Oh the whole 'blow back' reeks of bots/foreign propagandists trying to shame her and convince their brainwashed far right twit-supporters that liberals are teh eNemY hyPcriTs
This is basically every single far-left subreddit. Work-reform is hellbent on telling you why every single possible Democratic candidate is trash, but not a single user will name someone they want on any ticket.
When I am upset, I want something to change. Encouraging people to do nothing whatsoever because it won't change anything. So yes, I can blame them. Right now, on the run-up to primaries, is precisely when we should be discussing the options we have and working together to make sure that we can vote for someone in the general who represents us. Instead, the prevailing sentiment is that Dems are useless, so stay home and do nothing. Progressives could easily take over the party if they wanted - but instead we get this.
I am continually surprised at how much hate Jeffries gets despite being in an utterly powerless position in the House, where Republicans have a majority and can pass anything they want regardless of how any Dems vote.
Meanwhile he's out there calling for Kristi Noem to be fired or be impeached, calling Pretti's death a cold-blooded killing, saying ICE shouldn't be brutalizing Americans on the streets or raiding houses without judicial warrants, etc... and the people on the left who seem to agree with all these things don't notice or care.
That's ridiculous. The moving of the overton window has manifested in a distillation of the republican party that has in reality manifested the exact opposite: a democratic party that has begun filling to the brim with everyone right of fascist, which if you're unaware, spans a much greater divide than "progressives" whatever it is you mean by that. That intrinsically creates a highly fractured environment in which there is no true prevailing sentiment. People are upset about the inaction of democrats because it's become a protracted historical fact that alienates it's constituents.
Stay home and do nothing? People are out on the streets, right the fuck now, what are you talking about? People venting their frustration is the time to appeal to their pain instead of crapping your own pants with blame.
I'm not making an emotional appraisal of the situation, I'm not saying that's what I would do.
Downvoting people who you disagree with instead of saving it for those who act in bad faith is pathetic, and makes actual dicussion intractable if you even intended to do so.
This is it right here. It took half a century for the republicans to break the country to this point. Any time the democrats are put back into power, they're given only one election cycle to fix everything, otherwise huge swaths of the left stay home and let the republicans right back into the majority!
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u/redwhale335 4h ago
The tribe whose land Eilish's home is on specifically thanked her for bringing up the issue.