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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Meh, I don't think any of this matters. The right in US is winning BIGLY and none of those examples, media exposure or voter mobilization really matters. The right in 4 years of Trump managed to ban abortion and take control of the supreme court for the next, what?, 20 years? 30? Meanwhile, Biden and Democrats just sit there doing nothing. US need urgent reforms of education, healthcare, policing, gun laws, judiciary, political parties financing and many more a none of this will happen. The only things that's actually changing is that the government gets weaker and corporations get stronger. The only thing this type of activism can achieve is taking half step back while each Republican term the entire country takes 10 big steps forward in the direction of dictatorship. Looking from outside I'm amazed at how bad thing are in US and how little people realize this.

[–] Blackbeard 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the fact that you're looking in "from the outside" explains why you're operating under the misconception that Democrats ever had unchecked power to do any of those things.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Like during Obama's two first years? Forgot about that? Yes, it was some time ago but all the problems were already there and Democrats chose to pussy foot around looking for weak, bi-partisan deals instead of addressing them. That they did very little even when they had full control was exactly why people didn't go out to vote for Hilary. It's not that Democrats can't do anything because they don't have full control. They don't have full control exactly because they don't do anything.

[–] Blackbeard 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

When they had a filibuster-proof majority for....checks notes...4 months. And they spent those 4 months...checks notes...trying to completely overhaul the entire US healthcare system. That is, instead of doing the half-dozen things you mentioned which would have taken literal years of work to push through.

Fuck off with that revisionist, fantasy-land bullshit. You want Democrats to be full-on fucking dictators who can do whatever they "choose" to do, whenever they "choose" to do it, and they're not, so when they don't "choose" to do the shit you personally want, your lizard brain has convinced you they didn't do it because they "chose" not to. No amount of infantile teeth gnashing changes the way the actual world works, where checks and balances exist. That is, despite whatever the fuck is happening in your imagination.

Wherever the hell you come from, stay the fuck in your lane.