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In reply to the discussion: DEMOCRATS SUCK. [View all]AmericaUnderSiege
(777 posts)73. Hear hear.
The Democratic Party has been the implementer of all political progress in America for generations.
Independents and third parties can take credit for plenty of grassroots success, but they have never, ever managed to implement a single thing on the federal level, and done quite a lot of damage to their own alleged causes in the meantime.
I will never forgive Naderism for what they did to the first decade of this century, and I won't forgive dumb, egomaniac bastards who refused to join the team this time around over some single issue that is now infinitely worse thanks to them.
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Some of the criticisms here seem genuine...some are from, well, the usual crew
Prairie Gates
Mar 2025
#6
I believe the cameras in Congress are in house and then fed to the networks. Networks have no control n/t
Cheezoholic
Mar 2025
#36
Exactly. Personally, I think that the Democratic Leadership is keeping their powder dry and biding their time for the
artemisia1
Mar 2025
#16
A lot is actually being done by Dems. Maybe not House or Senate Dems, but Dem AGs, Governors,
summer_in_TX
Mar 2025
#50
Agree. Had to just skip reading them or I would have been alerting right and left.
sinkingfeeling
Mar 2025
#31
Well, I can only guess that perhaps they are frustrated that the DNC leadership isn't pushing back hard enough
tornado34jh
Mar 2025
#39
Not reading the same thing, yes there are a few who may do that, but there are just as many who are long time posters ..
cliffside
Mar 2025
#48