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Watching Dems attack each other, instead of banding together and focusing on the goal isn't giving me much hope.

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Man the libs really just need to toe the line like they have been telling us for years to do. So libs go vote for a DSA or progressive not your corpo cronies again no more corpo cronies

Yes. It’s your job. What do you expect us to do? Field candidates? Organize? Turn out voters? Nope. We just sit here critiquing from the outside. And if other people suffer, well, we’re okay with that.

Unfortunately, "Bloo No Matta Hoo" doesn't work. It empirically doesn't work. "We will do nothing for you, we don't care, but MUH DEMOCRACY! THUH FASHZISM" just simply doesn't win elections. Otherwise President Hillary and President Kamala would be laughing together. But that didn't happen.

One gamed so hard by the party brass that they're basically "who we pick". Oh right, and in court they said they're a private corporation and aren't beholden to voters in any way - as evidenced by "no primary required - it's Kamala."

You need to spend more time improving your music and less on politics, because your Canadian ass has no idea how primaries work. Are you even eligible to vote in PGH or are you just bitching? Get off your lazy ass and work for a candidate for a change.

This. The one thing the American voter can't stand is a hypocrite. At least Donald Trump is honest about hating healthcare, education, living wages, etc. and there's some part of the American psyche that accepts honest contempt over sycophantic lying.

Primaries are supposed are supposed to be a contest, not a coronation. And since the Democratic coalition now includes progressives, traditional Democrats, Independents, and former Republicans who understand the threat of Trumpism, a little infighting is to be expected.

THIS post illustrates how easily propaganda influences voter apathy and disenfranchisement. The problem is Dems aren't thin skinned. The debate doesn't buckle us. It's propaganda with goal to insulate Trump, Dems need to recognize. With that said two things: 1) FOCUS! bsky.app/profile/shay...

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This why Dems ALWAYS end up infighting. FIRST, Bernie is an Independent who CHOSE to caucus with Dems. But yeah, we all have thoughts about SOME, not all, of the current Congressional leadership. 🤷🏾‍♀️ We need to focus on Congress to get rid of Trumps rubberstamp. BUT the real focus needs to be States.

2) Call their asses out, but do not let the Trump insulating, Dem haters distract from the goal! bsky.app/profile/shay...

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Notice how Black folks not saying there was a "message" issue? See how we stayed strong and voted against fascism, White supremacy, and the oligarchy? Again, the problem was not the Dem message. The problem is White folks still in denial about the work they need to do. 🙄😏

Well there is not any infighting. In 2016 this mediocre cis white man thought he could do a better job than a women so he challenged her. Bernie who can't decided if he is a democrat ran on a mythical health care plan that can never get passed in a country that is half republican. So here we are.

Because the Democrats are very clear on this: They would rather lose to Donald Trump even to 2050 with the future option to grift and get kickbacks, than win right now but us have healthcare.

Y'all know about the grim reapers in the SCOrrupTUS, right? Y'all ain't getting any progressive agenda for the next 2-3 decades with the 6 reaper quorum entrenched in there. Any dreams without fixing SCOTUS, is pie in the sky.

No...dems are "real" people. Always have been. You should look at CONTENT of each person speaking. REPUBS repeat what their great leader tells them. They have no scruples, they have no opinions, they have no truthful interactions. I'd rather have someone who has a spine. The GOAL moves every day.

I think some people are trying to cause a divide on purpose. They aren’t democrats and don’t care about our issues. They are trying to turn my state into the Middle East. Trying to get people to not vote again because of their ‘purity test’. It’s only going to get more nasty. Incredibly stupid.

I watch the young ones. AOC, Ossoff, Pete B., Mamdani, and the older fire brands who support them, Warren, Sanders. And follow the independent media, Maddow,Phang, Meidas, Elias, Rupar, etc. They give me the hope I need to get thorough.

The so-called liberal media stirs up a lot of this. I guess to get clicks. It’s disgusting the way they drill the canfidates and try to get people to fight against each other other. Not liberal media at all I guess we need our own Fox News! 

Yep! Nasty rhetoric ensures any "split" in the Democratic party remains. Want to win an election? Find common ground, work together, truly understand the struggles, issues & kitchen table concerns (affordability, opportunity & safety) of every day Americans. This "left vs ctr" crap needs to stop.

Many are being paid to post left versus liberal versus centrist type of posts. For many, it is their full-time jobs. Divide and conquer works brilliantly to suppress democratic voter turnout and sink democratic presidential nominees. Republicans also pay people to infiltrate Dems’ spaces.

