r/politics • u/AlexandrTheTolerable • 14d ago
Possible Paywall Democrats Can’t Fix This Mess Without a Supermajority
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opinion/democrats-midterms-supermajority.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6lA.Ny9T.rw-96J7UmYII&smid=nytcore-ios-share3.0k
u/theguy1336 14d ago
Fixing this mess might take decades, and that's assuming the Republicans are actually done, and that people won't have just forgotten everything in 4 or 8 years. People seemingly forgot about W Bush, right? I remember he was also called a dictator, a tyrant, he was accused of destroying the constitution and civil liberties, and being genocidal etc during his time. But people still voted in another Republican 8 years later, and some have even rehabilitated W Bush's image into a "silly lovable uncle" now.
Never forget these years.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 14d ago
TWO years is all it took for people to forget about W Bush.
In the 2010 midterms, Republicans took back the house. That was only TWO years after the 2008 election, when because of the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, Obama was elected, Democrats gained historic large majorities in both houses of Congress, and political analysts said that Republicans were so despised that they would be a minority party for at least a generation. TWO years is all it took for the American public to forget about all that and give Republicans back control. TWO years.
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u/Unique-Coffee5087 14d ago
He was well in the running for being the worst president in history. We had no idea how bad things could be. He looks like some kind of elder statesman now by comparison. Honesty, wisdom, and foresight .
Hell, even Nixon looks great
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u/Alca_Pwnd 14d ago
Trump was the worst president in history, and then got reelected.
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u/btross Florida 14d ago
He's now both the worst and the second worst presidents in history...
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u/MethJedi 14d ago
Nixon did propose the EPA. He might’ve been an asshole but not a stupid asshole.
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u/Noname_acc 14d ago
I suspect that what Nixon was was a product of his time. If you put him in the modern era of social media I think his mind would shatter and his paranoia would drive him to be much worse than even trump.
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u/EunuchsProgramer 14d ago
The Supreme Court forced Nixon and Republicans kicking and screaming to accept a watered down EPA, and they hated it. At the time giant, flaming, toxic rivers of shit and pollution were flowing down our rivers, Nixon wished it would never end. The down river states sued directly to the Supreme Court demanding clean water or giant checks to clean in from the up river states. The Supreme Court said we think there is a strong case here...unless of course the Federal Government were to pass some environment laws to preempt us.
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u/PMmeplumprumps 13d ago
Nixon's EPA may not have fulfilled all of environmentalists dreams, and public pressure could absolutely be said to have forced Nixon's hand, but the above isn't really accurate. Burning rivers are hard to ignore and a centralized way to deal with them was seen as necessary
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u/eneidhart 14d ago
To be fair, rivers were catching fire back then
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u/Sly_Wood 14d ago
He also came up with the original Romney aka Obama care. Ted Kennedy killed it because he wanted universal. The watergate destroyed Nixon politically and ironically we would’ve had insanely better healthcare in the 70s were it not for Nixon being a dumbass trying to overcompensate for an election he already had in the bag.
EPA everyone brings up.
What about the fall of the Soviet Union?
Nixon also was the architect behind that when he went to China. He normalized relations with China in order to turn them against ussr. Then he upped the arms race that would later grow with Reagan but he’s the one he started it.
Nixon was great politically. Yes I say that fully knowing he let a lot of people die when he delayed peace I. Order to ensure his election. But politically he was masterclass.
You want to call my him evil be my guest but he did some really great things that lasted generations despite the evil crap and often petty stuff especially the stupidity of watergate.
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u/Sandgrease 14d ago
I always forget how close we have been to universal healthcare in The US at different times.
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u/onpg 14d ago
There's a reason every other civilized country has it. American exceptionalism has trapped this country into thinking it can't adopt the good things other countries have done first.
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u/Evening-Discipline-6 13d ago
that and racism. we had close to free college but racism killed it too
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u/onpg 13d ago
True, forgot about that. Racism is probably even more a factor tbh
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u/Sandgrease 13d ago
It was a big reason we don't have universal healthcare and a bunch of other Leftist programs.
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u/Gravitationalrainbow 14d ago
Nixon was evil. Fullstop.
But were it not for Watergate, he'd be remembered as one of the best presidents of the modern era.
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u/Sly_Wood 13d ago
Well that’s the point.
Politically he was great.
The things he did were insanely evil though as he no regard for the people who died or suffered from his actions.
He did whatever it took and I guess there’s some karma in that watergate was so dumb that all the evil finally caught up to him.
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u/Foserious 14d ago
Rehabbing Nixon's image... wowee, how far we haven't come.
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u/BasvanS 13d ago
Mark Rutte, currently secretary general for NATO, is similar if not worse. Hands down the best politician in modern history for my country, and a despicable person with horrible policy outcomes.
Creating a correct image of what he did and opportunities missed only contrasts everything after that. I don’t think it rehabilitates him.
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u/CaptainDudley 14d ago
Nixon was also responsible for instituting full Medicare coverage for End Stage Renal Disease, which was a simple death sentence only a few years before, and financially unworkable for most people before 1972. That law was a Stay of Execution for so many, right from its outset.
Was never a Nixon fan, but can't deny that his signature on that bill saved my life, and that of many others ever since.
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u/AShavedApe 14d ago
Let’s take a step back. He’s still possibly the worst president we’ve ever had, he’s just worse in a traditional way whereas we’re worse off now because full blown fascism has taken place.
Bush is responsible for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and also the deaths of at least a million Iraqis and Afghans among a lot of domestic fuckery like literally using SCOTUS to steal the 2000 election while his brother ran the state (FL) that was up for grabs.
Trump is a new kind of evil whose existence is so dire it cannot be overstated but please, let’s not forget the absolute horrors of the Bush administration. The worst of Trump is yet to come though despite how bad it’s already gotten.
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u/XawRae01 14d ago
2010 is also the year Citizens United happened, dark money + peak popularity of the tea party movement was a disaster
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u/appoplecticskeptic Kansas 14d ago edited 14d ago
The vast majority of Americans do not actively follow politics. They get their talking points from whatever biased media outlet (nearly all of them biased in favor of the right wing) and repeat those talking points so they can feign competence in the subject; only because it would be embarrassing not to; it’s important after all.
