Lay low or pound the table ?
There are some within the Democratic Party, who say we should lay low, sit back and let the Republicans destroy themselves. There are others who say being quiet is the last thing we should do. I tend to agree with the latter.
We are being led by an insane Russian puppet who appoints insane people to top government positions and decimates government agencies that are designed to keep us safe. Government agencies, such as the NIH and the national Park service , which give back more money than they cost are being destroyed.We are building concentration camps. Students are being deported because of speech. Worldwide markets for our farmers have been destroyed. People are being deported without due process. political show trials are being set up. US citizens, including a disabled veteran, are being disappeared off of our streets. I would think that it is possible to pound the table about all of this AND talk about the Epstein files. There are some within the Democratic Party, who are doing an outstanding job of pounding the table-and there are others who seem to want to act as if this is politics as normal and that if we just be quiet, everything will be fine. Perhaps I will be proved wrong, but it seems to me that being quiet is the last thing we should be doing right now.
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his response was that we have to work with the other side when we can. BULLSHIT!! You never give fascists quarter. Not one fucking bit.
I'm so disappointed in the Democratic Party right now. We need a unified voice of outrage from the Party about the destruction of our government & democracy instead of the handful of reps & senators speaking out that are drown out by the silence of the others. 
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/04/02/hickenlooper-bennet-colorado-biggest-pro-trump-skew
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When it comes to Senate floor votes, neither Hickenlooper nor Bennet has heeded the activists’ calls. They have been among the Senate Democrats most likely to back Trump’s Cabinet picks, voting to confirm eight and 10 nominees, respectively, out of the 21 selected so far.
A more comprehensive database tracking 2025 Senate votes, including votes on lower-level appointees, procedural motions and legislation, tells a similar story. The tracker, maintained by Massachusetts-based progressive organizer Jonathan Cohn, tallied 155 votes by the full Senate through March 27.
When collated with 2024 election results, this vote data shows a clear, unsurprising pattern: Senate Democrats representing swing states are more likely than those in safe blue seats to cross the aisle and back Trump’s nominees and legislative priorities. For example, Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona — elected narrowly in a state that Trump won by more than 5 percentage points last year — has voted with Republicans almost 33% of the time in 2025, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren of deep-blue Massachusetts has done so just 3% of the time.
The single biggest exception to this rule? Colorado and its moderate Senate duo, who have voted with Trump and their GOP colleagues roughly a quarter of the time while representing a state that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris by 11 percentage points in the 2024 election.
* Note: I believe Hick voted for 10 & Bennet voted for 8, not the other way around.
