And Democrats were complicit the whole time, ignoring the explicit warning signs in their blind greed for more corporate money.
There is a famous saying: “the buck stops here”.
It means that when someone is in charge, they assume responsibility for whatever happens under their command, rather than whinging about it being not their fault.
Trump seems to have never heard of this quote. However, that is irrelevant now bc as a former President, what are we expecting of him? Rather, we have expectations for the current one, which are either being met or they are… not.
Your graphic does not explain why it is not the job of a leader to do things to protect the democracy of this nation?
Oh well, soon enough there may not be political parties anymore and we won’t have to worry about any of this.
Here’s a quote from the same man:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Do you not understand how the US government is structured? The president isn’t a king and his party doesn’t have unlimited power and authority.
I’ve seen plenty of the usual suspects complaining that the IRA didn’t do enough despite it being the largest green energy bill ever passed.
I fail to see how this helps your point?
What good have Democrats done? I don’t mean throwing some crumbs out to a small subsection of student loan holders, or passing small goods such as credit card fee guidelines.
I mean reversing the trend this country has been on since Reagan. Why do Citizens United and Glass Steagall still exist? Prison and prosecutorial reform? Making companies actually pay taxes? Democrats have held plenty of majorities. What’s the excuse?
Why do Dems let the fascists walk all over them and never lift a single finger in retaliation? Why is it always Dems compromising and sinking their bills to please Republicans?
Are you genuinely saying that throwing literal breadcrumbs out is an acceptable trade to all that shit?
And then you wonder why you get called collaborators?
The fact that after all this discourse, you liberals are still spamming this tired debunked shit instead of coming up with any actual critique is, as usual, yet another self report of your complicity to fascism.
My right to marry my partner was won by democrats. Anyone calling that a breadcrumb can go fuck themselves right into the sun. The party does a hell of a lot more than the left wants to give them credit for. Not even arguing the pic above is not lacking nuance or that democrats are perfect, but they’ve won me a hell of a lot more than you leftist armchair politicians who have never given me a single thing but promises you never fulfill.
Glass-Steagall was repealed by Bill Clinton. Which is the problem since it was regulations on banks which may have prevented the 2008 financial crisis had it been strengthened rather than repealed.
The reason why a new version of Glass-Steagall can’t be passed is because the GOP can fillibuster it in the Senate. And right now the GOP holds a slim majority in the House so it wouldn’t even be brought up for a vote, let alone get enough GOP votes to pass.
Same goes for Citizens United, and that one probably would need a majority in the Supreme Court as well. Maybe even a constitutional ammmendment. To get a majority in the Supreme Court they need to hold the Whitehouse and a majority of the Senate for long enough that the GOP Justices retire. To make a constitutional amendment they’d need to hold the Whitehouse, Congress, and a majority of the State Legislatures.
The fact that the GOP is leading the US towards fascism and you still can’t get off your high horse to vote against them makes you complicit in their fascism.
Nice article, bad headline. We were never conned, at least millions of us weren’t.
