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Democrats’ brutal poll problem - The Democratic Party is now at 31% Favorability
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Dems only had "the levers of power" for 4 months out of like 40 years, when they weren't stymied and blockades. That's a big to-do list for so short a time.
Ok what did they do in those 4 months.
You see what republicans do the moment they get any kind of power? They have shit ready to go. New tax plan, sure half of it is scribbles in the margins, but push it through. No child left behind? Why not, let’s just overhaul the education system, no need to know what we are doing.
They just signed a bunch of executive orders reclassifying everyone as female and turning the government off. They just had them ready to go.
If I were locked out of power in a deeply broken nation, what else do I have to do but get together with the rest of my party and hammer out the shit we want to get passed when we get some power back.
What were they doing for the other months in that 40 years?! Sitting around dialing for dollars begging for plutocrats to give them enough money that they could do fuck all when they finally got power? Yea, that’s it. That’s what they did.
Why didn’t they have ANYTHING ready for when they had power? Why do they always act like “well now that the voters have given us a mandate, you know government is slow going, we don’t even have drafts ready to go to solve any of these problems. Gotta go get my thinking cap and a big cup of cocoa and noodle this… fuck we lost power again. Jimminy jillickers, I can’t believe our rotten luck”
Either they are the most incompetent gaggle of idiots ever assembled under one banner. Or the people that bought their seats for them would rather they talk a big game on msnbc and sit around and not threaten the broken system that has made them incredibly wealthy.
I’ll let you consider which is better.
If a party can’t have power for more than 4 months in 40 years they’re a terrible party and we need a new one.
Hey nice, you found evidence that it's not a recent trend at all for Democrats to fail elections because they can't be bothered to even talk about anything left enough. 40 years it is.
Clinton era. It's not been great but the Democrats haven't even tried. The Republicans were out there talking about goals while the Democrats only ever offered tweaks. Nobody is going to get excited over "I'll keep the status quo!"
If they had spent the last 20 years actually advocating for progressivism and unions then they'd be winning more trifectas.
Imagine being this much of a brainwashed bootlicker