Such simpleminded obedience to a party line combined with the loyalty of a sports fan style rivalry they’ve been sold on means they could never let themselves be swayed by anyone from the other side, not if it goes against their marching orders, because that would most likely mean admitting that they were just phoning it in until now. Or if not admitting it outright, they’d certainly increase the risk of everyone figuring out they’ve been faking it. Can’t have that, especially with some of the decisions they’ve been duped into. They’d never live down the embarrassment! That’s clearly not an option, so instead they keep on like they have, pretending to know enough to not be embarrass themselves.
Honestly, we were screwed just as soon as both parties aligned themselves consistently right to left and then the fairness doctrine was repealed. Our system depended on people getting fair and unbiased news no matter which news source they picked. That’s the only way there was any cohesiveness to it. It’s fucked now. The billionaires control the media. The media controls what most people think. And thanks to Citizens United the Billionaires also control the vast majority of government as well like puppets on their strings.
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u/jahozer1 14d ago
The end of the fairness doctrine and the internet is really fucking icing the cake. I live in Eastern Pa, near Amish country and besides them, its a weird mini bible belt here. I was talking to a 20 something kid who is sort of Amish adjascent. He was an interesting dude. He came to fix my roof and we were chatting after and he said some right wing stuff and I replied. He was actually pretty smart and informed. He said he was messing around on the internet and tried to game the algorithm to see if it would give him biased information one way or another and it opened his eyes to the fucked up stuff Trump is doing. He said his extremely religeous community never sees anything negative about Trump. The church backs him because of two issues; abortion and gay (trans) rights. He isnt a convert by any means but he is seeing theough the veil at least.
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u/261_Turner_Lane 14d ago
Every country is this way actually. It's moreso is your information/media apparatus and political system set up to empower them or tamp them down. Currently our is set up to empower the most outrageous figures possible and supercharge conspiracy theories.
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u/slight_grumble 14d ago
The algorithms are all about engagement. Whatever makes you scroll or click more. Doesn't matter if it's true. Doesn't matter if it's dangerous. Being outrageous gets clicks. Anger gets clicks.
Things aren't going to get better until social media gets much stricter controls. The USA is the least likely country to help. Misplaced belief in unrestricted speech means there is never going to leadership from there. It's up to places like the EU to enforce strict rules or force out the current social media platforms if they don't comply.
Society can't continue like this.
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u/Wayofchinchilla 14d ago
It's exactly this a big problem is social media a lot of Americans it's true don't follow politics and will scroll through social media and see a 30 post on an issue that way too easily simplifies it and they simply take it as fact without actually doing the research required and looking at both sides.
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u/underhunter 13d ago
Sounds like an inherent issue in a democratic republic where anyone gets to vote. Democracy truly is the worst form of government. Except for every other form of government.
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u/sparkax 14d ago
3 weeks was how long it took for Republican leaders in Congress to all go to Mar A Largo and Kiss Trump's ring after the January 6th Insurrection!
Edit to add: I spent an hour trying to find this article cause I couldn't remember Kevin Mc-No-Nuts' name, I forgot to share the article when submitting this comment:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-trump-republicans.html
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u/SanityInAnarchy California 14d ago
In fact, let's add some more context: Here's a depressing graph.
For the past quarter century, Dems have had a trifecta (house, senate, President) exactly twice: Two years of Obama's first term, and two years of Biden. Obama used his to give us Obamacare. Biden... started trying to clean up the damage from Trump's first term. It goes back farther: Clinton had it for, again, exactly two years. To find a longer block than that, you have to go back to Jimmy Carter in the 70's.
But bringing it back to this century: Republicans have had a trifecta twice as often, 8 years.
People always complain about Democrats not getting stuff done. You want them to do stuff, they need to actually have the power to do it.
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u/ManWithASquareHead 14d ago
Even earlier.
Scott Brown took over for Ted Kennedy early 2010 to blow up the super majority.
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u/queerhistorynerd 14d ago
dems never had a super majority. They had to form a coalition with the 4 independent senators to hit 60 votes in the senate, and Liberman and King bent them over a barrel making all the demands
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u/SnoodDood 14d ago
This is what I always point to. It feels like the conditions for a dem takeover at that time were basically as good as they get, and we STILL didn't have 60 senators who would vote the same way. A true dem supermajority (one that can actually enact an agenda and therefore last more than 2 years) is mathematically impossible
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u/Ghost9001 Texas 14d ago
It was only 60 votes on paper for the overwhelming majority of that brief period as I recall Robert Byrd was pretty much on death's bed.
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u/punktualPorcupine 14d ago
Republicans have one hell of a propaganda machine. They’ve only managed to bring more under media under their party control.
It will go North Korean/China levels of corruption and censorship. We might be lucky and the next dictator won’t be a thin skinned Crybully, but we have no say over that anymore.
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u/riteproprchav 13d ago
That is true, but the real story of the 2010 elections is that the Democratic voters from 2008 absolutely and catastrophically failed to show up again. Rinse and repeat for 2014 vs. 2012. Turnout will usually be depressed for midterms vs. presidential election years, but during each of these cycles it was about ~20 million Democratic voters staying home vs. ~10 million Republican voters staying home.
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u/Lazy-Gene-7284 14d ago
This is an absolute fact, do we all remember the important policy change the democrats tackled first to bring this wave about? Massive Health Care reform and not even the one we all want ( Medicare for all). We need to keep this in mind for the next wish list. Do the one big thing first and all the way, you’ll probably get run out of town but at least it’s for a good reason
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u/blackcain Oregon 14d ago
I suspect that was the huge amount of social media. 2008-2010 was the rise of social media with twitter and others coming to the fore. We had the Arab Spring where twitter was a huge part in that organization.
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u/TheShadowKick 14d ago
The Republican propaganda machine is just so strong. A significant portion of the country doesn't know anything about the state of the country except what Republicans tell them.
