Dallas Elected a Longtime Democrat as Mayor, but Now He's Defecting to the Republican Party
Only four months after winning re-election as a longtime Democrat, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced that he was defecting to the Republican party. Before assuming office, Johnson served nearly a decade in the Texas Legislature as a Democrat — making his decision to switch parties all the more shocking.
On Friday, Johnson announced his decision in an 0p-ed in the Wall Street Journal. “Today I am changing my party affiliation,” wrote Johnson. “Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary. When my career in elected office ends in 2027 on the inauguration of my successor as mayor, I will leave office as a Republican.”
In his op-ed, Johnson says that he won 98.7% of the vote in his re-election. Although it’s worth noting that was when he was running as a registered Democrat in a county that President Joe Biden overwhelmingly carried. The mayoral position is technically non-partisan, but it’s hard to argue that running as a registered Democrat in a deep-blue county didn’t have some impact on the vote.
Johnson criticized Democratic leadership, arguing that Democratic mayors (of which he was one until a few hours ago) have allowed cities to crumble into “disarray” and lawlessness. Johnson also pats himself on the back for standing up against the defund the police movement.
Johnson paints a picture of Democratic Mayors that is wholly incongruent with the state of play in blue cities. New York City’s Democratic Mayor, Eric Adams, is literally a former cop. And D.C.’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser has fought tooth and nail to prevent criminal justice reforms from going into effect.
He isn’t the only southern Democrat to defect to the Republican party in a dramatic fashion. In July, Georgia State Representative Mesha Mainor announced that she was switching to the Republican. Mainor, who served in a deep-blue Atlanta district, defended her decision by arguing that she was pushed out of the Democratic party. Mainor was criticized by Georgia Democrats but welcomed with open arms by folks like Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene, who applauded her decision to move parties.
As for Johnson, there will surely be a ton of backlash, but maybe, like Mainor, he’ll make some friends in his new party.
Time to recall
Exactly it should be illegal to change parties AFTER being elected as the another.
You know what two can play at this. See what happens if I run as a Republican for office get elected and then switch to a Democrat afterwards.
How long before Republicans outest me?
Fucking the Democratic party who back him and probably finance him should make part of the party creed that can't just change parties like that after you won.
You don't have to officially change parties to change votes.
Right? Parties are just a way for people to try to guess how and if their elected officials are going to lead.
That's not true in many branches of government. In many situations the party that has the majority of seats gets a big amount of additional powers.
That's all contingent on the speaker or equivalent getting the necessary votes. You could get into the house as a Republican and vote for Hakeem Jeffreys to be speaker.
"I'm sorry, fairly-right-of-center Southern Democrats. You're not quite evil enough for me anymore, I need to spread my wings."
If you switch parties, it should be an automatic special election to be reelected.
I came to, apparently, agree with you. My exact thought.
This is clearly a trick to get into power, and we all know Republicans love power before anything else. Morals, the children, the budget, actual constitutionally protected rights, etc.
I don’t see why, people vote for the candidate not the party
And it’s fairly evident that parties aren’t a single voting block
I agree that people should be voting for person not color and doing so is quite the failing at most Americans consideration towards politics....
But unfortunately party lines does still in fact matter a lot. Nominations can still only be done by them and certain blanket funds go towards party specific nominees no matter what so he has essentially stolen money from people who donated to a party not person.
I'd say it should trigger a vote of confidence for the general populace but not necessarily immediately new elections and he may still be open to lawsuits if there was intent he knew what he was doing running in a party he didn't agree with.
And here's the mentality that comes with voting for teams. Government isn't a team sport. Stop being the problem.
If you campaign as X for X.
Then as soon as you win, you change to Y.
Thats a fundamental fraud against the voters, and 100% deserves a special election... Especially since he could have easily changed his party BEFORE the election, or after his term was up.
Theres nothing tribal about it.
Changing parties doesn’t effect his policies
It doesn't necessarily have to, but then you have someone like Trisha Cotham in NC who switched parties to give the GOP a veto-proof majority and has been voting with them in lockstep ever since.
If they weren't planning on acting as Republicans they could just as easily become independents.
bullshit
So had he stayed D, he would in no way vote R?
Parties define policies, basically.
Do you feel as though him staying a D would have meant he would continue to vote D instead of just voting R?
Huh? He's a mayor, not a senator. The only voting R/D he does is as a private citizen, just like us.
