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Maybe democrats should have used their past mandates to codify Roe or enact universal healthcare.
We want progressives who will fight, not Vichy left Diet Republicans™️.
They've never been handed a mandate. The fact that you think they have is part of the problem. A Mandate doesn't just mean getting a president in and a vanishingly thin majority. A mandate means the presidency and solidly controlling at least one other branch of government. Something that hasn't happened for Democrats in my lifetime now basically 50 years.
I don't know how old you are or how far back your awareness extends. But the Supreme Court has been trending solidly fascist for 30 plus years. Even with solid victories like obama's. The Supreme Court was still fascistic, and they struggled to get enough votes to even pass something as lackluster and flawed as the ACA. Because there were not enough votes in the Congress. Not a mandate. A mandate is having the people in Congress to pass the laws and someone in the presidency to sign them. Anything less doesn't work.
And Roe v Wade is not a Democratic failure it is a systemic failure. Remember it was the solidly Republican Supreme Court that decided Roe versus Wade in the 1970s. Yes it absolutely should have been codified into law and the constitution. But you know who didn't campaign against and overturn Roe versus Wade? Democrats.
I'm glad people like yourself are angry. It's the correct response. It's healthy. What I don't like is that you keep aiming the gun at our Collective foot. Please stop shooting our foot.
Who’s shooting their own foot? Not me, I voted for Harris. Any other straw men you’d like to easily “defeat”?
Democrats aren’t your friends. They take your vote and legislate against you. All those think pieces asking why republicans vote against their own interests? Look in the mirror, buddy.
I’m sorry you had to find out this way.
False equivalance; Everyone knows 99% of politicians on both sides don't really give a shit. When one side is literally fascism and the other believes in our Constitution and Democracy, there is no consideration. As an American, your vote in that situation should be automatic. Don't get me wrong, Democrats are often shitty, but the fact that so many voters ignored the issue of Trump's blatant disregard for the Constitution as some kind of distraction issue and not by far the most important one is mind boggling.