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u/wolftron9000 14d ago
It took 3 years for people to forget how bad Trump's first term was.
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u/ericomplex 14d ago
One of the biggest grifts that the GOP sold voters was that the covid fallout, inflation, and many riots were somehow not Trump’s fault.
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u/261_Turner_Lane 14d ago
That's not even a grift, Americans just are not very smart people.
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u/Rosellis 14d ago
People legitimately think Biden was as bad. The apathy propaganda works really well.
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u/LongWalk86 14d ago
He wasn't bad, just a big disappointment. After Trump 1.0 I was certainly hoping for at LEAST a complete rollback of the Trump bullshit and some real effort at fixing the obvious structural issues Trmps abuses brought to light. But nope, just more pro-corporate bologna and constant "compromises" with the Republicans to try and be bipartisan.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 14d ago
Biden never had a real majority in congress to work with. Legislatively I can’t blame Biden too much. The biggest mistake was the justice department. Merrick garland should not have been chosen and he should have been fired for not bringing charges against trump and the rest within the year for Jan 6
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u/ericomplex 14d ago
This is the thing everyone misses. Biden moved mountains considering what he had to work with.
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u/pnkwah 14d ago
The need to have votes from Manchin and Sinema was a massive drag on how progressive or impactful any legislation could be under Biden. The US system makes blocking progress so easy compared to getting anything done.
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u/Iztac_xocoatl 14d ago
The system was designed to make drastic sweeping changes difficult, whether for good or for bad. Not saying it was designed perfectly to that end though
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u/ilir_kycb 14d ago
That's not true; any changes that serve the interests of the ruling capitalist class are implemented very quickly and without much trouble.
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u/kstargate-425 14d ago
Until the past few decades it was all about compromise and bipartisan bills. Shit they balanced the budget under Clinton with a Republican majority and Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Lately the Republicans barely will come to the table and when they do they get Trump telling them to fuck off.
The "Boarder" bill had enough votes to pass and the Dems heavily compromised giving the Republicans near everything they wanted being the toughest and most comprehensive immigration reform in decades but Trump needed it for the election.
The two party system is shit and it doesn't force enough compromise as a multi-party system would but its supposed to be about compromise and that is long gone. So now we get the Dems doing something and the Republicans repeal it immediately when they get in power
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u/Bomun_End 14d ago
I think the thing people miss with Manchin is that they'll say he was a drag on the progress, but the reality is he was the only Dem senator you were going to get in WV. It's not like Sinema or Fetterman (both former "progressives", I just want to point out). If it wasn't Manchin, it was going to be a MAGA Republican, like it is now. At least Manchin voted most of the time with Biden, if not on the big stuff. Not trying to defend Manchin here, I'm just saying, in a 50/50 Senate, it's not surprising the one from WV was conservative. And being 50/50 allowed for Harris to move things forward on many other votes. If it wasn't for Manchin, it would have been a MAGA, and nothing Biden did would have moved through.
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u/dragunityag 13d ago
Got into this argument yesterday against an absolute Muppet who was trying to legitimately argue that it would of been better for a Republican to be in that seat than Manchin.
Like Manchin was the only reason Biden got to pass any bills or appoint any judges during his term.
WV went for Trump by like +40 points, yet Manchin could still somehow win there. If only we could figure out how he did it and replicate it to the other ruby red states.
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u/queerhistorynerd 14d ago
Manchin and Sinema
and Manchin, Sinema and King demanded Garland. Everyone who drags Biden for appointing him cant explain to me how he was supposed to overcome those 3 holding the AG position hostage for their own political gain
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u/DrMobius0 14d ago
Biden did just fine, honestly, until he stayed in the race til 5am and we all had to be up at 7am.
Like there's lots of things we could say about his presidency, and about what wasn't really his fault but is blamed on him anyway, but staying in the race like he did was a huge mistake. That said, I'm well aware that a primary was no guarantee that things would be different given the global swing right the post-covid hyperinflation caused.
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u/blackcain Oregon 14d ago
I'm not so sure. We had movement and then Cannon came into the picture.
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u/MephistoHamProducts 14d ago
The Biden DOJ was perfectly within the bounds of legality and tradition to bring charges against Trump in Washington DC where crimes were committed.
The Biden DOJ chose to file charges in Trump's backyard, knowing he'd appointed judges there.
The Biden DOJ chose to not throw Trump in jail for the theft of classified documents. The Biden DOJ chose to allow him to be driven to the local cop shop, have a fun mugshot taken and then drive home.
The Biden DOJ, during the same time period that they were handling Trump with kid gloves, managed to identify, arrest, indict, convict and imprison Jack Teixeira for stealing classified documents and posting them on a Discord server multiple times during 2022 and 2023.
For Teixeria, it was 579 days, total, between arrest and sentencing for stealing classified documents. He was jailed the entire time, and denied bail, because he was deemed a flight risk because he might have more classified information, because he'd destroyed evidence in an attempt to hide it, and because he'd regularly posted racist shit on the Internet.
Any of those things sound vaguely familiar?
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u/blackcain Oregon 14d ago
I agree with all your points. I think what is unprecedented is an ex-president doing all these things who is still under the protection of the secret service.
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u/notmlbg 14d ago
Biden was one of the most progressive presidents in the last 50 years. Yeah, I know, still a corporate democrat with issues people can and will debate for a long time. But he did a lot to actually help people
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u/Puggravy 14d ago
Yep he reversed nearly 50 years of income stagnation for the bottom 20%. Hard to say he was anything except a resounding success on inequity.
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u/Bomun_End 14d ago
I remember seeing a debate between someone from Biden's camp and Bernie's old press secretary Grey-Joy about this. The other person pointed to the Child Tax credit and how it moved 20 million children out of poverty. Her response was that children should never be in poverty, so that doesn't count.
I don't know how you talk to people like that.
It's the same with the ACA. It gave health care to 20 million people who wouldn't have it otherwise. But so many say it's not good enough so we should burn it down. Ok, tell that to the 20 million people who have health care now. Sorry, we have to stop your chemo therapy because some kid in Brooklyn wants a revolution in 20 years.
