• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    The passivity of regular folks is what allows fake grassroots interests to dominate the conversation on the Democratic side. Progressive people exist in the Democratic party, they aren’t all Feinsteins. It’s time to get the butts of people who are trying to enact change into seats of power, and let the ones who don’t retire.

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      5 months ago

      “let them retire”? Biden will never step down. Trump will never stop trying to be dictator. SCOTUS judges rule for life. Nobody with that level of power voluntarily retires. They need to be forced out of office. “let them retire” is the definition of passivity. Even if this is just about democrats, they’re no less power hungry than republicans. No Democrat in a position of power would voluntarily retire unless they got caught in a big enough scandal, and even then probably not