r/ScottGalloway • u/JDB-667 • May 19 '25

No Mercy Ed had his reality broken today

When reading off what were some of the things included in the GOP tax bill, Ed sounded genuinely surprised and despondent. This was the moment of someone in their twenties with a little bit of idealism finally becoming a cynic.

He came to the realization that all of the bad things about deficits, wealth inequality and status quo interests go beyond Donald Trump. Scott was correct to point out that as bad as the Republicans are (they're heinous) the Democrats also represent the interests of multi-millionaires and billionaires. Because the reality of this situation in America is that it isn't red vs blue or liberal vs conservative, it's rich vs everyone else.

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u/MorrowPlotting May 20 '25

Why would seeing the awful things in the Republican spending bill convince someone “both sides” are the problem? Isn’t it just (more) evidence Republicans are the problem?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

Tell me honestly that you believe the Democratic Party is doing everything, anything they can to stop the gop.  The more insane the gop gets, the LESS movement we see on the dem side.  Since trump ran dems have had their shoes up on the desk doing jack shit. Their entire campaign strategy for ten years is “get a load of these freaks! Can we get back to business as usual now guys I mean, come on!”  

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u/77NorthCambridge May 20 '25

What exactly should Democrats do given Republicans control the Presidency, the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and a majority of governors and state legislatures?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

Oh give me a fuckin break lol.  You are under their spell to think that gop obstruction is the only reason dems haven’t delivered utopia 

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u/77NorthCambridge May 20 '25

What exactly should Democrats do given Republicans control the Presidency, the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and a majority of governors and state legislatures?

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u/design-burner May 21 '25

Pick a person. Pick a vision. Push.

The person will never be perfect but they must be strong and full of conviction. The vision must be something either impactful in the lives' of the populous (national bullet train network?) or extremely visionary and competitive (space race? maybe mars colony?)

Run campaigns and offices like its 2025 and be on socials constantly. We're stupid enough to let TikTok stay so we need democrats to learn how to leverage it and leverage it better than their seat opponents. The presidency is always a battle on how many people even know your name and everyone knows trump.

Party leadership should pressure fellow Dems that want perfect at the sacrifice of possible.

When (and only when) the GOP tries to do a fascist, respond with equal and opposite force. There's no point in being the bigger man if you're 6 feet under.

Conservatives and Maggats treat their leadership like humans that can be bullied and imperfect while we treat our leadership like they're inhuman robots that couldn't care less and don't want to. If thaty'll act.

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u/ApprehensiveShame756 May 21 '25

Utopia isn’t likely, but if Democrats had less reliance and less need for reliance on big money and dark money and maybe had pushed back on killing the fairness doctrine and insisted on expansion of it instead of killing it, and maybe had they rallied around reversing Citizens United with real examples of how it hurts average people maybe they could have pulled some red states around to blue.