Trump’s votes barely increased but over 8 Million more people voted for Biden than Harris. We haven’t had more than 50 DNC in the senate for over 12 years.
Voting for the blue is demonstrably fucking not how we got here. Not voting blue is how we got here.
Voting blue when they give us dogshit policies that help nobody and politicians who do nothing to stop Republicans, when they arent just doing republican’s jobs for them is why the dems keep losing against the “make everything worse” party.
Look at the competition. Against that, america should be a 1 party state, instead we have dems going to war, funding ICE (clinton did not do this, because ICE did not exist), and kicking the shit out of the politically activated youth they need to get people to vote showing generation after generation that they are a dead end for positive social change.
I’ll paraphrase what someone on Lemmy said the other day:
Politics is like everyone on a bus voting for where we’re going to go for lunch.
If 5 people vote “Let’s drive off the cliff,” 4 people vote “Let’s go to McDonald’s,” and 3 people don’t vote because they hate McDonald’s, we all drive off the cliff and many of us die. You don’t get to not be on the bus.
Harris/Biden ran on opposing all of these. The Dems can’t simultaneously fight against Bernie and progressives and then pretend at some point they were fore them because Bernie was in a Dem primary at one point and forced Dem candidates to find deceptive ways to deflect and lie like Harris saying “access to healthcare for all”
Policies they don’t actually support. If they did, they wouldnt let Manchin or Liberman or the parliamentarian or “norms” stop them. We’ve seen the dems can smash through barriers the same way Republicans can, they did it to illegally send weapons to Israel. We’ve seen they can whip votes and discipline their own party, they do it to any progressive who doesnt fall in line.
They’ve literally done these things whenever and to however much extent possible. You seem to think having permanently 50 or less senators overcomes the supermajority. It’s like you’re not even capable of parsing that information.
Republicans don’t allow that to stop them. When the Dems had all three branches of government during Obama’s first term they let McConnell fuck with judge picks the entire fucking time. What did the Dems do when Trump came into office and started picking judges? Fuck all.
The Dems are a broken feckless party and need to be replaced. I don’t even know who their target base voter is, because it isn’t me. I am not looking for a center-right pro-billionaire party.
It also didn’t stop Democrats from passing the massive inflation reduction act.
The key here is Reconciliation of Budget, either the federal government shuts down in opposition to a bill like these or one party buckles to the other.
The filibuster that republicans remove when its convenient? The dems wouldnt need to proceed with the assumption the republicans were about to take control if they actually improved the immediate material conditions of their constituents. Theres also a million things they could have done by executive order.
Voting for the blue racist fascist is how we got here!
Turns out people who want racist fascists are going to vote republican anyway.
Trump’s votes barely increased but over 8 Million more people voted for Biden than Harris. We haven’t had more than 50 DNC in the senate for over 12 years.
Voting for the blue is demonstrably fucking not how we got here. Not voting blue is how we got here.
Voting blue when they give us dogshit policies that help nobody and politicians who do nothing to stop Republicans, when they arent just doing republican’s jobs for them is why the dems keep losing against the “make everything worse” party.
Look at the competition. Against that, america should be a 1 party state, instead we have dems going to war, funding ICE (clinton did not do this, because ICE did not exist), and kicking the shit out of the politically activated youth they need to get people to vote showing generation after generation that they are a dead end for positive social change.
I’ll paraphrase what someone on Lemmy said the other day:
Politics is like everyone on a bus voting for where we’re going to go for lunch.
If 5 people vote “Let’s drive off the cliff,” 4 people vote “Let’s go to McDonald’s,” and 3 people don’t vote because they hate McDonald’s, we all drive off the cliff and many of us die. You don’t get to not be on the bus.
Dogshit policies like Medicaid for all, removing money from politics (again), and taxing the rich.
Harris/Biden ran on opposing all of these. The Dems can’t simultaneously fight against Bernie and progressives and then pretend at some point they were fore them because Bernie was in a Dem primary at one point and forced Dem candidates to find deceptive ways to deflect and lie like Harris saying “access to healthcare for all”
They were literally positions listed on her campaign website.
I would link to it directly but its already unavailable so heres an Article about it. take specific notice of capital gains tax.
You can check the wayback machine, or the pdf here. Do you mind citing where she advocates for each of those?
The issues page on her website, Section 2 Chapter 13
Policies they don’t actually support. If they did, they wouldnt let Manchin or Liberman or the parliamentarian or “norms” stop them. We’ve seen the dems can smash through barriers the same way Republicans can, they did it to illegally send weapons to Israel. We’ve seen they can whip votes and discipline their own party, they do it to any progressive who doesnt fall in line.
They’ve literally done these things whenever and to however much extent possible. You seem to think having permanently 50 or less senators overcomes the supermajority. It’s like you’re not even capable of parsing that information.
Republicans don’t allow that to stop them. When the Dems had all three branches of government during Obama’s first term they let McConnell fuck with judge picks the entire fucking time. What did the Dems do when Trump came into office and started picking judges? Fuck all.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/here-are-the-senate-democrats-voting-for-trump-nominated-judges-and-why/
The Dems are a broken feckless party and need to be replaced. I don’t even know who their target base voter is, because it isn’t me. I am not looking for a center-right pro-billionaire party.
It also didn’t stop Democrats from passing the massive inflation reduction act.
The key here is Reconciliation of Budget, either the federal government shuts down in opposition to a bill like these or one party buckles to the other.
They can get rid of the rule holding them back at any time.
But with 50 or less that means getting rid of the rule holding Republicans back.
Just look how well it turned out removing filibuster for Cabinet appointees.
The filibuster that republicans remove when its convenient? The dems wouldnt need to proceed with the assumption the republicans were about to take control if they actually improved the immediate material conditions of their constituents. Theres also a million things they could have done by executive order.