I don't know why Sen. Schumer stays in his position [View all]

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...it's basically a thankless job in the minority representing the elected Dems who put him there, especially the ones who think it's some brilliant imperative to call for reshuffling the Democratic deck in the middle of the game like the party did with their incumbent president the last time around.

You'd think people would have learned a lesson from that defeat, but it seems all they realized was their ability to gaslight pols out of office who've already fought and won against republicans; most of their critics, not so much experienced in any of that, despite their enthusiastic suggestions to people who have, repeatedly.

I really don't know why any pol would willingly place themselves in the position of representing Dems in the Senate while we're in the minority, most of the members they would represent believing THEY could be president; managing all of that with all of the derision they get from people out here who can't be bothered to actually look to see what they say or do, much less take the time to understand the challenges of governing in a minority.

People say they want a boffo spokesperson, but what they really want is someone to roil reality and sew a silk purse out of the sow's ear that Dem voters provided the leaders with last election.

All elected Dems can actually do in the minority IS to perform for everyone; for people who think they are there to convince THEM to show up on election day and oppose a convicted criminal insurrectionist and his enabling party.

The Dem leader right now in the Senate presided over ALL of Biden's historic legislative accomplishments in the majority, even with TWO recalcitrant Dems who often sided with republicans on important legislation. Dem's ALWAYS produce historic progressive legislative changes in the majority.

But they needed the support of people who couldn't be bothered last election to equip Dem leaders with a sufficient number of members to work with. So they're reduced to this bullshit parrying for position among elected Dems chafing at the fecklessness of their minority positions and reduced to lashing out at the people they're able to actually affect; their own.

That's what abusive, dysfunctional families do. They project all of the shit coming from everywhere else onto the people they should be coalescing with and tear them down, I think because they find it too hard for them to do the same to the actual republican opposition.

What a stupid game. It's not really support for the party to publicly denigrate it and our leaders, no matter how popular it may well be right now. It produces nothing but apathy and abandonment of our party at the time we need unity.

Funny how it always comes right at the time we desperately need to unite; all of this self-immolation pretending like it's progress; forgetting the game here is addition, not subtraction.

If I were Schumer, I'd just turn on my heel and go home. He's gets nothing out of this role but shit, and it's just piling up as his detractors pile it on.

I mean, who is looking at this and thinking they want that thankless role in a party that voters didn't even bother to equip with enough members to do squat but object to what the majority does?

Self immolating should work out just as well as the last time people in the party convinced themselves it was some sort of political genius. Schumer should understand that people need to just FA and FO for themselves. It's a wonder he's still willing to continue to stand in the way of this stupidity.