The Democratic Party's Slide Into Irrelevance
Attaching a poll ... Dems unfavorability rating increased from 45% to 57% during the Biden Administration.
Strikes, walkouts, mass demonstrations, civil disobedience. You did get protests and people speaking out against it, but you also had many people supporting it and trying to get even more measures in place.
Overall I think there was too much support for stringent covid measures and too many states that did implement less measures for people to “resist”, at least in the US.
Maybe different elsewhere.
US was insane during covid. Fired from many jobs and couldn't travel if you didn't take an experimental vaccine inside your body.
That might even have been ok as an emergency measure if it stopped spread (you could argue about injuring others), but the vaccine did basically nothing to stop spread of covid - the vaccinated were first grade carriers and spreaders - so there was no rational reason to mandate it, less than for the flu.
Turkey took one of the sanest approaches - lock up the 65+ year olds, and let everyone else get on with their life normally. That at least made sense.
lock up the 65+ year olds, and let everyone else get on with their life normally.
Yeah, let's do this now actually.
Mandami backed candidates sweep the NYC primary.
Socialism is rising.
The Democrats are on the way to rediscovering their populist roots. There may be hope for them after all.
There isn't any need for any curfews. If you want to travel .... you make an arrangement just like today. Instead of a commercial provider of transit and lodging, some of your fellow citizens would be working to facilitate your needs. If you want to camping off the grid for a few weeks, your community will have access to the gear you require to accommodate. If you want to trave
That is certainly different than what you've suggested before. Can I leave oversees and stay there now?
If there are no gates or wires, who's preventing them from deciding they'd prefer an alternative to your living arrangements?
That is certainly different than what you've suggested before. Can I leave oversees and stay there now?
If there are no gates or wires, who's preventing them from deciding they'd prefer an alternative to your living arrangements?
Because there would be uniform laws applying to all communities regarding a ban on certain types of pollution.
There would be any community in the world that would allow personal ownership of personal combustion vehicles. There wouldn't be any more private gas stations. There would be no place to purchase fritos or coca-cola in disposable plastic packaging. There will be no more jet skis or yachts. No commercial airlines.
If you wanted to live among a group of Christians, that would be fine. If you wanted to live with a group of people that practiced polygamy, that would be fine. If you wanted to live in a community that either embraced or banned trans people, that would be fine. If you want to go live in a hut in the woods and grow your own veggies, fish and hunt deer, that would be fine. If you want to live on a sailboat, that would be fine.
There would be maximum lifestyle flexibility with the exception of access to polluting behavior.
There would no longer be "nations" as currently defined. Territory would be sorted by cultural and lifestyle preferences which would largely begin along existing cultural preferences.
In a place like South Carolina, a white state majority government would no longer have dominion and make rules for largely black communities currently located in that territory. The territory of Wisconsin would lose the current right to forbid the banning of single use plastic bags. They would be banned globally. No matter where you lived, you would no longer be able to go to a supermarket and walk out with your food in disposable plastic packaging.
I'm not a person who wants hyper control of what people do.
We just need control of what people don't do just as we have current laws banning murder and theft. Those need to be expanded to deadly pollution and overuse of scarce vital resources like water. The freedom to pollute is at the epicenter of the current world economic system and its leading to species extinction.
The essence of the future government is anti-extinction. It's opponents are pro-extinction, whether intentionally or otherwise.
At no time have I suggested that people would be living a lacked and gated communities. That's all part of your imagination.
I say, hell yeah.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25...
Centrist Democrats are freaking out about progressives’ winning streak
I say, hell yeah.
Billionaire donors don't like progressives.
I say, hell yeah.
the "progressive" Brad Lander who has invested 100s of millions of NY citizen funds into Israeli firms including the child murdering Elbit Systems. truly sickening that these people are lauded as something different.
I'm not a person who wants hyper control of what people do. We just need control of what people don't do just as we have current laws banning murder and theft. Those need to be expanded to deadly pollution and overuse of scarce vital resources like water. The freedom to pollute is at the epicenter of the current world economic system and its leading to species extinction. The e
Yeah, I'm going venture a guess that you were smirking when you penned out that first part.
You make sound arguments with wanting to curb plastics or unnecessary overcomsumption but then its back to removal of money with assigned jobs with the reward being to serve the "environment."
