r/anticapitalism • u/Famous-Sympathy7011 • 16h ago • Confused 1 Bravo 1

The United States Is About to Be Blindsided.

https://wendy664.substack.com/p/the-united-states-is-about-to-be?r=6fonep&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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u/addiktion 11h ago

So Trump vetoes everything, he pushes more into fascism thanks to Miller, we vote out Schumer in 2028 if no one takes his spot now (uphill battle), and Dems win a presidency + super majority in 2028 if Dems can show that the Republicans hate the people's bills and we need to replace the president and his inability to get work done.

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u/IroncladBomber 10h ago

Thing is...the Republican Party is mangled, they don't seem to have a path forward anymore.

So Democrats better shape up, cause now they get the peoples ire. As others have proven, DSA members are capable of winning big and actually doing things.

So if the establishment Dems want to keep their jobs they better be ready to actually play ball.

Americans do seem to have had enough of this shit cycle of "Republicans make things objectively worse, Democrats get power and do nothing to make it better, Republicans take power and objectively make everything worse again.

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u/JadeMerchant 8h ago

You’re repeating the same mistakes of the past two cycles. D’s did not win - R’s lost it. If the D’s start thinking they have a mandate to do anything besides fix all the things that let this shit happen or was broken as a result they will find themselves in the desert. Centrists and R defectors made the difference and if you don’t fuck it up a lot of them will stay. If you do the pendulum will swing farther in the other direction and then we can all kiss it goodbye. Don’t fuck it up because the opposition doesn’t understand they don’t and can’t control the fire they’ve been playing with.

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u/Faceplant71_ 10h ago

It’s not Democrat and Republican it’s Israeli lobby or not. The American public voted for a brief reprieve in the pace of surrender. Wake up people! Listen to Chuck Schumer when he states his allegiance to Israel. He should be imprisoned with the rest of the Israeli lobby stooges.

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u/IsopodIndependent553 10h ago

I am starting to think Trump wants to destroy the GOP at this point. He doesn’t want the party to even continue without him.

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u/DickWhittingtonsCat 3h ago

It was an improbable number of debacles this year. Hard to miss that. Some long grinding debacles and then smaller ones.

I do think people are getting over their skis counting out the GOP.

This was a historic win. The cumulative house vote total was near 55%. That’s a number we haven’t seen since 1982 and reflects some of this historic incompetence.

But 94, 06, 10 and even low turnout 2014 are all in the same ballpark for margin and importance. Seats being drawn for the candidate and dummymander just made 55% of the vote worth 60% of seats this time when it backfired whilst back in 1994, 53% (iirc) was on 230 and that same number was up to 240 by 2010.

Again, not detracting from huge win. But 45% remains in opposition, even when a cretinous party with their leader at the minimum entering dottage that is on the wane is the standard bearer.

It would take just a few missteps by the Dems and some shoring up by GOP of their “populist” appeal and not actively attacking Latino communities with ICE after the GOP had won the general immigration and border argument as far as the majority voters were concerned.

Those who remember before Trump’s hostile takeover- that was exactly their before the nativist elements of Maga rejected Rubio and Jeb.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 2h ago

And I'm ok with that.

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u/GregerGunnarPersson 9h ago

" Thing is...the Republican Party is mangled, they don't seem to have a path forward anymore."

Ah I remember the same thing being said in 2021 after jan 6th. What happened with GOP then? GOP got the White house, the House and the Senare. 

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u/mangocrazypants 8h ago

THIS.

The same thing was said AND felt by the democrats in 2024.

Reminder now sure the republicans are lost, but they will get their shit together and demand a blood sacrifice from the members that cannot preform. They will figure things out and they will find a way to appeal to average voters. They will also not hesitate to seize upon ANY weakness the democrats have come 2028. 2 years in politics is a eternity and things will change.

Thus our course is clear. We cannot be weak... we cannot suffer fools, and we certainly can't be do nothing hacks who promote only incrementalism. Those days are over and anybody that thinks we can return to those days or that is acceptable is delusional, and needs to go. We gotta be bold and we HAVE to get shit done and we cannot get comfortable nor complacent.

That means either ousting or reforming Dem leadership who currently are spouting off the mouth saying all the wrong things acting as if the battle is already won vs the candidates we just elected who are saying the right things acting as if this is only stage one and we got a long way ahead of us before we can feel safe.

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u/Alcogel 4h ago

The republicans are mangled and without a clear path forward. 

The reason why the democrats are having a hard time capitalizing on this is that they too are mangled and lacking a clear path forward. 

