She would've dealt with a Republican congress and would not be able to get her appointments in. So basically Garland 2.0. Due to the party split, Hillary would've been a dead duck from day one. So basically Biden today lol
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I've never been happy to live in a big liberal city. I feel bad for those stuck in these shit hole states. Everyone get out and vote, donate, protest, and anything else that helps.
As I said before, I'm not talking about voting itself.
Codify abortion rights as law in the decades they had to do so, and had people telling them it was needed to avoid this situation.
Same, in Minnesota abortion is codified in the State Constitution.
The thing that annoys be about shit like "5th largest economy" is it ignores that's only true right now about California as a state that's part of the US. If California seceded, even ignoring the civil war this would inevitably involve and assumed to happen only under the most peaceful terms the economy is not going to function without the rest of the country because they don't have the proper infrastructure and a big part of the value of the state is tied to it's position as a port of entry into the US, so if it stopped being a part of it there's a lot of trade that would instantly shift elsewhere. Not to mention shit like the water problem that they're currently struggling to deal with as it is right now. And also that progressive politics are rarely the dominant political ideology even in hard blue states and cities (hello huge homeless populations in LA ans SF). It's a warped view that doesn't understand that huge shifts in infrastructure and governance would need to be made to secede for things to not immediately collapse, again ignoring an inevitable war to get there in the first place. And of course the whole abandoning tons of people in red states or internal resistance from rural california
Come on man, Democrats didn't have 50 votes. Literally nothing they can do to stop them from being confirmed
Telling people to vote doesn't counter the doom and gloom is the problem I think.
Have you taken a high school level civics class at all? Like, surely you can see the differences there.
I am fucking sick of this "they couldn't do anything" shit, as if they were handed this situation fully formed like a XCom level already in progress. Yes, this was set in stone when RBG died, so maybe she should have fucking retired when Obama could replace her?
Dems have been own-goaling my entire life and I have no patience for the bending over backwards here to pretend this has been inevitable since the 80s and nothing could have been done to stop it.
Biden could have sided with Anita Hill, to pick one random example of something that changes history dramatically, I'm sure if you think hard you can come up with a dozen others.
There was one brief moment in obama's first term when this was possible. Unfortunately Democrats spent all their political capital on ACA which itself was a half measure.
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They couldn't do shit to stop it; the GOP nuked the filibuster for federal and Supreme Court judges so all they needed was 50 + the VP
I can. I can also see when a civic system isn't working.
Even if they had fifty votes Pence would've split it. 2016 did not favor Dems whether Hillary won or not.
Mhmmm thats exactly what happened
How hard do some of yall have to lie to yourselves just so you can justify giving up?
It's good press for them and it helps them avoid dealing with an uptick in maternity leave. I can't bring myself to believe it comes from a place of legitimate good will.
Those polls that show high percentages of Americans not being able to name their own VP makes perfect sense when you see things like this.
Jfc how dense are you? Lets just magically rule the Senate with less then 50 seats.
Stop spreading right wing propaganda designed to discourage voters.
Fwiw, as I've repeated so many times in this thread, I vote in every election I legally can, every primary, every school board, everything.
Still not seeing the point of your post then. Dems could not have stopped the GOP. You also have a highly conservative Dem in a +40 red state to contend with.
GOP could stop Dems because they had numbers in the Senate.
So maybe the answer is to chill out with regurgitating all the doom and gloom that is repeated ad nauseam in threads like this.
You can't possibly be this much of a fucking moron. Holy fucking christ.
Imagine if they didn't give a fuck about political capital, nuked the filibuster and gave us m4a, codified all of the rights, and made DC a State.
Stop with the flat out lies. You are either disingenuous or ignorant and I don't really care which one it is.
Voting is great for harm reduction and people should vote.
It's also not going to fucking solve an issue caused by a disparity between voting and representation, as well as a system that has an unelected political elite. I vote Democrat. I urge people to vote Democrat. I campaigned for Democrats. I am allowed to point out how fucking flawed the Democrats have been. They are walking on eggshells as the country moves further and further towards catastrophe.
Again, the calls to vote are not attacks against those that already vote.
Democrats really need to get rid of this stupid ass "big tent" thinking that's causing this stupid rift between moderates and the left. Because Democrats are so ideologically fragmented and Republicans are so ideologically conformative, the right is able to organize and execute successful culture war campaigns whereas Democrats are still humming and hawing over people being mean on Twitter. We aren't focused.
Who's giving up? What's the false dichotomy of "rah rah the dems are great" vs "no point in voting"
It'd be lovely to hear what plans you have for the dems to take power that involves something more concrete than "uh, we put even more effort into get out the vote?"
Even a solid plan to make get out the vote more effective would be nice to hear about.
Why are people using this thread to spread misinformation and dissuade people from using one of the few tools left we have at our disposal?
Think of the poor institutions they would be hurting.
You are criticizing dems for not stopping things when they didn't hold the majority in the Senate and the confirmations only needed a majority vote.
It's because....they didn't hold the majority..........? Like, what?
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The problem is that representation is lopsided. 70% of just in 2020 ran unopposed. So there is a combination of things here. Every local election needs to matter to democrats they laughed out Howard dean and pushed trying to focus on swing states and meanwhile you have republicans organized in several states getting on county voting boards etc to shape elections. Thats why shit has been so fucked.
It's a problem when you have people on your side who don't know how things work or what they're talking about influencing other people on your side into believing nonsense. Twitter is absolutely full of this today. Like, what are you doing?
Ultimately, this decision will just create deeper economic divide between states. Each state can do what they please and people will choose what works best for them. States that are more open and tolerant will end up being economically more superior long term because you'll have a higher chance of getting brilliant ideas from a myriad amount of people vs a narrow sect.
That's nice, but you're posting absolute nonsense completely detached from reality, the same nonsense that right wing people spread to encourage apathy in left wing voters to dampen turnout.
And why did we get into that place historically? Could it possibly have something to do with leaving the filibuster in place for decades when it was clear the whole time that the GOP would carve it up the second it made sense to?
You should post this on Twitter and see who retweets this. Chuds galore.
It's an individual answer, but it'd be nice if we could replicate this on a larger scale.
As always, practice OPSEC, people.