It presents a slight problem when the ones they’re bringing in to deal with the shitty politicians are the people who paid them to be shitty in the first place.
You mean like HR 1 For the People Act which passed the house twice but got filibustered and 30 years of campaign finance reform starting with a 1995 bill outlawing large donations (which was passed in 2002 but stricken down by the scotus 5:4 as the basis for Citizens United) that
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Republicans refuse to pass?
This is a partisan issue, bothsidesing this is pure ignorance. Get 60 Dem senators and watch it get fixed.
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Right right, that’s all fine, but we need to elect minimum 60 Democrats. Full stop. We need to support electing 60 Democrats. We can all gather around and discuss how to sort out our Democrats after we remove the Republican Menace.
You kinda worked yourself into a dead end there. It’s impossible for 60 democrats to win in the Senate with the way the DNC currently acts. The idea that people need to just believe in the DNC is never going to sway the average voter who’s getting poorer by the day.
We can all gather around and discuss how to sort out our Democrats after we remove the Republican Menace.
Remove it from… What, exactly? Even if they do win 60 seats, do you think Republicans will disappear from existence? They’ll fuck around with their lame duck policies and get their ass handed to them by the GOP the next election. And setting all that aside: They could’ve just fucking gotten rid of the filibuster. The fact they haven’t after what the GOP did during Obama’s term should tell you all you need to know.
DNC don’t decide if they win, we do. This is our job to do.
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We had 60 for less than one month almost two decades ago. Since then we’ve elected less every year and blamed them more every year.
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Oh yeah they should have asked the house nicely to vote to reform every system in the entire government in less than one month: you clearly do not want anything fixed, why are you being so disingenuous?
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Dems could just… Choose to get rid of the filibuster.
There have been more Republicans than Democrats in senate since 2015 so removing the filibuster just gives Republicans everything they want with simple majority votes.
What? The Dems have the Senate right now no?
This was a riskily bad meme.
Left is correct.
There is a truism as old as civilization itself. I subscribe to it.
If you want to know who is most responsible, you need only find the one who profited most.
There may be rare exceptions, but they are rare exceptions. Our elected officials are just the owner’s revolving door, well bribed middle managers. The vast majority of them never rise to the level of oligarch.
