Even the woman who made the quote isn’t keen on abiding it these days and understandably so. Maybe Michelle Obama had other reasons for not attending Carter’s funeral or the inauguration but honestly I fully get why she wouldn’t go solely because she doesn’t want to endure being near Trump.
I was going to say, it's not even the high road. Nancy Pelosi and every establishment Dem is totally fine with doing copius amounts of insider trading, is that taking the high road? Dems are totally fine with taking the lowroad during primaries, railroading certain candidates and completely blacklisting others. Calling their own voterbase stupid, or misogynistic, or lazy isn't exactly the highroad either. But when it comes to a genuine threat, then they take the highroad.
It's not a highroad, it's appeasement. They're cowards and are afraid of actually standing up to the first real threat that these ivy league trust babies running the show have ever seen. Half these people come from immense wealth and powerful families, they're not affected by Trump's policies. But their careers are increasingly threatened by opposing him. Or by just doing anything ever at all.
Actual progressives from the past, Lincoln, Roosevelt, the other Roosevelt, would hate these cowards.
As much as I didn’t want Trump, the Democrats need to get their heads out of the ass of their high horse. Until they do, they aren’t likely to win votes from the disenfranchised republican voters, simply because Trump will seem less bad. 😢
They are also stuck afraid of taxing the mega millionaires and billionaires properly.
Don{t get me wrong, I respect al Green for doing it, but if everybody does it, then it becomes performative, and the whole signs and shirts display raised eyebrows because it was performative.
I understand there needs to be some measure of that in politics, but I{m of the opinion politicians should back their performances with clear actions that send a powerful message. If they are legislators, those actions need to be primarily legislative. They need to be informing their constituents of the situations and push for a more politically active base.
They thought they wanted branding. Then they lost the Senate, the House and the Presidency. There's no unified front for Democrats, to the point they had to switch candidates a few months before the election.
I hate to admit this, but conservatives had not just a more unified front, but also junped on every opportunity to double down: they used DJT's assasination attempt in July 13 as a rallying call, and it worked. Meanwhile, the Democrats were still juggling on whether or not to support Biden for a second term, and Biden withdrew 8 days later.
The Democrats did work, yes, but the perception by the public was that it wasn't imapctful.
Amen. Most Democrats still don't get it. We lost all three branches of government and still patting ourselves on the back for how decent and civil we are.
All they did was just handicapped themselves, and I'm being polite here just so I won't get voted down (you know internet worthless points matters). It could be even defined as ignorance, letting the people down who voted for you and supported you.
I had a classmate in college, who's not amongst us anymore - if anyone ever said to him, you don't bite the dog back if it bites you (a proverb from where I'm from, meaning the same as you don't go low if they do). He used to reply why'd I bite the dog, I'd hit it with a stick.
Yeah, I'm not sure how this post is some kind of "gotcha" - all it shows is that the Democrats were as spineless about enforcing the rules when we were in power as they are about breaking them now that we're not.
centrists are the reason Democrats are letting fascism defeat democracy.
Because like in 2016 when the majority of the activists burnt out and shut up because all the centrists told them "not everyone you disagree with is a fascist", the democratics finally had the balls to call Trump a fascist like he is and once again all the centrists said the same thing amd acted like fascist is just hyperbole that means "bad dude"
This culture war was lost to fascism when closet fascists got Reaganomic's and no child left behind passed to sabotage schools so America would only understand 4 political terms: liberal, centrist, Democrat & Republican.
They've been fucking railroading them since time immemorial... And then if the Republicans aren't able to railroad the Democrats, there is always at least one Democrat who is more than happy to hold up everything.
It’s cute people think this is actually why they don’t fight back. Just continue ignoring how closely their corporate donations line up with Republicans.
I’m in the belief that when they go low, bury them. The conscious purity test is just dragging things out till 2026 for midterms where I don’t think they are gonna take a big enough baby step to gain the traction like the other side does. Republicans always jump, while Democrats have constantly been taking baby steps even in the wake of setback.
And it's so dumb because it's not like these Republicans are impressive in their tactics in anyway. They're just lying and then going "ha gotchya" like okay Johnson maybe go stuff another hamburger in your mouth after Trump wipes his ass on it.
My issue is how, they don’t have the senate, they don’t have the house, they don’t have the Supreme Court, they don’t have leverage and the other republicans that don’t even like him are just bending the knee anyway
I ask this over and over again, WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM TO DO?
The problem with the “when they go low, we go high” mentality is that it’s absolutely useless in politics and is just something folks will crack jokes on you for, especially with MAGA. Long story short, it doesn’t work and they need to match them blow for blow. Or go lower than them.
Do you suggest they storm the podium and try to beat him or something? Seriously, what is the proposal? Because “not enough” doesn’t mean shit. Voters left them without any power, what is it exactly you want them to do? Start shooting up the place?
I have consistently voted blue for over a decade but at this point I'm convinced that they are a controlled opposition party. They are a stand-in for where a several left-wing parties should be (for example, see Europe). Everything in this country is meant to give us the illusion of choice and the two-party system isn't even doing that.
Bullies only understand violence that’s how they get educated. You need to speak their language. Then teach them a new language. Because that’s the only way they know how to express themselves.
Yeah the high road really fucking fixed that supreme court didn't it....the only time when Democrats would take the low road is when they want to undermine their progressive colleagues.
I’ve been sassy with trumpers for sometime now because I was so fed up with being nice and they alllll cry “so much for the tolerant left.” It’s like yeah, damn straight, I’m the intolerant left.
They know this. They're not playing nice because they don't understand the situation. They're doing it because that's what the people they work for (which is not you or me) pay them to do.
And ten democrats went along with the censure for the greater good of this hallowed institution! 🙄
This is just like that 🤬🤬🤬🤬 Kristen gillibrand railroading Al Franken (arguably the best senator in the last 20+ years) over some stupid shit done in the past.
The fundamental issue is that we are playing different games. And the Dems are unwilling too even consider analyzing the rules of the game that the republicans are playing.
They are the ones to blame. They the ones are letting democracy die.
I don’t know boss, the high road is good from dropping heavy objects on to the low road. Got to think creatively and start lugging around those acme anvils!
I agree, but I also agree that it’s pretty difficult, the new administration is based on intimidating and attacking people with different opinions, so if the democrats do something about it they might get fired, and how would they be able to help if they lose their jobs? I’m positive that they thought really hard in how to protest and this was the best way they found. I’m also confident that they are working silently to achieve something, they have to bring the big guns in 2028 so they can end the republicans terror.
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u/deletesystemthirty2 Mar 05 '25
"When they go low, we go high"
okay democrats, your fucking conscience purity tests dont pay bills, or hold anyone accountable anymore.
Start getting tough on these guys; they are fucking RAILROADING you!