Where the fuck are the Democrats?

[TBF]

125. As others have said, the plan may be to let Trump go off the rails

and clean up after. I am not sure it's a great one given that he literally has access to nuclear weapons. But as we've seen, the old guard in the party is holding on with a vengeance - you saw how quickly they shot down AOC for chair of the House Oversight Committee. I've gone back and forth on that. Initially I was furious, but then I thought about how the old guard has been in Washington a long time and know what they are dealing with on the other side. They may feel the safest approach is to hunker down.

I have been spending a lot of online time on BlueSky. There are a lot of antifascists over there that have moved over from X/Twitter. Like DU, it's another place to connect. It's more about sharing memes and limited opinions over there but is supportive. Obviously for actual conversations this forum is about as good as it gets. I found this place 18 years ago, while I was spending many hours locally campaigning for Obama. I give donations nearly every year to keep it active, even when I'm not posting as much. But adding places like Bluesky to check in once a day may be helpful for you - as long as we are allowed to have it. At some point I expect our dear leader to start cracking down as much as he can on dissent.

Unfortunately, I think it will get worse before it gets better, and we are basically on our own. We need to take care of each other.