anytime i see people going "what would the point be of democrats talking and pushing things they want to do if they don't have the votes to pass it" i try to imagine the republicans of the last 30 years going "we don't have enough votes to ban abortion so we won't try and you should stop asking"
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They are victims of self-doubt & blame those who achieve for their failures.
Democrats need more confident leaders with vision & drive. They need less fencesitters.
and it becomes very clear they completely forgot about the 200 amendments, and all the time wasted there.
There's your answer.
Reps: "We're gonna outlaw blowjobs on Christmas."
Only roughly half the country voted at all.
And only barely over half of that voted for Repubs.
So that's a quarter of America gone red that one election.
You have half of a huge country unaccounted for where they fall.
Fight.
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Save my family from hunger and loss
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I love my family very much. Can I find someone who will donate to them, even a small amount?💔
https://www.gofundme.com/rebuilding-hope-after-tragedy-hussein-family-fund
Not saying that's the cause, but it's inarguable that it didn't *hurt* them.
also: it's just good politics! it forces the other side to spend capital, time, power!
*unless it personally inconveniences us in any way
You test this by looking at how many of them secretly are gay, or use abortions. The positions aren't about personal convictions at all.
Dangling keys in front of both the electorate and opposition.
For MAGA then yeah, trans people are just a convenient scapegoat to enrage idiots.
But there is a significant "Christian" fundamentalist element for whom hating certain groups is a core aim and they actively WANT the apocalypse to come.
republicans get a lot of shit done all the time, ask them how to do it and then do it for something that doesn't suck for a change.
Every other government especially ones with 3 party or more systems work like this. The dems are just wilful.
"Yeah sorry, we know it's fucked up that slavery exists, mobs lynch people, women are silenced and stuff but we simply cannot push a bill unless it causes no conflict"
People vote them in, give them what they want and they still just do not deliver on any of their promises or even pretend to fight for anything.
For conservatives, the more extreme faction is the base & are very loyal supporters.
With liberals, the more extreme faction gives sporadic support.
The base for Democrats is the moderate wing.
and it seemed to be "it'll just happen eventually, demographics as destiny" or "catch a magic fish that grants wishes"
https://bsky.app/profile/ineptitudinous.bsky.social/post/3ld24x54rc22m
1. what was the *plan* for dems to eventually *get* enough votes to codify abortion? did they have one at all?
2. what swept those pro-life people out? i'd love for it to be a buncha progressives overtaking things, but a ton of it was 2010 kicking their ass.
It's not an issue party leadership cares about outside fundraising.
The current problem is less that the DNC leadership is old, but that they're the kind of spineless, self-interested power brokers that were able to burrow and leech onto the party structure for that long.
(Also, I broke mine, so I can say that)
Funny how it doesn't work that way for Republican voters.