Yeah the Michigan Democrats are gonna "ackshually" their way to losing a Senate seat that should be a slam dunk. But at least they'll get to feel self-righteous online for a few days.

Dems gonna mess around and let the GOP keep control of the house and senate. This is a lay up that they are squandering and they think they’re better than the GOP. They better go talk to their constituents and take heed. If they don’t, they only have themselves to blame.

I’m getting real dang sick of ‘Blue no Matter who’ pushing us to vote for DINOs who don’t have our interests in mind and in fact happily vote with the republicans to support more corporate handouts and other nation’s interests in the name of ‘stopping facists’ when it does anything but.

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It's not like our current system works, right? Bill Maher whining about them wanting to get rid of our "checks and balances" Last time I checked, they weren't working AT ALL

"But these communists, and they ARE communists, let me tell you, want to get rid of our PERFECTLY WORKING SYSTEM of checks and balances." Uh Bill, half this country can't afford food and shelter. Might wanna rein in "Communism doesn't work, capitalism does"

Democrats love losing, taking their ball and going home. Republicans know how to win, just like Hitler. The price of Democratic love of purity is the complete destruction of our democratic Republic. If I were younger I would emigrate to a real Republic like Canada

The US has had so many fucked up policies and corruption it seems impossible that you'll find a candidate who is on the right side of all of them and has the experience to carry an election. Not to mention the divisive bots and algorithms, and everyone wants to one-up everyone, even here on BS.

Let's see what happens after the primary season is over. Will the party come together or will the infighting continue. I'm hopeful that today's reality will bring us together.

MAGA are being paid to infiltrate democratic spaces, trained to successfully pass as democrats, are armed with triggering divisive hot buttons, all for the sole purpose of using divide and conquer politics to suppress democratic voter turnout.

CorpoDems too. They were hoping everyone would roll over. They smacked Bernie down, why do you people keep trying to bring up a new Bernie? We're Clintons and Pelosis now.

And this is why I stay independent. Being a progressive democrat does not give me a voice in the party, been there done that, and fixing the economy does not solve the housing, food, or other problems out there. Socialism solves problems. Not supporting killing solves problems.

More of a "Why are constituants attacking each other when most of the primaries are over?" What I'm seeing is, it's snowballing, and the focus to get through the election seems to be falling apart.

True. It seems they all have a different agenda and message. No organized effort to defeat Trump and the Republicans evil plans. Does anyone know who is leading the Democrats?

We have a history of snatching defeat from the hands of victory. Republicans stand by whoever wins the primaries. Dems throw as hissy fit and refuse to vote when their favorite loses.

Sites are also littered with fake accounts. Notice how the conversation is about coming together and unity, but how some decided to segway the conversation into “leftist” versus “centrist” versus “establishment.” An account can have 100k followers, but is a successful poser whose goal is to divide.

It all makes sense when you realize that the Democrats' bigger enemy is healthcare, education, an end to the military industrial complex and private prison systems, etc. All with those lobbyists who write big fat checks making them strangely worth $15-20M on a $170K salary after four years.

He’s literally making up Democrats being bribed by tens of millions of dollars a year, especially when he’s describing every member of the party like that. Quite frankly, it’s fucking stupid.

Politicians do not take on the job because they're elder statesmen who care about the country and its future. They're opportunistic grifters who set out a fee schedule for favorable legislation.

Why we lost the trifecta in 2024 .. Who are you going to vote for the party that is always complaining about their own or the one that promotes theirs .. Simple solution for a low information voter which most are .. Too bad Dems don’t see that … 🤷‍♀️

Now they are - and when we fix it they will vote in Republicans again …. Learn some history.. Dems aren’t as popular as they think they are especially those that have zero clue that the Presidency is way more than just taking care of the people….. Biden fixed the inflation and we still lost ..🤷‍♀️

Obama fixed the 2008 recession that Bush left and then we lost again… PS even Carter for blamed for the 15 years of inflation we had in the 70/80’s that started under Republicans. Inflation LBJ 2.79%/ Nixon 6.01%/ Ford 8.11% / Carter 9.85% - GOP refused to raise interest rates to fix 👇

You lost the trifecta for two specific reasons: 1) Biden told the left "we hear you, we see you, we demand YOU compromise." Then went "public option? Student loan relief? LMAO I lied. But you will vote 2024! Because muh faschizsm" 2) Mass job losses. Egg prices. Their response? "What about joy?"

which election are u referencing? bc isnt it primary season. this would be the time to attack each other to try decide the future. the cool thing about america is u get to elect your candidates!

