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edhopper

(37,075 posts)
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:59 AM Mar 2025

Do Democrats in the House and Senate understand their voters?

Last edited Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:34 AM - Edit history (1)

What we want is for you to fight.
In the House you do not have the power to stop the Republicans, in the Senate you have decided not to try and stop them.
What is left is going out and shouting from the mountain tops that what is happening is Unconstitutional, Criminal, Corrupt, Traitorous, and will destroy America.
Go tell it on the mountain. Speak truth to power. Staying in the Halls of Congress and "doing the job" you were voted in for will do nothing. We want a vocal opposition, not a Party that sits on it's hands while the nation burns.
You are doing nothing to get voters to give you back the Congress in 2026.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

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Do Democrats in the House and Senate understand their voters? (Original Post) edhopper Mar 2025 OP
Too many elected dems are beholden to their corporate overlords Clouds Passing Mar 2025 #1
How do you make separate categories out of Democrats and their voters? Walleye Mar 2025 #2
I changed the title edhopper Mar 2025 #4
Flat out, at least one Dem in my fairly close family would say Tetrachloride Mar 2025 #3
One thing they clearly don't understand, something that is always way, way down on the priority list... JHB Mar 2025 #5
Book tours edhopper Mar 2025 #6
Thank you House and Senate Democrats! You've got my vote! Comrade Citizen Mar 2025 #7
Do you think the way they are reacting to Trump edhopper Mar 2025 #8
Yellow Dog Democrat forever Comrade Citizen Mar 2025 #9

Tetrachloride

(9,384 posts)
3. Flat out, at least one Dem in my fairly close family would say
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:23 AM
Mar 2025

that the top Dem politicians don’t speak for my relative.

I presume that more and more will say the same.

JHB

(37,951 posts)
5. One thing they clearly don't understand, something that is always way, way down on the priority list...
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:35 AM
Mar 2025

Morale.

Keeping people's spirits up. Keeping them on board.

All my life I've heard people talking about being inspired by JFK and RFK (Sr.), about how they were motivated for a cause, but these days, when young people flat out say that no one is inspiring them, all they get is scolding.

How tough is it to actually go out there and fire people up? Apparently very, especially when the things you'd need to say to do so would put you at odds with other interests (particularly wealthier ones).

So morale-building is always given the short-shrift and the people who try to do so are treated as pests. And we end up with lower turnout and people spalling off to the Green goobers.

Comrade Citizen

(344 posts)
7. Thank you House and Senate Democrats! You've got my vote!
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:59 AM
Mar 2025

I just want to take the time at this forum for passionate Democrats called Democratic Underground to thank the Democratic Party for all they have done for me throughout my life, the Democrats understand me perfectly.

Comrade Citizen

(344 posts)
9. Yellow Dog Democrat forever
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:23 AM
Mar 2025

I will always support the Democratic Party and elected Democrats. United we stand, divided we fall!

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