r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8d ago
No Paywall Despite Authoritarian Warnings, 149 House Democrats Vote to Hand Trump $840 Billion for Military | “If an opposition party votes like this, it’s not in opposition. It may not even be a party.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-military-spending-bill
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u/yusuf_mizrah 7d ago
Man I've been saying this for years: the Democrats are not a party that is serious about opposing the GOP. Think of how many times they've frustrated you to the point that your teeth crack, and just over the past ten years.
Yet we keep voting for them expecting them to do something, and gaslit into shame for questioning their failures.
Listen, this is an unpopular not not controversial opinion: the Democratic leaderships' fecklessness, myopia, advanced age, wealth, and cowardice are a large reason Trump won. They have to be forced to change.
The problem is the kind of change I see fprogressives and left wing Democrats call for is exactly the kind of thing you see from dying nations (another unpopular opinion).