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Democrats Aim to Make GOP Pay as 'Angry' Voters See Health Insurance Premiums Soar
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The fact that we’ve gone through all this bullshit in 1 year and there is still a toss up on who will win the midterms is astounding in a “mushroom cloud looks cool” kind of way
Ah yes, here we see Lucy is placing the football in front of Charlie Brown but will she let him kick it?
The economy is consistently better under Democrats. Things consistently get better under Democrats.
I get that it's not as fast as any of us would like, but if you'd loved through it and paid attention, you'd have a better understanding of why. Obama understood he was a centrist, and it's why he centered his first term strategy on being the most bipartisan president of all time.
McConnell saw that strategy and thought it was more important to defeat Democrats than to improve the country.
The real problem isn't the Democrats, status quo or not. The problem is that the Republican party exists. The problem is that every so many years the voters get bored with slow, steady improvement and spend the next several years tearing everything down.
And it's a hell of a lot easier to destroy than to build.
I'd love to be choosing between Democrats and Socialists. I'd love to have two sane choices. I'd love if our dividing issue was whether trans people should be allowed in women's sports, and not whether trans people should be allowed to live.
The economy is not better under Democrats, liberals largely ignore the economy under Democrats. Republicans only exist in their current form because Democrats keep shifting further to the right and their ratchet effect keeps the status quo from slipping back.