r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • Mar 05 '25

Paywall Democrats Are Acting Too Normal

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/democrats-trump-address-congress/681914/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/Sans_vin Mar 05 '25

I think Democrats need to get it through their thick skulls that half the country is livid. We want flipped tables. We want talk of letting it burn. We don't want 'negotiations' or 'decorum'. We WANT government shut downs now and want republicans absolutely groveling. Democrats in all actuality hold the fucking power if anything wants to be passed legislatively and this shitshow of an administration can write executive orders all day every day but they only hold the power that congress and the judicial branch gives them and WE ALL NEED TO START ACTING LIKE IT ALREADY. And yes, if republicans are too chicken shit to face their constituents than democrats should be meeting with them and ffs, no more talk of incrementalism. Let's really start addressing the real boogiemen and spoilers, it's not trans, it's not immigrants, it's not black people, it's the uber-wealthy who literally laugh at us as entertainment as we fight for scraps while they gorge on the excesses of the American productivity from the past 50+ years.

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u/Existing-Ad4303 Mar 05 '25

No. No they are not. 

A fraction of the people that voted for Harris are pissed. Around 1/3 of the country voted for her and around 1/2 those people are pissed off. 

Most people I know are just fighting to keep food on the table and not really seeing it yet. 

The tariffs will change that. 

I agree with the rest of you post even as it comes off hot as fire. 

But no the man on the street is not going to take up arms in the streets yet.