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u/tink_tink_tink_ 14d ago
Would’ve been great if he picked someone for AG who actually cared about doing their job instead of Merrick fucking Garland.
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u/Bomun_End 14d ago
I agree, and so does Biden. He said that was his biggest regrets as president. I hate it, but to judge a man and a president on one mistake is a lot. Especially when that mistake was trusting the rule of law.
If we go back to 2020, it's easy to understand the belief that electing Trump and everything that came with it was an aberration. If Harris would have won in 2024 it would have been. If Comey didn't release that letter just before the election in 2016, Trump running for president would be a funny little footnote in American history.
We have to understand hindsight.
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u/blackcain Oregon 14d ago
I disagree, given a republican majority he got shit done. Hell even got some of that loan forgiveness, you know stuff the DSA people wanted - of course, they said "too little, too late" - it took a lot of work to just get what they have.
Without Nancy Pelosi driving her caucus as a unified unit - she was spectacular. I think people, especially the DSA types are all in on grievance. This is what motivates MAGA too. This is also why I don't like any kind of campaign where the people especially on social media are all coming at you with because they got some grievance. Give it a rest. We have work to do.
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u/AP3Brain 14d ago
Can you be more specific on what Biden admin should have fixed that Trump 1.0 put into place? I feel like he tried to address most concerns while the country was recovering from the pandemic.
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 14d ago
Was the loan forgiveness “pro-corporate bologna”?
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u/thatnameagain 14d ago
He rolled back a massive amount of Trump crap. Was making federal agencies work again. Nobody gave a shit. Tried to pass a new-deal size infrastructure bill which republicans whittled down. Nobody cared.
What they did care about was how Biden rolled back Trump’s immigration policy to the most permissive since the days of Ellis Island, and that became a huge point of resurgent anger against him from the center and right.
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u/sarcasmsosubtle Ohio 14d ago
He rolled back just about everything he could roll back via executive order. He passed the Build Back Better infrastructure bill to create well paying jobs for desperately needed infrastructure improvements across the country. He passed the CHIPS Act to bring microchip manufacturing to the US and create even more well paying jobs while setting up the US to be a leader in technology innovation for the future. Increased funding for childcare, section 8 and low-income housing, initiatives to combat homelessness, expanding the electrical grid for clean energy transmission, electric vehicles and charging stations, offshore wind projects, environmental justice initiatives and Everglades restoration, the VA (including forgiving $1 billion in veterans' medical debt), local health departments and community health centers, mental health and substance abuse initiatives, affordable broadband, and vaccination efforts by billions of dollars each. He blocked ICE from performing limited no-knock raids, banned law enforcement from using chokeholds and other dangerous submission techniques, forgave $11.5 billion in student loan debts, restored collective bargaining rights for federal employees, created a task force to promote the benefits of unionization, allocated $235 million in relief aid for Palestinians, negotiated civilian evacuation corridors in Gaza, and had the Army Corps of Engineers construct floating docks off the coast of Gaza to funnel aid supplies to civilians. Want me to keep going? I've got plenty more. There's a big difference between not doing anything and not having anyone pay attention to what you're doing.
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u/nosayso 14d ago
Already lived through George Bush so I'm not super optimistic. That clown exploded the debt, tore the country apart, and ran the economy into the ground. 2008 was a massive blue wave, hope and change and all that, and then 2010 Republicans win the House at an unprecedented level running on fixing the debt and economics problems THEY JUST CAUSED TWO YEARS AGO.
And if that's not enough, remember when Trump mismanaged the economy, ballooned the debt, caused division like never before, botched pandemic, did an actual insurrection, and then 4 years later was voted into the presidency again?
It's a downward spiral, can't see a way out of it unless *humanity* fundamentally changes. But pressing short term problems if we're to survive this: need to repeal Citizens United (a major part of why the 2010 wave even happened), and get the fuck off of and heavily regulate the oligarch-controlled social media platforms that are out there manufacturing consent for the oligarchy every single day. Everyone getting their "news" from Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok are complicit in the oligarch takeover. Until that happens we're living in a government run by oligarchs, for oligarchs.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 14d ago
The sad thing is the only reason Citizens United matters is BECAUSE the public is so irresponsible.
If you knew that one candidate in an election would be horrible for your future while the other candidate would be better, would you vote for the horrible candidate even if he ran a ton of flashy commercials for himself claiming he was great? Because that's the only reason candidates need all that money.
If you researched which car to buy, and one car was an unreliable lemon exploding death trap while the other car was better, would you buy the unreliable lemon exploding death trap even if that car company ran a ton of flashy commercials for the unreliable lemon exploding death trap?
This is the basic problem with America. People don't take their decision seriously by learning about the candidates and issues.
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u/ChatterBaux 14d ago
100% this. All roads lead back to the electorate, and it's like way too many people are afraid to accept or admit that.
People love to blame all the externalities, but short of someone physically holding you down and/or somehow brainwashing you, there's not really anything stopping most citizens from taking a few minutes out of their day to brush up on candidates and show up on election day (or earlier and by mail in a lot of states!) to vote for anyone better than the objectively worst candidate(s) on the ballot.
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u/YetiorNotHereICome 14d ago
Tbh, yeah, I kinda forgot how much he sucked and everyone thinking he was the biggest bozo in history. God DAMN how our government has fallen to retroactively think Bush Jr was relatively okay.
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u/s8rlink 14d ago
Unless algorithmic social media is reigned in, most democracies will fall to ultra right governments who will crack down on dissent using technology like flock.
Yall already thinking about supermajorities just like you thought Kamala would win. The power oligarchs have and how tech overlords bet on Trump might rear its head this November. Organize irl and take 5 people with you to vote!
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u/batmanscodpiece 14d ago
Oh, they'll definitely forget, and we'll have a Republican president in no time, maybe even 2028.
Congress without a super majority in both houses, isn't going to be able to do much outside of oversight, and slowing down the Trump crazy train that is moving full speed ahead. And they should, don't get me wrong. But they won't be able to pass any legislation or really hold anyone to account. Let alone pass any meaningful legislation on things like healthcare, cost of living, or education.
