Senator Chris Murphy says he has been briefed on the US's plan to restart the war on Iran, calling it "insane" and saying it would lead to a "devastating escalation".

"You've heard a preview that it would be a short-duration plan. I'll just say this: their plan is insane," Murphy said, speaking at an event organised by the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.

"It will lead to devastating escalation and the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law."

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"There's been open reporting as to what we may be planning and the civilian infrastructure we may be targeting," Murphy said.

"They've been asked by the president to develop a plan - whether they believe it will work or not, I do not know. But the plan that they have developed will lead, in my view, to a prolongment and an escalation of this war that will be devastating for our security interests.

"We are seeing the president ready another devastating military campaign after the election, just as illegal as the first iteration was at the time, where Americans are fed up with this war."

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[–] 3 points 15 hours ago* (4 children)

Controlled opposition. Not all of them, but enough, particularly at the national level. The 2021-2023 majority wasn't enough. The 2009-2011 super majority somehow wasn't enough. Establishment-aligned candidates run on milquetoast platforms addressing only a handful of token issues, and often just to roll policy back to much how it was prior to Republican lawmaking. Not the real, sweeping change clearly needed - because that would harm the financial interests of their primary donors.

FWIW, I'm not an American. This is just what I saw whilst living there and what we see in the news. Constantly.

Since criticizing the wrong team is often met with the bizarre assumption one is a Russian troll encouraging Americans not to vote: go vote for the best candidate, but remember that political engagement shouldn't begin and end at the ballot box. The US needs far more than whinging online.

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  • [–] -1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Obama enjoyed a majority for about 6 months until jim crow 2.0 electorate maps Gerry rigged far right types into office. I don't know what majority you are talking about during 2021-2023. Yeah we have corporate democrats but we also have very clear opposition on the left. Controlled opposition is defeatist conspiracy theory half baked in truths. We can do better.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Controlled opposition is defeatist conspiracy theory half baked in truths.

    Next time you're wondering why Dems aren't doing more about some problem, I want you to remember what they did to Bernie Sanders and how they react to people like Mamdani. Dems are somehow fucking worthless in the face of fascism, but if a progressive starts winning votes, suddenly, they know how fight.

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  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    people not voting because they didn't get their candidate is what hurt more than how corporate dems pushed him to the side. Its the same for what happened to Harris who was corporate , Hilary was corporate just not crazy corrupt and backed by the heritage society and tech bros.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    people not voting because they didn't get their candidate is what hurt more than how corporate dems pushed him to the side.

    Sure, but I'm talking about the politicians, as that's what the controlled opposition theory is about. Democrat voters may want progressive policies, but Democrat politicians find ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when they "push" for those things time and time again. The politician's goal is allegedly not to represent the left, but to spoil their efforts and prevent us as a country being dragged to the left. Hillary and Kamala were both pushed into the lead with no regard for the will of the voters, albeit through different means in each case, and they both help shut out more progressive wings of the party so they couldn't get genuine power.

    because they didn't get their candidate

    On the one hand, you're not exactly wrong. We got fucking Trump out of that, and it's still haunting us a decade later. On the other hand, I don't think it's entirely fair to treat them like petulant children for being upset when the democratic process is so flagrantly manipulated in front of their face to rob them of their democratic power, just because the means used to do so were technically legal. I still think Bernie would have won the primary if the DNC hadn't sabotaged him, and just fucking imagine the world we'd be living in if we got just 4 years of Bernie instead of god damned Trump. That was the will of the voters. And the DNC stole that from us to shove a corporate Democrat down our throats, enabling Trump's rise.

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