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‘The American people did not vote for whatever the hell this is,’ warns House Democrat
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Yeah, actually, they did. Millions of Democrat voters stayed home. Every single state shifted right.
You're in the minority party. Republicans have control of all 3 branches of government, and many state governments shifted right.
Simply put, what the fuck are you going to do about it? Democrats have exactly zero power outside of sitting back and watching.
The republicans have held the minority many times and obstructed the fuck out of our government. If Dems really care they can do a lot to prevent shit in congress.
We will see how much they actually care in the next 2 years
It's a show. The only thing established party leadership cares about on either side is lining their pockets. The longer they keep us arguing about their disfunction, the more they rob from us. One class. Working class.
It's easy to obstruct when you have any 1 of the 3 (house of reps, Senate, or presidency). They have none. The only tool they have is the filibuster and we'll see what happens there.
It's also easy to obstruct if you don't care about having a functioning government at the end of the day.
This will be gone the nanosecond it becomes inconvenient.