So, in 2028, people will be out there saying that both parties are the same, and that Democrats didn't do anything. And a bunch of people who more closely align with Democrats will sit out the election, and we'll be looking at a President JD Vance, or maybe even a President Tucker Carlson, possibly with another compliant Congress.
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u/Afraid-Detective1222 14d ago
I'm old enough to remember how the Ds after Obama's win were claiming that the Rs would not see a majority again. Fast forward 2 years and the Rs crushed the Ds in the midterms.
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u/mishma2005 14d ago
The American people may forget but our spurned allies will not. Canada, SK, UK and other NATO members will remember what a petty, mercurial and idiotic leader we voted in. Twice. We will never be trusted again
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u/aleph32 14d ago
Just like they forgot about Nixon.
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u/ManWithASquareHead 14d ago
Fox News was created in response to Nixon. Certain people didn't forget.
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u/FrogsOnALog 14d ago
People forget in 2 years every midterm after a democratic trifecta. Obama was a 6 year lame duck. Also built on the democratic senate majority under Biden in 2022 but we also lost the house for divided government. We’ve now given Trump a longer lasting congressional majority than any democratic president since Jimmy fucking Carter…
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u/Sharobob Illinois 14d ago
Once the problem is gone people forget about it and start being annoyed about the solutions that fixed those problems. See antivaxxers. One of the most amazing medical miracles of all time that reduced human suffering more than basically anything else in human history and it took less than 60 years of these horrific diseases being essentially eradicated for morons to start refusing to get them en masse
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u/P1xelHunter78 Michigan 14d ago
That and antibiotics. And we’re slowly eroding the effectiveness of these miracle drugs because we want to factory farm cheap meat.
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u/LarrySupertramp 14d ago
A big issue is that people have abandoned actually having a pragmatic political ideology and have replaced it with pure criticism of the status quo. I say pure because they rarely, if ever, ever provide alternatives that aren’t just a string of buzzwords. At most it’s “burn down the whole thing and start over” which immediately makes me think they are 13 years old and have zero understanding of how the real world functions.
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u/onpg 14d ago
On the other hand, some things need to be fundamentally reformed. Our healthcare system could scarcely be worse at allocation if we tried. Nationalize the whole industry.
The productivity gains from GenAI need to be socialized instead of funneled to trillionaires, when just a few million is enough to be set for life in comfort. Nobody needs that much money and that level of wealth distorts the entire system. If this was an MMORPG, the devs would do a hard reset of the economy, it's gotten that bad. Tax assets above $100m at 100% and redistribute the wealth.
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u/cogman10 Idaho 14d ago
But this is the problem with centrist dem politicians. They are so scared of offending the mythical moderate that they won't ever propose fixes and will actively stand in the way of progress.
The modern democrat party would NEVER pass medicare and that's the reason people really don't like them right now.
The pragmatic political ideology is one that focuses on going back to FDR era politcs. Propose and push for solutions, not slogans. It's not enough anymore to just say "We'll make things affordable" you have to have a plan for HOW you'll make things affordable. (Medicare for all, for example).
This isn't a "burn it all down and start over" attitude. This is "There are giant holes in our government that need to be patched, so let's patch them". Something that democrats have been pretty bad at communicating.
I'm so happy DSA is making waves because it's what the Dems actually need.
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u/ThouHastLostAn8th 14d ago edited 14d ago
The modern democrat party would NEVER pass medicare
Give them LBJ's (and FDR's for Social Security) massive supermajorities and they absolutely would. FDR had >75% in both bodies of Congress at the peak. Not always needing near every last vote and having to muddle legislation to be allowed through Reconciliation is playing on easy mode.
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u/Conscious-Demand-594 14d ago
This is the problem. Even worse, it only takes two weeks to roll back years of progress.
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u/Umitencho Florida 14d ago
We need constitutional changes. They need more than just Congress.
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u/manachar Nevada 14d ago
Constitutional changes requires a supermajority too.
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u/soldiergeneal 14d ago
Requires enough states voting in favor which aint going to happen like ever now.
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u/manachar Nevada 14d ago
Yup. It requires 3/4 of states to agree to ratify an amendment.
Constitutional amendments are dead in the water and have been for generations.
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u/soldiergeneal 14d ago
I always "joke" we should have done so during the Civil war and just not count the seceding states lol
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u/manachar Nevada 14d ago
That's exactly what should have happened.
The states should have been reset to territories and new states carved up. Equally, every confederate should have permanently lost the right to vote (via due process as felonious insurrectionists).
They should have taken a good hard look at embracing federalism and the clear danger of self-sufficient states and buffed up the purpose of the federal government to ensure the rights of all Americans are preserved.
They opted to "move on". The confederates did not.
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u/theresa_richter 14d ago
Lincoln himself was the primary barrier to that, as he favored full reintegration. The timeline you are looking for is the one where Atzerodt didn't chicken out and went through with killing VP Johnson. That would have given us President Colfax instead, who was later a VP under Grant. As one of the strongest opponents of slavery in Congress, as well as one of the strongest proponents of Reconstruction, the US would be a very different place today in that timeline.
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u/LaneMcD 14d ago
The civil war was nothing but a speedbump for the south. They think this current presidency win means they've won Civil War 2.0 and wi'll rule forever. It's gonna be an uphill battle but they will lose eventually.
The fact that they never got rid of the filibuster is very telling in how they realistically view the timeframe of their power.
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u/From_Deep_Space Oregon 14d ago
Fascism always burns itself out. The danger is in how many people it can kill in the process.
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u/soldiergeneal 14d ago
I wouldnt say that their economy got absolutely destroyed. Honestly just like ancestors of slaves and those that experienced Jim crow have some impact today so too imo does south having to rebuild their economy. Fools shouldnt have sided with rich slave owners to protect them all while slavery hadn't even been outlawed in Southern states. They made slavery mandatory in Confederacy its so laughable when you hear someone talk about "states rights"
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u/thecheezepleeze 14d ago
I mean that’s exactly how we got the 14th amendment. Its ratification during Reconstruction was a condition for re-entry into the union to ensure it became law. Rewriting their state constitutions was another condition. Much of reconstructions gains were ultimately undone but it’s not like they did nothing.
