cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60005391
Top Virginia Democrats have decided against exercising a controversial procedural end run around last week’s state Supreme Court ruling that struck down their redistricting, which wiped away a gain of four House seats, the Democratic leader of the state Senate told The New Republic.
The decision—which nixes a complicated idea, discussed over the weekend by Democrats, to replace the state Supreme Court and get the case reheard—is likely to anger rank-and-file Democrats who had hoped the party would respond aggressively to the ruling, which has made it more likely that Republicans hold the House this fall.
The decision also contrasts sharply with moves undertaken by many GOP state legislatures in the South, who are aggressively gerrymandering their states with wild abandon to erase decades-old majority-majority seats from existence, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key Voting Rights Act protection against racial gerrymanders.
Seriously I’m so pissed off. When the fuck are democrats going to learn Republicans don’t care about rules and they shouldn’t either. Start fucking fighting. Don’t lay down!!!
When will you learn that Democrats are not real opposition? They exist to give you the illusion that someone is fighting on your behalf, when they’re in power they fund genocides and war crimes while gaslighting you and backing off on most of their top issues, when Republicans are in power suddenly they care about minorities and women and healthcare again. Rinse and repeat.
Run on single-payer healthcare; when in power, establish and defend a Republican healthcare plan. Run on protecting Roe; let it get shredded after decades of fundraising off the threat. Run on student debt relief; deliver a means-tested maze and call it historic. Run on climate action; approve drilling, pipelines, and record military budgets while telling you to recycle harder. Run on labor rights; break strikes when workers become inconvenient. Run on immigrant justice; expand deportation machinery, cages, surveillance, and border militarization, then act horrified when Republicans use the same tools more openly. Run on criminal justice reform; fund more cops. Run on democracy; crush third parties, sue to keep opponents off ballots, and tell you there is no alternative.
And every election, the pitch is the same: “This is the most important election of your life.” Not because they intend to transform anything, but because fear is the only thing they have left to sell. They point at Republicans and say, “Look how bad they are,” as if being slightly less openly cruel is a political vision.
The function of the Democratic Party is not to defeat the right. It is to absorb anger, neutralize movements, discipline the left, and protect the ruling class from any genuine alternative. They take the language of justice, diversity, feminism, labor, climate, and peace, strip it of any threat to capital or empire, and sell it back to you as branding.
They do not fail because they are weak. They fail because their donors, consultants, lobbyists, and institutions are getting exactly what they paid for: no universal healthcare, no end to empire, no serious redistribution, no confrontation with capital, no real democracy in the workplace, no liberation from police violence, no break with apartheid, no politics beyond managed decline.
Republicans tell you they are your enemy. Democrats tell you they are your friend while helping your enemy build the cage.
At some point, we have to stop mistaking betrayal for incompetence.
They exist to give you the illusion that someone is fighting on your behalf
And they aren’t even doing that anymore.
Virginians, you officially have a cuck problem. Or a findom problem. Or both in your democratic representatives.
Don’t get me wrong, we all do, the democratic party would rather suckle the teat of billionaires than EVER do anything to help the working class.
At the point that you ignore the will of the people through the most democratic method, their votes, what is holding up the government besides the good will of said people?
Fuck the parasites. Fuck the billionaires. They want to cry that “tax the rich” is akin to a racial slur. They’re lucky that’s what most people are saying, it’s the moderate position. But making the rule of law worthless and leaving no methods to make change?
You’re fast tracking revolution.
Let me know when we’re ready.
I think the question becomes “Why are Virginia Democrats defying the will of Virginia voters?”, considering Virginian voters said they wanted this.
Scratch a liberal…
“Go nuclear”
It was voted on by VA voters. Unlike every Republican redistricting.
and the Democratic party caves again. So over it
Quick! Hide behind my scruples for protection!
Democrats surrender without a fight
They deserve all the ire. Stand for something you weak willed cowards.
If they stand for nothing, what do they fall for?
They’re willing to wait for it.
Non-voters did nothing in the face of fascism. Ill boo them too.
Most non voters realize you get the same results regardless of which shade of fascism gets elected, nothing changes.
Yep. If the voters don’t show up, it’s not like the Democratic Party deserves all the blame.
I keep getting chastised about how politically incorrect it is to point the fingers at the voters, though. As if there is really any other option…
Okay, hol’ up. My head is spinning over this. We’re talking about Democrats who WON, who ARE IN OFFICE, refusing to act on the will of the voters…
…and it’s because they’re throwing a tantrum about not getting ENOUGH votes? That’s the only thing that I can parse out of blaming the non-voters here. Like, “Oh, we’d love to do something for you, but your fellow citizens were little shits who stayed home on election day. Sorry.”
Didn’t they already appeal to SCOTUS? I mean, technically, that’s more nuclear than the “nuclear option” in spirit.
Ffs. REPRESENT YOUR VOTERS. Not doing anything is exactly the GOP playbook. They want u to appear like you are breaking a rule, but they broke everything to put you in the position to act when what they did appears illegal.
Again, ffs.
Is this not controlled opposition? It doesn’t make any sense otherwise.
It makes sense if it’s a party of rich, comfortable, conservative-leaning liberals who aren’t really all that bothered by rich fascists running the country, and aren’t at all keen to hand any power to poor lefties who hate them and might challenge their privilege.
“Ohhh that must mean you’re a bot! Or Russian! Or secretly a Trumper! Talking back means you’re a fascist!”
-Your typical Blue No Matter Who voter
These are the very same people that are going to come begging for your votes in a few months, Telling you that you need to elect them to fight fascism and corruption.
And if you tell them you’re voting third party instead, they think you’re a Trumper. Yay.
Good thing I don’t give a fuck what they think
Both parties need to be replaced.
Just one time I want them to go nuclear, sift through the remains, pick out the large pieces, grind them all up, and take that dust to create a new glowing glass and drink the finest whiskey from it.
Make
Uranium
Glass
Great
Againseriously, when do they think they’ll have another chance to?
