Democratic lawmakers have faced eruptions of anger at town hall meetings across the country this week, as constituents have coupled their fury over President Donald Trump’s actions with deep frustration over what they see as a feckless Democratic response.

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    Time for the neoliberal world order to end. Want Republicans to actually be scared of Democrats? Fill the party with socialists.

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        …which is the true goal of these “hello there, fellow leftist” bastards who exclusively attack Democrats.

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          I think it’s the true goal of these “actually Joe Biden is great and you’re an idiot for thinking otherwise” bastards who exclusively attack leftists. Thinly veiled reverse psychology designed to piss people off into not voting or voting third party.

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            If you can get pissed off enough to vote for literal fucking Nazis, you deserve the attacks.

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      you had something ti vote for that was radically different from trump

      you didn’t vote for it, you got trump

      simple

      Try actually voting

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    Ocasio-Cortez/Sanders 2028

    Democrats: No we need to do this

    This is why we lose. Fucking unite for something, geez

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      I think after Biden and then Trump, people will be completely fed up with old white guys. I seriously doubt even Santa Claus could get elected. I’m in my 60s and a huge Bernie fan but we need some younger people on the ticket.

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    They need to understand that they are fighting for the country. And when they don’t treat the Republicans and billionaires as the enemy they deprive us of the power to fight at the ballot box.

    So we have to go to the soapbox. Like lemmy.

    And when that fails, many of us (not me) will find they have nothing else to lose and go to the ammo box, like mangione is accused of.

    And the rest of us will go to the jury box and vote not guilty.

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    Democrats hit 27% approval this week…

    That’s ironically the level Schumer said Dems would start doing stuff when Trump hit.

    No one likes neoliberals, or their policies

    It’s just not an effective political strategy, regardless of how you try to look at it. Even ignoring popularity with voters, even when neoliberals get elected, they refuse to do anything.

    The entire purpose of it is doing nothing, it’s political nihilism.

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      No one likes neoliberals

      51% of voters consistently vote for Democrats.

      Barack fucking OBAMA was a neoliberal.

      If you think neolibs are unpopular, you’re in quite a bubble.

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        It’s not like people have a lot of choice. George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney are also neoliberals.

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          Just accentuating my point here. Some flavor of neollib has won every presidential election in my lifetime, except Trump.

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          Kind of, yeah. I don’t think the analogy holds up though. Half the population doesn’t think neolibs are fake news.

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    We are alone in this. The dems are better, but they are at fault here too because their entire strategy is being better then the republican which allows Republicans to be as awful as they please

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    Honestly instead of pushing me to the democrats, this has just gotten me to hate both sides, just hate one a little less.

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    Ocasio-Cortez, at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada, said Trump has “handed the keys to Elon Musk and is selling this country for parts to the richest people on the planet for a kickback.” But she also had sharp words for her own party.

    “We need a Democratic Party that fights harder for us too,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “But what that means is that we as a community must choose and vote for Democrats and elected officials who know how to stand for the working class.”

    Leftists:

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    Republicans arent showing up to hear the message, so let’s shit talk the dems.

    You aren’t crazy. This shit is fucked up.

    Be mad about it. Be frustrated. Figure out what you can do about it in your circle of influence.

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      It’s not just about shit talking to Dems because they show up to hear us shit talk to them. It’s about the fact that 10 Democratic senators just voted with the goddamn Republicans to strip Americans of basic needs in order to give a massive tax break to billionaires.

      Those Democrats don’t represent me. And since one of them is from my own state I’m going to make damn sure he doesn’t get another chance.

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    It’s remarkable that so many are blaming Democrats for what’s happening, instead of the Republicans doing the things, people who voted for the Republicans doing the things, and non-voters who decided they don’t care about Republicans doing the things.

    No wonder your country is fucked.

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      I don’t blame democrats for the Republicans actions, but I do blame democrats for democrats not even trying to slow Republicans down. This has been American Legislation all my life, Republican gains office, immediately lowers taxes on the richest Americans while shifting the tax burden onto the middle class and poor, while cutting service and protection for average Americans, rides out 4-8 years destroying education, veteran services, and regulations stopping full on breakdown of the US as is. A Democrat gets elected, they get nothing at all done due to republican obstruction at every turn, rides out 4 years of the problems Republicans put in place having the bad outcomes everyone knew would come, Republicans presidential nom runs off ‘‘This democrats ruined everything! I’ll clean up the mess! And I hate immigrants!!’’ Republican is elected and immediately gives huge tax cuts to the wealthiest- rinse and repeat.

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    I was thinking the other day, wondering, "What % of legal - born and raised - Americans seeth with hatred for the United States, and would actively hurt America, anyway they can. What % and what political stance they have, and of course, it’s the democratic party.

    Lemme rephrase… Simply, if you’re American, but you also hate America and are politically active. 98%, you’re a democrat.

    What one focus on in life will become a bigger part of one’s life. The left needs to ditch the hate. I’ll come back when “democrat” isn’t synonymous with hate.

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      Bigotry is so insidious in America that when you call it out for the poison that it is, bigots call you anti-American.

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      Hey champ, here’s a tip; instead of writing, “lemme rephrase,” halfway through your comment, you can just delete the portion that’s poorly phrased! That way, instead of having to read (what I’ll generously call) a paragraph of word salad, people can start at the part that’s (again, generously) coherent! Also, you might want to look up, “what does a hyphen do,” or, “when to use commas vs. periods,” because you write like an AI that was trained exclusively by ESL students and stroke victims.

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      You should try and figure out why you believe this. Clearly people here don’t agree, and it doesn’t ring true to me either. How many people do you actually know who seethe with hatred for the US?