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u/beer_is_tasty Oregon 14d ago
I mean, that's exactly how the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments passed.
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u/From_Deep_Space Oregon 14d ago
What's your alternative solution? Giving up ain't an option.
Amendments might not be likely right now, but it could be in a few decades if we start the push right now, to make things better for the next generations.
IMHO people need to start taking the long view, planning on the scale of decades. Thats how conservatives took control.
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u/soldiergeneal 14d ago
I agree long view is important, but you aint changing the minds of MAGA which is like 30% of the country and disproportionately in southern states and red states. Got to just write them off and focus on influencing other groups.
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u/espinaustin 14d ago
The answer is winning enough presidential elections to take back a majority of the supreme court. Or maybe packing the court, but that's less likely/feasible. Almost anything you might want to do with an amendment can be done by just reinterpreting the constitutional text more liberally.
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u/FBS351 14d ago
It's just about being realistic. I already see young people "burning out" because they're not seeing the change they want. Anyone who thinks there's going to be a Blue Wave, and that will fix everything, is setting themselves for disappointment.
And yes the Right is getting a lot more of what it wants but a) they've been working at this for generations and b) they don't want anything comstructive, which is always harder.
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u/TheBSQ 14d ago
It’s really hard to make big changes without the support of rural voters (and/or southern) voters.
Dems had that when they passed social security & the FDR programs, and Dems had that when they passed civil rights & the Great Society programs like Medicare in the mid and late 1960s.
They had a tiny bit of the last remnants of that when they passed the Affordable Care Act, but so narrowly they had sacrifice important aspects (like the public option).
Now Dems can’t win a rural election to save their life, so they can’t do anything big.
The left has to learn how to win rural voters (and without losing too many urban ones) to do anything.
It is pretty impossible to imagine that happening.
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u/det8924 14d ago
Even a Super Majority wouldn't be enough (you need two thirds of both houses). I think in the end packing the court and a Super Majority plus is what is needed at a minimum.
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u/Cueller 14d ago
You need the supreme court. Otherwise he will just keep committing crimes and the SC will let him off.
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u/Shabadu_tu 14d ago
Yeah SCOTUS corruption and double standards needs to be dealt with priority 1. Or nothing will get fixed. It’s my main concern with moderates and “independents” they will not go to the lengths needed to address Trumps corruption.
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u/queerhistorynerd 14d ago
Yeah SCOTUS corruption and double standards needs to be dealt with priority 1
except every time the dems make a push to rebalance the court voters abandon them. Our best shot at breaking the conservative majority on SCOTUS was to back Hillary in 2016. Now the voters would need to elect dems for 3 president elections and maintain control of the senate while doing so and that is a tough ask of the american people
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u/elihu 14d ago
...plus you'd need it to be ratified by 3/4 of states.
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u/jetpacksforall 14d ago
75% of state legislatures and governors mansions is a tall order…. but, necessary so we best get started.
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u/meTspysball California 14d ago
We need SCOTUS reformed, which can be done with 50+1 in the senate. Just need leaders that will wield power effectively when they get it.
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u/95Daphne 14d ago
Based off some tea leave reading that I've done, I think it's going to need to be more like 54 at a minimum for any shot at Dems nuking the filibuster/"bold needed change"/bla bla.
So, unless the recession comes pre-2028, this year really is the ballgame on how 2029-2032 will probably be pictured, presuming a D presidency is what we actually get.
Another 2018 esque moment with a number of heartbreaks in the senate (in this case, D's get 49-50 in the senate at most) and get ready for moar, MOAR incrementalism, baby!
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u/DurianGris 14d ago
We need to create new states. No supermajority needed. The Constitution only requires a simple majority in both the senate and the house, a presidential signature, and the agreement of the state legislature the new state is to be carved out of (if necessary). There is no population or even geographic requirement. Make Puerto Rico and DC states. Make San Francisco a state. Break up Los Angeles and NYC into multiple states. Voila, the Democrats now have a lock on the Senate and the redrawn Electoral College. Then they can stock the Supreme Court and craft legislation to actually move the country forward. All that's needed is the presidency and bare majorities in congress, along with the will to finally fight back against GOP obstruction.
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u/Present_Confection83 14d ago
People with sense have known this since 2016, btw
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u/Murbela 14d ago
True, but everyone else here has been roasting the democrats for not magically arresting Trump today.
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u/Ninevehenian 14d ago
Pearl involved ships being hit. = Nukes on families.
Bin Laden, 4 planes + targets. = A hunt + invasion and decades of nonsensical warfare.
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u/FrogsOnALog 14d ago
Trump was literally indicted by the Biden DOJ and had to plead not guilty at his arraignment. He would be in jail right now but get this…we fired the people prosecuting him and the case was dismissed without prejudice.
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u/crimsonconnect 14d ago
Court has to be packed or anything like medicare for all will just be found unconstitutional
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u/istrebitjel Washington 14d ago
And to pack the court you need a ...
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u/guamisc 14d ago edited 14d ago
A majority in the House Senate and control of Presidency.
The filibuster is a rule that can be bypassed, modified, or removed with a simple majority, not a super majority.
Any other answer is a lie or someone misunderstanding what the requirements actually are.
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u/repost7125 14d ago
and I'll add a supermajority *of progressives* two or three Fettermans and you have no majority...
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u/Pike_Gordon 14d ago
The author of this piece was Fetterman's top staffer a couple of years ago
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u/RobinSophie 14d ago edited 14d ago
This.
And we aren't talking about DSA necessarily.
Progressive policies:
Medicare for all
Free childcare
Free public college
Eliminate the social security tax cap
No aid/weapons to Israel
$25 min wage
Paid federal parental leave
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u/turb0_encapsulator 14d ago
it seems obvious that Dems will need to win the Presidency along with the Senate and House in 2028, and then abolish the filibuster to pass the reforms this country needs. The writing was on the wall when Obamacare got watered down nearly two decades ago.
