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I have seen the Dems unite under expanding war and genocide a few times so they have at least some cohesiveness

I wouldn’t say got nothing done.

Just look at Biden’s presidency: ending Europe’s economy, expansion of military contracts by starting wars everywhere, instituting austerity through high interest rate that transferred wealth from poor people (predominantly black and Hispanic) to white people, huge payout to Wall Street (S&P went up two fold under strong inflation), restored America’s oil and gas exporter profit after the prices were kept low under Trump.

They’ve done a lot, just not for you.

Uh, pretty sure they renewed the Patriot Act a couple times.

You've always got your token senator to blame it on like Lieberman, Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman, etc. There's always a focus on the individual, instead of the senatorial system itself, which is dumb and only exists to placate slave states and the rich.

I wish there was a way to show the Democrats are to blame. All o ever get in response is that people need to learn civics and government to see its not actually their fault.

parliamentarian says no material conditions sorry

Muh checks and balances, muh obscure rules that everyone ignores until its time to do something actually good

Okay, but who could have foreseen a massive police state would be used to oppress its citizenry? I mean, what are the odds?

"I will follow the law"

Exactly.

Despite the power everyone else perceives them as having, doctors live in constant fear of the regulatory apparatuses they work within. Especially the socially-minded ones who you'd think would be the kind of people to engage in any sort of civil disobedience. They have many legal powers granted to them above those of regular people, but unlike other groups who have that (eg cops), they are subject to discipline from various directions. Licensing boards, insurers, practice associations, academic institutions, employers, funding of various sources, social peer pressure etc. Every lib doctor knows at least one story of some MD who got their license taken away for too much SJWing. And their identities are so wrapped up in being being doctors, they can't imagine any other life. Plus there is all the investment/debt of themselves and their families/communities in their education and practice. They know whatever future good they can do to help people, all that can be taken away from them instantly. So any given risk they think of taking to make a stand in this moment, what hangs in the balance is all the future lives they could save and good they might do in the future.

The system is designed to punish. You can’t force the Democrats to change their policy

Definitely true but it also appears to be the case that the whole system is collapsing so it may have been the right call to give the Democrats the middle finger in the interest of destroying American empire.

I don't think anyone seriously thought that the Dems would change. The issue is that there was zero reason for someone to vote Dems, since they do not propose any alternative to Republican policies.

They would have to end the filibuster in the Senate to do so, I assume. Not saying that they won't -- it was always a cope for Democrats to not do so.