Mayors vote on city policies, which are unlabelled, but you can still categorise laws based on what they do.
I’ll rephrase for you
As mayor, do you think the way he votes will change based on the party he’s apart of
"voting"... ignoring your limited concept and moving on:
Do I think that changing parties will change the sort of people who will vote for him next election?
Yes.
Do I think that the sort of actions which would make him a favourable candidate to his voters are different to those of his previous voters?
Yes.
Do I think he will take those sorts of actions?
Logic dictates... yes.
I guarantee you it does.
These people are so fucking selfish. You were hired as a public servant, you should serve the people who elected you
Maybe we shoukd vote for people's platforms and not a political party. Rank choice perhaps...
I keep seeing this said on these sort of posts, like the average voter has anything to do with the voting system being used or has the power to change it. Those with the power to change would never change the voting method. They would almost assuredly gain nothing and lose almost everything.
This isn't a direct rag in you, personally. I just don't know how to expect the wolves to accept the addition of other predators in the hen house. Obviously, it takes a unified electorate to get change like this via elected officials with simple goals and they've spent the last several decades hyping up wedge issues for people to fight each other over that no one could ignore those things to vote and push for a change to the national voting method.
Just like the president not having the power that the electorate believes them to have, I'm just too cynical, now, to expect anything positive to change before I die of cancer from some shitty corporation that wants to cut corners to add some zeros to their bank accounts.
"vote blue no matter who"
No, vote for the most progressive candidate or don't give them your vote
You meant the type of RCV that Dems are suing to keep off the ballots in DC and Alexandria VA?
Another black Republican? WTF?
Seriously. I have no idea how you could be non-white and vote for these people.
I know the white working class has been fed a steady diet of fox propaganda for 30 years, but bipoc and lgptq? You're not the target audience for the propaganda, and it should be pretty obvious how much they hate you.
A lot of older black people are super conservative, many are single issue voters. Sadly they will gladly vote for the side that hates them, so long as that side opposes abortions, or vaccines or whatever they are against this year.
No they're not. Black people vote +90% for Democrats, even if they're conservative. Years of hard experience has given them the ability to see through lots of bullshit.
The ones who vote Republican are always the craziest and most self-centered people. Ones who love tax cuts above everything. Herman Cain died of Covid and his family made him keep tweeting. How craven can you be?
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/514440-herman-cain-account-tweets-coronavirus-not-as-deadly-as-claimed-after-his-death/
It's about 70% that vote democrat but that doesn't correlate to election day, turnout rate is another story. No one bothers showing up for mid-terms
This comment is 100% wrong. All research and election results show that +90% of black people vote Democratic, and they have high turnout (even in midterms). It's like you just made everything up and don't even remember black voters delivering 2 Democratic Senators in GA.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/12/key-facts-about-black-eligible-voters-in-2022/
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voting-patterns-in-the-2022-elections/
"In an August 2022 Pew Research Center survey, 70% of Black registered voters said they would vote for or were leaning to the Democratic U.S. House candidate in their district in the coming election. Another 24% were either unsure or said they would back another candidate"
What did I say wrong, it's literally in the article you posted
Oh, I see you can't admit you're wrong about anything. Watch, I'm going to show you again and you will misinterpret it again because your beliefs are rooted in desire, not fact.
You said:
In the 2022 midterms, 93% voted for Democrats.
You said:
In reality, "Black eligible voters stand out for their relatively high turnout rates."
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-voter-turnout-data-from-2022-shows-some-surprises-including-lower-turnout-for-youth-women-and-black-americans-in-some-states/
"Perhaps the most notable finding with respect to voter turnout is that 2022 turnout rates were nearly as high as the record-setting 2018 midterm turnout rates. Yet unlike the previous midterm elections, the groups with the highest Democratic voting margins—in particular, young people, Black Americans, women, and white female college graduates—did not show greater turnout increases than other groups, and often displayed lower turnout rates than in the 2018 midterms. These groups displayed higher turnout rates than in the low-turnout 2014 midterms, but either did not match or did not improve on their 2018 turnout levels. And only a minority of states registered turnout increases between 2018 and 2022, while an even smaller number showed increases among young and nonwhite voters"
From your same article.
Also the article mentions the states with the sharpest declines and they're red as fuck so it's very likely voter suppression is a major contributing factor in the statistics you're using.
