Their job is to serve their donors. That’s why a few Democrats threw themselves on a landmine to collaborate with Republicans to end the shutdown, despite voters showing them clear and obvious support on election day. They had literally zero electoral reason to cave, they did it because the rot runs the party.

The rot can either be cut out, so overthrowing the party leadership, or the party can be left behind to rot in the dustbin of history. If we do not address the rot everything will get worse forever until the country collapses.

The rot runs the party, you aren’t going to clear them out without overthrowing them somehow.

I think the DSA should split the party.

Supply and demand. As long as there is demand for Russian rubles, and there are as long as Asia trades with them, then inflation will be kept in check. Inflation is caused when supply outpaces demand.

Russia prints its own money. It’s not like there’s a savings account that they’re running dry, they can just print more whenever they want.

This article is cope.

And there never will be.

Maybe the Democrats aren’t the best vehicle for progressive ideas.

So? He wants this because his donors want it, of course, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s using leverage to get what he wants.

You will own nothing and be happy.

He has more leverage now than he ever will, and he’s using that leverage to get what he wants.

Sure would be nice if Dems did that

Isn’t this victim blaming?

Can’t you access your password manager from a web browser? Or your phone?

Cuba didn’t cause those clandestine projects, though? The CIA caused them.

You’re seemingly blaming Cuba for CIA plotting. It’s not Cuba’s fault that they foiled the CIA’s plots, it’s the CIA’s fault for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro! Stopping the CIA doesn’t make Cuba a sponsor of terror, it makes the CIA a terrorist organization.

Sounds like the CIA was the cause, not Cuba.

I do believe in fairies!

Isn’t that just… every app?

The ones that aren’t retiring could be disciplined by the Party.

They won’t be.

We wouldn’t really be using our electoral system if everyone was a Supreme Court Justice, it’d be a much more direct voting system without an electoral college and if no result got >50% the Court would be hung and there would be no decision.

Honestly better than our shitty elections.

The election we just had demonstrated that voters are on Democrats’ side in this, so we can only conclude that Democrats do not care about winning elections.

Trump has never gotten more than 50% of the vote.

That’s basically true, but I think capitalism would overthrow direct democracy.

People would vote for higher wages and then there’d be a coup.

I don’t buy these anti-democracy talking points, the problem in the US has always been that we have too little democracy.

The People are often ahead of the Supreme Court historically - look at same sex marriage. Same sex marriage approval crossed the 50% threshold in 2011 but the Court didn’t reach that conclusion until 2015. Go back farther and look at segregation - the majority of the US approved of desegregating schools and busses at the time of the ruling. If this was a democracy we’d have had those rights possibly earlier because the Court is either in-line with or behind public opinion.

And I know for a fact that a democratic Supreme Court wouldn’t have ruled in Citizens United that bribery is legal.