Then its banning air travel so we can spend weeks delivering all this food and water via boats with such a massive costly infrastructure system and lodging and manpower from literal slaves who didnt voluntarily agree to any of this with notion that they will all be cared for with all the necessities that a prison inmate receives - all while doing this globally without any locks or gates - while quite possibly causing more emissions for the entire process.
There is really no chance that if we were to solve every environmental issue and replace it with a sustainable model to prevent any of this from ever happening again that it would alleviate your good faith need to control what others do. This is just personality trait.
Has there ever been an organization with worse vetting than the Democrats Senate choices ?
They give us closet Republicans like Fetterman and Sinema. They give us Platner who has to drop out with rape accusations. They gave us Cal Cunningham in 2020 who lost because of his sexting scandal and as a result gave Manchin & Sinema the power to gut the Dems reconciliation bill.
Has there ever been an organization with worse vetting than the Democrats Senate choices ?
Herschel Walker and Ken Paxton on the GOP side.
They give us closet Republicans like Fetterman and Sinema. They give us Platner who has to drop out with rape accusations. They gave us Cal Cunningham in 2020 who lost because of his sexting scandal and as a result gave Manchin & Sinema the power to gut the Dems reconciliation bill.
I don't think Fetterman was a 'closet Republican.' I think he legit changed his views on some things. Not everyone remains an ideologue.
And what do you mean by 'vetting', anyway? Fetterman won his state primary; the Democrat VOTERS chose him, not the Democrat Party organization.
Has there ever been an organization with worse vetting than the Democrats Senate choices ?
They give us closet Republicans like Fetterman and Sinema. They give us Platner who has to drop out with rape accusations. They gave us Cal Cunningham in 2020 who lost because of his sexting scandal and as a result gave Manchin & Sinema the power to gut the Dems reconciliation bill.
ofc the Dems knew about this the whole time. I guess they thought it wouldnt get out or they leaked it themselves for whatever reason.
regardless, some of us didnt need to do any oppo research to know that Platner was a rapist and mass murderer.
I don't think Fetterman was a 'closet Republican.' I think he legit changed his views on some things.
Yeah, he "legit changed his views" after suffering literal brain damage.
Fetterman didnt change his views on anything. he has always been this guy. you guys dont pay attention to what these people actually say and do.
thats partly why everyone is so surprised that Platner was doing rape even tho the tankies were telling you he was a rapist for the last year. the other reason is the massive racism and dehumanization of Arabs. people were fine with the guy being a mass murder and rapist so long as it was directed towards Iraqis. but he rapes one white women...
Fetterman walked around DC looking unhoused until it was time to meet Netanyahu then he went to Brooks Brothers.
the only mildly surprising thing about Fetterman was the fervency of his Israel support. ofc everyone should have predicted that he would support sending all the weapons they need. but I didnt expect him to become a literal cheerleader.
Fetterman walked around DC looking unhoused until it was time to meet Netanyahu then he went to Brooks Brothers.
well like famous Zionist Bob Zimmerman said, "gotta serve somebody"
I'm always baffled at how some people blame the dems or R's for whoever voters choose. They can't stop them or a bunch of people wouldn't be in office right now. Fetterman isn't a republican though, he likes them a lot better socially but his views overall are definitely more on the democrat side (which is why he hasn't switched parties) but I can't imagine him winning a primary now, he's pissed everyone on the dem side off with his unabashed israel support among other things. It's long past time we cut back on that front.
Regarding platner, so many leftists online I saw didn't care about all his red flags yet complained hard about how bad some R is. Those people are all so completely full of **** and I wish they'd just move to North Korea, that's their ideal of how the country should be so go over there and try that out.
Has there ever been an organization with worse vetting than the Democrats Senate choices ?
They give us closet Republicans like Fetterman and Sinema. They give us Platner who has to drop out with rape accusations. They gave us Cal Cunningham in 2020 who lost because of his sexting scandal and as a result gave Manchin & Sinema the power to gut the Dems reconciliation bill.
I think Luckbox might be the only one who cares less than I do on who the next president is. Whether its Cornel West or Rubio or a resurrected FDR, my life really isn't going to change very much and any major changes that I do have are very likely to be a result of how many **** ups and bad decisions I personally make.
Now I'm sure that a room full of white male liberals could argue that it is the privilege that allows me such a fortitude and that I should feel as terrible as they do. But I'm pretty sure that even if they got their ideal candidate, they'd still be in here bitching and fearing over the next thing once their dopamine spike wears back down. My point at least, is that it's all overrated.
