Tankie: a liberal more interested in fucking up other liberals than actually going after Trump or conservatives.
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Ideologue: Someone who doesn't care that fascism happens as long as their team is in charge.
You guys ain't my team. I consider myself conservative.
This entire fucking exercise is me coming over to liberal heaven in a mild hope that y'all can learn how to fucking realpolitik enough to beat Trump. Because y'all fucking suck at it.
I'd rather have reasonable conservatives in charge. But that's not an option. The goal now is to give Democrats / Liberals a bit of an idea of what fucking works and how to grab onto the reins of power for yourself, and so to remove it from Trump.
But yes. Please tell me how I'm an Ideologue.
But yes. Please tell me how I’m an Ideologue.
I don't have to.
You said it yourself, you want conservatives in charge. Going back 40 years, we've seen them time and time again as active participants in this march to fascism. Apparently you just didn't mind it when the targets were a generation of young gay men or Muslims or immigrants. Now it's becoming harder to deny that fascism is coming for you personally.
That's all well and good.
But if enough of people voted for Kamala, we would have been out of this mess. And that's the honest truth.
And now I see a topic about people making fun of Chuck and Jeffries. Okay, lets go see where that goes in a few years. Yall are fucked and can't even build your own political coalitions or support your own fucking guys.
It is actually more about making the Democratic leadership as well as a all politician in national context become accountable to their constituency. Marketing through taglines is one of several of the multi-level ways they understand the constituency wants something. Other ways include the obvious email, call, visit, but to exert influence beyond that of the paid lobbyist, you have to create a item that rises above the noise. And the noise today is louder then ever.
The point I'm interested in is that the fascist in government need elected people with actionable paths (like Shumer and Jefferies) who can shut down the finances, use their oversight, write their own bills, use the house and Senate rules to change the tables, and turn down nomination of the executive.
This is not a time to be reasonable and negotiate as the Democrats are known for doing. It's a time for action, a time for the politicians to put their jobs and selves on the line for the democracy they swore an oath to, for the people who elected them. It's not a time to keep getting rich and just let the Republicans slide.
It they don't, we have no reason to vote for them. And yes I get the two party system problem with that, but from ashes needs to rise at least one viable Democratic leader. No body is stepping up in a profound way. We need an Eisenhower, or JFK, or Teddy at least. We need profound change, real leadership, and yelling with emotional and reason at the enemy to inspire a population.
As it is the US has jumped the shark, so it's just damage control.
Here are a few:
- Shifty Schumer
- Shrinkage Schumer
- Hopeless Hakeem
- Panicky Pelosi
- Dastardly Democrats