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Maybe if we had more than 48 we could find out. Let's call their bluff.
Every time the Dems have had a majority in my lifetime, they have failed to even discuss progressive legislation, let alone try to enact it.
The Dems had control for a few months in 2011, and that was when they passed the ACA. That was the only point in my lifetime they controlled the government.
The last time before that was 1961-1969. Which included such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act, though in sure you can find plenty more that was passed.
Not to mention that the Dems have absolutely been discussing progressive legislation. It's failed to pass, passed and then been vetoed, or even at times been passed and then struck down by conservative courts.
In 2003 they banned campaign funding from PACs instead allowing only a maximum from individuals, but in 2007-2010 the SCOTUS shut it down then declared it unconstitutional.
The Inflation Reduction Act also contained a ton of good stuff not even related to Inflation.
The ACA is the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation. It is not progressive legislation.
I'm sorry that you think tens of millions of americans don't deserve any medical care, but keep in mind they had to pass the watered down version due to Independent Joe Leiberman being the 60th vote needed to bypass the Republican Fillibuster.
I agree.
And also, itd be great if senators like Bernie, Warren and others, actually called out their "peers" who are obviously blocking progress.
I think my two Senators: Kaine, and Warner are playing a shell game where they go as corporate as they can and still give the appearance of resistance.
And yet I ha e to vote for them until there is a viable alternative. Its just so frustrating the lack of transparency.
This coming November there will likely be challengers to almost every Dem seat, people smell how fed up the populace is with current DNC leadership and will likely throw their hats in the ring.
DNC is a container. We pour out the contents of the container and fill it with something new.
Honestly, I think voting for them isn't even enough. We have to promote them. We have to outwardly support them and not talk shit about them online or in public, or else they will lose to a Republican and we'll be all that much worse off.
I mean, depends on your definition of "talking shit" is. If you would describe what I said as "talking sbit" I think that makes the party way too inwardly focused, and almost "cult of personality" like we see from the republicans.
The good thing about the democratic party is the wide tent and diversity of strategies. We need to be more transparent and proove ourselves since we dont (alway) have millionaire and billionaire funding.
I would not slander Democrats and still encourage voting, but to take a different stance, I cant exactly enourage Palestinians to vote for a candidate that actively promoted the genocide of their people. So its tricky, and open primaries and diqlog really clarify all that.
Muslim Imams and Leaders Letter to the Community on the 2024 Elections:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25194305-muslim-imams-and-leaders-letter-to-the-community-on-the-2024-elections-vfinal/
If they could do it then you can, too.
What do you even mean? I did vote. And just because someone feels ok voting foe someone doesnt mean others do. Are you saying all muslims are the same? Wow.
Edit to be clear, I went out and knocked doors for that election too (2024), but I refused to campaign explicitely for the higher ups, and focused on local candidates I actually believed in. This drives interest up the ticket.
I mean, I get that you're saying we need more solidarity, and we do, but this isn't how. We absolutely have to throw away the current batch of current Dem reps and leadership and then elect new people to those seats and get behind THOSE people.
The DNC and old-guard establishment does NOT have our back, in most cases they have the exact same donors as the right. They have no intention of doing anything to help us.
The DNC and any Democrat is better than any Republican, and their voting histories are full undeniable evidence of that.
You want a better world? Vote DNC.
Only because we don't have a party that has anywhere close to the capability to actually pose a challenge to the system, but if we flushed out the incumbents we might get a chance for actual regime change.
I will be voting Dems, unless it's one of the pieces of shit who have been paid to suck off Netanyahu or grovel at Trump's feet for scraps. So basically nearly all of 'em. I'm sure we'll get a LOT of challengers to their seats too because people are are as fed up as I am with this so-called "opposition party."
I'm sorry that you feel the need to protect the Republican Majority, I wish we could have worked towards progress together.
Okay I'm just blocking you, I don't need to deal with trolls or children, shit is very serious. Either get serious or get out of the way.
It was suspicious how many accounts claiming to be left-leaning all of a sudden in like, July 2024 decided to suddenly buy the lies the GOP had been selling for years that Biden was old and senile just because he has a stutter.
The DNC does need to have better primaries though. Which means people PARTICIPATING in them. But also not allowing people like Bloomberg to buy their way in. To actually HOLD primaries like they didn't for Biden's incumbent campaign.
Biden won the primary just like every incumbent in us history, and then he stepped down and his Vice President took over.
And when Biden won the previous primary in 2020, he actually more than doubled the runner up Bernie Sanders.
Nonsense.
Donald has the same amount of power that Clinton, Obama, and Biden had.
The problem isn't a lack of power. It's their predilection to enrich themselves at the expense of their constituents. The only difference is Donald isn't offering shitty excuses like Dems do.
Biden had the least amount of power because as I mentioned the DNC have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years.
To be clear, Trump's power comes solely from inaction in the Senate.
But, on that note, Biden accomplished a lot of great things including taxing the rich.
Totally. Genocide Joe achieved an economy that has my 80 year-old parents driving for DoorDash in a car they borrow from me, so his economy won't render them homeless.
Awesome guy, that Joe.
Love it.
Man, you must have been a Maga until the Epstein files came out if you really believe all that. I normally try to bring reason and facts to every argument but I think this might be a tried and true "turtles all the way down" moment.
I'm not MAGA at all.
I hate partisans of both team colors, and I think it is objectively false to call Biden 'great' in any context. I wish he'd spent half as much time making sure Americans can eat and put a roof over his head as he did keeping his son out prison.