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The headline almost reads like an Onion article.

Better get fucking used to it bluedogs.

Luckily, if the world survives Trump the Democrats won't matter anymore because America won't matter. The rest of the world was pretty pissed off at the USA before, but still allowed America to keep its leverage because challenging it would be too much effort. Trump, however, is actively destroying that leverage through his trade wars and his cancelling of foreign aid at the same time that he's stripping his own government of its ability to function through his purges.

The only pillar of American influence that Trump isn't destroying directly is the country's media exports, and they were already in the process of collapsing before Trump was re-elected.

You got your high position in the world in the first place due to the fact that you were the only major power left standing after the world wars. Those circumstances won't happen again (well, world wars might, but not ones that leave the USA unscathed.)

Or... Just act at all....

The party is functionally dead. If they don’t come out with absolute opposition we will be stuck with a single party for the rest of our lives.

When they win elections, they refuse to use power to help people, but instead blame Repub obstruction. When they lose they wag fingers, but mostly just go along with Repubs (ie, confirmations) and they FUNDRAISE. Then they use that funding to defeat left dems in primaries.

Primary every democrat.

Any of the ones who are upset about Progressives pushing them to act like an opposition party needs to be primaried and kicked out, if they can't be convinced. We need more primary challengers to actually change the party, like the republicans have and continue to do.

Now I'm not saying that the Republican Party is a blatantly fascistic organization designed to re-concentrate all wealth and power into the hands of an aging white billionaire elite afraid of losing their power and want to "scorch the Earth" in revenge for the fact that they and their very specific view of "how things should be" can not last forever

And that the Democrats are not only complacent, but are actively in on the plan and intentionally aiding this grift by pretending to be an alternative choice of leadership that seeks to prevent this from happening, and doing the bare minimum to keep up that illusion to prevent real opposition from showing up.

Part of that plan is to get people to join up with the Democratic Party to resist the Republicans and steer them away from or at least discourage them from doing anything that would actually stop the Great Ominous Plan....

The reason this is so effective is because due to the way America's Electoral System is, anything outside of the R's or D's is entirely unelectable no matter how many people vote.

Though this also means that if the Democrats ever lost control of their party to people who actually want to do something, it would threaten to destroy the Republican Party, and prevent anything like it from rearing its ugly head again. As it would become as demonized as the Nazi Party is in Germany.

But let's just say that that was exactly the case....

What would the D's and R's be doing differently?

So they are silently just watching when Murica burns to the ground.

Constituent pressure? How frustrating!

“There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money. But we’re not taking money from those bad billionaires.” - New DNC head

It's a good thing we can all agree on what the definition of good and bad is, and how its applied in our society right?

a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups

This tracks.

I'm telling you. The DNC is a sunk cost. You'll keep contributing to it thinking is valuable but when it's time to cash in they've already cashed out. At least the RNC spends it's political capital, mostly on shitty culture war shit, but they don't let it disintegrate into nothing.

If I could teach the DNC two words to use against the opposition it would be, "so what?" I mean, they use it on their constitutes all the time so it should be nothing new.

Majority of dems are literally just there for a pay check, and now they have to work for it?! Oh no.. Anyway..

I am only donating to AOC until she and her fellow progressives gain a larger voice in the direction of the party. I've unsubbed from a lot of Democratic lists, too.

I advise all to do the same (as she can allocate these money to elsewhere if she wishes), while also contacting the DNC at https://democrats.org/

If they're so pissed about it, the progressives should just pack up and form a new party or join the WFP

The party leadership needs to step down.

If certain Dems aren't going to do anything constructive, then they need to get out of the damn way and put people like AOC in charge.

Can we all collectively elect AOC to represent all elected democrats in the House? She'd get, like, 215 votes on every bill.

I know a person can hold only one position at a time; it was just a funny thought.

The people pressuring Schumer andJeffries are:

• Indivisible: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/
• MoveOn: https://www.mobilize.us/moveon/

Let me fix your headline "Sitting incumbents too comfortable to do their jobs annoyed that they are being pushed to do their jobs."

Can Chuck Schumer go jump down a well please? Fuck the DNC's "centrist" republicrat agenda. Return to progressivism you archaic troglodytes.

Honestly fuck these moderate assholes.

Pictured: two of the most useless government employees in history, one of whose net worth grew tenfold after being appointed the successor to the queen of insider trading, and the other one of which is so deep in the pocket of fossil fuel interests that he needs a 12 foot snorkel to breathe.