I am on the Scheer Post Face Book Group. I posted this there here are some responses. Absolute waste of time to work on primary challenges when it is the Democratic Party itself that needs to go.
Where has this author been the last 25 years. There is only party in the U.S., the Capitalist War Party. Reps and Dems only differ on things they don’t really care about like men in women’s bathrooms, immigration and abortion. Those differences are necessary to maintain the illusion of democracy while the Empire keeps killing people and Wall Street skyrockets.
I live in southeast Virginia, and called Tim Cain's office to let him know how I feel about DOGE and Trump and the cuts they are threatening to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and federal block grants. His aide hung up on me! I didn't raise my voice. I didn't use any ugly language.
I believe Every incumbent good or bad should be primaries. What other job doesn't have serious job reviews? This people need to FIGHT - that is the essence of what is being called for - you cannot be bi-partisan with a party that literally is rolling over for a President who is calling himself King for FFS.
I’m unenrolled, but I vote Blue. I agree that it’s time for some of the Democrats to be primaried by younger Democrats. Some of these office holders are too busy feathering their own nests than to work for their constituents.
“They think we’re playing the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill-kinda kumbaya moment. ‘Yeah, we skirmish here and there, but in the end we’re gonna have a little toast with some bourbon or some good whiskey and call it even.’ No, that’s not what this is,” Steele said recently.
Because it's been more than 30 years - THIRTY YEARS - since the GOP adopted an attitude of "Democrats hate America and therefore anyone that ever agrees with any Democrat on anything ALSO hates America", and yet the Democrats still have not figured that out, I can think of no end to this except the end of the Democratic party.
Sad but unavoidable. The Democratic party is not filled with very many people that actually have spines instead of yellow lines on their backs.
And you think the GOP have spines - They are falling all over themselves to suck up to DUMP and MuskRat betraying EVERY one of their supposed values - Russia is now an Ally and Europeans and the Rest of America are our enemies. Who cares how high the debt is just as long as the Billionaires get More and More! And who cares about Cops and law enforcement when our Jan 6th guys are freedom fighters who beat up cops? And who cares about the economy as long as the Billionaires are happy.
If Dems have Yellow lines on their back GOP is yellow piss.
WTF? Your reply is so nonsensical and detached from reality that I'm simply flabbergasted thinking that it took you almost four weeks to come up with this response.
I focused on your tirade against the Dems - which I would agree with in certain cases but not separate from the GOP which is clearly MORE cowardly as they have ENTIRELY trashed their values as conservatives. But neither party exists in a vacuum and you wrote it as if it does. What I suspect may be happening with tbe status quo of both parties is they have become entirely beholden to the Monied Class and are playing good cop/bad cop with their constituents. There are pockets of imperfect resistance like AOC, Jeremy Rifkin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Chris Murphy - but by and large these all the other politicians no matter the party are settling in to be a bureaucratic puppet govt rubber-stamping the edicts of King Trump. Cosplaying Congress. Is it cowardice? Nah - only if you believed in protecting the constitution in the first place. Otherwise it is just business as usual - keeping your head down and following the bosses orders so you can keep your job.
I still haven't worked through my anger at Warren and Markey for supporting Rubio. Nor has anyone offered me any good reason why any democrat should support any cabinet pick. The fact that the person accepted the nomination is proof enough of their disqualification for the position.
Safe to assume that Sir's "policies" -- such as they are-- will find their greatest effect in hastening positive changes, due solely widespread abreaction to Sir's Immeasurable Heinousness. All praise be to Sir's Vile Enormity!
So here's an incredibly stupid question. Why is it, at this point in the incredibly dumb timeline we're in, do "Democrats" keep getting voted in because any Democrat is better than any Republican at this point, and then suspiciously keep "changing their minds", i.e. lying about how they were going to vote on things... why can't we just play their dumb and do the opposite... I'm getting desperate.
Pittsburgh warned everyone about Fetterman. It shouldn't be any surprise that a man who will hold a random Black jogger at gunpoint is acting this way.
Could have had Kenyatta, but everyone swooned over the giant white troll.
Absolutely, this. Some of us - a very few, but more than one - were very vocal about this in Pennsylvania's primary season. But the common response among the totally-not-racist progressives was, it didn't matter, because of all the reasons you normally hear from Republicans to justify some appalling act of bigotry.
Well, now Pennsylvania, and the nation, has Fetterman. Good job, totally-not-racist progressives!
If you want some comedy, go back and read what people were saying about Fetterman at the time. The gushing over bog standard human behavior was hilariously embarrassing. "Oh look at how gentle he is with his wife! He isn't crushing her like Lennie Small with a mouse, it is truly a miracle for our time!"
quid pro quo- you hold your nose and vote for someone unsavory so that at a later date a republican legislator can return the favor by dropping a deuce in your desk drawer.
Primary challenges are great. But please, line up for the Democrat in the general. Every election, every time. Your third party candidate won't, can't win in a first-past-the-post Electoral College system. Duverger's Law holds.
I am on the Scheer Post Face Book Group. I posted this there here are some responses. Absolute waste of time to work on primary challenges when it is the Democratic Party itself that needs to go.
