During their protest of Russell Vought’s confirmation, Senate Democrats sounded the alarm about Vought’s role in drafting Project 2025 and his support for vastly expanding the power of the president.
Vought, said Wisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin at 10:30 pm eastern time on Wednesday, “has openly called for the president to defy congress and take control of federal funding decisions that are constitutionally vested in the legislative branch.”
Schiff accused the Trump administration of unlawfully attempting to break down the separation of powers and said Vought would play a role in aiding that effort.
“This is an effort to try to consolidate power, all the power of this government, in the hands of Donald Trump and a few of his hand-picked very wealthy, billionaire friends,” said California Democrat Adam Schiff.
People were sounding alarms long before the clueless democrats were, but democrats insisted on “reaching across the aisle” for decades, including in the most recent election where they reached right into dick cheney’s pants. Democrats want to appear like they’re doing something and that they’d absolutely totally would do something if they’d just win the election, and yet they never actually do anything to stop the decline (or, more importantly, reverse the decline) even when they do win.
The alarms been going off since fucking November when he won the election and y’all haven’t done a god damn thing except bend over and take it like a bunch of cowards.
Since November?
…try 2014.
I spent ten years trying to point out this stuff, ever since the alt-right first emerged and tried to popularize the term “Cultural Marxism”.
Had to counter that one by becoming a Wikipedian, and that sucked.
Since November? Nope. Your alarm is broke, mine went off way too early.
Obama promising a leftie-style government, then continuing to implement neoliberalism was my alarm that fascism was coming. This is also when I started getting into politics. Had I been both alive and into politics in the 1980s, I probably would have said Reagan was the alarm, and I would’ve agreed with that today, since he was largely responsible for introducing neoliberalism in the US.
Neoliberalism was our late stage capitalism, which was always destined to fail. Now we’re past that and now running into fascism, which was defined by the founder of fascism (Mussolini) as the merging or corporations and governments, which is what we’re seeing now.
From former president FDR: “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”
What choice do we have? Leftists stayed home during the election because of gEnOcIdE. So now democrats don’t have enough elected officials to do anything. Thanks leftists!
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This is why leftist keep losing elections and their legislation doesn’t get passed. They refuse to work with other ideologies and they don’t have enough voters to accomplish anything alone.
Democratic Party is made up of people the voters chose. Many of whom are moderate.
If leftists can’t get enough voters to change that, it won’t change.
Politicians don’t cater to groups that don’t vote.
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Nah, they just cater to their corporate donors and folks that would never vote for them.
Because of Citizens United, this is a necessary evil. You either get donors or you lose from lack of funding.
Look at the progressives that lost recently because AIPAC out funded their competition.
Voters had to chose between two candidates, one on the left and one on the right. Voters chose the one on the right. Meaning not enough leftist showed up to vote.
Leftist don’t show up to vote > voters chose the option furthest right > leftists learn nothing, blame democrats and do it again next cycle.
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And giving people the choice between center right and far-right doesn’t motivate voters.
That choice was made by the voters.
