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'Stop Playing Nice,' Says AOC as Senate Dems Help Approve Yet Another Trump Nominee

www.commondreams.org 'Stop Playing Nice,' Says AOC as Senate Dems Help Approve Yet Another Trump Nominee | Common Dreams

Democratic lawmakers are outraged at Elon Musk's takeover of federal agencies, calling it the beginning of a dictatorship. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez demands action to stop Musk's power grab and urges Democrats to block Trump's nominees.

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The elite Democrats aren't worried about fighting back.
They are trying to figure out how they can win the next round AND HOW THEY WILL USE THE SYSTEM TO THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE ONCE THEY REGAIN CONTROL.
We need another party that is actually for the people.
- Green party right there
  
  Green "Sitting Down With Putin For Dinner" Party?
  Yeah, we want a party not beholden to oligarchs...
  
  How big is the green party?
  How many of them do you suppose vote in the green party primaries?
  How many people do you think it might take to just walk in and take it over?
  
  Yeah, we want a party not beholden to oligarchs…
  
  Its a big club and you ain't in it.
  
  A big part of politics is interfacing with people you might not agree with. It's called diplomacy.
  
  Right? I make no bones about the situation at all...
  
  Stop nominating psycho con artists and we can talk.
  
  Hasn't been relevant since Nader, has no brand power, might as well start from scratch.
  
  I'd love to see them do something other than show up every 4 years and only for President, too.
  That brand has been ruined, as far as I can tell. Also, the name just screams single issue....
  
  Yup, the “only turning up to attempt to spoil the presidential race for the democrat candidate every 4 years” just screams “Russian plant” to me. If they actually wanted to affect change, they would start at the local level and grow from there. But they aren’t actually interested in changing anything; They just want to poach votes from democrats, to hand the win to republicans.
  At best, if we assume they actually have good intentions, they’re the equivalent of jumping straight into the deep end of the pool without even knowing how to swim. Except they keep jumping in every 4 years, despite the fact that they have put zero effort into learning how to swim.
  
  They are active throughout all the year. Just that they get ignored by the corporate media until it is election time. Almost as if the corporate media has an interest to only use them for diversion and not in honestly representing their political positions.
  
  There is green partys all over the world and they cover all political topics.
  What do you want parties to be called to not sound single issue?
  The party for peace and prosperity under a reasonably regulated economy with free education and workers right, environmental protection and representative democracy and a yet to develop position on electric vehicle subsidies...
  And one of their opponents would be:
  The party for peace and prosperity under a reasonably regulated economy with free education and workers right, environmental protection and representative democracy and a no subsidies for electric vehicles but more for public transport...
  So the PPURREFEWREPRDYDPEVS vs. the PPURREFEWREPRDNSEVMPT
  EDIT: Why are people downvoting this? The argument that a party name would "scream single issue" is obviously an insincere argument. No party has a name to represent all their political positions and there is green parties all over Europe, many of which have been part of state or federal governments. It is just absurd to claim their name to "scream single issue".
  
  Look, I'm just saying that looking like they are only about the environment is a non-starter in the USA, anyway. Hate to say it, but the Green Party is more or less a punchline in the United States. When it comes down to it, everyone wants clean air and clean water - even the cons don't want pollution where THEY live (and most normal Americans understand the stakes when it comes to climate change).
  But as a brand....the qons have done so much to smear anyone concerned primarily with environmental things as just a hippy-dippy granola dipstick that is into jam bands - it's a caricature for sure, but it works.
  A party needs to have broader appeal than just that.
  
  But people don't consider the Republicans as a single issue party, that want a republic, or the Democrats as a single issue party, that want democratic elections.
  For the green parties, claiming them to be single issue is a narrative that is repeated, for instance by corporate media that does not want people to realize that there is more progressive political positions than privatized healthcare and a limited number of sick days.
  
  Not sure what to tell you - do you see a lot of working class people that barely have the time/inclination to pay attention to things past glancing at headlines to realize that the Green party - which again, has been branded by most of the radical right and the "liberal media" already?
  I'm just saying what is. They'd have a lot to work on to gain the trust of Americans beyond this branding, though. People are not going to forget Nader and Stein so easily and many of us are still quite angry about it. There is virtually nothing from them on the local level as well. Trying to do it top-down just isn't going to do anything, anyway. Suppose they somehow managed to get a President elected. Then what?
  
  you still talk to democrats, curious.
  
  Alright if that's your view of it then fine, punch them down, but prop something up that's suitable. America is on fire right now. The people need something to rally behind that isn't MAGA. All the opposition wants to do is infight. There's nothing uniting everyone except Fuck Trump.
  
  Did it matter in WW2 that the Allies didn't have more to rally behind than Fuck Hitler? Anything is more suitable than fascism.
  
  WWII was Hitler and friends going out and killing the neighbors. If he was just an asshole, the war wouldn't have happened.
  
  Democratic Party: "The green party are con artists that are bought out by the Russians and only show up every 4 years, so anything except the Democrats is completely nonviable"
  Democrat voters: "Oh my god! The green party are con artists that are bought out by the Russians and only show up every 4 years, so anything except the Democrats is completely nonviable"
  
  They're not wrong
  
  Oh yeah, could be, but they had jack shit to back it up.
  
  What if I don't believe in the healing power of crystals?

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