Do you understand how the American government works LOL
Why are you mad at Democrats for what Trump's doing when Republicans are in control of the entire government. That's exectutive, judicial, and legislative, in case you don't know, which, it really seems you don't.
Great question, faceless liberal. This explanation is going to be extremely basic, because I am far from qualified to explain every aspect of this in a tumblr post, but it should give you at least a low-level understanding.
This is because the democratic party in the US is what is called "controlled opposition." Both major political parties - while not identical in ideology - are identical in their end goal: Serving neoliberal interests, rather than serving their constituents.
At its core, Neoliberalism has two goals: The first is to accumulate more power for those at the top. This isn't just billionaires, but it certainly includes them. This also includes the people who make up all of those houses of government. Obviously, the Republicans are accumulating additional power at the moment, or at least Trump and some of his cabinet are. But the Democrats largely aren't, at least not directly. They are still indirectly accumulating power due to being part of a government that is steadily increasing its overreach, which Democrats can and will abuse in the event that they hold office again. But the Democrats lost the election, right? This is where the second goal of Neoliberalism comes in:
If they can't acquire additional power, their second goal is to hold onto what power they do have with everything they've got. This is why any candidate with anything remotely resembling a progressive platform is sabotaged by the Democrats as much as they are by the Republicans. You can look at Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign or any tike Bernie Sanders has been on the ticket for great examples of this happening. This is also why Kamala Harris preferred to court Republicans and undecided voters, ultimately running on the kind of platform that wouldn't have seemed out of place on the Republican ticket, rather than doing things her voter base actually wanted. If the Democrats lose, they still keep power in all the ways that matter to them. If a progressive or left-leaning candidate wins, well, they might start changing things, and Democrats don't like change that moves things leftward unless they get to control the speed at which it happens, and that speed is generally much slower than what is necessary to meaningfully benefit people. Any move leftward potentially threatens their power. Harris wouldn't even lie about stopping arms sales to Israel, because that might have caused pro-Israel lobby groups to not donate to her as much later down the line.
However, they still have to appear as though they're putting up a fight, and so they throw out the bare minimum resistance necessary (almost never in the direction of progressivism, almost always to keep things exactly as they already are) so that voters will think they're actually being represented and the Republicans just happened to win this time (probably because of those darned leftists who pushed too hard, too fast, and scared the moderate voters and cost the Democrats the election). Hence, the term controlled opposition.
If you've ever heard the comparison that the Republicans make everything worse but the Democrats don't make anything better, that's what this is referring to. If you'd like another comparison, in cases when democrats control all three branches of government, such as during Obama's first term, the democrats still don't do anything to meaningfully improve people's lives or defend their freedoms. They didn't just control all three houses. They had a supermajority that couldn't be stopped by fillibustering. They could have pushed through pretty much any piece of legislation they wanted to, but by the time the Affordable Care Act was passed, it was less than a shadow of what it originally was and changed almost nothing. This was not an accident.
So, in short, the reason I'm angry with the Democratic party is because, through both their actions and their very intentional inaction, they would much rather hand the country over to the fascists than put up any sort of meaningful opposition, all because they're certain that, when the Republicans are putting everyone up against the wall, it won't be them up there. They're cowards, they're liars, and they got us where we are now.
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