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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them (theonion.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They fell far short of canceling the student loans that they promised, the climate bill was laughably insufficient, they did a terrible job during covid. They also recked the economy (some of which wasn't their fault, some of it was), backed a genocide, and ran 2 terrible campaigns. It seems pretty clear to me why voters didn't trust them.

I also never advocated for letting the Republicans back into office. I'm not sure where that came from.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for illustrating the point op made that things will never really get better because people criticize the Democrats so much they stay home and let it all go to shit even more under Republicans.

And people wonder why they don't get what they want. I guess when it's perfection or bust it pretty much illustrates why.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

I feel that "a functioning healthcare system that doesn't bankrupt people", or "lets not light the planet on fire", or "lets make housing affordable", or "genocide is bad" aren't really huge requests. They seem like basic goals that any political leader should be able to shoot for. I guess I don't feel like those are anywhere near approaching "perfectionism".