In Reply to: No but you holding those who fail to stop neocon wet posted by azbruin on February 28, 2026 at 07:51:29
who *consistently fail* to raise bloody hell about these things and show an actual effort to communicate their heartfelt opposition and anger to greater *ire* than the actual perpetrators.
Fascists who do this kind of sh*t need to be held accountable for their actions. When all is said and done, they're the ones who have to answer for the death, pain, and misery they inflicted on all of us. But at the end of the day, I see nothing meaningful about yelling at a fascist that they are fascicts. You can yell at a wolf all day long that he's a predator. Won't make a lick of difference. A predator is gonna do what a predator does.
The guards who are supposed to protect us, people we elected to represent us, on the other hand ... they are not the ones who are not doing their job. They are supposed to be our proxies. That's how representative democracy works. They need to do their f*cking job and represent us.
Democrats have this inexplicable idea that if you don't have the power to change things, that's where politicking ends. That's absolutely insane. Having the power to make a change is the final step of making a change. Change starts with opposition, conflict, making your case rationally, making your case emotionally, pushing every button until your point of view is finally regarded as something worthy of thought and discussion, and eventually perhaps, a vote. You can't back out because the line is too long.
Obama did exactly that on Guantanamo, holding torturers accountable for their actions, the 2008 financial collapse, and the lies told about the Iraq war. He backed out of a conflict every chance he got. He did not push for a point of view to even try to move the overton window. We are living in a world that is a consequence of that decision.
If the Democratic Party wants to be the represenatative of the people who are left out and left behind, they need to act like one and draw attention to all these things that are happening. Make the argument that these actions are unacceptable from any number of points of view. When something happened in Minnesota, they had some positions that they expressed (some weak a$$ training argument but at least they said *something*) amd now *this* happens in Kansas, and they're mum. "Sorry dude, we did all we could".
That's why I'm angry at Democrats more than I am angry with Republicans or the Trump admin. You don't get mad at your opposition for scoring a TD on you, you get mad at the defender who was caught out of position, or whatever.