#Democrat Party collapse

[quillsword]

The Democrat Party Is Dead

It officially died on Friday, March 14, 2025. Don’t look at me in that tone of voice! I didn’t kill it. The Democrats did that all by themselves. Yep, that’s a pretty specific date. Enjoy it. It’s extremely rare that an exact date gets applied to a political condition. So, why do I say it happened Friday? The Democrat leadership played themselves. The forced a situation where either they…

[hmantegazzi]

Ok, but the lawyers with papers aren't the last line of defense. They are the first. And that's ok, that's a reasonable scheme of escalation, that allows for these disputes to be solved peacefully.

The problem is that, in the US, and together with executive orders and other regulatory measures, they are used as the first, the last, and the only line of defense, with actual legislation and organised political protest being relegated to an almost anecdotic place, whereas in the rest of the world it is precisely political protest and legislation what makes the bulk of what protects people against abuses of all kinds of powerful and petty tyrants alike.

And you can see right now how the typical US strategy fails: with a captured judiciary heeding to the wishes of an extremist administration, and the political opposition, both in the legislature and in the streets, paralysed.

Note, in fact, how the most active elements that have raised to stop this electoral coup aren't part of the establishment of the opposition party, but rather independents, civil servants, career advocates and marginal members of the party, all of them already discontent with the aforementioned approach since way before all of this started.

What I want to say with this is that it's very different to be a compliant "opposition" and to be a lawyer that risks their own integrity by suing the government, or an organiser coordinating a massive protest, or a junior representative making a fuss in Congress knowing that no one there will have their back.

All of them are doing radical political action, at a huge personal cost, even if the means they are using right now are still legalistic, because those means are yet to be exhausted, and they are working.

Their biggest problems right now are coordination and legitimacy, and both are the kind of things for what political parties are made for. So either they seize the chance to oust the collaborators inside the opposition, or ditch it and make their own party, but for any of those things, they need a lot of support, of new people taking charge of extra tasks, because they already have their hands full.

Do you want a US workers' party that defends people like you for real? Now it's the perfect time to build one.

“This thing is legally dubious and therefore technically unenforceable.” Is not a “useless liberal gotcha” it’s how legalism works in this country. Tying up stupidly worded EOs in court is the quickest way to keep them from being implemented. It is the definition of “doing something.” But it doesn’t usually involve much tweeting so of course a certain type of leftist feels obligated to mock it.

[kaijuerotica]

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[calicojack1718]

Trump's Narcissistic Collapse: The Destruction of Our Country and the World's Economy

Reading time: 3 minutes Trump's loss of Election 2020 was such a narcissistic wound that it caused narcissistic collapse. Now we are witnessing the destruction of our government, democracy, and country as he tries to avenge the loss.

SUMMARY: In the 2024 election campaign, Trump’s narcissistic collapse becomes evident through his reactions to various setbacks, including indictments and civil judgments. This collapse manifests in destructive behavior, targeting not only political opponents but also the very systems and structures that sustain him. His blame extends to the Republican Party, MAGA voters, Democrats, and even the…

[katisconfused]

We have literally had people run as democrats, spend their whole term playing devils advocate for the GOP and sabotaging dem policy, and then change their affilation to independent. A local democrat I voted in in like 2023 endorsed RFK in 2024.

You can be mad at individual voters for not showing up, but the fact there is SIGNIFICANTLY more ire for uneducated, unelected people being targeted by psyops than the politicians who prioritize their careers over democracy does nothing but validate the people saying that supporting the "lesser evil" is a waste of energy.

There are people (all of whom live online) who demand more accountability and compliance from random social media posters than elected Democrats, I don't think it's really possible to have a dialogue with them.

[wilwheaton]

