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Breaking down the illusion of a 2 party system (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
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[–] 180 points 3 months ago (30 children)

The Republicans have demonstrated that no, these things do not take time.

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  • [–] 118 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I asked for a gender inclusive restroom, was gaslighted those things take time. I then emailed CEO cc’ed chair of board of directors. It was converted in 2 days.

    It was never about time, it’s about agency

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Add long as you brazenly break rules and laws, and your controlling party willingly does nothing about it

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Let's break some laws to make everyone better off.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If America was a school we'd have one party full of bullies smoking in the bathroom who don't give a shit if one of their ranks breaks the rules so long as it's not messing with them personally, and we've got another party full of brown nosers who will run and tell the teacher any time someone even thinks about using the wrong kind of pencil. Neither is good for the student body as a whole, but in very different ways.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I wish that the Democrats had anybody who was willing to fight for Medicare For All the same way Republicans fought to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I would like to think that Bernie Sanders is one of those people.

    Republicans have a propaganda network back then to fight against Obamacare (which isn't even Medicare for all). It was really surprising how much the Republicans fought back given the zeitgeist was going the other way with Michael Moore and all that. The whole "death panel" stuff took the air out of the room and Republicans were going on non-stop about how it was the greatest injustice to all of America. It was wild.

    Also, if you look at those that benefit from Obamacare and the fact that they're losing it. They still hate that it's associated at all with the Dems. It's weird.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Bernie isn't a Democrat, though.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Burning things down is easy, building them up takes time

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Excuses excuses.

    Yes, Democrats like to whine that they only got 60 votes in the Senate for a short period during Obama's term. You want to know the last time Republicans had 60 votes in the Senate? 1911.

    It's been over a century since Republicans had that kind of majority, and I think back then the filibuster had a larger threshold to overrule, so they probably didn't even have a filibuster-proof majority even then. You probably have to go back to Reconstruction to find Republicans with that kind of majority.

    Do you know how Republicans dismantle programs without a filibuster-proof majority? They do it by cutting funding. They cut funding to programs and zero out their budgets. The program still exists in legislation; it just isn't funded.

    To fix that damage does not require breaking a filibuster. It just requires properly funding those programs again. And funding can be passed with just a simple majority.

    And of course, much of what Republicans do is done by executive order, and that can easily be reversed by the next Democratic president.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Republicans are a monolith and vote in lockstep. Democrats are an un-unified big tent party encompassing every ideology from identical to republicans to social democrats. If everybody that doesn't vote would vote for progressive candidates in every democratic primary and general we'd have a unified left of center party that could accomplish things. But instead of doing literally the only thing that can walk back the fascism all y'all keep working to get republicans elected.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If they truly get a majority to override the president, or in the future can then make the tri fecta again, it's easy to fix shit. Just make it what it was before, blast it through committees like the Republicans do with hardly a word from someone else. The question then is are Democrats incompetent or complicit.

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