The Democratic party is over.
We need a leftist party in the US again.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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They are playing nice with a party acting in bad faith.
The Democrats have to please their rich donors.
It was never about helping their voters, just appearing as if they wanted to help was enough.
People are waking up to the fact that the Dems are as fucking useless as the Republicans.
As is tradition for ~~rhythm~~ them
So, should I then attribute their collective inaction, lack of planning, and capitulation to malice instead?
Hanlon's razor applies here.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
So either they are malicious in their mistreatment of their voter base and America by letting Trump go scott free for 4 years, or they're stupid.
Either way, why would I put my faith into them?
Hanlon's razor almost never applies to politics. Whatever they do can be assumed intentional and results assumed calculated.
Hold people accountable.
Hanlon’s razor almost never applies to politics.
Or companies.
They haven't been hurt at all. They're currently still working alongside overt fascists. Still collecting those paychecks and paypoffs from capital. Dems probably better of with Trump. That's why they run genocidal losing candidates.
I will be shocked if the Democrats learn anything from the last election. I fully expect the next election (assuming we even have one) that they'll be running on the exact same right of center platform that they've been using for the last few decades. The only way they win elections at this point is if Trump fucks up the economy enough that a significant chunk of his previous supports make protest votes against him. Odds of that happening are not great.
I will be shocked if the Democrats learn anything from the last election.
We'll have a pretty good indicator in a couple days when the party elects its chair.
They certainly did learn something. Something very, very important... to them. They learned that by moving far enough right they could rake in huge piles of money from the donor class that wants to keep progressives under heel. That's what they learned.
Let's be honest, they learned that in 2016.
Uh...they're not just wounded, they are straight up dead.
They aren't wounded - they just don't have actual values or strategy beyond bullying people to vote for them.
They definitely should be wounded and if they're not then they've learned nothing.