My impression is that contrary to the headline, this isn’t a young vs old thing, but a follows-the-news vs doesn’t-follow-news thing
I was seeing posts weeks ago about “how do you expect the Democrats to do anything if you don’t vote them into power” , and I see this and get mad thinking, this is why people aren’t voting for you, this is why so many voters are mad at you, you have the power to do something, anything and your reply is “I’m sorry I called the GOP bastards” when the GOP has no problem calling you literal baby eaters.
Every major gov shutdown I remember was the Republicans being bastards to force something they wanted or to make Democrats look bad. 20 years. The entire time I’ve paid attention. It’s always been Republicans. This is a legitimate reason for once for democrats to do it. To fight this dismantling of government. They won’t. They’re useless. They want this. May anyone who tell me to vote have their nose broken. I’ve voted in every election since I turned 18. Even locals. There isn’t a systemic fix to this. No one is going to save you. Stop looking to your government leaders and start forming extra governmental solutions.
Shockingly enough, there’s things called “primaries” where you can show the fuck up and get these fossils out for people who actually act in the best interest of their citizenry.
The catch being the “showing the fuck up” part.
This assumes the party allows a primary challenger to any arbitrary seat. Usually they don’t for safe seats. Or at risk seats. Or any seats where the currently elected member is making them money.
Yes, we can dither and make excuses all we like, but if we never try, nothing happens anyways.
Might as well try, yeah? Unless of course we just want to complain about how the system is unfair and not actually do anything to change it.
And you think doing the exact same thing over and over is “trying”?
We’ve been doing things to try to change the system, but mainstream Dems, white liberals, tend to call us radical criminals, terrorists, and damaging to progress. When we try we get shot in the back. When we try we get anonymously reported by someone ‘that agrees with our ideals but not our actions’.
So hopefully now that you people will be suffering too, you might not stab us in the back this time when things get a little uncomfy for white liberals.
Old democrats too.
Why make it easier for the GOP to dismantle the government by shutting it down?
if it were in their interest, they’d just do it themselves lol
Because what’s in the bill for keeping the government open gives the GOP even more powers to fuck shit up.
It’s not a Yes No vote for just staying open. It’s crammed with a load of bullshit.
What’s it crammed with?
Qoute by AOC in a recent interview:
This continuing resolution codifies much of this chaos that Elon Musk is wreaking havoc on the federal government. It codifies many of those changes. It sacrifices and completely eliminates congressional authority in order to review these impulsive Trump tariffs that he’s switching on and off.
And on top of that, for folks who are concerned about effectiveness in government, this Republican extreme spending bill removes all of the guardrails and all of the accountability measures to ensure that money is being spent in the way that Congress has directed for it to be spent.
This turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It sacrifices congressional authority and it is deeply partisan.
Edit: No one should be downvoting Usernamehere for not knowing whats in the bill.
That seems to only be AOCs opinion of the contents of the CR. Not what’s in it.
Are you a lawyer and or elected official? Have you read the bill? What is your opinion on the contents of the CR?
Im not a lawyer or elected official. No one on Lemmy is. Including you. So I refer to the official I did elect to represent me. It’s their job to read the bills and act on them in my interest. AOC is doing exactly that.
You’re free to read the bill at any time. It’s available online. I’m not your staff secretary. If you want the nitty gritties you need to do it yourself.
I can downvote them now after this though right? After it’s been made painfully clear that at best they are a sea lion?
Are you asking permission to vote a certain way? I don’t understand.