“I want to do something” isn’t a policy.

When running for office, that’s what a policy is.

The Democratic Party does not agree with this.

Neither do you.

Lieberman didn’t do it alone.

With only a max of 60 votes at any given time and the filibuster, he only needed one. Democrats had to get rid of the filibuster. But as institutionalists they were never planning on doing that.

I guess they thought it wouldn’t be fair to do it without Republicans.

With the leverage you keep pretending we have. How do we exercise this phantom leverage? Democrats’ unwillingness to listen is how we got here.

Vote in elections for Democrats. Like we did in 2020.

Democrats don’t work around the interests of their owners. They work for them. Wealth redistribution won’t happen as long as the Democratic Party is run by corporate shit.

We need to co-opt the Democratic Party to get socialist and even progressive policies through. But even currently Democrats would have gotten more done if not for Manchin and Sinema.

And vague references to leverage that we can only somehow exercise by unquestioningly getting behind corporate shit only serves corporate shit.

Refusing to leverage power is playing right into the hands of corporate shit. The worse part is you’re doing it for free. Might as well work Musk’s Doge department for no pay while you’re at it. He’s looking for people like you.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/14/elon-musk-trump