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Way too little, way too late.

To late, but DO IT!!

finally something actually based, this would be such a good amendment.

This is one of the single biggest changes we can make to our current electoral system.

Should’ve done this in 2021. This could’ve changed the 2024 election entirely.

would have been more useful when you had any kind of power to get a bill passed, but thanks anyway i guess

So they throw this impossible task out there, something they can put all their energy and rhetoric into which will ultimately not bear results in my lifetime, and they can say see I was fighting against this tyranny.

This is such a bald-face transparent PR move I hope everyone sees it for what it is.

Jfc. They and both houses of Congress multiple times since Citizens United and didn't do shit. Bringing it up now, when it won't even get through Congress, let alone the states, is a fucking distraction

I hate to say it but proposing a constitutional amendment is just virtue signaling at this point. There isn’t a snowballs chance in hell this passes even with 100% democrat support.

I appreciate the thought and effort but put forth legislation that actually has a chance at passing.

Good, but why the hell didn’t they do this when they had control of Congress?

It is with a sense of similar urgency that I am proposing an amendment to make every Thursday a national holiday.

Like the Democrats, I also do not have any power to enact this, let alone enforce it, but the important part is that I proposed something impossible instead of actually doing literally anything to stop this.

Wow so brave. \s \s \s

Seriously tho. These people are phony AF. They had 4 years to actually do this. This is just political theater.

Do this and keep doing it until it works. This isn't a moonshot. It's normal, sensible change. Everybody shut your fucking mouths with all this secondary "it isn't going to work now" bitch energy. Get behind the shit you want, loudly.

Absolutely disingenuous to report this as "house Dems", as though the liberal (i.e. conservative) Dems are in on it. They are not. These are progressive Dems who propose this basically every year, and who are actually fighting for us, not corporations and profits. Liberal Dems then work with their Republican friends to shut it down. This is why liberal Dems are as much the enemy as the Republicans.

Instead of throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks, immediately get rid of the gerontocracy (Schumer, Pelosi), regroup, find a leader with some balls and declare open warfare on Republicans. It's not like there isn't any ammunition.

Where was this a decade ago?

Long overdue, and probably too late.

Yeah, the sole reason they're suggesting it now is because they know it's too little too late. It will go nowhere and we all know this, them Dems will be like 'oh but we tried!' Fucking useless.

That would have been useful and a great idea over a decade ago.

Now it's just "let's do this" and nothing will happen. Its too late.

Would have been a lot cooler if Biden did this as a executive action. But you know spinless Democrats and all that...

Do not waste time talking about a non-starter.

You need 290 votes in the House, you have (at most) 215. You need 75 Republicans to flip.

If, miracle of miracle, that happens, it goes to the Senate where you need 60 votes to end a filibuster, you have (at best) 47. You need 13 Republicans breaking rank to end cloture + 7 more to pass it.

Then it goes to the states for ratification, you need 38. In 2024 19 states went to Harris which means you need all of them +19 Trump states.

Yeahhh...

I can't quite decide if this is just virtue signalling or not from the Democrats. I know some of them would genuinely support it, but this feels very much like it is too little, too late - if they were actually serious about saving democracy in the US, they could have done this when it actually stood a chance of being useful.