• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Its 10 years too late for anyone to care I think. Democrats should have just straight up legalized under Obama, and even if they legalized now, they aren’t going to be making major points off this politically. Its just jerk-off material for the commentary crowd. If it isn’t going to make a difference to peoples lived experience, it isn’t worth pursuing.

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        6 months ago

        You guys seem to think that the democrats had a fillabuster proof majority the entirety of obama’s terms.

        They had two years. In those two years, they spent their capital on getting the ACA passed.

        Then the 2010 midterms happened, and the dems lost any chance of anything meaningful happening.

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          Two years of a filibuster proof majority for a president elected on hope and change, and the best they can do is a conservative healthcare plan, packed with giveaways for the big insurers.

          That’s when I lost all faith in the democratic party.

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            Because Joseph Lieberman wouldn’t allow it to pass without removing the public option and he was the lone vote they needed to overcome the filibuster

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                  6 months ago

                  The point is it’s always one persons fault and that certainly everyone else was a good guy. The blame is planted on a single individual and not the party that failed as a whole

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                  6 months ago

                  The term “rotating villian” refers to those who are currently fulfilling the spoiler role in the party in order to stop any progressive legislation.

                  More recent rotating villains include Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.

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          And you seem to think two years is basically no time at all. Think about how much awful shit Republicans got up to under Trump. Approximately half of that got done in a two year period and that was even a historically deadlocked Congress. Democrats lost in 2010 precisely because two years is a long time and the best thing they got out of it was a shitty healthcare plan that, more than anything, ensured our current unsustainable system stays in place for at least another generation.

          Democrats are obviously much better than Republicans in basically every sense of the word, but Republicans get their legislation passed when they have the chance and Democrats trip all over themselves trying to appease the idiots who will never join their coalition. They could learn a lot from Republicans about pushing their agenda but it seems pretty clear by now they aren’t going to.

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            Yep, it’s amazing what you can do if you ignore laws, lock out the opposite side, control all three branches of government, and literally pass shit with stuff penciled in on the side.

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              6 months ago

              If Democrats are incapable of governing when given the power, maybe we should stop voting for them.

              There is no point in empowering someone with my vote if they can’t do anything with it once they’ve taken power.

              Republicans have gotten more done in minority positions than Democrats have when in majority position over the past 20 years.

              Democrats are conveniently bad at this shit when it comes to getting the things their voters want done, done. When it comes to getting shit Republicans want done, they are also conveniently powerless.

              Maybe we shouldn’t vote for Democrats.