cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52806677
The capitulation of Senate Democrats in ending the government shutdown without healthcare concessions has sparked outrage. Calls for new leadership and primary challenges are growing. The fight for a Democratic Party that truly fights back continues.
No, Schumer needs to resign immediately and never ever have any input to politics again, this was an awful betrayal of everybody who grinned and bore the suffering from the government being closed because they knew it was Republicans holding us hostage.
Schumer has betrayed us all by normalizing betrayal like this, by encouraging us to take a deal with the strongman out of fear because maybe people won’t hold the line when you come under the crosshairs and maybe you will just be sweeped under the rug because your suffering was too cynical for the opposing narrative to handle…
This is honestly the singlest biggest US policy failure of my life time, I cannot believe how badly Shumer blundered and betrayed my future with this.
People are going to die because of how Schumer behaved here, many tens of thousands of people. Schumer is a disgrace to the Democratic party and is a living breathing argument as good as any that the issues at the heart of the DNC are terminal and fundamentally resistant to change necessary to survive, the future be damned.
man, i’m just as pissed as you, but you put it way better than i ever could have.