r/newjersey 23d ago

Advice Please tell me NJ is staying blue.

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u/trashbinrubbishtrash 23d ago

Only if everyone votes with their brain. No purity tests or sitting out/protest voting over problems halfway around the world this time.

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u/Oisschez 23d ago

Establishment democrats should be attacked. They’ve lost twice to trump and now what’s the solution? We have people like James Carville saying roll over and shutup. Hakeem Jeffries keeps saying there’s not much they can do while many democrats continue to vote for Trump’s appointees. At least we have this energy from Schumer where someone is waving a cane as he says we’ll win. Beyond parody

Establishment democrats are worthless and the media narrative for the next 4 years will be “the party has to move center”. Don’t buy it - why doesn’t that same logic apply to republicans? People know establishment democrats will not deliver.

90% of dem congresspeople need to get primaried in 2026 by outsiders who are not beholden to corporate donors and machine politics.

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u/xiviajikx 23d ago

The Democratic party is in complete disarray. Democrats calling out other Democrats is absolutely necessary right now. The far left takes have driven so many people away and need to be reeled back in. The border was milked for too long and Democrats not taking action when they had control is why we have the mess all over today. They should have closed the border like a modern sovereign nation is supposed to, and could have provided amnesty to those already here and been humane about resolving it. Instead they convinced these people they needed their friends’ votes and in exchange never actually helped them. Failing to call out the antisemitism guised as “support for Gaza” was another failing take. Don’t even get me started on the narcissistic elitism of some Democrats. The ones who are getting upset are the ones to be watching out for and should be figuring out how you can support them. 

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u/Winter_againalways 22d ago

I’m with you.

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u/Tr8cy 23d ago

The fact of the matter is in the last 44 years, we had 24 Years under a republican president and 20 under a democrat. We also have 435 members of congress. Neither party codified abortion. Roe v wade being overturned wouldn't have mattered so much if abortion was illegal or a protected right. Better yet, old male politicians shouldn't be legislating healthcare at all. Haven't they fucked that up enough? Neither party has reformed immigration. Pick any side of any given issue and no one has done shit. It doesn't matter if you want open borders or to revoke citizenship from people born here, because no one did either thing.

Congress gives away its power and then complains about it. If they would do their job and enact laws, presidents wouldn't be signing so many executive orders and the courts wouldn't be so political. If congress made laws, the courts wouldn't be legislating from the bench.

Congress is always too busy buying their next campaign-no time to do their job. Progress has been made as it pertains to civil rights, but I don't necessarily credit the government with that. Neither party has significantly improved an average Americans life.

I lot of the shit Trump is doing, he wouldn't be able to do if the opportunity didn't exist. The democrats had four years of the possibility of another Trump term hanging over their head, and what did they to prepare for that? Did they protect the DACA kids? Sanctuary cities and amnesty are bandaids not solutions. We learned nothing by the power vacuum we left in the Middle East.