The notion that the United States is “polarized” into two conflicting, equally stubborn and extreme camps infects much of the mainstream news coverage and everyday chatter about politics. Washington is “broken.” “Gridlock” is a problem. “No one goes out to dinner with someone on the other side.” Such mealy-mouthed language masks a stark dichotomy: Democrats have to move to the center to get bipartisan support; Republicans have become radicalized and unmovable. This is not “polarization.” It is the authoritarian capture of much of the GOP by a right-wing movement bent on sowing chaos. Turkey, Hungary and other countries with autocratic strongmen are not polarized; democratic forces try their best to prevent their country’s ruin and collapse into total dictatorship. Our political scene, sadly, has come to resemble the global authoritarian assault on democracy. [...] The bipartisan border compromise ... was sunk by Republicans. Republicans in the House overwhelmingly opposed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, commonly known as the “Bipartisan” Infrastructure Bill (which President Biden modified to get bipartisan support); almost every Republican voted against the Chips Act, they all voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, and some even voted against the Pact Act, which would have helped veterans. House Republicans have launched phony, baseless impeachment hearings. Senate Republicans filibustered reenactment of a key part of the Voting Rights Act, blocked a bipartisan Jan. 6, 2021, commission and overwhelmingly refused to convict four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump. The assertion that hyper-partisanship, chaos and nihilism (e.g., threatening to shut down the government, egging on a default and refusing to even vote on Ukraine aide) is equally divided amounts to an outright fabrication — or utter cluelessness.

The radicalization of the Republican Party is not ‘polarization’

[leyenra8]

Agenda: Grinding America Down

The Fact-Based documentary detailing a COMMUNIST AGENDA for the last 70 years to corrupt American Institutions – from Education to Hollywood to Media – and sabotage America, and its values from within.

The main strategy is to Divide and Conquer – to turn Americans against each other.

After watching the documentary, at least you know why the DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS.

The only way to DEFEAT the DEMOCRATS is to Call Them What They Are – DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS.

Once the American people find out the Truth – DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS, it could DESTROY the party forever.

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Agenda 2: Masters Of Deceit

This is the sequel to the Blockbuster Documentary, Agenda: Grinding America Down.

A Powerful Documentary that exposes how the DEMOCRATS are exploiting the issues of our time, and using them as weapons to destroy what is left of our collapsing country.

It received the Award for “Best Documentary” in 2016!

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[komsomolka]

The project of liberal hegemony requires heavy-handed propaganda to conceal the contradiction that Ukraine as a frontline against Russia cannot be democratic. In 2019, the anti-Russian policies of Poroshenko contributed to giving the national government its lowest approval rating in the world, merely 9 per cent (Bikus, 2019).

Volodymyr Zelensky subsequently won a landslide victory with 73 per cent of the popular vote in 2019 on the platform that he would negotiate with Donbas and improve relations with Russia. Pressured by right-wing nationalists at home, as well as Washington, Zelensky reversed his election promises claiming he would not talk to “terrorists” and he would seek NATO membership and partners in the struggle against Russia. Zelensky’s approval ratings subsequently collapsed and a poll from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in October 2021 revealed that Zelensky’s approval had been reduced to merely 24 per cent (KIIS, 2021).

As the popularity of Ukraine’s main opposition leader, Viktor Medvedchuck, surpassed that of Zelensky, Medvedchuk was arrested and indicted. Zelensky then also had former president Poroshenko indicted. Furthermore, Zelensky ordered the closure of opposition media. While Zelensky does not have the legal authority to shut down media outlets, Zelensky responded by retroactively annulling the appointment of the head of the Constitutional Court, and disregarding the Supreme Court’s verdict that he should be reinstated (Petro, 2021).

By framing eastern Ukrainians as instruments of a Russian hybrid war, the US can sell the suppression of eastern Ukrainians as advancing democracy. [...] Never mind that these are long-standing Ukrainian opposition parties and Ukrainian-based/Ukrainian-owned media channels. Denying agency to Russian-speaking Ukrainians, the banning of the Russian language in books, movies and other works is also consistent with the US approach to Ukrainian nation-building. The bold ambition to sever a millennium of Russian-Ukrainian cultural connection to create a new geopolitical reality has made the US an eager participant in a proxy culture war.

The think tank Atlantic Council hails Ukraine’s decoupling from the Russian Orthodox Church as an important step towards sovereignty. The US directly contributes to an anti-Russian national narrative as the US Senate passed a resolution in 2018 that defined the Holodomor famine as a deliberate “genocide” against the Ukrainians, while supporting oppressive language laws. The West also engaged in minor initiatives such as changing the English spelling of the Ukrainian capital from Kiev to Kyiv to resemble the Ukrainian spelling instead of the Russian, in a show of solidarity with the ethno-cultural nationalists. [...]

Washington also supports the anti-Russian historical narrative that whitewashes Nazi collaborators as freedom fighters. A video posted by the Cold War propaganda channel RFE/RL, argued that Ukrainians are deeply divided about whether Stepan Bandera was a hero or a villain, before leaning heavily in favour of the hero narrative. Every year since 2013, the US has voted against a UN resolution “combatting glorification of Nazism” to protect the ethno-nationalist view that Western Ukrainian fascists collaborating with Hitler against the Soviet Union were heroes and freedom fighters. In November 2021, the US and Ukraine were the only two countries in the entire world to vote against the resolution of combatting the glorification of Nazism.

Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics by Glenn Diesen.

[quillsword]

Here Come the Rats: Proof that Neither Elites nor Oligarchs Rule America

Oh, settle down. I didn’t say that those rich boys weren’t powerful. They are, but they just found out that they aren’t as powerful as they thought they were.  How do I know?  Simple, look at how many of those guys were at Trump’s inauguration. They were all card carrying Democrats on November 5th but now they’re scrambling to get in Trump’s good graces.  Brown nosing is not the sign of either…

[tanadrin]

The supposed efficiency and effectiveness of fascism was always propaganda: in reality, fascist regimes were deeply inefficient, hobbled by interpersonal rivalry, had institutions weakened or totally subverted by the personalist nature of leadership, and were deeply corrupt and lawless.

So it really, really bugs me how so much speculative fiction and even casual discourse since has taken WW2 era propaganda about fascism at face value, and depicted authoritarianism generally and fascism in particular as an intrinsic tradeoff between the chaos and disorder of liberty and the order of repression. Fascism is not orderly! That was always a lie. There is a reason right-wing authoritarian regimes have mid performance at best and at worst collapse due to infighting and military defeat—they suck at running states!

Democracy is the ideology of order and stability. Democracy provides for stable succession and can sustain rule of law in ways personalist rule cannot. Democracy can create avenues of accountability to reduce corruption that authoritarian (or even one-party rule) could never contemplate. “Democracy is chaos” is a lie invented by fascists to try to discredit liberal principles, and the apparent “chaos” of interwar democracies was often caused by the fascists themselves because they did not believe in liberalism.

I think of this most often in the context of video games about politics where it is assumed that authoritarian governance gives you efficiency bonuses at some cost to happiness or freedom—but I think these mechanics are backward. Fascism and authoritarianism are good for the narrow ruling clique at the top, the people they personally enrich, but they make for brittle and weak states, and they often fuck over even the narrow ethnic group or core citizenry whose will they are supposed to be channeling. Starting World War II was very bad for almost all Germans and Italians!

By contrast political scientists debate if a consolidated liberal democracy has ever deconsolidated, and the biggest challenges to democratic systems of government have tended to come when those systems are illiberal (as before the American Civil War), or being sabotaged by most participants (as Weimar Germany, where neither the left nor the right were really interested in democracy).

[dre759]

Democracy in the USSR could have been more advanced in 1985 than it actually was, but that is no reason to identify “lack of democracy” as the main cause of the end of the Soviet Union. Many observers have little understanding of the actual features of socialist democracy. If the word “democracy” means the empowerment of working people, then the Soviet Union had democratic features that surpassed any capitalist society. The Soviet state had a greater percentage of workers involved in the Party and government than was the case with parties and governments in capitalist countries. The extent of income equality, the extent of free education, health care and other social services, guarantees of employment, the early retirement age, the lack of inflation, the subsidies for housing, food, and other basics, and so forth, made it obvious that this was a society run in the interests of working people. The epic efforts to build socialist industry and agriculture and defend the country during World War II could not have occurred without active popular participation. Thirty-five million people were involved in the soviets. Soviet trade unions had powers over such things as production goals, dismissals, and their own schools and vacation resorts that few, if any, trade unions in capitalist countries could claim. Unless there is enormous pressure from below, capitalist states never challenge corporate property. Advocates of the superiority of Western democracy ignore class exploitation, focus on process not substance, and give credit for capitalist democracy to capital, not its real defender and promoter, the modern working class. They compare capitalist democracy's achievements to its past, but, asymmetrically, compare socialist democracy's achievements to an imagined ideal.

-Socialism Betrayed: Behind The Collapse Of The Soviet Union by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny, page.235

(Link to the PDF included in the hyperlink)

[seth-suffers]

So You're British and Terrified What the Local Elections Will Mean About the General Election and the Fate of the Country in General.

I am too and here's some things I'm telling myself to stay hopeful!

Local elections don't have a high turnout! On average about 30% of people actually vote in them! In a general election you will have a larger amount of voters and more tactical votes as people take it a lot more seriously.

