In Reply to: (link) When opportunity knocks,.. posted by SagoBob on November 10, 2026 at 09:46:28
but instead to jumpstart the comatose congress to get back into business as usual? "Just take an obvious scalp or two, stabilize the market by placing a couple of rules around AI, but then get back to business as usual", by which I'm sure the implication is to keep cutting taxes and deregulating industries or something along those lines. Save capitalism from being ruled by a handful of people and hand it back to the 0.1% who used to run it.
They're basically reminding the Democrats that they are the fallback option and not the main actors, who just seem to be going through a weird, disorienting period at the moment. "Know your place", they're saying, "just salvage the damn game, give us a W, then go back to the bench".
This is a key moment where the Democratic Party can redefine itself and stop being a tool of the entrenched powers. THAT's their real challenge, as far as I'm concerned. I'm pretty sure they will fail. Success is not their mission, after all.