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malthaussen

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33. My discontent with the Dems started well before DJT, and will continue long after he's dead.

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 11:56 AM

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But this is a "No-Dems bashing" site, so I moderate my criticism.

The lack is not one of leadership -- that's down on the depth chart. The lack, IMO, is of any fire or desire to do anything other than perpetrate the Neolib agenda, which is nothing more than mainstream Republicanism by another name. I think at least part of the reason that the GOP has shifted so far Right is that the Democrats refuse to move one inch Left. The GOP had to distinguish themselves from the Dems somehow, and Fascism has always appealed to them.

Preserving the status quo may be the safe formula to keeping your seat in government, but if you're not going to do anything with that seat, or that government, then it is just wanking. Worse, it doesn't even work anymore. So the Dems have been faced with a couple of alternatives recently: lose gloriously, or try to stay in their cush gigs and do nothing but write stern letters. Most of them appear to have opted for saving their paychecks.

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