People are reacting to the headline, but the article is basically the opposite of what most people assume. This is The Atlanic. Their problem is that the Democrats aren’t doing enough austerity.
Tbf, the US is heading towards a debt crisis. However, the reason for that is because of the absurdly bloated military budget and pointless adventurism, while the article frames it entirely in terms of “taxes are too low and we spend too much on social programs.” How are the Democrats supposed to win without promising the voters anything? This is never addressed. But that’s apparently the lesson the author thinks they should learn. Run on austerity, if you somehow manage to win, prioritize the debt - and then when they inevitably lose the next election because everyone’s lives got worse, the Republicans will have more money to play with to fund things like ICE and the Iran War.
It’s nonsense. Winning means promising QoL improvements and following through on them. Yeah the debt is a problem, but that’s exactly why military cuts are necessary. Trying to solve the debt problem just creates a political problem, it’s the sort of thing to worry about once you’ve already secured power.
That’s very well said. The bottom line is Democrats’ entire theory of political power is backwards. They need to demonstrate value to get political power. But instead we have Jefferies and Schumer who whine about not having political power so they can’t demonstrate value.
They still haven’t learned from their mistakes in 2016.
They’re still trying to court republicans, when they should be going for non-voters.
Most of the Dnc just needs replaced. And a lot of voters are working on it.
Illinois is looking like we have a nice un corrupt candidate to replace dicky durbin for his senator seat.
Juliana. She had no pac or aipac donations.
She has stocks but said she would sell them all. (We will see).
But either way. A good step in the right direction.
I was shocked but so happy that Raja didn’t win. Dude had so many crypto bros bankrolling him.
They aren’t dumb, they just have different priorities than you do. Once you come to terms with that, you’ll see things differently.
They all have the same boss. And it ain’t us.
What agenda?
This one. https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf
Its usually called a platform.
Ok, sure. Can we purge the warmongering party of rapists and pedophiles, then focus on rebuilding?
Trying to renovate the loungeroom while the kitchen and bedrooms are on fire.
No, because they have to rebuild first in order to be able to accomplish that purge.
Oh, cool. We are already starting the preparations for pushing all work and blame on the democratic party and then make the election about them only. That won’t drive people to the republican party or not to vote. It’s not like the country is facing a now absolutely uphill battle to remain a denocracy.
Jesus fucking christ. If there ever was a moment to close ranks and act as a block is now. That plus active action if possible, but at the very least support the non-dictatorship party. Not like the other one is better in literally any single issue.
Who cares about genocide am i right?
Has the republican party stopped the genocide? Or improved the situation at all? If not, you have to choose according to the rest of the policies. It sucks badly, but there is literally no other option.
I totally get it, you were just following orders. There was no alternative but to vote for a genocider in order not to have an even worse genocider, who finally got in power and let the genocide continue at the exact same pace as before until there was nothing to bomb anymore.
Let’s be honest here, Americans are the ones suffering the most from trump’s presidency. The rest doesnt really matter, they can die for all I care.
So I am not from the US. So I don’t really suffer from their actions. Just indirectly, but not much. I am really fucking lucky.
When you take that out of the way, almost everyone in the world would be better off if Trump weren’t president and the republicans were not in power. So I would really fucking like if they vote the least of two evils, because I am not interested in a 3rd world war to get me out of my misery before global warmng gets to us because they keep voting the stupid reality denying party.
Literally. There are two parties, One is clearly worse. That’s all there is.
My friend in beyruth died a few week before the elections.
My heartfelt condolences.
