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“Everyone you mentioned has a lot of words, but what have they actually done to change the situation with Donald Trump and the cuts and the attacks on our judiciary and the attacks on our Constitution?” asked Slotkin, who claimed her responsibilities fighting Trump’s government cuts forced her “to be more than just an AOC.”
Fair.
“I can’t do what she does because we live in a purple state, and I’m a pragmatist,” she concluded.
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Hooray another sack of shit politician attempting to derail from real issues
Support working class people and idealism. THAT Is what the dems need to do, win over the middle\right folks that can't stand the MAGA shit and want their real country back, not some perverted fucked up version the GOP would like to create.
this. defend public education and improve it. get universal healthcare. social safety nets to provide support as people are falling rather than after they hit the ground.
Put her near the top of the list to be primaried.
Get her out, outdated mindset.
Who gives a shit about some stupid label the MAGAt morons have come up with??? Fascism needs to go! That should be the resounding message here!
I think I used to know what "woke" meant, and I thought it was a good thing to be "woke" but the word seems to be used in different ways by different people. Closest thing I've seen to actual "doublespeak" yet. To be clear, I thought woke meant "to be aware" or "to know you need to learn more about certain issues". Education and learning is good for the society (not so good for an authoritarian leader though).
What the actual fuck are they thinking?
Punt her.
My favorite part was focusing on Trump taking away democracy. Putting Kamala forward, a candidate no one wanted, voted for, or liked. Protecting DuMOcRAsy!
Can you tell us you have been purchased by the oligarchy without telling us?
End "woke"? So let Republicans shred all DEI? That's not just trans/gay, it's anti racial discrimination, it is help and protection for the disabled ... hell, it is the very laws that make ramps and elevators required for the disabled.
Yes, I might be talked into agreeing that democrats have to tone down "the message" so Republicans cannot use it as a hate rallying cry ... but the goals are still there. The evil fascist stuff this admin has done must be reversed, and these people all need to be in jail for insider trading by ping-ponging the economy.
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Fuckkk off 9th American oblast.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) has urged her Democratic colleagues to stop attacking the “oligarchy” on Thursday, arguing that the word did not resonate with most Americans
Everyone believes that their politics are the politics of MOST Americans, but reality is more complicated than that. I'm not sure that anyone can say what most of the roughly 260 million voting age Americans think, about much of anything, really. Yes, polling can give us some insights, but polls are inherently flawed.
The fact is, the American people are complex. They believe many things, and some of the things they believe contradict other things they believe; and just because an American thinks a certain way today, that doesn't mean they'll think that way tomorrow. Plus, we just have such a large and diverse populace, spread out across fifty states. It's difficult, if not impossible, to point to any one American and say, "that person represents most Americans."
If I had to guess, I'd say that most Americans don't give a rats ass about oligarchy or kings. If they could live their lives the way they wanted under an oligarchy or a king, they'd be fine with it. Kings, oligarchs, emperors, despots, who gives a shit, as long as the price of eggs doesn't go up too much. I think what matters to most Americans isn't semantic, philosophical or ideological, but material. I think most Americans would be perfectly content to live under a king, if under that king they were able to live a decent, middle class life.
But, that's just my guess. Again, it's hard for anyone to say what most Americans want or think or believe.