If Democrats are so damned serious about making sure Republicans don’t win, THEY can stay out of the race.

Texas’ Hinojosa, when asked about Democrats’ willingness to stand for trans rights, said the only part out loud: “I think what the Democratic Party has to realize is that there’s some things that we can support and some things that we cannot. And when we’re pressed upon to take votes of these kinds that we need to be cognizant of the long term consequences of these kinds of votes.”

He has since announced that he will be resigning effective March 2025, which is after the party elects a new chair. He has no incentive to listen. Not that he ever did. At least he’s leaving. Good fucking riddance. It’s a shame it didn’t happen years ago, but he will not stand with trans people, and he absolutely will not move to the left under any circumstances.

I’m still going to do my bit and contact his office, but I harbor no illusions about him. What other avenues do Texans have?

Why not just orchestrate a takeover of the Green Party? Then extract concessions from Democrats in exchange for not running.

Of course, this would mean that Democrats care about winning instead of donations.

Point me to a moment during the last campaign that Kamala promoted identity politics.

They can’t. But the alternative is admitting that moving to the right has failed, and centrists will never do that.

Middle America is about 20y behind the rest of us, this is the 90s gay marriage situation all over again. If the DNC actually wants to win elections they need to stop putting narrow identity groups front and center

The RNC did that. Democratic candidates, in their trademark panicked cowardice, parroted right wing bigotry about boys in girls’ sports in their own campaign ads.

Most of the time, when Democrats mentioned trans people at all, they were making sure to let everyone know that they didn’t have their backs. Add that to breaking solidarity with Muslim voters, and you have a party that broadcasted that it was eager to throw vulnerable populations under the bus.

Today, on “we can’t admit that Democrats’ strategy of running to the right has failed.”

Oh, he stands up for what he believes in. Just as soon as Netanyahu tells him what that is.

If we’re very lucky, we can get it so it’s a stealth progressive against a stealth progressive.

MSNBC called Sanders supporters “brownshirts” but had no such vitriol regarding the January 6 insurrectionists.

They should just run fake centrists in the Democratic Party and then turn all progressive when they get into office.

Like centrists did with the fake progressives Fetterman and Sinema.

Hell you mean? I voted for her. I was not required to be happy about it.

Weak.

“Our genocide is the second worst genocide” has proven to be an unconvincing message.

Lol nobody has ever bought the “people who voted for Harris like genocide” shit.

I voted for Harris. People like you who see opposition to genocide and immediately start screaming “trumper,” on the other hand, do support genocide.

The part where you pretended that this was the opposite of my opinion. At this point, I’m certain you’re just gaslighting because you don’t want to admit that the genocide you support is wrong.

If you don’t think genocide is wrong, that is your issue

I have been saying all along that genocide is wrong. Go back up to the top of the thread and read. No, I guess that’s too much to ask. Here:

Netanyahu is committing genocide and we are wrong to sell him weapons.

Now pretend not to understand that.

I didn’t say you can’t read. I said you were pretending to be unable to read because otherwise, you might have to admit that genocide is wrong.

But like he did help them though.

But like maybe you should have read the article you posted. Then again, since you think that “we totally want to” is a policy, “we’re taking credit” is the same as an accomplishment.

I’m not interested in being currency in your game of moral purity with the Democrats.

You’re just interested in anyone who is even remotely dissatisfied with Democrats shutting up or being shut up, regardless of what Democrats do.

You got your victory over the Democrats at the expense of minorities, but you want 2026 and 2028 too.

Dude, I fucking tried to warn about what was going to happen and I wasn’t the only one. At least here on lemmy, it meant being called a trumper and a Russian every last time. But yeah, the party moved to the right and alienated the base and exactly what I was called a Russian for saying happened. Democrats stayed home. Your faith in the willingness of the Democratic Party to change for the better is misplaced. If they continue on their current course, they will lose 2026 and 2028. And despite your constant pollyanna insistence that if we just care bear stare at them they’ll change, I have no remaining faith in the party. Not after this election.

Biden supported genocide.

As did Harris, vague meaningless non-policy promises notwithstanding.

Members of his own administration pushed back against him in open letters.

Ooh. Were they strongly worded?

It holds no material implications with you whatsoever or you would be railing against Trump’s promise of indefinite genocide.

This thread is about Democrats. Of course Trump is worse. That doesn’t excuse selling weapons for an ongoing genocide.

As someone closer to the chopping block than I would like, I am no longer phased by that bullshit. I’ve got the right screaming at me that they want me dead, and I’ve got people like you on the left screaming at me to be silent as they drag me the rest of the way there.

I’m telling you not to be a damned fool. The party will sell you out. It’s what they do. It’s a pattern of behavior that you’ve been making excuses for.

Your vote is appreciated. Your rhetoric is not.

Who is screaming at whom to be silent?

The Democrats are the tool we have at our disposal. I intended to use that tool for as much as it can be used for. Help me.

They’re using you. Not the other way around.

So do you. Except you want moral victory over the Democrats.

I’ve spent the past few decades wanting that party to move to the left and voting for them. They did what you wanted instead and moved to the right.

You’ll pretend to have no reading comprehension skills before you will admit that supporting genocide is wrong.