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Democrats Are on a Winning Streak That Could Transform Our Politics

www.thenation.com Democrats Are on a Winning Streak That Could Transform Our Politics

Recent victories in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire special elections suggest Democrats can score huge wins in the fight to control state legislatures. That changes everything.

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  • wooohoo dems are going to take control where they will conservatively do fucking nothing. i guess thats better than urinating on democracy.. but i wouldnt call it transformative.

    'democracy life support' maybe

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  • Cool, because I really want the center-right Wall Street chode sucking gremlins to "transform" our politics into.... the status quo.

    Does anyone really believe the Democrats as a party actually have the balls to stand up for US citizens and/or change politics in this country dramatically?

    Joe Manchin is a "democrat." So are plenty of other Blue Dog motherfuckers. The party at the Federal level overall is absolutely by and large center-right.

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    • Joe Manchin is a "democrat." So are plenty of other Blue Dog motherfuckers.

      Congrats, you cited literally the worst example of a Democrat 🙄 The one that we run in West Virginia because he's the only chance we have of getting anyone that will even remotely ever agree with Democrats in that state.

      There's been plenty of real meaningful progress executed by Democrats. Including the infrastructure bill (which when combined with the inflation reduction act is some of the most profound legislation in the climate change fight ever passed in any country), efforts to correct the gerrymandering problem, changes to allow negotiation by medicare on drug prices, expansion of rural broadband, increased protection for made in America labels, reversal of various nutjob Trump era policies like banning transgender folks from being in the military, etc.

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      • Thank you for some sanity. Dems are far from perfect but they've done a lot of good and can continue to if we can get more in office.

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  • The collapse of the economy is going to gut that: 2024 won't be won by the Democrats.

    I hadn't forseen the 17-month suspension-from-traiding put on Evergrande group, but that didn't prevent them from losing, oh, 2 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE of value, on the day they began trading again...

    You simply can't remove the anti-financial-crisis-rules, as Trump did, without enabling financial-crisis-2, which is going to have Citadel simply disappear, instead of paying for the naked-shorting it's been doing...

    Whatever: nobody believes that the current-conditions are real, so why bother trying to communicate that the progression-from-now-to-inevitable-consequences is real, right?

    The Republicans win 2024, due to backlash, and then their "Red Caesar" dictatorship plan decapitates "democracy" from the US in early 2025, and then .. then the ocean-of-butchery begins.

    This is, obviously, a testable prediction: simply wait & see.

    I expect there to be about 260 million slaughtered in the 14 years beginning with 2025, in North America, not including those who die fighting in ww3, only including those who died in the internal war(s) & the natural-disasters of this accelerating ClimatePunctuation time.

    Simply wait & see: science is made of testable predictions, and the tests that either falsify 'em or fail to falsify 'em.

    Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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  • The Dems had control of the House and a filibuster-proof Senate under Obama... and did jack shit. They could have legitimately transformed healthcare and broken for-profit insurance and the Republicans could do nothing about it; but they bickered amongst themselves until suddenly the insurance companies stopped complaining.

    I'm not holding my breath.

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