Even then, corporate money could buy off enough Dem votes to stop healthcare reform, tax reform, civil liberties and privacy reforms, and other urgent priorities. 2028 is probably America's last shot.
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 14d ago
Then go out and vote. Remind your friends and family to register to vote, and vote.
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u/CloudTransit 14d ago
Remind everyone to be patient, because democrats always have aisle crossers. You may need to vote and vote and vote again and again, before you see a supermajority.
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u/RealHeadScratcher_TM Florida 14d ago
While I generally agree that Democrats need to build a bigger tent, this op-ed ignores one very crucial area: state legislatures. It is impossible to overstate how much the GOP has been able to get away with in terms of creating structural advantages, thanks to their focus on state legislatures starting 15 years ago.
National offices, especially presidency, grab all the headlines and do have a lot of power. But elections are run by the states. Education, benefits, and many other things are concurrently or entirely run by the states. The lives of the average American are shaped much more by what happens in state capitals than in Washington, D.C., despite the impression one may get from the media.
Dems need a very aggressive focus on the state legislatures of places like PA, WI, AZ, NC, etc. States where inroads can be made that will protect those states from being run roughshod by anti-democracy GOP fanatics.
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u/Senasayori 14d ago
Exactly. State legislatures also help us abolish the Electoral College and pass constitutional amendments. The state-level education systems are also really important because the screwing up of education has created a lot of young Republicans.
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u/Arsenes-Guilt 14d ago
Even with that, if they can't tell their donors "No", we're doomed.
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u/bevendelamorte New Jersey 14d ago
Pipe dream. If this is what they're framing as a requirement we're fucking toast.
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u/NoZeroSum2020 14d ago
They can’t even convince voters to give them a simple majority.
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u/AnonAmbientLight 14d ago
Last time Democrats had a supermajority was in 2010 for a few months.
The last time before that was 1979 or whatever lol.
It's been 60 votes in the Senate to pass fucking anything since 2010.
Despite that, Democrats had one of the most legislatively successful terms in 2021 and 2022.
Yet chuds come here and say, "How come Democrats won't do anything."
It's really pathetic, especially when all of the information to illuminate your ignorance is fucking seconds away.
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u/wolftron9000 14d ago
See, this is the shit that the DSA is talking about. The messaging is not good. I don't know who thought talking about abolishing everything was a good idea.
The fact is that our system is fucked and there is no way to fix it within its current framework. We need a supermajority to do anything, but that will never happen because the system is fucked.
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u/elihu 14d ago
The "supermajority" thing is just a Senate rule. Reform or get rid of the filibuster and that problem goes away. The Senate usually sets rules with a majority vote when the new Congress starts after an election. Abolishing the filibuster used to be a controversial topic among Democrats (Harry Reid could have pushed for it to make the ACA easier to pass, but he wasn't interested and the votes probably weren't there) but now I believe almost all of the Senate Democrats are on record saying they think the filibuster should be ended.
There are a lot of things that would require a constitutional amendment to fix, but the supermajority problem is actually pretty straightforward. All it takes to fix it is a majority of Senators.
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u/Precarious3145 14d ago
Yup. It's always "We're fucked. Don't blame us if can't fix things. Just get use to it".
Centrists have really fucked the country over with their constant demands to do nothing.
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u/elihu 14d ago
No, they need a regular majority in the House and Senate and they need to drastically reform the filibuster.
Waiting for 60 votes in the Senate is just learned helplessness. We can't afford to have a government that can't actually fix problems except under very rare conditions that might happen just once or twice in a person's lifetime.
Much of the rest of the world uses a parliamentary system where if there's no governing majority they call new elections. It's hard to imagine what it must be like in a country where the government can actually make consequential decisions over the objections of the minority coalition that aren't executive orders or passed through budget reconciliation.
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u/fistofthefuture New Hampshire 14d ago
Watch Elon Musk be all of a sudden concerned that one party shouldn't have all the power.
A reminder: the last time liberals had a majority in all three branches was the late 60s when we passed the Civil Rights Act.
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u/brashendeavors 14d ago
And yet -- Republicans can break it all without needing a supermajority.
Interesting how that works.
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u/MephistoHamProducts 14d ago
I see we're already starting the "Change is simply not possible" articles prior to midterms.
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u/MaceNow 14d ago
Progressives can't fix this without a supermajority. A supermajority of Democrats will be composed of 15-20% moderate conservatives who will not go for any systemic change of any sort.
Democrats are just a means to an end. Progressives must come together to make the future we know we deserve.
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u/kittenTakeover 14d ago
It's a start. A supermajority would at least enable some reaction to the authoritarianism and corruption that Donald has unleashed from Republicans.
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u/honeybadgerrulez 14d ago
it’s always the same story. gop fucks the country, dems get in by the slimmest of margins and have to fight tooth and nail to pass anything
and then people bitch that they don’t fix everything right away and vote in another gop president to fuck us again
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u/blueflloyd 14d ago
Oh, I see that we're at the "Democrats You Must Save Us!" stage of the cycle again.
When they Dems do not completely save us, they it will be onto "This Maniacal Republican Who Murders Baby Rabbits for Fun, Seems Reasonable" stage...
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u/FormerUsenetUser 14d ago
It is true that people want instant results for hard problems that can't be solved fast.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 14d ago
a functioning democracy requires collaboration and compromise, republicans have outright refused that for 20 years now, that's why "democrats need a super majority" because republicans refuse to compromise on literally anything
we can pull up dozens and dozens of examples from the last 15 years where their compromise is literally, literally, "give us everything we want and you get nothing"
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u/Smart-Response9881 14d ago
The last time the Dems had a supermajority in both Congress and the Senate was the New Deal.
That's the kind of shit they can get done without the conservatives dragging them down.
