I think a lot of Americans have forgotten that when Democrats have had complete control of our government, they accomplished nothing.
I have zero confidence that if they win in 2026, anything will change. They still won't stop Trump. I hope I'm proven wrong, but I'm pretty confident that I won't be proven wrong.
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in reply to Chad McCullough • • •What are you even talking about? The Democrats passed the ACA, as well as hundreds of other important pieces of legislation. They only had a few months of a supermajority in which to do it, also.
The Democrats knew that if they ever got this chance, they'd have to hit the ground running. So they prepared for it with lots of internal debate over what to do. And this preparation paid off.
Chad McCullough
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in reply to Chad McCullough • • •Do you have any idea how much worse health care would be today without it? IT HAS HELPED PEOPLE.
Heck, it has helped ME. My family would have been without health care for about ten years without it.
And that's only one of the things the Democrats got done. Another is Senator Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. An actual bureau whose sole purpose was to fight for the rights of ordinary people. You think that was popular with corporations? It WAS NOT.
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in reply to Chad McCullough • • •Isaac Ji Kuo
in reply to bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵 • • •Sigh ... I don't know you. For all I know you are too young to remember back when we were actually passing legislation to try and remove money from politics. (Including bipartisan efforts that ironically included Senator McCain.)
These efforts were destroyed by the Republican SCOTUS with the infamous Citizens United judgement. They quintessentially ruled that money = free speech, so only money was protected "free speech" by the 1st Amendment.
Isaac Ji Kuo
in reply to Isaac Ji Kuo • • •If there's any silver lining to all this, it's that people might actually start to realize that the Republican SCOTUS is the biggest problem, and do something about it. Like maybe some Luigis could do something about it. Or we could pack the courts with non-Republican judges.
I've been screaming into the wind about the Republican SCOTUS problem since 2000, but hardly anyone cares.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Isaac Ji Kuo • • •Okay, folks--stepping in to say that both Chad and Isaac are correct--the mess we have is the result of "bipartisan" agreement on what should be in the laws that passed, because "bipartisanship". I am correct to point out that the 2-party duopoly is part and parcel of the problem. A corporate Democrat problem becomes the problem of the entire party with such people as Joe Manchin, and Manchin isn't the only such person in the party at the time the ACA passed.
Isaac points out without coming out to say exactly so is that the Dems are a fractured party; it's also true that so is the GOP. But when you have more than two parties writing laws, you're not to expect the ideal laws you were expecting with the duopoly, which won't produce those either.