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WTF Are Senate Democrats Even Doing?!?! | The Weekly Assignment

Senate Democrats’ shutdown cave reveals a moral and strategic failure, not a compromise.

Susan J. Demas, Sam Osterhout, and The Intellectualist
Nov 10
 
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  • Grassroots voters—not party elites—are driving the pro-democracy movement from the bottom up.

  • Economic policy and AI-driven inequality are reshaping the meaning of work and security.

  • Collective action, not donor appeasement, will define the next wave of Democratic politics.


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This week’s Weekly Assignment channeled equal parts fury and clarity. Susan, Sam, and guest Brian Daitzman (The Intellectualist) didn’t just dissect the Democrats’ collapse — they called it what it was: proof that power without conviction is self-erasure. From hunger as a bargaining chip to tariffs still strangling the economy, the conversation traced how institutional decay has become moral decay.

But in the rubble, there’s something alive: a base that’s done waiting to be saved. Whether it’s voters rejecting corporate puppetry or communities refusing to fund their own betrayal, the energy is shifting from capitulation to confrontation. And as automation and inequality threaten to erase human purpose, the real task ahead isn’t messaging — it’s rebuilding meaning itself and demanding a politics worthy of the people keeping democracy alive.

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