Guy seems like a depressed turd, which looking at his bio he's a writer and a professor so uh yeah bad place to be these days.

OK well those are rally slogans, they're not strategy.

Right? What a weird thing to get pedantic about.

You realize that those are things people say to pump themselves up for a fight, right? It's not a mantra, it's not magical thinking.

Cool, bye

We are all quite aware of that. The only solution is to remove them from power.

Right?!

They need top bread!

Thanks for putting words in my mouth

No, it is not.

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Nah, I'm not wasting it at all, and my morale is clearly better than yours. We're going to beat these bastards.

Go do direct action, lead the way, then you can shit on us.

oh so lay down in the street and die? we go forward with them until that doesn't work, there is no preemptive surrender here.

I already do that. I knock bad dems out and replace them with better progressive dems. Maybe you could join me and people like me who are making that effort? It doesn't just happen, you have to work hard for it and win those elections.

Yes, it's the question of our time. I and all the dems I work with are all grappling with it.

If you have the secret formula to winning then, by all means, go out and do it and show us.

The beatings continue until we beat the Republicans and retake the government, yeah. That's the situation we are in.

I'll blame both the voter and parties, since there is plenty of fault to go around.

Well, they should have, huh? Now we all get to learn the lesson about not caring about politics and not taking it seriously. How fun for us.

If there were ever a time to vote blue no matter who it's right now. If Liz Cheney herself switched parties in order to crush the nazis and it was her vs a Republican I'd pull that lever without hesitation.

If we'd all voted blue no matter who then literally none of this would be happening.

No cuts, no firings, no DoJ going after political enemies. No attacks on vaccines, no RFK. No politicization of the military, no ICE nazis pulling people off the street.

millenial here, desktop pcs belong on the floor.

good for you! it is so helpful to talk to someone.

my mistake, you said Leftist and I find many folks who refer to themselves as such would never consider themselves a Dem.

it's up to DEMOCRATS to EARN my vote by CATERING to my DEMANDS

politics-as-consumerism, pathetic, zero agency, zero juice. all they do is complain.

I'd walk to elementary school on my own or with a couple other peers every day. Mile and a half, unsupervised.

What is wrong with us? This is terrible.

If you're not voting for Democrats then they're not really "your" leaders, are they? I'm a Dem, I vote for Dems, I volunteer for Dems, I primary bad Dems, and then I vote blue no matter who.

We care about all of that stuff, we are extremely upset and angry. I've never been angrier, myself, and I'm a proud lib and Dem.

What would you like to see the libs do? We are protesting in the streets, we are preparing for the 2026 midterms where we will take back the House and possibly the Senate. We are working in the states we control to blunt the worst of the Trump admin's evil.

cool, more AI slop bullshit, hooray, how lucky we all are.

Protest in the streets with the other libs. Win the midterms in such a wave the likes of which even God hasn't seen. First steps.

we were working towards a just transition and these fascists blew it all to hell. now we get the free market approach, god help us.