So, Kyle Kulinski already covered this and probably said it best, but it's like this. The democratic leadership is bullying its new house members into support Hakeem Jeffries as speaker, basically stating that if they don't, they're gonna make those freshmen congresspeoples' lives "a living hell."
*sigh*
This is why no one likes democrats. They do this crap with voters. They tried to do it to me, to us, in 2016 onward. Remember the YOU BETTER VOTE FOR HILLARY OR ELSE crap? They do this every 4 years with "vote blue no matter who." You're not allowed to not like them. Youre not allowed to show dissent. And when you do dissent, they use public pressure to blame you, the voter, and try to gaslight you and make you feel bad for not going out of the way to elect THEM. It's a toxic culture, and is responsible for most of their losses since 2016 in my view. This whole mob boss mentality as Kyle puts it is offputting to the American people, and the reason democrats lose elections when they lose is often because democrats would rather scold their voters than meet them where they are. And it seems clear they do this stuff behind the scenes with leadership too. New congress people come in, and they're told "this is how it's going to be" and bully them to support the status quo.
I don't like Jeffries. I dont' like Schumer. They're useless. And I dont think that's accidental. They cozy up to big money and the donor class, and then the rest of the system kow tows to those peoples' interests. The other congresspeople are bullied with threatening to destroy their careers if they don't fall in line, and the voters are threatened with the republicans winning.
And then, despite voters sending them a message telling them this crap isn't acceptable, they blow it off. It's like all those 2024 autopsies where they just lazily said the problem was specifically Joe Biden, and then decided to throw the actual data out and "just move forward" because they started winning again.
Democrats won big this week. They won big because THIS TIME, they were sending the republicans a message about screwing with their crap. You don't mess with your typical American's living standard. As we learned with Mississippi (which was formally called tonight for Scott Colom), you don't just tell people to "pick another protein" and expect to not be completely destroyed for it. Just as you dont tell people to wear sweaters and turn the heat down like Carter tried to do in the 1970s. Although unlike with Carter, the pain people are feeling financially under Trump was purely self inflicted by idiotic policies like tariffs, the war in Iran, and poor health policies leading to parasites growing in our beef, obviously negatively impacting supply and demand (hence the "pick another protein" comments).
However, if the democrats don't deliver for the American people, they're gonna be thrown out on their butts with the people electing the republicans again, who will next time be even MORE extreme, because they have even LESS introspection and a greater propensity for evil than the democrats do.
If the democrats decided to, instead of merely being a lesser evil, instead be a greater good, they would own the future, and every election from now through like 2040 would likely be another 2026 style blowout. Don't believe me? Look at the Reagan Revolution for the republicans. Look at the New Deal coalition for the democrats. But for that to happen, useless establishment democrats with their bull#### mob boss intimidation tactics and merely being an ineffective lesser evil on everything else have to go. Jeffries and Schumer should not be allowed to remain in leadership positions. It looks like Schumer may be ousted on the senate side, but Jeffries seems to be far more entrenched in the house.
With that said, I support the removal of both these guys. Again, I think we'll get Schumer out if I had to guess. i think we're stuck with Jeffries though. Idk. I sure hope not, but even if we did remove him, who would replace him? I really don't know. I just don't think we can allow this kind of leadership to continue in the democratic party if we want them to actually be successful and responsive to the people.
Either way, I respect all the people, including AOC, and that guy from OH-15 who are bringing this to our attention. And I hope that those who are "fighting the power" from the inside eventually win. The future of our country depends on it in my view. It's prime time for the democrats. If they're gonna realign the parties in a positive way a la FDR or Reagan, they gotta not F this up. Jeffries and Schumer would definitely F this up.
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