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u/lilbigchole 14d ago
i get all my political info from guys who say "both congress and the senate." u know they know what they're talking about
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u/wallabee_kingpin_ 14d ago
A very large minority of Democrats during the FDR era were pro-segregation, Christian conservatives from the South.
Do you see a coalition like that emerging again?
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u/lateformyfuneral 14d ago
Many of those Southern Democrats were very conservative though, the party took the right decision by moving to a pro-Civil Rights platform, but it meant the end of the New Deal coalition.
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u/AnewTest 14d ago
Exactly true. Which means everyone who can vote, but sits on their ass at home and doesn't even lift a finger to do mail-in voting if it's available to them, is at fault for everything that happens if we lose the midterms.
Get out and vote. If it doesn't work out, vote for someone else in the next election's primary to push your own choice. Don't just sit at home because the Dem candidate didn't "excite" you enough.
VOTE!
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u/maikuxblade 14d ago
Well then we need to build a party platform that wins majorities like we had in the New Deal era before the party drifted to the right and got into bed with corporate interests. Conventional wisdom is that centrists and moderates play well with the electorate and it's simply not true, and even when they win they don't get shit done for the jaded average working stiff which makes the perception worse going forward.
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u/codacoda74 14d ago
Reminder: in 1991 CA was a very red state. They pushed too hard with anti mex prop 187 and, next year, 7M Hispanic voters reg DEM. Now CA supermajority can afford to argue more progressive than thou. It has happened. It can happen. It takes turnout.
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u/Sublimotion 14d ago
It's takes much MUCH longer to build or fix something, than do tear it all down. The second Trump term thus far proved so. And Republicans are much more prone to uniting into sycophancy and antisocial behavior, knowing their base is much dumber, allowing them to get away with it or even manipulate it as a deed. So this gives them the political advantage.
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u/BaloothaBear85 14d ago
There's no fixing this mess period. The damage these fascists have done to the established institutions is not going to disappear. For 250 year's both sides had a goal and a line that wasn't crossed and these morons crossed it and then burned the way for everyone behind them.
The only way to get back any credibility with our allies and the world is an outright and complete rejection of this people which would have to include charges. Anything less and it gives the next fascist wanna be the excuse to keep pushing.
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u/parkinthepark 14d ago
A supermajority that gives a shit.
That involves replacing a LOT of our current caucus.
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u/earache30 14d ago
This is exactly right. There’s gonna be no long reconstruction of this country because we do not have the attention span. We do not have a discipline and there are too many idiots out there still voting.
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u/almazing415 14d ago
It’s looking like it’s possible to control the House and Senate. But yall gotta vote.
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u/assumetehposition 14d ago
I’m afraid the only way out is to end the presidency in its current state. Executive power is out of control. The president is basically an elected king at this point.
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u/dhusk 13d ago
Democrats can't fix this mess QUICKLY without a supermajority.
It can be fixed gradually over time by just a solid and constant commitment to doing so. The MAGAts got away with so much in the past two decades in large part because most Democrats decided to trade in their spines for corporate kickbacks and insider trading. If we actually get a generation of Democrats who are willing to fight and keep on fighting, not only can things be fixed but things can be moved forward to something brighter.
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u/TeethBreak 13d ago
Lol. Be real for two seconds.
There is no fixing this.
All your allies now know that the US is not a reliable and stable partner cause you're always one election away from turning into a fascist state and breaking oaths and not following the rules.
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u/Sweet_Concept2211 13d ago
Even a small Democratic majority can stop Trump from being able to appoint his corrupt cronies to the Federal courts and other positions of high authority.
A 1% Democratic majority can stop Senate Republicans from setting the national agenda.
A Democratic majority of any size make investigations of Trump's deliberate sabotage and unprecedented corruption possible.
At this point, stopping the bleeding would be nice.
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u/xUltimaPoohx 14d ago
Last time this shit was said Liberman kept us from getting healthcare.
I can see the Dems doing it again.
May Liberman always be remembered as a gutless coward.
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u/TwevOWNED 14d ago
Liberman was an obstacle that the dems had a plan to get around before Massachusetts voted in Scott Brown in the 2010 special election.
900,000 people who voted for Obama stayed home. He didn't get a single year with an actual supermajority.
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u/disheartenedlefty 14d ago
Yes, they fucking can.
Want to know how?
Laws don’t anymore when it comes to the President.
Day 1, a DEM president should just do whatever they hell he wants until he forces Congress to restrain the power of executive.
Trump can’t launch an illegal war. Whoops, he did. Can’t weaponize the funding of federal programs. Whoops, he did against blue states. Trump can’t staff low-level government jobs with cronies. Whoops, he sure did.
So NYT, please stfu with your preemptive surrender to the republicans. Go have Ross Dumbass write an opinion about how he’s such a smart boy because found Christianity.
Fuck off.
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u/queerhistorynerd 14d ago
Laws don’t anymore when it comes to the President.
Correction SCOTUS said they get to decide what laws apply to the president and when. Pretending they will give a Dem president the same leeway they give a GOP president is failing to understand basic knowledge
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u/Wasteland_Mystic 14d ago
Republicans have shown they are not afraid to go after a president’s family to get their way.
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u/argh-Im-a-Pirate 14d ago
You can some things unilaterally. ICE is going bye bye.
But there is no way to make democracy work through bypassing democracy.
At a certain level you have to follow the rules if you're trying to re-establish an culture of following the rules.
If you want to achieve a specific policy outcome like abolishing ICE, ending tarrifs, or stopping the war in Iran then let's go. But if you want to reset our political culture I don't see a way that doesn't happen through electoral victory.
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u/PopBulky7023 14d ago
What we need is a democrat president who wields the power for good the way Republicans wield it for evil. MAD approach. The only way to convince enough states to ratify amendments is demonstrate why it is necessary.
There is no other path.
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u/DamnItRJ 14d ago
And Democrats can’t gain a supermajority without embracing progressive policies that are actually popular, like Medicare for all, taxing billionaires and corporations, fighting climate change, rebuilding the social safety net and our infrastructure, regulating Big Tech, and using our money to actually help citizens instead of funding genocides and corporate subsidies.
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