Liberal in what sense? Every country has slightly differing views on what “liberal” means.
Presumably liberal in the American use, as in “conservative with a slightly less shitty coat of paint”
“Conservative but not Christofascist.”
Those who claim to support minorities but act like minorities with no power even when they hold office.
Liberal means “not communist or openly fascist” to the far left
Wut
They’re making perfect the enemy of good and wiping away the good things that democrats do.
Making perfect the enemy of good? What? You seeing the same thing?
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Like holy shit imagine the amount of cognitive dissonance you must need to defend democrats not doing anything while in office xD
The point is that they do things but it would never be good enough for smug contrarians
Oh yea they do so much, like forgive student loa–sorry I mean being the most pro union preside–I mean putting an end to genoci–I mean raising the minimum wa–wait wait I swear liberals don’t just sit on their ass all day and collaborate with the GOP just gimme a sec
I saw a list of things Biden had done so far a year ago and I’m sure you’d shit all over it but it’s not nothing
I saw one too, I didn’t read the whole thing but what I saw was 80% half-fulfilled promises and 20% just blatantly bad shit like supporting Israeli occupation of Palestine and expanding our oil industry. I’d almost rather he literally didn’t do anything instead of just figuratively doing nothing
I saw the same list. There was also a lot of duplicate entries, taking credit for the UAW’s work, and giving Biden credit for Obama’s accomplishments.
Pathetic
Holy shit: the lack of knowledge on how legislation works on your part is astounding.
Centrists think doing nothing is the same as doing good.
Democrats aren’t good tho, they literally are the enemy of good. If they weren’t evil they would do literally fucking anything about republicans and capitalists trying to take our rights and go full of fascist. But nope, it’s always “waahhhh gop won’t let us do anything :cccc” while letting republicans do literally anything they want
This is ignorant and false
So there’s something that renders democrats completely incapable of ever stopping republicans from doing anything? Bc otherwise they’re just liars and collaborators, no other explanation for trying to meet actual fascists in the middle and never doing fuck all to stop them
It’s always odd to see how the ones that know the least are the ones that are also the most confident… and insufferable
I’ll take that as a “no, democrats just choose not to ever stop republicans from fucking things up” unless you can explain why they don’t (“republicans won’t let us” isn’t an explanation, unless it’s somehow codified that democrats have to support republicans)
FYI, it’s no on else’s job to educate you. And that’s not the attitude one learns with
That said, gets my take: there’s three branches of government. All three have been relatively compromised. To your main question, Congress controls legislation and it’s been compromised because it over-represents a specific demographic (read: mostly white people places with relatively low populations). And well, American whites are a special bunch. The executive branch is compromised in a large part for the same reason - the pres is elected via electoral college which again over-represents white (I mean, wtf is there two Dakotas? We barely need one and they get 4 senators even though only 5 people live in each state).
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Again, can one party stop the other from doing things or not? If republicans can stop democrats from pushing through their legislation, the only reasonable explanation for democrats not doing the same to republicans is that they choose not to
Jesus Christ. spot on in sentiment although I might shop around for a different format.
Why? What’s wrong with meowpoleon?
The scene in the painting is of Napoleon after he had definitely done something.
Napoleon, despite the whole “overthrowing republic in favour of monarchy” thing is considered to be one of the main reasons the ideals of the Revolution managed to stick in Europe. Napoleonic Code was a piece of legislation far more progressive than most of that era, and continued to be used in many countries that were subservient to Napoleonic France until the 20th century.
Ah yes, he was a very progressive emperor, I’m very smart :3
LiberalpoliticiansLemmy discovers presidents are not dictators
So…. Is it ALL of Lemmy that’s bOtH siDeS now, or just certain parts of it. I’d like to know if it’s time to go back to Reddit.
Til criticizing democrats is centrist
Just this tokenboomer guy posting stuff like this. I swear on this sub, any time it’s a crazy “but muh both sides” post, it’s this dude. Idk if a troll or a plant or a true believer. But it’s just so aggressively something that it does stand out as odd.
Cope
ITT American liberals realize they’re not leftists
