Not if you’re a woman, a queer person, a member of the working class or poor, need health care, need higher education, or don’t want to be governed by people who use your tax money to help kill Palestinian kids, among other things.

But sure.

It wasn’t Trump doing those things, so I agree that it’s okay.

He did as much as a president could do in this position at the federal level.

Patently false.

He has the constitutional power to keep Congress in session if he wants to. He could have held military funding hostage. He could have used his position as the leader of the party to divert campaign funding away from the politicians who vote conservative.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Respectfully, the excuses don’t matter. The Democrats are not powerless. They’re profiting off the issue, and I think that is why they do not act, and it doesn’t matter how you vote. We’re never getting nationwide legal abortion back.

No worries, my dude. It can be hard to tell online.

I don’t think it ever will be legal at the Federal level again.

Democrats raised $80,000,000 just off the Roe repeal leak alone. Why kill the golden goose when the people voting for you don’t care if you actually follow through with your promises or not?

As an aside, this is the same reason why we’ll never have a functional immigration system. The Republicans make too much money and political capital off of it to ever fix the problem.

TBH, that Idaho managed to criminalize abortion and get away with it while we had a Democratic president and Congress is, to me, one of the greatest political betrayals I’ve ever seen in my life. I have no faith whatsoever that electing Democrats is going to lead to anything positive on this issue, and it makes me hopeless when I see Democrats in power and then zero response when such an important right is repealed.

Well, zero response other than exploiting it for fundraising.

Good for them.

The tenant union here in Kansas City is doing great work for local renters. I hope the same happens in Omaha, because we know damn well the government isn’t acting to protect local residents.

Rent control policies can lead to higher rents for uncontrolled units, reduce landlords’ incentive to maintain units, and dampen the creation of new rental housing — exacerbating affordable housing shortages.

This sounds like the same alarmist BS we hear any time a minimum wage increase is on the ballot, and once it’s passed, we find that it’s actually a really good thing. Does it not follow logically that rent control, by keeping more money in the hands of people who actually spend it, is a win for the economy as a whole?

I’m pretty sure Boss is being sarcastic.

It’s so maddening to me that part of Biden’s pitch four years ago was how electing him would mean a blow against fascism.

Yet here we are.

accordingly: implying that the problem is the Democrats for not unilaterally overturning the entire constitutional order when they don’t have the votes to do that (or anything, for that matter!)

Yet, with a simple majority, we saw Republicans pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and Obama and Biden both had a simple majority in the Senate and controlled Congress. We’ve also seen presidents unilaterally keep Congress in session, as the Constitution allows them to do, in order to help pass important legislation. The thing is, the loss of Roe, the rollback of voting rights, the minimum wage, none of it seems to matter enough for Democrats to actually wield power when they have it. Republicans still get what they want. When I mention this in any online forum, the excuses roll out like Halloween candy, but if you’re someone working for a living in the US, you’re well aware that it doesn’t matter who we elect. Your life only gets harder.

I’m also aware that there’s really no way to change it, outside of being a billionaire or being willing to commit a terrorist act, both of which don’t apply to the vast majority of people. The only way for an average person to benefit from our system of government is just to make sure you’re putting every dollar you can in the stock market, because both parties agree 100% that the stock market should never drop, and they’ll make trillions appear out of thin air overnight to achieve that.

At this point, if you’re not double-checking something produced by your AI tool of choice, it absolutely is your fault. It’s no secret that these applications were trained on garbage.

It’s wild living in a country that, if you’re white, you can literally run a terrorist group and no one’s going to stop you.

That’s okay.

Enjoy your Sunday.

I’m past the point of giving credit to Democrats for saying nice things or pretending to create change.

I’m giving them credit for what they actually produce.

We’ve discussed it elsewhere in this thread, but it’s really not.

Your right to vote, absentee or otherwise, is largely based on your zip code. Democrats haven’t shown any interest in bringing back the Voting Rights Act.

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I can’t understand why someone would just roll over and give up when one candidate is promising a fascist dictatorship

Weird. A bug in the app switched up my replies.

What I intended to say was:

I can understand. If you’re a wage earner in this country, your life does not change in any significant way based on who we elect, so why skip a badly needed day’s pay to vote? There’s just no point.

And when you point this out to other people, all you get in response are excuses.

This makes me think about that quote about insanity.

We’ve seen 40 years of Republicans getting their way no matter who we elect, so it’s exceedingly difficult for me (and I imagine most people working for a wage) to understand why it even matters.

Yeah, but to me, it seems a tad backward to have Democratic leadership at the federal level, and yet, your rights still depend largely on your zip code.

I gotta say, part of me kind of admired the chutzpah, pulling this junk out of his ass against a voting bloc they are going to badly need to win, but you’re not wrong. Harris built her career on the lost lives of non-violent drug users she put behind bars.