Also! Although Reform gained a lot of seats, so did the Liberal Democrats, a party who do align themselves with the transgender population and have left leaning views. As well as this, so did the Green party, another left leaning party

The next general election will be in 2029 (it could be sooner but I don't believe the Labour party are going to do that) and that means Labour has enough time to get their shit together. That's four whole years!

Following from this, these results have already frightened Labour members- they are starting to evaluate how they're losing the working class vote and seek to regain it (this link is from the guardian hence the shinigami eyes. Unfortunately as we know every British newspaper is transphobic)

Having reform councils and mayors is going to give their voters an idea of what a reform government could be like. It's going to be rough, but it is going to demonstrate how much worse it can be if we have a reform parliament and will turn people off of voting Reform in a general election. (Think UKIP 10 years ago).

As well as this, during a general election people will begin to educate themselves more- the average Reform voter isn't aware of their policies concerning the NHS and trade with the US. This will come to light during debates and closer to a general election.

UKIP collapsed and so will Reform.

Everyone remember to stay vigilant, vote in your next local elections. Those of you who didn't have local elections this year, vote in yours when it happens! And stay strong and safe until the next general election. There are resources to know how to tactical vote against the conservatives and I believe there will be ones to tactically vote against Reform in the future.

Once again stay strong, safe and alive!

[afloweroutofstone]

A Review of Leftist Third Party and Independent Presidential Runs in the US, 1976-2024

I went a little overboard with this, so I guess I might as well post it. Here's some stuff from a dataset of left-wing third party and independent US Presidential campaigns that I made.

The US is doomed to a two-party system until we enact electoral reforms that move us away from first-past-the-post elections. But that doesn't mean that leftists haven't tried! A total of 11 million votes have been cast for the presidential campaign of left-wing third parties and independents over the last 50 years, averaging about 848,000 per election.

These leftist third party (LTP) efforts can be divided into six ideological tendencies:

Green Party (64% of LTP votes) - The progressive and eco-socialist Green Party is the largest leftist third party in the US.

Independents & Others (15% of LTP votes) - Leftist independent candidates and a handful of other parties that don't fit neatly into the other groups.

Other New Left & Ecosocialist (12% of LTP votes) - Other parties which are ideologically comparable to the Green Party, but which exist separately from it.

Marxist-Leninist (4% of LTP votes) - The two main electoral parties advocating for Marxism-Leninism in the US today.

Trotskyist (3% of LTP votes) - The two main electoral parties advocating for Trotskyism in the US today.

Old Left (2% of LTP votes) - Two leftist parties which played a major role in the early 20th century but have since experienced a major declined in significance.

Independents and Other New Left parties tend to pop up with a strong performance every few elections, but they fail to sustain their momentum. The Old Left has declined over time, and the Trotskyists have also struggled to make a mark in the 21st century. Marxist-Leninists suffered a complete collapse in support after the fall of the Soviet Union, but have been growing consistently over the last six elections and are now the second-largest bloc. The Green Party emerged after the Soviet collapse and quickly took over the role as the lead of the LTPs, although it's success peaked in the 2000 election with Ralph Nader.

The Green Party's dominance here is hard to ignore. Of the 8 elections they've participated in, they've received the majority of LTP votes in 6 of them. The only exceptions were 2004 and 2008, when the Green Party was frequently smeared as a spoiler by the Democratic Party and Ralph Nader was running as a third-party candidate on non-Green tickets.

Beyond the Green Party and the various independents, the most successful parties were:

The Peace and Freedom Party (8.9% of the LTP votes), effectively the leader of the "Other New Left" parties (though they haven't run a candidate since 2012).

The People's / Citizens Party (3.2%), progressives who had a strong run from 1976-1984.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (3.1%), who are the primary drivers of Marxist-Leninist votes after the collapse of the USSR.

The New Alliance Party (2.8%), an unusual socialist party sometimes accused of cult-like behavior that nonetheless had a strong run from 1984-1992.

The Communist Party USA (1.3%), a staple of the old left which had a consistent base of support for its candidacies from 1976-1984.

The fact that so many different leftist third parties have all tried and failed to even come close to a presidential victory suggests to me that US leftists involved in these efforts should 1) spend more time advocating for electoral reforms that break up the two-party duopoly and make it possible for third parties to run effectively, and 2) focus their electoral attention on lower offices, using Presidential elections only as an opportunity to attract national attention to their congressional, state, and local candidacies.

[leyenra8]

Agenda: Grinding America Down

The Fact-Based documentary detailing a COMMUNIST AGENDA for the last 70 years to corrupt American Institutions – from Education to Hollywood to Media – and sabotage America, and its values from within.

