• grue@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    If we cheated like the republiQans, packed the courts with 15-year old fanatics for us, redrew all the maps against court orders, plowed billions into vote suppression and propaganda, we could end up with enough Democrats in Congress to get big things done.

    And they still wouldn’t, because they don’t want to. Not with the neoliberals in charge of the party.

    The one thing – the one thing – that would’ve saved American democracy would’ve been the Democratic Party giving the middle finger to their crony-capitalist major donors and deciding to follow Sanders/Warren/AOC/etc. and meaningfully help the working class instead. But that was precisely the one thing that they abjectly refused to do.

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      5 hours ago

      And they still wouldn’t, because they don’t want to. Not with the neoliberals in charge of the party.

      So - serious question - would you want to? Cheat.

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        26 minutes ago

        Oh, sorry if it was unclear: that wasn’t referencing the “cheat” part; that was referencing the “get big things done” part.

        Even with a Democrat supermajority, there would still be zero chance of meaningful reforms like ending Citizens’ United, instituting single-payer healthcare, Wall Street reform, increasing taxes on the rich, making college affordable, etc. as long as people like Pelosi and Schumer were still in charge. Neoliberals don’t want those big things to get done.

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      17 hours ago

      Somehow Democrats are always on the back foot even with the majority. It’s truly a wonder why people don’t believe them when they say they can do nothing to stop Republicans when they have been stopping the Democrats from passing things with a minority for a long time.

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        5 hours ago

        You’ll need to define “a long time” there. I don’t think it’s that long.

        technically 1.5 years under Obama unless you know who Manchin and Lieberman are technically 1.5 under Biden unless you know who Manchin and Sinema are.