day we get to hunt the dixiecrats down in a version of the hunger games

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