Where has this author been the last 25 years. There is only party in the U.S., the Capitalist War Party. Reps and Dems only differ on things they don’t really care about like men in women’s bathrooms, immigration and abortion. Those differences are necessary to maintain the illusion of democracy while the Empire keeps killing people and Wall Street skyrockets.
99 Senators including Sanders approved Rubio
I live in southeast Virginia, and called Tim Cain's office to let him know how I feel about DOGE and Trump and the cuts they are threatening to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and federal block grants. His aide hung up on me! I didn't raise my voice. I didn't use any ugly language.
I believe Every incumbent good or bad should be primaries. What other job doesn't have serious job reviews? This people need to FIGHT - that is the essence of what is being called for - you cannot be bi-partisan with a party that literally is rolling over for a President who is calling himself King for FFS.
I’m unenrolled, but I vote Blue. I agree that it’s time for some of the Democrats to be primaried by younger Democrats. Some of these office holders are too busy feathering their own nests than to work for their constituents.
Unpopular opinion: Primary EVERYONE. It's how democracy works. Nobody is guaranteed a seat at the table. That table belongs to ALL OF US.
“They think we’re playing the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill-kinda kumbaya moment. ‘Yeah, we skirmish here and there, but in the end we’re gonna have a little toast with some bourbon or some good whiskey and call it even.’ No, that’s not what this is,” Steele said recently.
Because it's been more than 30 years - THIRTY YEARS - since the GOP adopted an attitude of "Democrats hate America and therefore anyone that ever agrees with any Democrat on anything ALSO hates America", and yet the Democrats still have not figured that out, I can think of no end to this except the end of the Democratic party.
Sad but unavoidable. The Democratic party is not filled with very many people that actually have spines instead of yellow lines on their backs.
And you think the GOP have spines - They are falling all over themselves to suck up to DUMP and MuskRat betraying EVERY one of their supposed values - Russia is now an Ally and Europeans and the Rest of America are our enemies. Who cares how high the debt is just as long as the Billionaires get More and More! And who cares about Cops and law enforcement when our Jan 6th guys are freedom fighters who beat up cops? And who cares about the economy as long as the Billionaires are happy.
If Dems have Yellow lines on their back GOP is yellow piss.
WTF? Your reply is so nonsensical and detached from reality that I'm simply flabbergasted thinking that it took you almost four weeks to come up with this response.
I am sorry you don't get it. But obviously I was writing for minds that WOULD get it.
Clearly you did not understand my post so probably the best thing you can do is confine yourself to answering posts that you do understand.
I focused on your tirade against the Dems - which I would agree with in certain cases but not separate from the GOP which is clearly MORE cowardly as they have ENTIRELY trashed their values as conservatives. But neither party exists in a vacuum and you wrote it as if it does. What I suspect may be happening with tbe status quo of both parties is they have become entirely beholden to the Monied Class and are playing good cop/bad cop with their constituents. There are pockets of imperfect resistance like AOC, Jeremy Rifkin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Chris Murphy - but by and large these all the other politicians no matter the party are settling in to be a bureaucratic puppet govt rubber-stamping the edicts of King Trump. Cosplaying Congress. Is it cowardice? Nah - only if you believed in protecting the constitution in the first place. Otherwise it is just business as usual - keeping your head down and following the bosses orders so you can keep your job.
Excellent points, Robin!
bought, bought and bought. No other explanation except cowardice.
I still haven't worked through my anger at Warren and Markey for supporting Rubio. Nor has anyone offered me any good reason why any democrat should support any cabinet pick. The fact that the person accepted the nomination is proof enough of their disqualification for the position.
Safe to assume that Sir's "policies" -- such as they are-- will find their greatest effect in hastening positive changes, due solely widespread abreaction to Sir's Immeasurable Heinousness. All praise be to Sir's Vile Enormity!
Bitterly disappointed in Alsobrooks. Thats MY democrat
So here's an incredibly stupid question. Why is it, at this point in the incredibly dumb timeline we're in, do "Democrats" keep getting voted in because any Democrat is better than any Republican at this point, and then suspiciously keep "changing their minds", i.e. lying about how they were going to vote on things... why can't we just play their dumb and do the opposite... I'm getting desperate.
Pittsburgh warned everyone about Fetterman. It shouldn't be any surprise that a man who will hold a random Black jogger at gunpoint is acting this way.
Could have had Kenyatta, but everyone swooned over the giant white troll.
Absolutely, this. Some of us - a very few, but more than one - were very vocal about this in Pennsylvania's primary season. But the common response among the totally-not-racist progressives was, it didn't matter, because of all the reasons you normally hear from Republicans to justify some appalling act of bigotry.
Well, now Pennsylvania, and the nation, has Fetterman. Good job, totally-not-racist progressives!
If you want some comedy, go back and read what people were saying about Fetterman at the time. The gushing over bog standard human behavior was hilariously embarrassing. "Oh look at how gentle he is with his wife! He isn't crushing her like Lennie Small with a mouse, it is truly a miracle for our time!"
quid pro quo- you hold your nose and vote for someone unsavory so that at a later date a republican legislator can return the favor by dropping a deuce in your desk drawer.
Primary challenges are great. But please, line up for the Democrat in the general. Every election, every time. Your third party candidate won't, can't win in a first-past-the-post Electoral College system. Duverger's Law holds.
I’m in NY-3. Suozzi is one of those congressman who needs a primary challenge.