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.”
Being right wing supporting wall street and the 1% more than the general population is not moderate.
USA has 2 right wing parties, where one is extreme and the other only less extreme.
By European standards the real moderates are the left democrats like Bernie and AOC etc.
Honestly with how some of the Democrat leadership has acted, it feels like they’re more of the same face of the same coin, just different lettering.
It’s like the more popular social democracy is becoming in USA, the more Democrats pull away from it.
They are trying to get some of the Republican vote, and by that they are failing as untrustworthy, and without real political goals and values.
That said, Democrats are still the lesser evil, and with only 2 options, that’s where Americans have to go for now.