https://archive.is/Y2YyO

And while the political environment has worsened for the president and his party, Democrats have yet to convince voters that they offer a compelling alternative. The poll indicated that Democrats have not improved their political brand, even after more than a year of trying to demonstrate that they understand the concerns of voters and can stand up to Mr. Trump.

Just 26 percent of voters said they were satisfied with the Democratic Party.

The discontent includes a significant number of Democrats who expressed reservations about their own party. Forty-four percent of Democrats described themselves as unsatisfied, while just 23 percent of Republicans said the same about their party.

“They’re just not fighting back hard enough in my eyes,” said Matthew Berryhill, 35, a recruiter from Marietta, Ga., a pivotal battleground area in the state’s key Senate race this year, who described himself as a progressive Democrat. “They come out with strong statements and strong words, and no action to back it up.”

Have you thanked the Supreme Leader today for defeating the GOP in Pokemon Go to the Polls?

31% agree with the war and the genocide. What does that say about USAmericans? A whopping ratio of 1:2. Your neighbor is a shithead and you can't escape the shit because you ate it too.

even after more than a year of trying to demonstrate that they understand the concerns of voters and can stand up to Mr. Trump.

is that what they've been doing?

Just 26 percent of voters said they were satisfied with the Democratic Party.

The discontent includes a significant number of Democrats who expressed reservations about their own party. Forty-four percent of Democrats described themselves as unsatisfied, while just 23 percent of Republicans said the same about their party.

“They’re just not fighting back hard enough in my eyes,” said Matthew Berryhill, 35, a recruiter from Marietta, Ga., a pivotal battleground area in the state’s key Senate race this year, who described himself as a progressive Democrat. “They come out with strong statements and strong words, and no action to back it up.”

The best time to start organizing with PSL is yesterday, second best time is now

PSL is at best a SocDem party... And that's my showing good faith toward them.

Care to elaborate?

Let me see:

Predilection for electoralism instead of building working class' power in the manner of Leninism.

Their program reeks of reformism instead of revolution, trying to alleviate the symptoms of Capitalism instead of overcoming it. With the appeal to some kind of nostalgia toward the 60s (Vietnam's 60s???)

Lack of rupture with the system (better housing laws instead of abolishing that shit), their optimism kinda keeps the corpse fresh instead of burying it once and for all.

Too much emphasis at being the voice of reason for the Democrats instead of creating a revolutionary party.

And to me they can't be comrades without a revolutionary praxis.

70% approved by Republicans which is half the fucking country

It's why this place can't be saved. This country is fucking COOKED

I fully agree that this country is fucking cooked, but let's be accurate with the numbers here.

70% of Republican voters is only like 8% of the total US population, not 50%. See @trabpukcip@hexbear.net's comment here. I'm taking his word for it on the number of registered republicans and the total population is 342 million. 27 million is about 7.9% of 342 million.

So that 70% of Republican voters is a good bit less than even a tenth of the country, not half.

Somehow that feels worse

Yeah it's super fucked seeing shit like the % of people who think you can just work hard to better your life going from 67% to 47% in the last ten years, that's still half of fucking everyone just so brainfucked they can't see reality in front of them

Never has there been a populace in greater need of re-education

Good thing each one of them owns 10 rifles

It's a poll of voters. Let's say that's 50% of the country, and Republican voters are 50% of that, or 25% of the total population. 70% of 25% is 17.5%, or a little over 1 out of every 6 people. That's a big problem if they're organized (and they are, but only to an extent), but far from insurmountable.

My takeaway from the 93-5 split among Dems is that this is a tailor-made agitation point among them. Virtually any Dem you talk to is opposed to the war, but there's been no serious party effort to stop it. They won't even talk about primarying John Fetterman, who isn't even a Democrat anymore and doesn't even want to be there, over killing the War Powers vote.

Also, the bigger problem is that the vast majority of Americans are hollowed out dullards who have no strong opinions about anything and will be corralled into whatever nazi bullshit like the cattle they are, so even the percentage that doesn’t approve can be cowed into supporting it if you offer them a chocolate bar

And every last one of them considers themselves a "free thinker" who "does their own research".

the facebook mom i work with has shifted from right wing coded conspiracies (MAHA nonsense, antivax) to more left wing over the last year (network state, thiel, billionaire cabals, etc). i could probably easily get her to listen to TrueAnon but i'm waiting until Liz is back to actually pull that trigger. i've been working on explaining the difference between "conspiracy theories" and parapolitics to her, and she's been receptive.

what's funny is this woman is very collectivist at her core. she would make a great comrade and organizer if the brainworms could be dislodged. she lives and breathes mutual aid and builds connections with everyone in her community. then just pumps them full of every ridiculous antivax and sovcit conspiracy she has heard while getting food and resources to people who need it.

there is legit potential out there but the internet has really poisoned minds in ways that there is no simple antidote to.

Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-official-biden-was-preparing

Former senior Biden advisor Amos Hochstein said during an interview on Sunday that the Biden administration had been preparing to bomb Iran if they had won re-election in 2024.

Biden invading would have locked us in. Trump invading has gotten enough push back we had/will have to back out.

Either way everyone loses. :(

Not everyone, just 99%

Biden 2 would be so bad we might actually get literal facism from the blowback in that timeline. Maybe JDPON Don and losing to Iran now is truly the harm reduction timeline

And we did, we did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.”

Did they do any war games where they won?

If history is anything to go by, they lost several in a row and then placed arbitrary limitations on the Iran side so they couldn't possibly win

Yes probably assuming massive civil unrest followed by assassinations totally mess up the country as planned so they can't even fire their few shitty missiles.

Who knows what "Intel" and "planning" Israel was feeding to those dopes.

I take it back when I said only trump would be stupid enough to do this. Sleepy Joe might be the only president in history dumber than trump

70% of republicans lmao fully 100 million people in this country live on a totally different planet. alienation maxxing

39 million registered Republicans * 70% approval = 27 million people. So, like 10% of the United States

yeah they are pretty outnumbered. i think it's just the outsized power and influence that make people feel the true believers have overwhelming numbers on their side

checked out normies who hate all politics probably make up a solid majority of the total population.

In western liberal democracies elections are won because voters hate the other guys, not because they like the winners.

best opportunity for third party to fuck up dem plans to just coast, and of course its stonewalled by media gatekeepers

Frankly the fact a third party can't take advantage of this unprecedented collapse of popular support for both parties, unfortunately proves the two-party system is structurally rooted past even the foundation and into the bedrock of this country

This was the year third parties were supposed to become viable; instead, their inability to scale has become a unique political phenomenon that has reached the point where it's safe to say third parties are de facto structurally illegal

but it is rather interesting there is just intentional silence on them trying in any mainstream media (including podcasters here). that aside legal challenges greens and psl get during national already point to some illegality of thought.

obviously, as an outside observer, if something is not reported by internet or msm, it doesn't exist for me, if they are doing a lot of door knocking campaigns, but polls still report only r/d races, it's still wont register as anything until observation (election)

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