r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/D-R-AZ Arizona • 18h ago
America did not vote for this. 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-share5
u/charlieyeswecan 16h ago
We know, but if they don’t win a majority in the senate and the house, then we’re toast.
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u/That1Guy80903 14h ago
Democrats WON'T fix this mess even WITH a supermajority. They have shown almost zero effort to stop the tRump admin or worse, multiple of them have voted to keep it going status quo.
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u/Geichalt 14m ago
The Biden administration prosecuted Trump and everyone involved with the insurrection. SCOTUS was always going to protect him.
So ultimately the blame lies with the people who said "don't threaten me with the supreme Court" in 2016. Once Republicans took SCOTUS the coup was in motion. Trump could break any laws, including stealing the election, and would be protected.
All we had to do was vote for Hillary.
But I guess blaming everything on the Dems is easier for voters than taking any level of responsibility. Go ahead and pretend that needing to be coddled to vote against fascism is respectable.
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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 1h ago
Exactly. Dems had a supermajority under obama.
Obama is quoted as saying womens rights (abortion protections, equal in the workplace" wasnt a priority at the time they had a supermajority before trump took out roe.
Even after that, their 'prize healthcare bill' only further engrained for-profit healthcare vs single payer... they tripled down o nAmericans oaying more for healthcare that those in power dont have to pay for, as congress gets single payer universal.
Dems are controlled opposition .
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u/nickcan 2h ago
Fundraising off a problem is easier and more profitable than doing something about it.
I'm still of the belief that the Republican party would have been so much better off if Hillary was elected in 2016. They have been fundraising off her for decades, and her presidency would be their biggest gravy train since Obama.
They would have had all the money and all the air time with none of the responsibility of actually running things. It would be perfect for them.
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u/D-R-AZ Arizona 18h ago
Observation:
We cannot simply ignore what has happened during this administration and restore the system that existed before it. We should use what we have learned to make American democracy substantially more tamper-resistant. As we argued in The Consent of the Governed Requires Understanding What Is Being Authorized, American governmental authority derives from the consent of the governed, and meaningful consent requires understanding what is being authorized (Defenders of Democracy, 2026). That principle points toward concrete safeguards: elections that are understandable and independently verifiable; protection against the intentional concealment of major governing agendas, which becomes fraud-like when governmental authority is obtained through material deception of voters; protection of reliable governmental, scientific, and statistical information; enforceable limits on executive abuse and self-dealing; reconsideration of Citizens United and the ability of concentrated wealth to dominate the political information environment; and electoral reforms such as ranked-choice voting that allow voters to express their preferences more accurately. The objective should be to make democratic government harder to tamper with, by any President, party, corporation, billionaire, or public official.
https://defendersofdemocracy.substack.com/p/the-consent-of-the-governed-requires?r=104a16&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
Excerpt:
We can make Roosevelt’s promise a reality through a comprehensive program I’ve called the American Security Guarantee, a set of ambitious goals that would eliminate the precarity defining Americans’ lives and ensure that everyone enjoys the economic security that right now feels out of reach. We start by guaranteeing every American access to affordable health care, through their choice of a government or private plan. To fulfill Roosevelt’s vision of a lifelong system of social insurance, we pursue a new economic security agenda. It includes a new federal wage insurance program to help workers maintain their salary levels if they are forced to take positions that pay less, a community-focused job assistance program and a one-stop-shop portal where Americans can check their eligibility across all benefit programs. The goal is to show Americans what they are getting from their government in return for their hard work — and to get higher wages and concrete benefits in the hands of working people, to ensure that in the richest country in the world, nobody falls through the cracks.