I don't doubt it, I wasn't arguing for the reasons why voter turnout is low
Woah there racist
Are you white?
As opposed to the side that tokenize their community for votes then tosses them back to the curb when they are no longer useful?
Maybe its because people keep saying the Republicans hate them and then they come to find out that its not true. But also lots of minorities are very conservative in their beliefs. Plus Democrats and the left are very abrasive. Like saying the entire Republican party hates black people.
Yeah, fuck off with that. The conservatives I've talked to that loudly and proudly proclaim their various bigotries as badges of honor are far too many to count.
So what policies do Republicans have or implement that help POC?
We can all name lots of policies Democrats have implemented that do not help POC. Crime bill, welfare reform, war on drugs, private prisons with quotas, upholding systemic racism and the white supremacists ideology. It was built on. Democrats loved a tokenize the black community for their own benefit. Which is why the DNC is now pushing for millennials to support the party because Many in the black community have come to the conclusion the Democrats do not represent their interests
you didn't answer the question and just whatabouted all over it instead
You mean the way you whatabouted the comment you replied to?
Do they need laws for POC just to appear like they're not racist.
I've seen plenty of people that think laws specifically based on race is infantilizing.
Oh honey, don't
No you haven't. Why lie about such a stupid thing?
Being aggressively wrong is reddit shit.
https://youtu.be/hjbCS4c3Kk8?feature=shared
I'm not clicking that unless you tell me it is a video of you talking to people who are arguing that laws infantilized them.
Be better. This is foolish bullshit
All these “gays for republicans” are really on the borderline of cognitive.
Pretty much anyone that votes for Republicans is.
Crazy isn't racist.
Wealth, probably. I would guess someone like that lives and works in a well-insulated bubble of whiteness that now feels like home to him. He now basically identifies as white, unless it's convenient not to. The guy probably believes that racism is not a modern problem, bootstraps, etc.
Are we taking bets on whether or not there's some sexual assault or corruption allegations surfacing soon and he knew only the Republican Party would protect him from that?
OMG! I'd put money on it. Is there a remind me bot here on Lemmy?
My bet is he wants to run for governor after he is done being mayor and knows he needs to be a Republican to have any chance at winning.
Somebody got a bribe of some sort.
Not necessarily. He might just be greedy for a bigger job in Texas policy. If he can throw the brown shirts a little victory without it costing him reelection that could get him enough currency for them to want to support him for higher office.
Cynical exercise of power for personal gain is not illegal so far as I know.
Dallas has a terrible violent crime rate. Looks like fighting against defunding police did jack shit for them.
It likely did do something. Things are probably worse.
What a piece of shit.
Enjoy the saliva in your coffee buddy.
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I dunno, I don’t think it’s right to defecate to another party. That’s nasty.
Defecate
Why? Are people not allowed to change their mind?
He was elected to represent the people that voted for him based on the beliefs he carried. If those beliefs significantly change to the point that he no longer represents the people that elected him, he should resign.
Serious question, what if he didnt change his opinions but only party affiliation. He still acted as he would have as a mayor and he still gave the people what they wanted... just change of title. Like what if he thought his style of politics belongs on the other eisle and people are so partisan that they think he switched everything.
In that case I'd wonder why he ever was a Democrat in the first place. I'm not sure how realistic a scenario that is, especially given the public announcement he felt the need to make.
The job of an elected representative isn't to do what they want, it's to represent the people who elected them. The people elected a Democrat as a mayor, and no they have a republican one.
The two parties operate on fundamentally different platforms, so I don't see how he can both switch parties and stay true to what he promised voters when he was elected
woosh
Maybe reread the comment lol
Ah shit lol i didnt even notice
Politicians are supposed to follow the will of their constituents.
His responsibility is to the people. Of course he can change his mine, but he should still do his job for the people who elected him and if that is contrary to his own beliefs to the point where he is unable to do so then he should resign.
He was paid off.
Or blackmailed.
What a heel turn! Bah gawd king!
But seriously, how is this allowed?
What a dumbass. However I wish the Republican defectors like Cheney, Kinzinger, Romney, or pash ones like Flake or McCain etc.. Had the spine to flip to Democrat...
All of those people are/were super conservative. Being anti-Trump doesn’t make you a dem
Democrats are the big tent party. The more the republicans shift to the far right, the more the tent expands to pick up the ones that stayed behind.
