• @givesomefucks
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    -25 months ago

    Nobody can fight them right now though

    Voters don’t expect everything to get fixed overnight

    We expect the people we elect to fight for progress, even if they lose.

    It’s a very low bar that the DNC isn’t meeting.

    • @just_another_personOP
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      105 months ago

      Well, you’re right about the fighting part, but wrong on the attempts.

      Dozens of states tried to pass election integrity bills after the Trump fiasco. Few got it passed due to Republican intervention.

      Same in Congress in both the 117th and 118th. Attempts to make a bipartisan bill always fails because of GOP additions that are absolutely insane.

      The opposite has happened in GOP controlled state sessions in places like Texas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, where bills have been passed that are very obviously skewed towards the GOP controlling the seats, and getting the benefit of either limiting Democrat control directly, or limiting future abilities of such.

      It’s absolutely foul, and though the Democrats are working hard to fight these things, it looks like abject failure before any real attempts can even be made, which voters seem to see as weakness. Maybe that’s just a defeatist point of view though.

      • @givesomefucks
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        -75 months ago

        Dozens of states

        Great.

        Literally and unrioncislly great

        But we’re talking about the federal government, not states…

        You’re also ignoring that the reason we need a supermajority, is Dems won’t get rid of the fillibuster.

        A cynic would say because that removes their best excuse for why they can’t do what their voters want.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          15 months ago

          But we’re talking about the federal government, not states…

          Federal law puts elections in the hands of the States.

    • @PugJesus
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      75 months ago

      Voters don’t expect everything to get fixed overnight

      Voters aren’t even clear on what separation of powers means, much less the realities of the political processes of the government. Voters absolutely expect everything to get fixed overnight, and throw fits when it isn’t. Remember 2010?