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submitted 1 month ago by HarryLime@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Democrats ended the shutdown because it was impeding the attack on Venezuela and military operations generally, because troops were about to go unpaid. It's the best explanation for their seeming "cowardice" or "incompetence." I've seen speculation that it's about preserving the filibuster to hamstring a future democratic president (lol), and that might be a factor, but foreign policy and American militarism is likely at least as important and probably much more so. It's so obvious that I'm ashamed of myself for not thinking of it earlier.

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[–] Chana@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

They don't really care that much about winning elections. That's one of their main things: losing to unpopular candidates because they chose to run an even worse campaign, hamstringing themselves both by actual gross incompetence and because they serve capital, which contradicts their PR as bleeding hearts (GOP's service of capital is more coherent). And of course, they place plenty of effort into suppressing their left flank of conservative imperialist SocDems even though they are much better at the PR game.

Also every one of these Senators goes to bat against Venezuela. They care way more about that than elections.