I didn't elect Biden. Biden came about because of Clyburn bringing in the church ladies, the media going on about Sanders being a SCARY JEW who would HAVE POL POT MASS EXECUTIONS IN CENTRAL PARK And the rest being told "drop now, and it's your turn later, we promise". Not because we voted for him.

If I was a betting man, the primary will settle around Buttigeg. He dropped to push Biden, and was probably told it was his turn next if he played ball. They have built in excuses: "If you won't vote for a center-right, health-insurance platform, you're HOMOPHOBE". And "America is just homophobic"

Yeah, maybe they should stop promoting Hunter Biden And suggesting Kamala or Hillary should run again And also stop paying so much attention to sports and who plays them, Hunter’s a Druggie dip shit Kamala and Hillary had their chance, they muffed it with their arrogance Cancel all sports

When the old guard (schumer) is so embedded he can't see the light, yes we need to reform the DNC. This does not mean vote red. It means hold your blues accountable. We don't trust. We verify. Cos we are too smart to be red.

I just woke up so I can't remember the % but I remember it being an insane amount of online traffic is just bots. Now some of that is for online chat bots for helping people with their tech support for example. But enough of it isn't to support Dead Internet theory.

🎯Bingo! There are a few of them posting on this thread. The conversation is about UNITY and coming together, but notice how some people slipped in “leftists” versus “centrist” type divisive discussions. I block them.

Having debates about policy is healthy. What I see that is unhealthy is insulting or demeaning language. And no, I don’t want to hear who does it more or who started it.

I lost hope when the Dems controlling the party wouldn’t obey the Leahy Law and continued to support war crimes in Gaza which led to genocide. Biden was the decider on that matter and Harris carried that same torch. I’m now an unregistered voter after being a lifelong Dem. I still vote blue tho

The Republican strategy this year will be to generate chaos in the Democratic party. That is their only strategy because they know their brand is toxic and suppressing their opponents is the only option. I wish Democrats could see this and avoid doing Republicans work for them.

Trump needs to be sentenced for his past felonies, people have seemed to forgotten this. 34 felony convictions. And on top of that they were with the state of New York, not federal convictions so he can not be pardoned. Make this go Viral #trump #criminal

I guarantee you that will NEVER happen. Because if Trump is going down, he's going to name names. And they know that. Expect a whole narrative of "healing the rift" and "coming together as a nation" while giving everyone involved an explicit pass so long as they keep their mouths SHUT

Fake concern for Palestinians will be used to try to keep Republicans in power, either by choosing out of touch primary candidates for the general, or petulantly staying home because someone didn’t take their favorite position hard enough. I’m hoping 2024 non voters will vote and save us.

Why is AIPAC at the top of your list? Is it worse than Russia, China, Iran, oil companies, or other right-wing money pouring into our elections? No, it isn’t. My real concern is tanking the 2026 election AGAIN and causing even more harm to the world. And our troops who are dying because of us.

It’s very similar to the 2016 attacks on Facebook driven by Russian trolls. And Twitter-X activity supported by Musk. Bluesky is not immune from disinformation campaigns. We can’t let it happen again! Remember in November there are only two choices: 1. Democracy 2. Dictatorship

The infighting is literally heartbreaking and will lead to another GOP win if it doesn't stop. They are so busy trying to rip Jeffries and Schumer apart that they are NOT preparing for the fight that is headed their way.

Yeah, but Obama did things like promise healthcare, hope and change. Of course, what we actually got was more corporate insurance and... well, not quite sure really. He was a competent President but don't forget he was elected with the idea of CHANGE which NEVER ARRIVED

I agree that what happened after Obama’s inauguration left much to be desired. But my earlier point had less to do with post-inauguration timeframes than with the effects of a primary on the dynamics of a general election campaign.

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. He left that first meeting looking gut-punched. But the net result is, nobody will take them seriously when they say they will help Americans. They helped corporate interests.

It’s because the Democratic Party is a mix between people who don’t mind (or actually value) the fascism as long as it doesn’t really affect their income streams, and people who think the Democrats job is to fight for democracy. The former have more institutional power than the latter

It needs to happen. Comfortable democrats in comfortably Blue states have to understand that their comfortable ideology is crumbling. The far right wants us gone. The capitalist model of 60 years ago cannot sustain us anymore. Start by ridding politics of money and reducing wealth inequality.

