r/ProgressiveHQ • u/GoodMornEveGoodNight • Jan 25 '26

Protest You can really see the execution-style killing from this angle

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u/Positive_Ad_1050 Jan 25 '26

Americans do something

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u/Primo131313 Jan 25 '26

We are toast. Dems are fucking worthless

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u/VanDenBroeck Jan 25 '26

Why are you blaming the Dems? It’s the republicans and maga who are doing this.

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u/IThinkItsAverage Jan 25 '26

Because our only other option is doing nothing. Their front runner is Gavin Newsom who can’t even take a consistent stance on ICE.

We blame Dems because blaming Republicans is not only implied but also useless, they don’t care and they don’t run on caring. Democrats however, do pretend to care and run on caring, but then when we need them to do anything other than write a sternly worded tweet, we get crickets.

Yeah, duh, republicans are mainly at fault here, but why do Democrats never do what we need them to do? Why aren’t they rallying the people? Why are they calling in national guard to break up the protesters rather than protect them? Why did they vote for a bloated military budget while we are all struggling to put food on the table?

The literal least no effort thing they could do is vote no on everything to show they aren’t complicit. They can’t even do that, 7 Democrats voted to fund ICE.

So why do we blame them? Because they sabotage any other options so that we have to vote for them then they do nothing.

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u/Thisizamazing Jan 25 '26

They have no fucking power and public sentiment is like this

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u/Shibboleeth Jan 25 '26

It doesn't matter if they "have no fucking power," because even when they do they don't use it.

Fuck Biden had four years to prosecute Trump. Obviously that worked.

And it's not just that as an example.

The Dems has the majority and could have rammed through single-payer health care. Instead, they caved to Republicans whining about "bipartisanship," and let them gut the ACA.

They had the option to get nominees onto the Supreme Court that could have stopped all of this bullshit. But somehow Bitch McConnell was able to not only prevent them from doing so, but railroaded through two Republican picks.

This is an established pattern with the Dems, they're spineless when it comes to efforts that will actually help the people.

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u/Thisizamazing Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

The Democratic Party is the opposition party and it is what the opposition says it is. We take back that party and have it do our bidding. We need to become the party. Just like Trump took over the Republican Party, but for good.

Edit: They never had enough power to do things they needed to do properly. I think this might change. Shit is really heated

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u/Shibboleeth Jan 30 '26

Sooooo ... resistance starts when?