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LiberalLovinLug

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6. And yet.......the opposition party is not seen as the heroic alternative
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 02:37 PM
Jul 10

Yes I know they are on network and cable news shows in guest slots to express their frustrations. Booker stands for hours in the House. Individual reps write scathing tweets. They promote bills to counter the pain that don't have a chance of passing.

But its not enough! In any other country with this happening, their would be a clear opposition leader and movement tied to a party that would sweep the nation.
Something has been wrong with the D party for a long time. You have giant crowds attending the No Oligarchs tour with Sanders and AOC, yet AOC is refused a chair in her party. The old guard perpetual plan of appeasement, if once it was at least intellectually a valid course, has now turned into a pitiful comic exercise. And they seem lost about what to do, or worse, think they can just "ride it out". But the last thing they will choose is to encourage a new generation of Democrats with more liberal ideas and a more fight first brand.

Where's Kamala? My thought after the election was...why not take a page from Trump, the master marketeer, and continue rallies. Keep the momentum you garnered in your last weeks campaigning. This time hammering in things like they are leaving with the strongest economy in the world. Things like highlighting the rights the Americans hold dear and to beware. And things like warnings of what is coming. Keep up rallies. And when we get to a state we are in, people are hearing these warnings still from Ds, instead of Trump's sycophants telling the news networks its all Democrats fault.

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