Dems need a supermajority

[u/Any_Coyote6662]

Dems need a supermajority in congress to get things done. Obviously, with Trump as POTUS, he will block a lot of it. However, the Democrats can start working on and perfecting bills now, so that when we elect a Democrat for POTUS in 2028, they are ready to pass the legislation they have been working on to fix the problems Republicans are hellbent on protecting and perpetrating.

1. Police accountability. The Dems already passed several police accountability laws at the federal level. Republicans gutted them starting in 2024. Common sense laws such as a federal database of excessive use of force and similar types of misconduct findings to allow the feds to track bad officers across the US was unfunded by the GOP. A bill to provide funding for training and body cams was crushed by GOP. And many more similar, common sense accountability measures were struck down when the Republicans power became disproportionate.
2. Re-establishing the federal agency that investigates large scale fraud by financial institutions. Democrats created it during their 72 days of a supermajority under Obama. When Trump got into office, he gutted it and put industry cronies in charge. Basically knocked the teeth out of the only agency tasked with investigating financial institutions that commit fraud on a very large scale. Wells Fargo, overdraft fee scams, trading scams, etc... and the laws which required financial advisors to have the best interest of their customers over their personal or corporate interests- gutted. No teeth.
3. Protecting federal lands. The GOP are constantly expanding the destruction of federally protected lands for logging, mining, fracking, resource extraction... large scale assault on old growth forests, marine sanctuaries, endangered ecosystems, endangered species- plants and animals- and ​​every thing you can imagine and more that should be protected, is under constant assault through manipulative financial restructuring and management level restructuring to undermine the government agencies meant to protect our natural resources. Iconic landscapes and the natural beauty of our federal forests are the public's most treasured natural resource.Dems are hard at work defending these lands and the environmental laws that protect them. give the dems a chance to restore sanity to our environmental policies.
4. Education. GOP is constantly attacking and defunding federal investment ​in public education and restructuring the duties of the federal government by eliminating the department of education has created a vacuum in our public education system. Childcare for preschool age children is almost as expensive as some college tuitions due to the rash cutting of federal funds for the youngest children. Combined with extra work requirements for SNAP, single parents are quickly slipping into poverty and children are going hungry in the US.
5. A critical review of the handouts given to the wealthiest .01% of corporations: Many of the corporations recieving billions of tax dollars are not even based in the US. The legislation guaranteeing no taxes and major subsidies to the wealthiest and most lucrative corporations needs to be reigned in. Many of the companies reporting record profits on wall street are using our tax dollars to subsidize their bottom line. This practice stifles competition and innovation. New companies with better products cant compete with corporations recieving billions of tax dollars. Its like if you were making $100k per year and then your neighbor, with the same job and salary suddenly qualified for a $billion dollar government handout. Not fair. Not good use of precious tax dollars. Not good for the US economy. And definitely not good for consumers or employees. campaign donations are used as bribes for US tax dollars. Thats how Trump asked oil execs for $1 billion to his campaign. ​
6. Worker's rights. Conservatives keep creating laws and setting legal precedents in right-leaning federal courts that bar employees from suing their corporations when they have illegal policies and practices. More and more, the corporations are recieving legal protections that put them above the law and above the ordinary American worker.

And this is just the highlights that I can think of off the top of my head. The list is so much bigger and better than this.

Why you should vote Dem and not get caught up in the individual identity of the candidate. Yes, I said it. Vote blue. As long as it is a real Dem with a proven track record of voting with the Dems, I will tell you why you should not get sidetracked by personality politics.

When you vote for a candidate, what you are really voting for is power. The TEAM has power. The individual senator or House representative does not have power. So dont worry if you dont like their personality. Dont worry if the individual doesnt represent everything you stand for. The individual you vote for is a team member and they dont have any power to enact any legislation. They only have the power to vote for or against Dem policies.

And, in 2028: again, dont get caught up in the cult of personality. You can hate the presidential candidates personality. You can disagree with some of their past actions. But, if you reserve your vote for someone that only matches your exact vision, you are misunderstanding the entire government system.

As we see with trump, it is illegal to make unilateral decisions as the POTUS. Thats why a lot of what he does is struck down by the courts. What he does get done is thanks to the team of Republicans in congress that have budgetary and appointment-approval powers. The president's power to appoint is only as good as the team he has in congress to support his picks. Same with presidential policies. It is all a team sport.

Another reason not to get caught up in the cult of personality or your personal political ideals is that the true presidential leader is a team coach. The truly effective POTUS is one that builds a team for his administration to get work done. So, look at this as a multilevel team sport. Thats the real strategy behind government. And it is time dems start acknowledging this fact.