The far right movement will only shift the Democratic Party to the right to pick up the stragglers, not make it any more left.
And in other countries, random coalitions combine to form a coalition govt. in the USA, random coalitions combine to form a party. It doesn’t mean progressives won’t continue to gain ground as they have been.
But let’s be clear, Cheney, Flake, and most of the others mentioned are on the right flank of the GOP. Their only redeeming quality is being anti-Trump because they don’t want their party to be unpopular.
Democrats are only interested in picking up Republicans, while they punch left. It's like they are fighting to become the dominant conservative party
They aren't defectors, they're just the real Republicans.
Not anymore they're not. Times change, people change, parties change.
What a real Republican is, today, is a traitor. Nothing more than a casualty to the cold war.
It's why these so-called (former) real Republicans are leaving.
I mean, thats what conservatives have always been.
They just stopped being subtle about it after Obama's win.
That's a glib interpretation of history at best.
Perhaps since Reagan would be somewhat accurate.
I think that just means Dallas elected another Republican.
There should be a re-election. My god American political law is fucked.
What a chode.
EDIT: I'm putting my edit at the top of the post because it's clear I'm dealing with people with rather limited comprehension. What you clowns fail to realize is that my post is a warning to the Democratic party because I, as a life long Democrat, see them as being utterly fucken lost in sharing their message for the future and in sharing their current successes to average Joe's. Here, let me spell it out to you: this is not a pro-Republican post. Fuck every last thing about the GOP. Clearly, you buffoons can't understand that concept. Yes, this administration has many successes, but what you are not understanding is that middle America doesn't know that. That's because Democrats are awful st reminding people what they've accomplished. They are terrible with communicating with people in terms of what their vision for the future is. Average Joe's don't follow the news all that closely. And they follow political news even less. They need to be endlessly reminded WHY Democrats are better for them, for their wallet, for the country and even the planet. There are accomplishments right now that Republicans fight tooth and nail to stop, and after they somehow got passed, those same Republicans went home and took credit for them. They did this with the infrastructure bill. How can they get away with that? Because Democrats don't advertise their successes. Just the other day was a doom and gloom article on how so many Americans think the economy is in the toilet, when it really isn't. The economy is legitimately good well, but perception is not because Democrats have lost the ability to send a message out to voters. The only time you see them on the news is when they are endlessly wasting time on nonsense social issues for groups that represent a few percentage points of the total population, all while the majority of folks are out there, looking around and wondering when are Democrats going to think about them. Clearly this is too complicated for some of you retards to understand.
Hey Democrats, keep pushing that bullshit social agenda and blindly focusing on tiny fringe minority groups, instead of taking care of economic issues, and this won't be the last time a defection happens.
There are a whole lot of people who don't see economic policies from the Dems and are sick and tired of seeing elected officials endlessly waste all their time and political capital on non-issues.
Focusing on what the pronoun du jour is will end up handing Trump a second term.
Wait...wait...wait, you look at the two parties and think the Democrats are the party of social nonsense and no substantive agenda? The Republican party has essentially distilled their entire platform down to "Woke"!
But they're so good at the economy! Look at how many more billionaires there are after years of tax cuts and shoveling government money at them! Everyone knows that more rich people = great economy!
Responsible governing is forgiving interest free loans to corporations posting record profits and raising interest rates of everyone paying off different loans.
Yeah, it's not the Democrats who focus so much on trans people. It's republicans that are passing laws to try to ban their existence and wellbeing.
It's bizarre that there's people acting like Democrats are all about identity politics when it's the core piece of the GOP's platform to the point that they barely seem to have any policies beyond it (and the occasional "reduces taxes on the rich and corporations -- it'll trickle down, we promise!"
The mainstream position on people with medical stuff is that they go to their doctors and get the treatment their doctors recommend. In the case of transgender folks, that treatment is transition.
The shithead position on people with medical stuff is that the governor gets to tell them to kill themselves instead.
Yeah. It's frustrating seeing the right act like their view is somehow scientifically correct or whatever, when it's actually against medical consensus.
They love to make claims about how they're all about "facts don't care about your feelings", which they'll back up with stuff they learned in 6th grade science while pretending college level science doesn't exist lol.
Sixth-grade genetics and kindergarten explanations of gender turn out to not really be up to describing the real world, no.
