Serious questions: in response to the current US administration’s fascist atrocities, what can the Democrats do to make significant changes to what’s happening right now and are they doing them?
I think these are important questions because as a supposed opposition, you should oppose beyond rhetoric. Words are immaterial when people are being disappeared, brutalised, and murdered.
And this isn’t a gotcha moment or an open call to dunk on them. If we get lost in talk as action, the latter doesn’t happen. There needs to be a political plan and following through on that plan because as elected officials, you’re there to do things to improve and maintain your constituency as part of the wider nation. Couching action in language and intellectualism means we’ll never make it out of systematic oppression.
And maybe that’s the goal (I personally think it is but I’m also a cynic without working political knowledge). But my concern is with mistreated people—mostly from marginalised groups—and what they need, not with upholding institutional values, traditions, codes, and conventions. Politics are for and about the citizens, not the few sitting in offices and meetings.
So, what’s it gonna be?