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Stop expecting your "leaders" to die for you. When Trump lost the election his followers over-ran the capital and went to jail for him. When Pelosi opposed Republicans, a Republican went and smashed her husband's face with a hammer.
We protested against police brutality in 2020 and lots of Dems couldn't throw us to the wolves fast enough. Lots of those protesters got their own faces smashed in by cops' batons and rubber bullets in 2020, and Democratic party leadership turned around and argued for giving cops more funding.
I'm sorry for what happened to Pelosi's husband, it wasn't right and he didn't deserve it, but we're all living in the violent and scary world the bipartisanship of moderates like Pelosi has built. Being a better opposition party mean fewer of our people's faces getting smashed, whether they're the wealthy spouses of lawmakers or random political activists.
The appropriate punishment for corruption is not a face smashing, it's seizure of assets and a prison sentence. Also, there are degrees of culpability, and profiting off a failing system you occasionally make half hearted statements about fixing is less bad than actually trying to make it fail.
Lastly, just on a realpolitik level, at this moment fighting against fascism will be easier with Pelosi and Pelosi-like people in our coalition instead of out of it.
Her corruption caused unspeakable death and destruction in lives in the US and all around the world. That healthcare CEO who was shot wasn't 1/10 as deserving as Pelosi, and I'm glad he's dead.
Yes, we could benefit greatly from having Pelosi in our coalition. The problem is that we don't and never have. Most recently, she was responsible for blocking AOC from leading the Democrats in the House oversight committee and gave us an elderly cancer patient with zero media savvy in her place. The one position in the House that has some ability to push back, and Pelosi pissed it away out of spite. With friends like that, who needs enemies.
It's been absolutely obvious that the Democrats have been leading us to where we are now for at least 20 years, if not 50. I can't even begin to count the number of massive failures Pelosi herself was personally responsible for in that time. After so many years of calling her shit out to deaf ears, I'm not interested in lectures on civility.
Trump is an opportunistic infection destroying America from within, and establishment neoliberals are the AIDS that set us up for it. I'm not looking to them for help.
Guessing you have "receipts" for this. The only destruction she's responsible for is what's happening right now. She helped turn liberalism into the new conservatism. Maybe if she actually led the fight for working families we'd have a Harris presidency or at least control of one chamber.
What's happening right now isn't enough? That's been a long term project for her. It wasn't easy steering the country away from every opportunity to avoid it.
There is her decades of shilling for big oil.
She continued to support the Pied Piper strategies that promote far right candidates in Republican primaries so that Democrats can campaign on how bad Republicans are instead of actually delivering.
She was one of the loudest (and most effective) voices in the deregulation push that culminated in the 2008 mortgage crisis.
Then there all the many instances where Pelosi campaigned against progressives in Democratic primaries, both when the progressive was an incumbent and a challenger.
With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?
His followers did that - after being led by their leaders into doing so. It was the leaders that made it all possible. The only reason several dozen Republican Congress members aren't rotting in jail right now is because Biden is a coward and a traitor to the Republic.