“Indivisible is urging people who are scared to call their member of Congress, whether they have a Democrat or Republican, and make specific procedural asks,” Greenberg said.
“Our supporters are asking Democrats to demand specific red lines are met before they offer their vote to House Republicans on the budget, when Republicans inevitably fail to pass a bill on their own.”
The only people who I feel are doing what they can so far are progressives. Party leadership has given little to no indication of even having a dog in the fight. Sanders sent an awesome email detailing the exact issues and class consciousness being the solution, I just don’t think many liberals even want class conscious any more than fascists do.
Liberals and fascists must both defend capital even when doing so is in direct conflict with their stated aims.
They are on the same team.
If you’re expecting real resistance to the fascist takeover, don’t waste your time with the Democratic Party. Find a grassroots organization and join it. Get out in the streets. If you can’t or won’t, stay out of the way.
Do both. When you are catching a ride to the latest direct action inspired by the puppygirl hacker polycule, make a quick call from the back seat and rage at your local electeds. It is necessary preparation anyway, you will be all juiced up and ready for the real action.
Don’t bring your phone to direct action
Maybe we shouldn’t have to harass people into doing their FUCKING JOBS
Start opposing republicans, stop giving them wins. Start demanding concessions- extensive and painful ones- to get your help.
Stop acting like you’re all adults, the other side is a bunch of toddlers and should be called out for their rampant bullshit. From the committees, from the podium. From every pulpit you can use.
This bullshit “we didn’t get a supermajority so we can’t do anything more than send rude letters” attitude is exactly why you’re out of power.
People want solutions- even bad ones. People don’t care if those solutions are awful. They don’t care if Trump is insane, they’re tired of the status quo and y’all have been the party of the status quo.
do something because if you don’t we’re going to have another 4+ years of this shit while the dnc collapses and becomes something else.
I really don’t care if Democrats are pissed. I’m pissed. Democrats aren’t Democrats anymore. They’re just fucking 2000s light Republicans.
They need to grow a fucking back bone .
They haven’t changed. The party leaders back then were the same as they are now. They were never on your side. No political party is your friend, no political party will ever be your friend, and no political party will ever put your best interests forst.
THEY don’t need to do anything, WE need to stop supporting political parties that abandon their constituents.
“There were a lot of people who were like, ‘We’ve got to stop the groups from doing this.’ … People are concerned that they’re saying we’re not doing enough, but we’re not in the majority,” said one member. […] Some Democrats see the callers as barking up the wrong tree given their limited power as the minority party in Congress.
So? Republicans have been in the minority and they’re still successful in blocking the Democrats’ agenda. I don’t see why the Democrats are so reluctant to turn the tables when it’s literally our entire fucking country on the line. They should refuse everything the Republicans try to do.
They kept the fucking filibuster around ostensibly for this very reason. If they don’t use it every chance they have, it’s clear that the only reason they kept it around is to block progressive legislation that they ran on but never had any intention of passing.
