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Why Are so Many Democrats Playing Dead? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hydm0-SBno&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@rbreich Democrats not ready to win. Chuck is worth $80M. He cares about his & wall st. Tax cuts.
Remove him
Honestly, Mr Secretary, when in the last 30 years have they NOT been playing dead?
Even when, or especially when, they had both chambers and the executive. The only exercise they get is rolling over to whatever the conmen want.
@rbreich A theory: Many of them don't think Project 2025 will hurt them. They think it will only hurt "THEM." You know, "THEM" - it'll be OK for "us"
A continuing ongoing generational problem within the party.. the Camelot-era dems need to go. Stand down. Retire. Vacate some seats. Step back from the front row of politics and advise from positions in private life. Your comments on Bernie are spot on. He's always been a good example, but most of the rest of his generation, lets just say their edge has been blunted by time, age and wear. Need more AOC generation types. Smart, hard working, level-headed. Camelot was a long time ago.
@rbreich The Camelot crowd has done a piss poor job at preparing the next generation of Dem leadership Too busy clinging to the gavel themselves This generational mistake must never be repeated One generation's hubris will plague for many generations after they are gone Camelot brought a lot of good things- youthful idealism, but that generation itself is worn out, EOL. Needs to step aside. There was never any coherent plan to effect this change within the party and now we see the consequence.
@rbreich because they are greedy self interested leeches.
@rbreich Republicans haven't exactly done a great job handing the reins off to a younger generation either- instead they have narrowed the agenda, veered hard to the right and chosen people who are frankly, freaks. Grown in some right wing petri dish in Appalachia somewhere. But that simplified and dumbed down formula will ensure them success for decades to come. That narrowed and dumbed down agenda makes it easier for the old guys to keep the young'uns in check. Project 2025 is the playbook.
@rbreich Dems on the other hand, starting with the Clintons, prated about high ideals while appointing a flagrant and immoral libertine as president, then backing his equally sleazy wife later on. Association with the Clintons has only cost the party and the cause. Flawed people of low morals. Should have been thrown under the bus a long time ago, yet still they appear at the center of the party.
@rbreich The mission of the Dem party has always been a broader tent and more nuanced and complex than what the Republicans erected, but in the past 20+ years I think the party has gotten lost in the minutiae, the murky corners that lead nowhere, rather than pushing causes and issues that the 95% can get behind. I consider scenes like this as offensive as any lobbyist or other grifter visiting the Oval office. Indecorous. Indiscipline is another evil legacy of the Clinton years.
@rbreich Dems need to return to fundamentals and not let the party get sidetracked by the 3-5% of the population, the mentally ill, or people of low morals, or imprudent people. The undisciplined and unfocused.
@rbreich Bottom line- Dems at every level need to sit down and have some hard conversations about the past and the present. Frank talk about what led to the current state of things. I trace a lot of the current rot back to the 90's. Too many people got a "pass" on bad behavior and for the wrong reasons. The 90's have cast a long shadow over the party. It seems like almost everything since then has devolved into a morass. All in all, I think Joe was a good president. Barry was mediocre.
This reminds me of why I've always been an independent voter. At this point, I'm really tired of both parties.