You're a fringe minority group, now get off my lawn
Republicans being “better” at the economy is a myth. They still sell themselves as the fiscally responsible party but in modern history the economy has grown more under democratic leadership and democrats have taken on less debt (less expansion of the deficit). But despite the data here you are spouting party rhetoric.
And as far as social agenda… that’s all the modern republican part is, various witch hunts and cancel culture.
If you're saying this, that must mean it's the Democrats who keep pushing legislation to regulate the lives of those "tiny fringe minority groups," right?
Oh... no, it's sure not that.
Anyway I'm glad my ability to access healthcare is a non-issue as far as you're concerned.
EDIT: With regards to the update, that seems bad-faith. I really don't see how you could expect people to read the original comment as "Democrats suck at messaging" when what you said was that they aren't "taking care of economic issues". My and most of these other posts have nothing to do with whether we thought you were pro-republican. We took issue with you spitting incoherence that echoes republican propaganda.
That said, you proudly trotting out the r-slur to refer to people who disagree with you means I'm going to dislike you regardless. It doesn't make you cool and edgy. It doesn't meaningfully communicate anything. It just shows you're an asshole.
The problem with what you're saying is that Republicans are so godawful at finances that it's laughable you see them as the better side to deal with economic issues.
You really need to step away from the bullshit winger propaganda. It's not anchored in any reality.
We're among the lowest countries for inflation, in a time of global inflation, the administration is backing labor, the fuck do you want, more trickle down? Because the only thing that trickles down is a yellow that ain't gold, and smells funny.
Sell your goddamn economic accomplishments! Just the other day was another news story of how so many people are angry and feel lost because the Dems can't fucken communicate their wins. They aren't seeing this rosy economy, not because we have high inflation anymore, but because Dems are inept in relaying their victories to the public. This endless focus on meaningless issues is infuriating to average Joe's who are trying trying to get by.
Biden is doing literally exactly that. So are folks like Fetterman, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, etc.
The problem is that the entire media ecosystem is sensationalist, and that feeds directly into hot button, eyebrow raising culture war issues, which generate clicks, likes, and shares. There's less public appetite for "look at how labor laws are affecting wages and promoting emerging industries" than there is for "OmG TaY tAy wOrE a PrOnOuN dReSs tO a TrAnSgEnDeR OrGy!!!!!!!@@@" Dems are fucking inept at PR, but they're also fighting to make boring topics interesting, all while the entire country loses their goddamn minds over trans men getting pregnant and trans boys playing softball. Bring up clean energy and infrastructure and the public tunes the fuck out in minutes, but bring up a kid getting hormone therapy and people lose their everloving marbles FOR WEEKS ON END! Once Grandpappy Republican hears about a drag queen reading a book to children, it's all they talk about to their nieces, friends, cousins, siblings, grandchildren, plumber, Walmart clerk, parking attendant, dry cleaner, neighbor, mailman, dog catcher, actual dog, crown moulding, antique chair, turkey sandwich, god, dead fish, washing machine, etc, etc, etc, and so on forever.
Next time you hear about some of that culture war nonsense, ask yourself, "Who brought this up in the first place or made this an issue that we need to talk about? Was it a Democrat, a Republican, the media, or an agent provacateur who wants you to be talking about it because they know it pisses you off?" CRT is a thing because Christopher Rufo wanted you to talk about it. Hunter Biden is a thing because Garret Ziegler wanted you to talk about him. Gas stove bans are a thing because Republicans wanted you to talk about them. Consider the source, my dude.
100% the Dems are godawful at communication. On the other hand, red team rage bait is more interesting to news sources. Getting people to watch CSPAN instead of TMZ is such an uphill battle. How do we make the infrastructure bill viral?
You make the infrastructure bill viral by first and foremost dressing it up. Don't call it simply an infrastructure bill. Call it Bidens infrastructure bill or some catchy name that reflected who was responsible.
Obama didn't give the ACA its moniker "Obamacare" but there is no doubt who is the one who created it and proposed it. There is no way Republicans can take credit for it. And when Obama was president, his logo was on every imaginable bill and public works program. You would be reminded all the time who was responsible. Why aren't Dems doing that now? Why do they always hide their victories? Hire some popular YTers or TikTokers to sell your ideas to the masses. Go out there ans talk about things. For fucks sakes, every time you see a Republican on the news,chances are good that he will be both promoting what the GOP leadership are trying to oush through, but also poke jabs at Democrats. While on the flip side, if a news program acts for a Democrat to come onto their show, the Cemocratic leadership pick the most boring, socially awkward, and least charismatic person they can find. Or at least that's what it seems like. Damnit is it frustrating to see this shit time and time again.
