• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Even when Democrats are in power, they still don’t do anything hardly at all. I have voted Democrat for a long time now, but what we really need to do is get rid of First Past the Post voting in America, as it would really light a fire under them to be effective or be replaced.

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      6 hours ago

      If democrats cared about the country, they would back Ranked Choice voting.

      Too bad they fucking harpooned it in Colorado. Democrats and Republicans campaigned against it and killed the initiative. Neither party wants it because it pulls power away from both of them.

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      4 hours ago

      Even when Democrats are in power, they still don’t do anything hardly at all.

      They get plenty done. They just don’t get everything YOU want done.

      Do yourself a favor and Google Biden’s accomplishments as president. He actually got a lot of good shit done. But Democrats are always held to a higher standard, so people like to pretend they didn’t do anything because they expect them to do everything.

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        2 hours ago

        Yes, Biden accomplished a lot…that was then subsequently undone by Trump.

        Should Biden get credit for it still? Sure. He tried and it was a calm 4 years we had with him, minus inflation.

        Did it make a fly’s fart worth of difference? No, because much of that action was done through executive actions.

        Biden did very little to support actual, systemic change to our voting systems, protections against executive power abuse, etc. He spent 4 years working hard to have his work mostly undone in a month.

        We don’t need incremental growth anymore. We’ve ignored systemic problems so long now that drastic change is needed. Systemic problems in education, voter rights protections, LGBTQ+ protections, higher education (he did try to kinda address this), racism, etc. Many of these things Biden didn’t do anything to change that were long lasting, legislative changes.

        These problems aren’t just on Biden, though. They require the whole party to move as one progressive unit and not capitulate to this “both sides” and “moderate” bullshit. The Republican party is regressive and obstructionist and in order to combat it, we must take bold moves to show how green the grass is on the other side. Not “nothing will fundamentally change”.

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      7 hours ago

      We do, but democrats have not had effective comprehensive power to overcome typical republican bullshittery in decades.

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        6 hours ago

        No, they have had power but they have absolutely shitty leaders who defend capital above all else.

        Look at Jeffries right now…do you think McConnell ever said “oh well, what can we do?..we have no leverage. We’re not gonna bother swinging at every pitch.”?

        And Schumer…JFC what a milquetoast fucking wimp. Doesn’t fight ANYTHING; just wants to hold votes to “get (GOP) on the record” as obstructionists. What a fucking pussy.