The US is a disgrace. Democrats, please save the country
If you look at financial disclosures of both democrats and republicans, tracked at quiverquant.com, you too might be skeptical of trusting either historical party.
Right now democrats are the only established group of people in the US with good western values and that are of sufficient size that can turn this shit around.
Democrats didn't lose the election due to anything Trump did. They alienated a large chunk of the voters all on their own.
Their original choice was Biden who had to step down because Democrat voters didnt want him so the Democrat leadership got a different candidate instead holding a primary.
The US just alienated almost all of its (former) allies and started a trade war.
Add the unemployed former federal staff, the huge breaks in the economy this will cause and you have the perfect storm.
But not to worry, Palantir and Musk will save the day.
Wait that’s just the democrats.
Because at the end of the day this is what you wanted. The ability to say "Dems won't be fixing this problem" is more important to you than fixing the problem.
Dems had their chance. They propped up a barely functioning, senile old man to respond to Republicans' threats, and he failed to do anything to stop what was coming (eg put Trump and the other Jan 6 ringleaders in jail, expand the Supreme Court, DC and PR statehood, literally anything).
Dems just aren't up to the task.
> Because at the end of the day this is what you wanted. The ability to say "Dems won't be fixing this problem" is more important to you than fixing the problem.
This is so far out of line, an appropriate reply would rightly get me removed from HN.
It's the same reason why people don't like Java. It's Old, verbose and stable, but who wants that. That's why people like Javascript, but at the end of the day, Java is the best.
Stable and boring and slow politics is the good politics. Not this shit that's happening right now.
You actually aren't arguing that. You're just saying the first bit. You need to detail "something else", otherwise you're just throwing bombs with no value to anything except your ego.
That statement is tautological (literally everything happens because something didn't prevent it). It's also not consistent with your much less considered verbiage above that somehow this was "all (not partly) on Democrats".
I didn't say that. You should reply to what I am actually saying, not whatever quotes you made up.
> That statement is tautological (literally everything happens because something didn't prevent it).
One of the jobs of a politician is to protect the country from its enemies. Dems failed to do that, despite ample warning and opportunity. This demonstrates what I said: they are not up to the task of rescuing the US.
To be clearer: a more radical approach is being taken. And some people on the left genuinely prefer the situation to a Harris administration. There was never a constituency for... whatever it is the current argument is demanding[1]. It wasn't on the menu, so the next best thing is humiliation for the other members of the coalition.
[1] The fact that the framing is "Biden bad" and not "Biden should have X" is telling!
And now majority of democrats are seeing their world turn upside down too. Maybe this will eventually unite and organize the left, maybe not. But Biden has done too much damage to democrats.
Not me. I'm a white tech liberal expecting a big tax cut. Maybe I'll just sit this one out. The hippies have done too much damage to Democrats.
See how that logic works? Make peace or don't, but in a democracy you can't demand conformity, you'll just lose.