Political Memes

if Democrats ever win I fully exepct this:

"Now is a time of healing. To better unify our Great Nation™®© we are going to let Republicans fill every committee and pick every judge, we are even looking into how we might let them have the presidency. If we can't, do not worry, we will behave as if we were Republicans and will do as they wish."

There isn't going to be another government or another free election until the current regime is put to the sword.

lmao what

you still believe in these fucks?

System's broken. We don't need a different party in charge of the system we need a new system.

That's literally the opposite of what the Dem leadership ever does. Expecting them to put the outcomes for regular people over system rules and norms (and their owner donors) is like expecting a sheep to become an obligate carnivore.

Neoliberals don't change the system, they ARE the system. You're not going to get systemic change from someone whose raison d'être is protecting the norms and rules at all costs.

Start by sending a handful of Republican Senators and Congressfolk to El Salvador.

They would need to grow spines first.

Democrats are centrist liberals. They are capitalists. They are cop-loving authoritarians. They will never fulfill your leftist liberatory desires. Stop deferring your political will to wishes they will never manifest. You have Stockholm Syndrome. Go do something yourself that matters to you in your own community.

Is this how liberals fantasize about revolutionary action while still staying as milk toast as possible?

Edit: I appreciate Lemmy for the simple fact that I can use "liberal" in any sub and not be considered a conservative by default when I'm criticizing that perspective.

Pandora’s box is opened, and once that happens, it’s almost impossible to close it. I’m going to be honest, the next election cycle, I’ll consider voting for the blue equivalent of Trump. Now that we know presidents can act like kings, it’s time progressives capitalized on that. Why not lock up rightwingers and hatemongers, slap tariffs on oil, and deport Zionists in order to fight Islamophobia?

Presidential immunity gives a democratic incumbent the right to slap a republican senator daily

Sorry, I get the spirit of the meme and it’s nice to daydream but fuck no. I don’t trust the Democrats to do anything in the interest of the people.

A Democrat would never do it. You'd need an actual Leftist. They'd be the only ones with enough spine to sacrifice their own political career and reputation to get it done.

You think the laws will be fair? Check out how they're going to give Trump a 3rd term but keep Obama ineligible.

They'd just have rolled it all back on Jan 21.

If we manage to have another presidential election, I will be behind any progressive or Democrat that promises to use the presidency in the exact way as Trump.

At this point the main priority for the democrats has to be reforming the American voting system.

First past the post needs to go away, permanently.

It is ridiculous to have situations where a state population votes 51% for one candidate and 49% for the other, while the state as a whole gets to throw out the 49% of the other candidate.

Once that happens, other parties will spring up and actually have a possible way to get elected.

“If” doing some heavy lifting there

It's rather optimistic assuming that Republicans would act like they gave a shit about rule of law if they were the ones who wrote them. Laws are just for everyone else, in their minds.