House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Democrats will not focus on impeaching President Trump if they regain a majority in the lower chamber after midterm elections.

“I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader added.

The House minority leader has lauded Democrats’ push for redistricting nationwide in an effort to pick up additional House seats and signaled that the party will advocate more for working-class Americans, after Democrats saw losses from the key demographic in the 2024 election.

(Obligatory https://readsettlers.org/ )

PS this is low effort memes, I’m not going to defend the meme in the comments - feel free to argue with yourselves

Edit: I’m not american so you’re extra wasting your time arguing 🤷‍♀️

  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    179·
    6 days ago

    Wow, “stop blaming voters”.

    America, do you even understand how a democracy is supposed to work? Hint: it’s not fire & forget every N years.

    Good luck you all, you need it.

    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
      151·
      5 days ago

      They quit teaching civics in school in the US 30 years ago. So, no, the kids you’re arguing with do not understand how a democracy is supposed to work. Yet another Republican success story.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      176·
      6 days ago

      Wow, “stop blaming voters”.

      Ok. Keep blaming voters. Scream at them until the end of time. It won’t change the electorate you have in front of you. You can appeal to the voters or lose. I know, it’s beneath you to treat the hostages like they’re people instead of vending machines that dispense votes when you kick them hard enough.

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        26·
        5 days ago

        Well sorry if it comes off like that but I sometimes feel I’m trying to instruct in a kindergarten. Do americans not study history of democracy, or of war? It’s like they do all the rookie mistakes.

        Good luck to them all.

        • Wakmrow@lemmy.world
          81·
          5 days ago

          I promise you everyone on the left understands US civics. Liberals can’t help but condescend and derail into metaphor because the arguments for their policy fucking suck.

    • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
      1814·
      6 days ago

      Liberals have a real problem reckoning with the fact that Kamala Harris lost because she was an unelectable piece of genocidal trash who deserves to be put on trial for crimes against humanity alongside Biden for their unlimited support to the genocidal regime of Israel, who advanced precisely zero popular policies, and ran entirely on a platform of “We’re like the Republican Party, but slightly less worse”.

      Liberals feel like their candidate was good, but only lost because voters are lazy, apathetic, stupid, etc. If the candidate was good, voters would overcome these obstacles and vote. I’m just explaining fundamental reality to people who do not want to come to terms with the fact that their political project, neoliberalism, is dead and gone.

      • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
        710·
        5 days ago

        Gald we have great morals and not voted for lesser genocide and allowed unbridled genocide to occur.

        If you want better candidates you need to find them long before election day. On election day it is too late to find your perfect candidate. And yeah, its no secret democrats are right wing… not really sure what you expected.

        • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
          127·
          5 days ago

          Leftists, including me, yelled as loudly and repeatedly as possible that Biden/Harris would lose the election, long before the election was held. We were ignored, and now, we’re being blamed for the loss that is 100% the fault of the centrist/right wing of the Democratic party.

          What do you think I’m doing now, literally YEARS out from the election? I am trying to help people understand WHY the Democrats lost, so that we can avoid a candidate who will lose in the same way.

          I’m trying to push the Democrats back towards the left wing because that is the best hope we have of curbing the rise of fascism.

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
            5·
            5 days ago

            I am trying to help people understand WHY the Democrats lost

            Look, I fucking led the fight trying to explain this to shitlibs and blue MAGA in '22, continuing into '23, and relentlessly in '24. And as I know I’m speaking to someone on the right side of that fight, I just want to point out to you to notice how they refuse to understand and that not understanding or being willing to understand how elections work, how electoralism works, how voting works, how voters work: their belligerence; their refusal to understand or live in a grounded reality; its a core function of their argument.

            At this point, there really is not excuse for them not understanding and acknowledging the damage they caused to democracy in 2023/24. And the refusal to understand and acknowledge effectively is the argument they are making. They don’t care that they’re wrong, they only care that they their grievances and sensibilities stay centered as the highest priority of the democratic party. My point here, is that we need to shift our understanding of what liberals/ shitlibs/ blue MAGA is trying to accomplish when they insist that its voters that need to adapt to bad policy and undetectable candidates. As progressives/ socialists, we think were running in a political contest. This cohort understand something we don’t: they understand that they are in competition for cultural control of the entire suite of demographics living in the tent of the Democratic party.

            And I think its appropriate to use the pejorative Blue MAGA here, for the same reasons we use MAGA to describe the same phenomenon on the right. Characters like SMCF aren’t making a political argument or waging a battle to get their suite or policies centered in the Democratic party: they’re waging a battle to maintain their white/ NPR liberal cultural identity as the central focus of the Democratic party. And this why the pejorative is the correct word to use here: MAGA also started as a project to maintain the centralism of white identity politics. Blue MAGA is culture wars, but internal to the Democratic party. Their arguments aren’t political, they’re cultural. Their fight is to keep their sensibilities and identity the central focus and project of the Democratic party. And these are the people who are also least impacted by the US’s turn to fascism. They are the protected class of fascism, and they are fighting to keep it that way.

            So when you hear ABWD/ Shitlib/ Blue MAGA hog sounds coming from a chat thread, I think its useful to understand why they are doing what they are doing. And yes, Blue MAGA is the right word to use here, because, like MAGA, their fight isn’t truly political, its cultural. And I think if we shift our understanding into these terms, it helps explain behaviors that otherwise wouldn’t make sense, like for example, insisting on running the worst possible candidates in the “most important elections of our lifetime”.

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
            25·
            5 days ago

            the way to do that is not by yelling online, but by getting out there and actually doing politics. getting involved. if you think only democrats are electable, get involved with democrats and get folk at the local level excited for your causes (i’ll give you a hint mine are healthcare and homelessness). maybe even become a candidate for some office yourself. we always need folk on school boards and city councils who can advance sensible agendas and stop far right folk from taking over.

            • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
              91·
              5 days ago

              I’m doing all sorts of things outside of the Internet, but I think it’s a perfectly useful tool to help others come to the same realizations I have so that they can help advocate for a better world alongside me, no?

              It’s not like I’m just posting this here so I can yell at people or something. I am doing advocacy online, in my spare time, alongside all of the other stuff I do.

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        89·
        5 days ago

        If you’re an American then it is up to you to find a good candidate. It’s not going to work if you wait for someone to spoon feed you the “right”(enough) candidate.

        • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
          125·
          5 days ago

          I regularly encourage people to get engaged in the democratic process, especially primaries, as well as participating in workplace organizing and activist efforts. Please enjoy one of my many homemade copypastas:

          Organize, protest and elect. Emphasis on organize and protest.

          1. Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
          2. Organize, network, focus on building solidarity. Join or form a union. Join the IWW.
          3. Vote at primaries and elections for the best candidate, even if you doubt they can win.
          4. Don’t punch down.
          5. Don’t punch left.
          6. Educate yourself, politically.
          7. Push for voting reform and for anything that breaks the two-party system.
        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
          32·
          5 days ago

          This is just… Its such a hilariously insane sentiment to express. I’m like, genuinely glad that shitlibs can’t help themselves and are willing to just live with their whole ass hanging out. Just, honestly, thank you. Thank you for always saying the quiet parts out loud. You make it so much easier to identify and understand why and how liberalism ends up at fascism.

          And what you are doing is important, even if its naively so. We need this kind of thinking documented, if only to study in an effort to make sure no one ever repeats it.

          • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            13·
            5 days ago

            Dude can only treat people as “LiBeRaLs” when they do not “agree”.

            I’m not american. Not your LIbErAl either lol.

            But please continue insulting people left right center, that’s the winning strategy champ!

            Oh yeah, blocked.