Thinking Democrats can stop Trump (FB post)

[liberalmediaaddict]

A friend of mine on Facebook named John Marques recently posted this in response to everyone bashing elected Democrats for not stopping Trump. I think it's 100% accurate.

A number of you are asking where the Democrats are, why they aren't doing anything to stop all this. Baby, it's too late. The time to stop this was at the ballot box in November.

There are three branches of government: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Democrats do not control either the House or the Senate ( legislative). They do not control the executive branch (that's controlled by Trump) nor do they control the judiciary. Had idiots not sat out the 2016 election to punish people, Democrats would have a 6-3 majority on the Court. Instead, Republicans do.

Meanwhile, Democrats have been utilizing the only potential measure of power they have by suing the Trump Administration. That's literally it until we get into budget negotiations. But for now, the Supreme Court is all we've got. However, they're so thoroughly corrupt that we have no idea what they're going to do. And, quietly, even if they do stand up to the Trump Administration, the federal judiciary has zero means of enforcement. That means the Executive and Legislative branches, which are both controlled by the GOP, can simply refuse to comply with the courts. Since they've already ruled that Trump can do whatever he wants, he could literally unalive them all anyway.

So, what is it you want Democrats to do? Be specific. This is why the election was so damn traumatizing and devastating. It wasn't just because Kamala lost. It was because we also lost any ability to put a check on Trump's power.

So, instead of asking why Democrats aren't doing anything to stop him, why don't y'all ask why Republicans are doing nothing? Why do we keep letting them off the hook? Because they're the only people who can stop Trump. They control the Legislative Branch of the federal government, yet y'all are mad at the Democrats who control nothing? Somebody please make that make sense. Please, Lord, explain it to me like I'm 5.

As a lifelong Democrat I'm really protective of my party. We've gotten criticized relentlessly by never-Trumpers and double haters for not ending Trump's political career over the past 10 years. I hate bullies and we get bullied a lot. Blamed for this country's toxic addiction to an authoritarian criminal thug.

Unfortunately a lot of the electorate would rather protest than govern. If we don't actually win elections we're irrelevant. The people who don't vote or vote third party to punish the Democrats have led us to this point where democracy has been replaced by autocracy.

If we'd won the House and were doing nothing to stop Trump that would be one thing. But right now we control nothing. And people can't say they weren't warned what Trump would do if re-elected. They just wouldn't listen or thought we were being hyperbolic.

Elections have consequences. We're in the middle of the biggest consequence in American history. If we have another free and fair election we might be able to do something to stop Trump. Until then we're in political purgatory.

[S/V Loner]

1. I tend to agree...

They had too much time to stack all the decks in their favor and legal maneuvers is all the party can do right now.
Now the people are a different matter but it will take time for all this nastiness to sink in to enough people that they go to the streets. The thing is... time is not on our side.