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lees1975

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4. Public pressure, if organized well, can be very effective.
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 06:03 PM
Mar 3

But here's the real question. Democrats passed up chances to put a stop to this. We had four years. There should have been a calendar of what the administration planned to do to put a stop to this nonsense developed and implemented on January 21, 2021. But our politicians, irresolute, fearing that they might be seen as "political," and in some cases acting like they just really didn't want to get involved in a conflict, dragged their feet, made excuses and let it go. It's going to be difficult to get people riled up, protesting and in the streets when they didn't look like they cared much, and now they're going off in their own direction, Sanders and AOC getting out there, while others criticise them for getting out there. Doing a lot of talking, taking advantage of opportunities to raise money but not really making much of an obvious effort to organize for anything. We've got three congressional seats up for grabs on April 1, but who in Congress, or at the DNC, is heading up the effort to help them get elected? Or is everyone too interested in protecting their own turf to make an effort at this?

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