Most of the same people dragging Dems today are the same people who thought attacking Dems in the last election was fine [View all]

...with 'why don't they do this?' or, 'why didn't they do that?

Or Joe Biden is old. Or, why doesn't the U.S. president end the Israeli assault in Gaza. On and on, from one whinge to the next about our own candidate.

What the fuck did people think was going to happen when party leaders and other used their elevated platforms to whine and moan about Joe Biden until he stepped aside?

What the fuck did they think was going to happen leaving the VP with just three months to campaign? And, even then, dragging on the VP with endless projections.

Now we're in a fight where the actual villain is in office and there's no campaign or election within reach, and we have people just leaning into Democrats, instead of attacking republicans, all the while telling us how ineffective Democrats' messaging has been.

They're complaining about messaging, as if publicly dragging Democrats is some sort of opposition to republicans. It's not, and it's actually exploited by people whose interest and entire mission is to divide Democrats among ourselves. It's been that way for decades now.

I pay a lot of attention, and I can confidently say that our Democratic leadership may not be doing that brilliant thing you thought of, but they are, essentially, their own political operation. They are not standing still. They have not been silent. They have been waging their opposition any way they can manage in the minority.

We didn't provide them with enough members to do anything but talk, but, nonetheless, there are people dragging Democrats for stepping out and informing their constituents of what republicans are doing, and urging US to get out and confront the republicans who are in complete control of both houses of Congress and the presidency.

Republicans control the legislative agenda, and they have enough votes to pass almost anything with their own membership. We're basically in a protest/defensive mode at this point; not just Americans, but the people we managed to advance into office.

There will be lawsuits filed, but that's the ONLY direct influence Democrats will have until we have a chance in the midterms to take back control of the legislature. The only power they have is the elevation of their offices and their voices.

When they write a letter demanding the president do something, or demanding he desist, that's their job, and speaking truth to power is the ONLY one we equipped them for in the last election.

THAT's the game right now. Not whether someone didn't say what's in someone else's head, but what they are actually saying. We need to confront our legislators we elected where they actually stand, not where we imagine they should be.

We forfeited any real power of demanding things from our national legislators, because we sent them there neutered and functionally ill-equipped, so, functionally ineffective.

But some people are thinking there's something they can whip out of the wreckage of the election Democratic voters squandered away, by dressing up the minority they engineered for us in Congress like they're actually the ones on power and authority and punching them until they bruise and bleed.

Again, you have to just use that imagination that pretends Democrats have some magic solution they're refusing to deploy, and think of all of the people out there who've never valued a robust and united Democratic party who think this is their moment to tear the party apart, as if they had the ability to put a robust and united opposition party back together again.

Long and short? I know Democrats are speaking out because, I bother to look, read, and listen to more than the teevee news and twitter. We need to amplify those efforts, because we can't organize a resistance with gaslighting and resentment toward our own people.

Our elected Democrats make their efforts, and we endeavor to build on those. Makes sense, unless we intend to nominate ourselves for the legislature. Makes little sense supposing they aren't doing anything because you don't see it on the news.

More folks need to take the time to find out what they're saying and doing and amplifying the advocacy coming from our elected officials. I've seen Raskin, Warren, Jeffries, and countless others, including the unfairly maligned Schumer, all of them out EVERY DAY since the inauguration with their advocacy.

Yes, you have to go look because, the teevee news won't cover them. With the platforms that people use to spread cynicism about out Democrats, they could be piggybacking on the advocacy of our Dems. It's there, they just have to look for themselves. It sucks, but that's the resistance game.

We are the ultimate engines of our democracy; not just the people we manage to elect.

This is legislating time, and we don't have the votes to control anything. What our Democrats in Congress need are our voices in opposition to REPUBLICANS and against what Trump and his maga henchmen are doing to the nation.

We're ALL in the resistance now, both the public and the Democrats we were able to elect. All of us are out of power right now, and the ONLY course that will right this sinking ship is to unite, bail, and hopefully in time, regain the helm.

-Ron