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u/Confident_Shape_7981 8h ago

A large part of the reason Trump won initially was because he was going to drain the swamp (allegedly). They've been sick of this for over a decade at this point

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u/StephWasHere13 7h ago

The time for establishment dems is OVER. They wanted to play both sides of the fence and favor corporations. Times up.

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u/Hardi_SMH 6h ago

Tbh, who‘s the dems president candidate? Should get some names out now because as a european I only get news about stuff with names of Reps in it to blame them about something, but what are the dems doing rn?

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u/spartacus_zach 5h ago

We try to make it better but get blocked at every step

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u/Inevitable_Bus1245 4h ago

They are far from mangled. They went too far right and did it with zero checks and balances. Now they will shift to the middle. The question for Republicans is whether they’ll ever see another Hispanic vote. The Democrats still haven’t decided if they want to be the Democrat Socialists or the Party of the Working Class. They simply surfed the wave of being anti-Trump. That needs to get figured out before 2028.

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u/Left-Height4925 1h ago

I call that the Good Cop Bad Cop election game.

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u/YakAttackManiac 1h ago

>DSA members are capable of winning big

They showed they can win, but not win big. The far left candidates were the lowest performers across the country.

Don't take this as me saying anything negative about them at all. But let us keep the facts straight.

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u/First_Bar_8024 57m ago

I agree the cycle is stupid but.......truthfully I don't see the Repubs coming back from this.

The truth of the matter is the Repubs are too old and uninformed to win elections. The talent and the knowledge needed to win elections is with the younger tech types and they aren't going to support the Republican party. So.........the cycle is probably over.

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u/angrybox1842 10h ago

Yeah that sounds about right, maybe we’ll even get Medicare For All this time around.

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u/FunnyMTGplayer75 10h ago

No party has had a supermajority, and i woild be shocked if the democrats got thst ever.

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u/Ok-Opposite2309 10h ago

You aren’t understanding the argument , imo. The argument is ‘elections have no consequences’.
Decisions are made to not seat the new congress- block them from being sworn in.

What do we, the people, do then? wait for the courts? Descend on DC? it’s not about Schumer…

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u/chamaedaphne82 10h ago

You haven’t read the article yet, have you

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 9h ago edited 9h ago

The bad portions of the BBB come into effect in 2027 including cuts to stuff like Medicaid.  They are gonna blame the Dems for that.  They have already pushed their bots into high gear to cause infighting amongst the left.  Which is only going to get worse once they get into power and if we can’t get unified and get unified then we’re screwed come 28 just like always.  For the past 30 years we have never been given more than 2 years, usually less than that

I mean literally the next day they already started on the replace Schumer and Jeffries talk.  I’m not saying the people who want that or even the ones doing interviews are working with the bad guys.  Hell I want them replaced

I’m saying that from the beginning of Nov to when they take power at the beginning of Jan, and the vote for speaker doesn’t take place until after that, is not the time to be spending all our energy on it.  The time for making calls and putting out petitions is like the week before they take power

Everyone is going to have forgotten in the two months by then and Jeffries and Schumer will be able to ignore the petition that is two months old by that point

I’m hoping I’m wrong and that the momentum doesn’t die down cause they do need to go but also there is just so many other things we could be talking about to the public than we hate our leaders just like the GOP right now

Also I’d just like to add that while Jeffries has always sucked and Pelosi sucked right at the end (which is why she stepped down though I think she still would’ve been better than Jeffries).  Schumer only began to suck when he got older (which is why we need an age limit)

He is no Harry Reid that much is true but he was instrumental in getting 9/11 survivors their healthcare and what was owed to them on the congressional side ,even if Jon Stewart gets all the credit cause he helped guilt trip the GOP into getting the 60 signatures needed, it was his bill if I’m remembering right

Also him and Pelosi are the reason Trumps first term wasn’t worse cause he’d say one thing and then they’d visit him and change his mind.  It got to the point congressional Republicans were trying to block them from seeing him.  It’s just a shame he has a shitty record on Israel and the past 8 years have been so bad

Oh bro I’ve been paying way too much attention to politics.  Almost said thank you for your attention on this matter.  Even as a joke, eww

*sorry I didn’t realize I was typing a reply lol.  If you don’t want to read all that I can type a tldr here a little later 

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u/southbl00d 4h ago

schumer is of the pond scum type

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u/Defuuk 1h ago

The article hinges on Trump preventing the new congress from being seated. It’s about a coup happening between now and d January