What we need to grasp about this moment, and what Democrats in particular need to understand, is that a revolution is already underway in this country. This is a moment of drastic, monumental change, initiated by a Republican Party poisoned by illiberalism and anti-democratic resentments and a figure in Donald Trump who wants to arrogate monarchical, despotic powers to himself. Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic And so our moment is a revolutionary one, too. No amount of Democratic quiescence can change this. The action is upon us. This all a bit of an airy way of saying something simple: Democrats need to wake up and realize what time it is. And I’ll be clear, I’m not a radical. The moment is. The Republicans and their Supreme Court are waging revolution by demolishing the institutions and rules of American liberty. Democrats who stand on procedure and pontificate about exercising caution and restraint are catastrophically out of step with events. Virginia must implement the map anyway. Democrats must be prepared to play hardball throughout the midterms and in 2028. And when the time comes, they’ll have to embrace an expansion of the Supreme Court, perhaps along the lines outlined here by Jonathan V. Last. This isn’t a call to violence. It’s a call to play hardball, fill the streets, and embrace ambitious and aggressive reform. Anything less is to miss the moment. It’s to stand flat-footed as history happens to us. And anyone so inclined should either come to their senses or get out of the way. This American republic, however you want to define it, has fallen. A revolutionary moment is here, and the future belongs to those who are willing to seize it and set the course of the nation. This moment requires that we act on the stage of history with celerity, forcefulness, and courage. Anyone who fails to do so will be rightly condemned instead. But those who do act could help usher in the next great American republic, one that might finally realize the seeds planted in our founding documents.
The democrats aren't going to wake up because they're not asleep. They aren't blind, or incompetent, or naive, or bamboozled. Their "revolutionary moment" came in 2016 when they could have had a candidate who beat Trump easily but instead insisted on the coronation of a vile narcissistic war criminal. Nothing they've done since has shown that they have any plans to change anything about the party's leadership, agenda, or actions. Just the opposite- they preferred to lose another election to Trump rather than change course on their support for genocide in Palestine. Fuck the republicans however fuck the democrats as well and twice as hard due to their hypocrisy and lies. #TranscendTheDuopoly
They shit their pants over AOC and Mamdani, and now Platner, so they aren't unbeatable or inevitable.
The Booing Will Continue Until Commencement Speeches Improve That's where I went to college. If the kids are actually booing him, that means that they haven't had the ability to think independently beaten out of them, or they're really pissed about AI. (BTW, that's the guy who shafted Taylor Swift over her master recordings.)
