Backstop institutions fail because the people who comprise those institutions fail. The election was a grievous self-own, but total failure isn't inevitable, and we should be doing everything we can to compel institutions to work.
Democracy is a brittle and fragile project, easily undone.
Asking middle-class bureaucrats with mortgages to effectively resist a 40+ year project by wealthy elites to attack, undermine & discredit the civil service & institutions is a big ask.
Actually Biden’s Ag Secty did sit on this for a time. A vet exposed the cross-over to dairy cattle, on X & was mercilessly attacked by people. Some vets called on the AVMA to cancel her license.
I guess Vilsack, who is a dairy industry lobbyist, protected the corporate dairy owners. Not us.
Tbh I think you guys forget that Republican congressional obstructionism mostly occurred when they had a majority. Even our last Senate was 50/50 and the Democrats had to deal with two swing votes, which is not the situation Republicans have today
I said what the other non-“mostly” time was. Maybe you can remind me of a time Republicans successfully blocked stuff with 47 senators and without Congress? Maybe we can replicate that strategy
Making Republicans face angry constituents might be more effective at swaying their votes if people made the effort into packing THEIR town halls & protesting in front of THEIR houses instead, but that would require effort.
That's the major problem over there with the Democrats. They keep trying to stick to that contract. They shouldn't, stoop down to their level. Use their own weapons against them.
Dems need to be withholding every vote on every bill. Shutdown the budget, refuse to lift the debt ceiling under Trump, etc. They’re stupid to think this is a time for bipartisanship. I think Jeffries said “it’s a time to govern.” No dude, it’s a time to fight back.
It's much easier to hack a Republican legislature by convincing them that suppressing Democrat and minority voter registration will make it easier to stay in power.
Okay. No proof but there is a lot of proof of voter suppression. Of course, black votes, mail in ballots, and even our overseas service members' ballots were trashed.
Have you read about Pol Pot? His economic plan was to empty the cities, have everyone grow rice, sell the surplus to China, and then launch into light manufacturing, then heavy, then NWO. Instead, people with no tools died in fields and the solution to most perceived problems was an execution.
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IT DOES NOT GET BETTER.
Democracy is a brittle and fragile project, easily undone.
Asking middle-class bureaucrats with mortgages to effectively resist a 40+ year project by wealthy elites to attack, undermine & discredit the civil service & institutions is a big ask.
Rich people have usurped power from the people.
Historically, the working class reclaims power after war or plague.
Rich people gotta die or labour has to become a lot more scarce.
Rich people aren't in the business of giving away their wealth via taxes or compromising with plebs.
I guess Vilsack, who is a dairy industry lobbyist, protected the corporate dairy owners. Not us.
But no, that's never happened ever. Especially not in very recent history.
Minority parties have power, if they have the will to use it.
Sadly Democrats seem to think that complying in advance is the winning strategy.
They think Congress is going home for long weekends to relax.
To adjourn is to stall for time.
Home is where the angry constituents are.
Town halls have been packed.
If one party breaks that contract, it doesn't require the other to abide it.
Republicans haven't respected the social contract or constitution for decades.