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It's quite the opposite actually. Actual policy and history demonstrate that they absolutely do not follow through with their claims and promises. You seem to be ignorant of both of these while basing your opinion off the empty rhetoric they spout in the media.
Their most landmark legislation in the past 20 years was the ACA, which they passed when they held a supermajority in government and didn't need any Republican support, and yet they decided to drop single-payer in order to pass a Republican healthcare plan that cemented the private insurance model into law while increasing government subsidies to insurance companies meaning even more of our tax dollars are funneled into executive and shareholder pockets while people are still struggling to afford skyrocketing healthcare costs. They didn't need any Republican support (nor did they receive it) yet they still chose to screw the American people with this bill. How do you explain that?
They also just unanimously voted to pass an internet censorship bill along with all but two Republicans. Trump has stated that he will use this bill to silence his critics and every single Dem Representative voted in favor of it.
They also passed the Republican government spending bill which retroactively legalized all the illegal DOGE cuts they'd been making.
Maybe you should stop listening to the empty promises and virtue signaling and start looking at their actual actions. Modern Dems are to the right of Reagan even if they claim otherwise.
They had a 60 seat majority for like 8 months before Kennedy died. And as noted by other comments, one of those votes was a "no" if they tried to do any better.
But it was also partly a victim of Obama's early policy of negotiating with himself to try and appear bipartisan. It took him too long to realize the GOP isn't a good faith opposition party.
"For like 8 months" is quite a long time when you consider all the damage Trump has done in the 4 months since his inauguration while Senate Republicans only hold 53 seats.
They haven't stopped following that policy which is exactly why they face so much criticism and keep losing elections. Their talk is cheap and they're more than willing to help Republicans destroy the country.
Doing damage is easy, try building something.
They held a supermajority WITH INDEPENDENT CAUCUS and one of those independents demanded they drop even the PUBLIC-OPTION version in order to pass any version of the bill.
Then the S.2073 bill you mentioned, it had 3 nay votes, 2 R and 1 D, and also 6 Not Voting 3 R and 3 D. It restricts very specific actions taken by companies targeting those of age 13 or younger, with a pretty massive list of exceptions. FULL TEXT HERE. It's actually pretty cool, IMO, it bans data gathering of the children, infinite scrolling feeds, personalized recommendations, notifications, or in-game purchases in the context of platforms targeting children of age 13 or younger.
I didn't mention S.2073. I mentioned S.146 or "TAKE IT DOWN Act" which covers:
And requires social media companies to remove images within 48 hours (meaning automatic removals with no time to review when talking about the scale of places like Facebook and Instagram).
This means any memes someone creates about Trump will now automatically be removed since he'll claim they intend to cause him harm. He specifically stated that this is how he'll use this law.
This was signed into law by Trump today after passing the House 409-2 last month. The two dissenting votes were from Republicans.
I noticed you seemed to gloss over every single other criticism in my comment as well. Why is that if you think you're better informed on "actual policy" and "history" of the Democratic party?
Its weird that you explicitly left out the word NONCONSENSUAL in your quote.
It's weird you missed where my quote says "without consent" and used that as a springboard to derail the conversation away from your original claim. Do you think Trump consents to the memes people make about him? Why were the Democrats so eager to give him the power to remove any online depiction of him that he didn't consent to, and why are you so desperate to whitewash the facts of the situation?
If Trump doesn't consent to pornographic images of him then I fully endorse his ability to have them taken down.
I, in general, don't want to see naked pictures of people who don't want me to see them.