Yeah, problem is it’s still 16 months until Election Day, and 18 until the next Congress is seated. That’s a lot of time for this current government to continue to do harm. I really wish we had recall elections at the national level.
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Sanders Says Every Republican Who Backed Trump-GOP Budget 'Must Pay a Price at the Ballot Box'
(www.commondreams.org)
That's where the resistance has to last 16 to 40 months, slowing down and making people aware enough of these things:
- how unserious about budgets Republicans are
- how much they are trying to punish regular people (poor middle and moderately wealthy class),
- while also looking to use the they are spending to subsidize companies, multi-millionaires and billionaires.
No words spent around reforming the democrats and getting them back on track, I see.
That conversation has to happen now as well. But the points I raised are related to despair of the Reconciliation bill passing and those climate setbacks.
Democrats' window of opportunity to change ahead of midterms is NOW until the primaries. (I've said my spiel about it before in this thread)
ok that works.
The Democrats needed to all vote against this bill. And I don't just mean in the Senate. The House too.
Did any Democrats vote for the bill?
No
No. But apparently we should be talking about reforming the Democrats when discussing this bill passed by almost every Republican.
Because the last 2 dem presidencies choosing not to improve their constituants material conditions and instead send cops to kick the shit out of their most activated supporters while begging them for money and slaughtering brown people in the middle east is why 2 generations dont see the dem party as a means to enacting positive social change.
And that's the problem. Americans have the memory of squirrels
Still local. A lot happens locally
Sorry Bernie, I think we need to start considering some other boxes now. Not just the ballot variety.
Will ones made of steel suffice?
Copper jackets
I find it astounding that Americans STILL think there's democracy in America.
It's gone and it's not coming back for a long, long time.
And that's why many people won't vote. Defeatism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Ding ding ding.
These were the same exact people that helped Trump win.
Democracy is still here, we just have to actually fucking participate in it.
We need to stop being afraid of primarying shitty candidates.
Then why have Congress vote at all? Why didn't Trump just use an EO to put all the provisions he favored in place?
...sweet summer child...
MUST PAY A PRICE!! (at the ballot box)
Love you, Bernie, and thanks for being a decent guy, but that’s some GWB-era thinking that’s going to end with your base in camps.
How can we be sure that the winner actually won? I don’t trust us elections anymore.
can we go to the 4th box?
you know the other 3 seems to be broken...
They need removed from power, and I'd strongly prefer an inquiry be run and everyone who voted to pass it have a lovely time in American Spandau along with ICE.
Poll tax? Republicans love that idea!!!
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Nothing to pay if there is no ballot box in the future.
All Republicans did, lmao. Vote them all out if elections exist next year
Second half of that sentence was a letdown
Bernie: vote them out!
Lefties: lol, no.
As should every Democrat.
Give us proper open and honest primaries, bitches. This strong Dem isn’t falling for it any more. Represent the People, not your donors, or lose your jobs. It’s quite simple.
Right. Let's vote out every Dem who voted for the bill.
What's that you say?