Democratic voters express intense dissatisfaction with party leadership, calling them spineless, sellouts, and incompetent. They praise progressive leaders like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders for clear messaging and action. Voters overwhelmingly choose progressive over moderate candidates. How can Democratic leaders ignore this anger and continue to cling to power? #ProgressiveLeadership #DemocraticParty #PoliticalChange

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43473370

Feb 18, 2026

The newspaper spoke to 13 Democratic and independent voters including retirees from Indiana and Michigan, working people from states such as North Carolina and Nevada, and an unemployed voter from Iowa. The topic of discussion was the participants’ frustrations with the Democratic Party as it faces the Trump administration and the president’s aggressive deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the country.

“Spineless” was one word a participant had for the Democratic Party when asked to describe it. Another said the party appears “paralyzed” while a 46-year-old Latina woman from Nevada said Democrats in Congress are “sellouts and suckers.”

  • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
    33·
    12 hours ago

    Or, maybe, as I have been trying to teach people for years, the Democrats don’t represent the interests of the working class, but instead they represent the interests of the ruling class, with a slight twist of social progressivism.

    Democrats are the enemy. Party politics are not the solution. We need revolution.

    • exaybachae@startrek.website
      22·
      8 hours ago

      *Some D’s are enemies to the WC, not D’s are the enemy of the WC. Even some R’s can be WC allies, or can be in certain situations.

      Please be careful with those absolutes. Thanks

      • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
        22·
        8 hours ago

        No, sorry, I disagree, all politicians should be considered our enemies. Even the “good” ones are part of an evil system that limits the good they can do to the point of uselessness. We can do better. We need to.

        • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
          3·
          8 hours ago

          It is STILL much easier to take over the Democratic party in THIS system using populism than to try to demolish it and hope for something better.

          The proof is that it worked for MAGA.

          • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
            22·
            8 hours ago

            I disagree completely. There is a huge difference: ruling class support. Ruling class support fascism because it benefits them. The ruling class will not support socialism.

            It is impossible to reform the Democrats. They are fascist sympathizers. They are bought and owned by the ruling elite. Please, I am begging you, wake up. We need real change, not 99% Hitler.