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Seeing a lot of this lately... (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by realitista@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's the problem, people don't vote down ticket, and they only vote every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

The president is more of a cheerleader than a person of substantial power. That's not to say the office of the president isn't individually powerful, but you need strong margins in the house and the senate to actually get stuff done.

We kind of had that for 2 years when Obama and we got the affordable care act... Even then the margins weren't that great; I don't think Obama was the problem so much as they couldn't find the support to do something bigger in Congress.

Even with those thin margins Democrats come across the aisle regularly to actually get governance done (e.g. fund fixing infrastructure). They're not even close, we've got one party that actually governs, and another that prints money for the rich, attacks people based on their bedroom preferences, and doesn't give a shit about the environment.

[–] retrospectology@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Here’s the problem, people don’t vote down ticket, and they only vote every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

In no small part due to DNC suppression and interference. This is why people say the neoliberals need to be allowed to fail until they have no option but to tlstop suppression tactics (or leave and go to the GOP where they belong)

The base cannot reform the DNC they can only starve the power structure until it's desperate enough to stop sniping progressives. It worked after Clinton's failure, we got a ton of progressives in office after that.