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Props to them if they can keep the turncoats in check and actually stick to their guns.
That said, I'll believe it when I see it.
The democrats are just asking for all the massive cuts to CRITICAL infrastructure to be returned back to the american people. We PAID for these programs and we DESERVE to have medicaid, better healthcare, and lower taxes. Republicans don't care about the american people, otherwise they would have voted AGAINST the BBBA.
The democrats are just asking for all the massive cuts to CRITICAL infrastructure to be returned back to the american people.
Republicans will promise them back in the form of tax cuts.
Republicans don’t care about the american people, otherwise they would have voted AGAINST the BBBA.
They care about particular American people and their friends overseas in the EU, Saudi, and Southeast Asian banking sectors.
Republicans will promise them back in the form of tax cuts.
You forgot this part: "... For the rich"
If they dint oppose the administration at every turn, they are complicit
If they spent 20 to 40 years, watching the Republicans formulate this plan and did nothing to oppose it they are complicit
Double fair
We'll see if the cave after like a week. Their pockets arent infinite like the republicans but this isn't asking much of them.
these comments. Alls I see is the dems should do something and when they do alls I see is. They don't really mean it. Its funny. Dems in power and the right says everything bad is dems fault and the left says everything is dems fault. Reps in power and the right says everything bad is dems fault and the left says yeah the dems are responsible. ugh. with american left who needs the right.
It’s helpful to keep in mind that there’s nothing democratic about the DNC it’s just a bunch of old people colluding with corporations and propping up geriatrics as a vanity show. They haven’t even offered their voters the illusion of representation in decades. They are all cooperators in this. They do budget show downs every year, at this point it’s just to create some bond volatility.
Its the party trying to maintain the current system and improve it incrementally. The real problem is that as long as the republicans win they have no real incentive to improve much. If republicans perennially lost to the point of being inconsequential the party would quickly split.
I’ve been on this planet for almost 40 years now and frequently talk to my 95 year old grandma about politics and world affairs. Things stopped getting incrementally better a long time ago and have gotten incrementally worse. We made small advances forward in between giant leaps back the last 25 years. All of this dictatorship business has been planned and implemented slowly over decades. The degradation of the middle class has been a bipartisan effort. There’s really no more room to pretend like trumps charisma has carried this strange new world, and not the careful planning of the political class and the billionaire class… supported by the millionaires thinking they can be in the club. It’s just self perpetuating rot on both sides.
improvements happen but its been two steps back and one forward since reagan and more more like 3 since bush jr and now we seem to be taking a dozen back. Take out the republican controlled periods and we would have advanced pretty decently and that is without all the time wasted recovering all the back steps.
I agree with that for the most part. Democrats never solved the inequality, education, and Fox News indoctrination in time. I see no way out of it at this point. That’s on them for focusing on small minority issues instead of policy that helps the majority of voters.
I'd argue Democrats have instead intentionally hampered any real progress, not trying to improve it "incrementally." Or at least, they sure don't seem to mind when the Republicans stop them from doing anything worthwhile over the last 20 years.
I disagree. Last 20 years have had 12 years of democrats which resulted in obamacare, dodd-frank, end to don't ask don't tell, fair pay act, daca, iran nuclear deal, paris accord, restoration of cuban relations, loan forgiveness (despite all the stuff knocked down they still got the save plan), getting rid of non competes. Yeah and some were knocked down by republican actions but thats the problem. Then you add that a lot of time was dealt with stimulus from the bad economic practices of republicans again and having to wind down their wars. Its like your blaming them for not improving the building when they have to spend most of the time putting out the fires. Get rid of the people starting the fires and plenty of progress can be made.
The 4th of july funding bill needed a cloture vote by senate dems that they never should have given. I hold no ill will to house democrats but the senate democrats fucked up big time.
yeah that is one thing but the republicans crafted that bill. Get rid of the shit all over us and then we can work on combing the hair and such.
It'd probably go better for the Dems, if they didn't have the exact same donors as the Republikkklans do. You don't want ANY politician, of any stripe, to have their first (and only?) loyalty to people that pay them more than voters do.
Unfortunately thats a pretty high bar. Anyone who wins will get donations from the large players and turning them down would be foolish. Definately need to get rid of citizens united and bring back regulation for donations and the media and such.
It's a bar that much of the rest of the world seems to have cleared quite well. What you Americans call "donations" and "lobbying", the rest of us call Bribery. Your attitude explains American gun rights, too, where many of you think you have a god given right to own military hardware, even as your neighbors kids are being butchered by those same weapons. The rest of the world has mostly addressed gun rights in a civilized way, and only Americans think like that, and think gun legislation is hard. You NEED to start holding your do nothing politicians to the fire, about these issues. You NEED to do it years ago. Not everything needs to be about profit and money.
And I do which is why I push for an end to citizens united and bringing back regulation. Things that the rest of the world does not have allowing them to clear the bar. Much of what is really fucking the us today is from court rulings and I would caution the rest of the world if their courts have power of interpretation.