These votes demonstrate that the Democratic Party functions not as an opposition but as an enabler of the Trump administration. Its priority is to ensure the uninterrupted funding of the US military while diverting popular opposition with calls for meaningless cosmetic changes to the administration’s efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.
I really don’t understand how this can be viewed as anything other than a win.
Necessary social programs, including taxing and auditing the rich, are getting funded through September while the entire DHS runs out in 2 weeks. That’s fantastic. That’s the best fucking news I’ve heard since before the second Trump term began.
Because people only read the headline and the same negative comments always get the most upvotes.
My theory is if 21 Republicans voted against it then there’s got to be some good things in there.
I don’t understand your position. Can you help me understand your point of view?
I’m stuck in my point of view, and all I can think of is if 20 nazis figured they could build another concentration camp for children, if they didn’t vote for a bill, would that make the bill that continued funding the first one good on the whole? Even if it funded some libraries?
Ask yourself why the house freedom caucus is voting against it. It’s because they wanted more funding for ice and more damage to the working class and less oversight on the rich.
The Republicans are running all three branches of the government elite class supporting Democrats are helping. We got to take wins when we get them.
While Trump is building concentration camps throughout the country for people to spend their whole life in! It’s so thoughtful of him to not only have a jobs program to build them, but to also house people! Let’s hope he also puts signs above the warehouses with something like “Work will set you free”
That’s exactly what loses all funding in 2 weeks as a result of this bill.
Sadly, Dems will cave and pass funding for DHS with extremely little or even zero changes.
Even if by some miracle they get “promises” to make changes to DHS, ICE, etc. There will not be any follow through.
Wsws.org is one of those sites it’s really hard to take seriously, and their articles that do get boosted here are still the sanest takes from the website.
It’s basically rage bait, it’s hard to believe their writers can consistently misinterprete so much
Because the priority right now isn’t social programs and funding for shit Trump will just cut when the GOP gains unopposed power and eliminates democracy FFS. Getting a cookie by funding the elimination of democracy and the dissolution of rights isn’t a fucking win.
If Trump has that power he hasn’t demonstrated it, nor would any sort of congressional vote actually matter in that context.
If he demonstrates it, it’s too late to stop…
Enlighten me, then why hasn’t he?
Because he doesn’t have it yet, obviously.
You have to ask yourself, “What would Leon Trotsky think of this?” Then you’ll understand where the Worldwide Socialist Web Site is coming from.
You can peruse their Marxist library if you need more ideas.