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Saw somebody implying that Democratic Party is a Republican-lite Party.
While I know this view is held by many people, this enraged me beyond reason.
Democratic Party pushed for Civil Rights, expand environmental protections, allowed Same-sex marriages, LGBTQIA protections,
While I know this view is held by many people, this enraged me beyond reason.
Democratic Party pushed for Civil Rights, expand environmental protections, allowed Same-sex marriages, LGBTQIA protections,
Supports policing reforms, want to pass gun control laws, expand voting rights, fight for affordable access to health care, fight for economic equality of sexes and races, support women’s right to choose what to do with their body, and economic justice for all.
Essentially, the Democratic Party represents preserving and expanding the tentpoles of modern civilization (and would push for more progressive reforms given the chance).
Again and again, we see Republican Party trying to roll back every single advancement and progress we’ve made as a country in the 20tg century, even going as far as to take away women’s rights.
Republican-lite? Really? This comment distorts reality...
Republican-lite? Really? This comment distorts reality...
And is a simplistic reply to the realities of governing America where one party keeps shifting line in the sand since Reagan (and even Nixon) era.
Please don’t buy in this myth that both parties are essentially the same.
They aren’t.
At all.
Please don’t buy in this myth that both parties are essentially the same.
They aren’t.
At all.
Oh! And this meme shows absolutely inane, simplistic, and disingenious analogy. First of all, what could Democratic Party do to stop Amy’s nomination? They boycott the judicial nom vote (senate rules, can’t vote without at least 2 members of opposition party presented) https://twitter.com/proudsocialist/status/1321153986804604928
But the committee went ahead in violation of rules.
Dem senators vote unanimously to stop the confirmation, but Republican Party holds the majority, got rid of filibuster re Supreme Court Nom, and clearly doesn’t give any damn about rules or even appearance of following them
Dem senators vote unanimously to stop the confirmation, but Republican Party holds the majority, got rid of filibuster re Supreme Court Nom, and clearly doesn’t give any damn about rules or even appearance of following them
And as for all those complaints with how Bernie Sanders was robbed?
He wasn’t. During the primary, Black communities overwhelming showed that they did not trust him. That Bernie did not speak to this community in meaningful ways.
He wasn’t. During the primary, Black communities overwhelming showed that they did not trust him. That Bernie did not speak to this community in meaningful ways.
The 2016/2020 primaries, the Black community overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden because of their records with this community showed them that these people were trustworthy. Leaders from various PoC communities collaborated, had access, and trusted them.
The people who voted for Bernie were overwhelmingly white men/women who latched onto the rhetoric without considering Bernie’s abilities to work across various communities, without looking at their records on the matter. https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/03/bernie-sanders-lost-black-vote-south-carolina/
It is arrogant for any of us to make a comment about how the system worked to stop Bernie in every way when the opposite is true.
Bernie had every chance to win the primary, and his biggest impediment each time were older Black voters who did not trust him.
Bernie had every chance to win the primary, and his biggest impediment each time were older Black voters who did not trust him.
And I wouldn’t want to be in any of your shoes if you told any older Black voters who had lived to see passage of Voting Rights Act of 1965 that they are politically naive and ignorant.
These people take their rights to vote more seriously than any of us.
These people take their rights to vote more seriously than any of us.
They know what it means to develop relationship with communities, they know what it means to walk the talk, they don’t trust somebody who showed up out of nowhere promising solutions to all of their problems. For them, trust had to be earned.
Bernie wasn’t able to do that.
Bernie wasn’t able to do that.
Hey! My preferred candidate wasn’t nominated either, but that’s the name of the game. Democratic Party has not been shown to press the scale on any meaningful way toward Biden and Clinton despite the Russian-aided Wikileaks that shared an email from !!one!! of dem staffer.
Democratic Party is not perfect, but it is not even in the same universe as “Republican-lite party.” And any comments/meme that implied Democratic Party didn’t do enough to stop Amy Coney Barrett are completely disingenuous (unless they explain how the act would stop her nom)
And enough with Bernie meme.
We are living in the world where people online (particularly those in Russian government) is taking advantage of the cheap, easy format to spread misinformation, divisive statements that turn us against each other.
We are living in the world where people online (particularly those in Russian government) is taking advantage of the cheap, easy format to spread misinformation, divisive statements that turn us against each other.
Bernie was not able to get large segment of Democratic voters, particularly (and especially) the older members of BIPOC communities because they don’t trust him.
Nothing insidious about this.
So, can we please stop with the false “both parties are the same” narrative?
Nothing insidious about this.
So, can we please stop with the false “both parties are the same” narrative?
Apologies for all grammatical and spelling errors in this thread.
What wouldn’t I give for Twitter to include “edit” function...
C’mon Twitter!
What wouldn’t I give for Twitter to include “edit” function...
C’mon Twitter!