"But, if we just give the insurance companies a little more subsidy and they only put prices up a LITTLE BIT, and if we give a little tweek to a tax credit and a big slush fund infrastructure bill that mostly enriches our friends, that's better than fascism, right? It's harm reduction right?"

Not sure what your parable has to do with what I stated. I’m asking for a redistribution of the overall money that brings equity to the players. Where did you understand me to give the owners more money? The $400M+ guys are not on your (or my) side.

I’m beginning to block A LOT too. We are basically in an “all hands on deck” type of emergency. All of that “left” or “leftist” versus “establishment” versus “centrist” versus “liberals” code word fighting is not helpful; it’s steeped in divisiveness.

Actually, my thought wasn't to the candidates or elected officials, but the constituates. And looking at the replies in the post, including yours, backs that up.

Then you should have posted that.Either way again you are over exaggerating sentiment regardless if your aim was Democrats as voters, and BTW . We're not fighting with anyone. Pointing out the obvious to those that can't handle facts, can be mistaken.

Gonna sound corny, but... When I start to lose hope, I "look to the helpers" I see them doing all they can with the little they have and I think 'can't give in, gotta do my little part' and I focus on that Hang in there😊🥃🥃

As Bill Maher just said, he'd rather vote for Trump than have "communism" (healthcare, etc.) Because the only reason he was blue was for the weed and hookers. And now that those are legal, he's lighting up a joint and glazing Trump.

House should be a given. Senate best case is a tie with Vance having the casting vote. End result is no change. And that is not counting Fetterman who will flip to GOP. It'll take a miracle but they do happen.

Because SURELY THIS TIME the electorate will see the ERROR OF THEIR WAYS and give us tons of votes and donations and do what they were fucking ordered to do and were supposed to do back in 2016.

Hey, genocide is bad, very bad. But is Gaza the only one going on right now? No. Call genocide out but limiting your scope screams political manipulation. Or can dems only see one thing at a time?

Also these people will tell me the "Genocide is really bad in Gaza" but will also come with "Ukraine should try peace with Russia" or "China is a great country and should take Taiwan" while they are also ethnic cleansing Uyghur Muslims.

More people died in just 1 city in Ukraine than all of the Gaza Strip... and China has ethnic cleansed 1 million Uyghurs by forced labor, re-education camps, sterilization, etc. Surprise... I think it all is horrible... and they are okay with genocide when it is their identity.

Well it’s not like they’re the same….. One side wants to do the same thing that lost to Donald Trump twice. And the other side wants to try something different. It will work out.

To Mr. passive aggressive blocky block abcdef or whatever who was all like "yuO cAnT rEaD bEcAUsE pRimAriEs LurN 2 goVernmENt" Primaries don't mean shit, they even said so in court. ivn.us/dnc-to-court... They're picking a CorpoDem. "WE MUST FIGHT COMMUNISM! NOW EVERYONE BEHIND NEWSOM/BUTTIGEG"

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That's because some aren't doing "the right thing" of "absolutely nothing, except catering to the rich donor class". Because, oh dear, the ultra-rich have finally gone all-in on Trump. Tax cuts, direct bribes, more handouts to them.

I mean, Biden took the ultra-rich and more than doubled their net worth. They rewarded him by voting Trump for more tax cuts, more handouts and to do more mass layoffs. "bUt Why aLL thIs comMunIsM it DoesNt WoKR" Well, half the country can't afford food and rent, so miss me that capitalism DOES.

That are the 'establishment' or 'corporate' Democrats. Mostly old men desperately clinging to the best paying gig they've ever had. Legal insider trading. Free healthcare. Paid meals. More than half actively seek Money from corporate and foreign donors. However... Vote Blue No Matter Who.

Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to give the GOP credit for one thing .. they goose step march together. President is a convicted felon, accused of raping children, is terrorizing citizens with ICE, risking public safety by reducing agencies, grifting and exacting revenge? He's our party, soooo OK.

Don’t fall for it! There are huge forces at play that want us to believe we’re attacking each other, imploding. Get above it — realize there’s a major shift in progress that could result in really positive changes. We must stay the course, stay focused. Nothing truly great happens without a fight.

Sorry, there’s no banding with the elite establishment, they’ve shit on us repeatedly and we are done with their lies and games. It will never be the same, they showed us exactly who they are and what they believe in and they believe wealthy people are a hell of a lot more important than us.