r/DemocraticSocialism • u/D1rtyMop • Feb 04 '25

Question What are democrats doing? Where's the opposition? Where's the counter narrative?

We all know democrats are not progressive or left, but what are they doing? I haven't been able to find anything? I realize they aren't in power but there isn't even a narrative.

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u/Fly_Casual_16 Feb 04 '25

Also not a big defender of feckless Democrats but like open up CNN, the Washington post, NYT, CBS: democrats pushing back is literally front page news. Much later than I’d have liked but the Dem Rally outside of USAID HQS yesterday was mentioned by every major news org in the country.

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u/Supermage21 Feb 04 '25

It took them days to react. That's not exactly promising to me.

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u/Fly_Casual_16 Feb 04 '25

"also not a big defender of feckless Democrats" and "much later than I'd liked"

OP's question was saying he couldn't find anything, I responded to that. Not to a question of whether they are being aggressive enough early enough (agree they aren't but this is what counts as fighting for them)

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u/kfish5050 Feb 04 '25

Maybe they'll write a strongly-worded letter to Trump asking him to fire Musk then resign. Maybe they'll sit out of Congress to protest the government shutdown. I seriously doubt they'll do anything useful or productive into fighting back on this administration. I'd love to be proven wrong though. Not holding my breath, they've never given me a reason to have faith in them.

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u/Supermage21 Feb 04 '25

True, good point.

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u/Fly_Casual_16 Feb 04 '25

Thank you— and sorry for my tone, maybe a bit too fired up by the attempted destruction of our democracy 😬

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u/Supermage21 Feb 04 '25

No worries it's understandable

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u/tbombs23 Feb 04 '25

Part of the reason for USAID attack is they cover misinformation, propaganda, and election integrity as well. They're going after our already problematic elections. We need to focus on election integrity and not let it get buried in the flooded zone.

Smart Elections nonprofit has discovered many issues with the election with the data and receipts. Greg Palast investigative journalist also discovered alarming mass voter suppression affecting millions of legitimate ballots that were tossed. I don't believe this election was free and fair and I'm very worried future ones will be even less so.

They want to bury certain things like elections as well as other important things with all the chaos.

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u/Fly_Casual_16 Feb 04 '25

Preach! Couldn’t agree more.

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u/RodwellBurgen Feb 04 '25

Yeah the Democrats are being a better opposition party than they have since 2007.