The "Inflation Reduction Act" was passed last year. The "Affordable Care Act" was passed under Obama. Did branding either of them help drown out incessant right-wing media attacks against them?
Of course not.
The Democratic Party uses Tik Tok. It also uses YouTube. Did you know about either of those before you suggested they should start doing so?
I doubt it.
Your single biggest gripe seems to be that Democrats aren't as incessantly loud, brash, and combative as Republicans. Perhaps you should ask yourself, do you really want them to be? Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but there's a reason they're Democrats in the first place. It's because they're not total fucking assholes.
Anybody who's looking at any specific piece news and thinking it's wholly truthful, red or blue, is a moron.
Biggest infrastructure investment since World War II, biggest clean energy investment in US history, lowest unemployment rate in US history, net increase of 13 million jobs since Trump left office, 800,000 US manufacturing jobs created, lower inflation rate than almost the rest of the planet. If the right would shut up about pronouns the rest of us would go back to literally just living our lives and trying to be left the fuck alone.
Out of the two parties, only the Democrats have a significant pro-labor presence and support sensible Keynesian economics rather than extreme free-market solutions. In the federal government, both parties have increased the debt at a similar rate, and Democrats do that by spending more on social programs that benefit the American populace vs. the Republicans who do so with tax cuts that only benefit millionaires and billionaires. In what world is the Republican party the party of good economics?
Don’t mind me, I’m just here to send you another notification.
The left don't focus on any of that nearly as much as the right. There has been no Republican owned media or politician that's gone a week without saying the word transgender in the past 7 years. They're obsessed. The left are just reactionaries responding to all the crazy shit the Republicans are doing like don't say gay laws and book burnings
Ah yes democrats are abrasive. Not the party that has white supremacists as part of its voting block.
I hope you dont delete your comment because we need more people to stand behind what they think. I hate how pussy footed people can be so I respect when people dont delete their heavily downvoted stuff.
With that said, i would hope that you look past the rhetoric of what republicans say they can do and what the outcome of their actions has been. There is a reason why people think the republicans are the party of phobias, the party the greedy, the party of the "fuck you I got mine". I dislike the democrats in power too but the republicans are anti american.
Edit: i just read your update and I agree. Your comment wasnt clearly anti dem as it seemed pro rep so yeah.
While I disagree with your post on the whole, I agree with the above statement. However, I think it is worth considering that the corporate media does not cover what they accomplish because it does not sell. Instead they focus on what does sell which is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Coincidentally republicans message often largely focuses on that.
I am ignoring the rest of your rant including the cursing and belittling of others. That is not conducive to convincing someone.
Also relates to the above point. The corporate media (especially Fox) likes to paint democrats as only focusing on social issues and minimizes any focus on economic policies they do have. Democratic policies are widely known to be good for the economy but you would not get that impression from corporate media.
Even if I disagree with your point of view on the whole, I can agree with this statement. However, I do think it is worth bearing in mind that corporate owned media does not cover what democrats do because it does not sell. What does sell to the public is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Which coincidentally is the republican message.
I am ignoring your the rest of your rant including your cursing and belittling of others.
Also related to the above point, Media (especially Fox) loves to paint democrats as only focusing on social issues and either ignore any focus on economic issues they have or constantly accusing them of taking your money even when they are not.
While the 1% have us fighting amongst ourselves for meaningless identity politics, and social issues, they are laser focused on fighting a class war against us. And they are winning, we get to pay for it.
Democrats don't just fall for bullshit identity politics, they eagerly lavish being drowned in it. And all the comments in here prove it.
It's the economy stupid.
That phrase is just as true today, as it was some 30 years ago when it cost Bush Sr a second term. The worst part is that the economy isn't even bad, rather people have been pulled down by endless doom and gloom talk for the last 2 years about how the economy is just weeks away from collapsing. And with all that negative talk, Dems haven't bothered to ever go out there and counter it with positive messages. Shit, looking at the posts on Lemmy and the comments in here, these dipshits have been complicit in spreading that message.