People are reacting to the headline, but the article is basically the opposite of what most people assume. This is The Atlanic. Their problem is that the Democrats aren’t doing enough austerity.
Tbf, the US is heading towards a debt crisis. However, the reason for that is because of the absurdly bloated military budget and pointless adventurism, while the article frames it entirely in terms of “taxes are too low and we spend too much on social programs.” How are the Democrats supposed to win without promising the voters anything? This is never addressed. But that’s apparently the lesson the author thinks they should learn. Run on austerity, if you somehow manage to win, prioritize the debt - and then when they inevitably lose the next election because everyone’s lives got worse, the Republicans will have more money to play with to fund things like ICE and the Iran War.
It’s nonsense. Winning means promising QoL improvements and following through on them. Yeah the debt is a problem, but that’s exactly why military cuts are necessary. Trying to solve the debt problem just creates a political problem, it’s the sort of thing to worry about once you’ve already secured power.
What agenda?
This one. https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf
Its usually called a platform.
The one where we’re going to give out tax credits for starting a small business? Yeah that’ll fix it. 🙄
That’s the thing you zeroed in on, eh. Okay.
It’s one of the few things they talked about during the campaign. I think that platform needed an update before the 2024 election, and it’s completely a throwaway at this point.
For funsies here’s the RNC platform for 2024. It’s . . . different.
Wouldn’t say I’m a fan.
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So when democrats are in power we need to close ranks to prevent the republican party from taking control, and when the democrats aren’t in power we need to close ranks to prevent the republican party from keeping control. Got it.
Question: Do you see that you are repeating the exact failed lesson that is the basis for the article?
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There will only be two parties as long as you keep voting for the same two parties. It aint rocket science
Also that Constitution thing that makes it inevitable.
So, all edgelording aside, it’s going to be the case in two years. And, very probably in six, ten, and fourteen years as well.
Amending The Constitution turns out to be this whole thing.
You guys will still genocide people in a decade.
My advice? Move to mexico
I’ll bet
They still haven’t learned from their mistakes in 2016.
I don’t think they’ve quite caught up with how the Republicans played dirty and stole the election win in 2000.
What election did they win in 2000?