The main strategy is to Divide and Conquer – to turn Americans against each other.

After watching the documentary, at least you know why the DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS.

The only way to DEFEAT the DEMOCRATS is to Call Them What They Are – DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS.

Once the American people find out the Truth – DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS, it could DESTROY the party forever.

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Agenda 2: Masters Of Deceit

This is the sequel to the Blockbuster Documentary, Agenda: Grinding America Down.

A Powerful Documentary that exposes how the DEMOCRATS are exploiting the issues of our time, and using them as weapons to destroy what is left of our collapsing country.

It received the Award for “Best Documentary” in 2016!

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[max1461]

I think that the average internet Marxist is actually not much of a materialist at all, in fact in their behavior and rhetoric they seem very concerned with moral purity, the redemptive power of suffering, and the ability of narrative to shape the actual world. As myriad as the senses of the word "materialist" have come to be, none of this would seem to comport well with any of them. This all feels very Christian.

In some cases I really do think there is a latent Christianity in it, but I think the stronger source of this trend is simply the leftist emphasis on sloganeering. Somewhere along the line, maybe with the Bolshevik policy of democratic centralism or maybe somewhere else, the importance of the slogan, the party line, the supreme power of the speech act seems to have been elevated for many leftists above all other concerns. From this follows the kind of disingenuous, obviously fallacious argument you so often see from the online ML left. The point is to say the magic words that have been carefully agreed upon, the magic incantation that will defeat all opposition.

Whether it's "I don't want to vote for a candidate who supports any amount of genocide" or "The Is-not-rael Zionist entity is on the edge of collapse!" or whatever else, a rational person can recognize the impotence of these words. They don't do anything. They're just words. But the feeling seems to be that once the perfect incantation is crafted—the incantation that makes your opponent sound maximally like a Nazi without engaging with their position in good faith, or the incantation which brushes aside all thoughts of defeat, or whatever else—once the perfect incantation is crafted, all that is left to do is say it and say it and say it, and make sure everyone else is saying it too.

This is not a materialist way of approaching politics. This is a mystical way of approaching politics.

I think it's also worth saying that this tendency in Marxism seems old, it certainly predates the internet. Lots of Marxists today are vocal critics of identity politics, of what they see as the liberal, insubstantive, and idealist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion framework. I share this criticism to a significant degree, but I'm not very eager to let Marxists off the hook here. The modern DEI framework evolved directly out of a liberal/capitalist appropriation of earlier academic ideas about social justice from such sources as Queer Studies, Black Studies, academic Feminism and so on. I say this as a neutral, factual description of its history which I believe to be essentially accurate. In turn, disciplines like Queer Studies, Black Studies, and academic Feminism each owe a great intellectual dept to academic Marxism, and likewise to the social movements of the 1960s (here in the Anglosphere), which themselves were strongly influenced by Marxism.

Obviously as the place of these fields in the academy was cemented, they lost much (most) of their radical character in practice. To a significant degree however, I think their rhetorical or performative radicalism was retained, and was further fostered by the cloistered environment of academia. In this environment the already-extant Marxist tendency to sloganeering seems in my impression to have metastasized greatly. And so I think the political right is not actually wrong, or not wholly wrong, when they attribute the speech-act-centrism of modern American (and therefore, online) politics, its obsession with saying things right above doing things right and its constantly shifting maze of appropriate forms of expression, at least in part to Marxism.

Now I should say that I don't think the right is correct about much else in this critique, and I also don't think this is wholly attributable to Marxism. But I think there's plainly an intellectual dept there.

More than anything else, this is my genuine frustration with both Marxism as it exists today and with its intellectual legacy as a whole. I fundamentally do not believe in the great transformative power of speech acts, I do not believe in the importance of holding the correct line, I do not believe that the specifics of what you say or how you say it matter nearly as much as what you do. I do not think there is much to be gained from playing the kind of language games that Marxists often like to play, and I do not think that playing language games and calling it "materialist analysis" is a very compelling means of argument.

[quillsword]

Can the Democrat Party Rebuild?

I forgot to mention this possibility in my last post. Yeah, it’s possible. Not probable at the moment and impossible to predict, but possible. If – very big if – it happened, what would it look like? Basically, there would be an internal fight for control of the party. It might start with a split between the Clinton and Obama camps with each trying to gain control of the party. Neither of those…