• 0x01@lemmy.ml
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    19 days ago

    Sorry I know this is the onion, but legit talk, with what power? the democrats were unilaterally rejected from the government by the people, we the people made our bed, we can’t rely on those we chose not to elect to save us.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 days ago

      They only have a slim minority. What, 2 seats or so in the Senate? It wouldn’t take many Republicans siding with them to flip. But it also would help if they didn’t do things like vote in support of Trump’s cabinet picks. And Republicans made it their entire existence to prevent things from happening when they were the minority power.

      While I understand and generally agree with the idea, I think a large part of how we got here is that they’ve shown time and time again that even when they have power, they won’t use it. They had how many decades to codify Roe? They kneecapped the ACA before the Republicans ever even saw it. People lost faith in them, both in their lack of flexing the power they had and in their taking their voter base for granted.

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      19 days ago

      The American people decided to blast all convention and let them go amok. They deserve the unmitigated disaster.