I agree with you that Republicans have been big on obstructionism. And Democrats have never taken serious steps to deal with it, because corporate Democrats like the obstructionism. They want to pretend to be left wing, but if they actually had to pass left-wing policies, that would piss off their corporate funders. Obviously this is a vast simplification, but I think the best example was Obama pushing for the ACA instead of NHS. You can argue that it would have been hard to get NHS through, but it would have solved the problems that are even bigger now than they were 10 years ago. No way big pharma was going to allow that. There’s too much money to be made when you sell insurance and then allow your customers to die anyway.
Then present a better option. Vote in the primaries. Start building support for a good 3rd party. Fucking hell start building a socialist revolution! Do something other than not voting and calling it a day
Did I say the blue dogs were listed off randomly? Or did I say what came after was more or less random? Throwing put buzzwords is random, even if folks in the ingroup understand it is still random.
The Democrats are never able to pass these things while they’re in power, though.
Like yes there is Obamacare and some loan forgiveness, but it’s drops in the bucket compared to what Republicans are cooking up with Project 2025
That’s not the full picture, the republicans house and senate votes have a clear history of obstructionism for the last 30 years
Just look at any vote after George HW Bush and then compare that to public sentiment about what they are voting on.
Yeah, they can get project 2025 done because they brainwashed half of society to support them.
I agree with you that Republicans have been big on obstructionism. And Democrats have never taken serious steps to deal with it, because corporate Democrats like the obstructionism. They want to pretend to be left wing, but if they actually had to pass left-wing policies, that would piss off their corporate funders. Obviously this is a vast simplification, but I think the best example was Obama pushing for the ACA instead of NHS. You can argue that it would have been hard to get NHS through, but it would have solved the problems that are even bigger now than they were 10 years ago. No way big pharma was going to allow that. There’s too much money to be made when you sell insurance and then allow your customers to die anyway.
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Then present a better option. Vote in the primaries. Start building support for a good 3rd party. Fucking hell start building a socialist revolution! Do something other than not voting and calling it a day
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Hey dude, listing off a couple blue dogs and then saying random fucking words doesnt mean anything.
They’re not randomly listed. They intentionally serve as spoilers to progressive legislation.
Did I say the blue dogs were listed off randomly? Or did I say what came after was more or less random? Throwing put buzzwords is random, even if folks in the ingroup understand it is still random.
Okay buddy!