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Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 09:33 PM Feb 2025

It is time, for the Democrats to present an alternative

American government to the people and talk about it, in detail, with real facts and figures.

Everytime DOGE cuts and guts, Dems should present an alternative to the public with counter objectives and funds that counter Fake Doge, oligarch propaganda.

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It is time, for the Democrats to present an alternative (Original Post) Bluethroughu Feb 2025 OP
We must put forth our own budget!! OrlandoDem2 Feb 2025 #1
That is exactly what I am saying. Bluethroughu Feb 2025 #2
Everything Trump and Musk are doing on their own Frasier Balzov Feb 2025 #3
Yes, but 6 on the court love unitary executive power, so Bluethroughu Feb 2025 #4
We have to attack their perceived strengths and their methods. nt BootinUp Feb 2025 #5
Yes we do, while offering an alternative. Bluethroughu Feb 2025 #6
We've put forth plenty of fucking alternatives. W_HAMILTON Feb 2025 #7
I'm not a burn it down kindof mindset. Bluethroughu Feb 2025 #9
Words do not work. When will people get it through their heads. betsuni Feb 2025 #11
Uh, the alternative is whatever UTUSN Feb 2025 #8
Whatever, is not a plan forward. Bluethroughu Feb 2025 #10

OrlandoDem2

(3,140 posts)
1. We must put forth our own budget!!
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 09:38 PM
Feb 2025

And we cannot help Mike Johnson with the debt ceiling at all.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
2. That is exactly what I am saying.
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 09:39 PM
Feb 2025

Everything. Present it to the public and tell the public they won't compromise and add this or that.

This is the perfect time to offer healthcare for all. And the cost is less than no insurance.

Frasier Balzov

(4,817 posts)
3. Everything Trump and Musk are doing on their own
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 09:40 PM
Feb 2025

is properly something the Executive and Congress can only do together.

This is an arrogation of power by the executive.

The SCOTUS majority had better see it that way too or they will be signaling a fatal breakdown of governance in the USA.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
4. Yes, but 6 on the court love unitary executive power, so
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 09:42 PM
Feb 2025

We need a future plan the American people can rally around over dictatorship.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
6. Yes we do, while offering an alternative.
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 10:00 PM
Feb 2025

People need to hear a path forward, something to build strength into.

They feel off in the weeds or bogged down, this would create hope and something to fight for, over thr ruins the Republican party and their two Russian assets are doing to our country.

W_HAMILTON

(10,014 posts)
7. We've put forth plenty of fucking alternatives.
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 10:17 PM
Feb 2025

And the American people chose to believe the lyingest liar that ever lied.

No, it's time for Americans to feel the error of their ways because """presenting an alternative""" did not work. Warning them of this did not work. Words do not work. They need to feel firsthand the consequences of voting Republican.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
9. I'm not a burn it down kindof mindset.
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 11:40 PM
Feb 2025

That would mean, I'm helping the enemies in my country takeover, so my idiotic fellow country people, along with smart hardworking country people suffer, because oligarchs enjoy the divison helping in their takeover.

I will fight fascism. If that means I lose, I will get up and try again.

betsuni

(28,633 posts)
11. Words do not work. When will people get it through their heads.
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 11:57 PM
Feb 2025

Complaining about messaging: Democrats use too many words, too much like college professors, elites, explain too much. At the same time demanding they just use the right words and explain to Republican voters that they're voting against their economic interests and they'll listen, easy. A politician they worship gives a shouty speech and is changing the world; a Democrat gives a speech about the same thing and it's not passionate, fiery, loud enough and they're sitting on their hands.

There's been too much anti-Trump/Republican news today, so the bullshit attacks against Democrats have to start up again tonight.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
10. Whatever, is not a plan forward.
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 11:48 PM
Feb 2025

1. Taxing the rich by at least 50%.
2. Healthcare for all.
3. Social security increased, by lifting the cap.
4. Free education for all.
5. Enforce Sherman anti-trust act.
6. Housing for all.
7. Commons are people owned, including...phone, public TV, oil, water, sewer, parks and public lands, public schools through universities, roads, and power of electric and gas.
8. Right of all people to vote, bodily autonomy, and equal justice for all...criminal.

Corporations are not people, since 1790 before the framers even wrote the Constitution, but was included in the Decennial Cencus counts ALL PEOPLE. GUESS WHO HAS NEVER BEEN COUNTED, CORPORATIONS, because they are NOT people.

This is what the next administration can offer.

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