Need to complain for a min....Not about DU... but political

[electric_blue68]

So I'm on reddit....mostly for fun, but occasionally politics appear. Like now.

Down in a thread someone was carrying on about Dems, and Repubs = uniparty.
I pointed out the differences considering the Social Safety Net. Said they were ignorant if they didn't get that. They discounted that, and called me ignorant.

So countered with in the future if you need the safety net and Republicans have shredded more of it? Did they have elder relatives who need it now? What about them taking SNAP away from more people now.

We'll see what they say back. I hate that kind of equivalency ! I might not bother much more w that.

[Keepthesoulalive]

1. They are called Tankies

Nothing is ever good enough and they have a purity complex. If we lived in a utopian society they would still find reasons to complain. When you respond to them you will never get through their self importance but others will see your response and understand what’s at stake.

[electric_blue68]

8. Hm...I think I've seen that moninker somewhere.TY

[Coventina]

17. Thanks! I've seen the term "Tankies" before but didn't know what it meant.

I've known a few and they are INCREDIBLY frustrating.

A few "Bernie Bros" who refused to vote for Hilary for the reason that "she was the same" as Trump.

[Keepthesoulalive]

20. They will always find a reason

Any reason to oppose a democrat. Nothing anyone can say will make them happy other than voting for the green party grifter.

[FascismIsDeath]

2. Both parties have their issues but the Democrats are always expected to be the adults in the room.

And of course, EVERYONE should try to be an adult in the proverbial room. But when Republicans aren't, their base doesn't care. When one of ours isn't, we eventually run them out of town and we've gone too far with that at times (Al Franken) but it just another example of how much more Democrats hold themselves accountable.

Weiner and Swalwell are persona non grata.

[yorkster]

3. There is a lot of that "they're all the same " crap

out there and you're right. It is ignorant.

[MadameButterfly]

6. That was the end of Raolph Nader for me

When he called Bush and Gore the same and stayed in the Florida race when it mattered.

[electric_blue68]

9. Oh, yeah, me too!

😬

[yardwork]

18. The beginning of the end.

I knew someone who worked for Nader in the 1970s and earned me about him. All ego, no sense.

[calimary]

4. Hey, you can always come here.

It's safe and cozy territory, with loads of supportive souls of like mind.

[electric_blue68]

10. Yeah, I'm always here!

[Skittles]

5. while I do think they are wrong

I can absolutely understand why younger folk are disgusted and disillusioned with both parties at this point

[MadameButterfly]

7. There are a lot of Dems doing great things

maybe not the leadership, but it's hard to see results when you aren't in power. Yes we have been bringing a knife to a gunfight for a while but some of them are getting it and doing whatever they can. But you have to be looking closely, and there is more happening behind the scenese than we know. Try listening to Sheldon Whitehouse on MSNBC, for example.

[Skittles]

11. it's not just the Trump era

things have been getting steadily worse for some time now, and it seems heavily stacked against younger folk....I peg Reaganomics as the start

[MadameButterfly]

16. Yep

but Nixon didn't help. Both Nixon and Reagan had Democratic majorities in Congress keeping them in check.

[electric_blue68]

12. Dems can always use improving...but, still ...

it's sort of like ?learn some more history and see what most Dems have struggled for in bettering people's lives.

[Skittles]

13. I'm not saying one party isn't radically better

just that for many young folk, shit just ain't working for them - something has to change

[yardwork]

19. I see that too and I hope Dems run on it.

It's the reason so many young people voted for Trump. Yes, the Republicans caused all this but a lot of younger voters don't know that.

They do know that things are stacked against them.

[Skittles]

21. and the old guard needs to go

I am sick of them

[SocialDemocrat61]

15. The parties are not the same. Here's proof: