One thing I worry about is a contingent presidential election. That situation arises when no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes (270 of 538). Should this situation arise, Congress gets to pick the next president and vice president.
One thing I worry about is a contingent presidential election. That situation arises when no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes (270 of 538). Should this situation arise, Congress gets to pick the next president and vice president.
Of the four things you listed, Biden and Congressional Democrats are actively working towards three. State level Democrats are working towards the 4th.
Last time Democrats had a supermajority (just for a few months!) they gave us the ACA which has saved countless lives.
Vote Democrat if you want your goals to become reality. They aren’t dictators who can declare things by fiat, and they aren’t genies who you can demand wishes from. They need political power to do the things that you want and that they already support.
“Congress doesn’t get things done” is a myth.
“Republicans block things” is the reality.
I fully agree with your assessment of the basic partisan realities, but the ACA is the perfect example of the problem.
Democrats aim low, and compromise even lower.
The ACA was sold to us as a stepping stone. Democrats told us not to worry that it didn’t go far enough, because we would build on it.
What ACTUALLY happened was that passing it was like releasing a pressure valve, which took away all momentum for fixing the healthcare crisis.
Not only did they fail to expand it, they spent the next decade watching it get chipped away and chipped away.
15 YEARS LATER and we are STILL in a full-blown healthcare CRISIS.
So sure, the Republicans are evil fascists that will destroy the country, and must be defeated at all costs. But Democrats are embarrassingly incompetent, and I am so fucking tired of watching them tout their insufficient, mediocre accomplishments as if it’s something to be proud of.
And why is that? Think about it for a minute. Guess what we haven’t had at all since then: enough democrats in congress to override Republicans.
Democrats can’t do shit until there’s at least 60 senators and preferably 62 or so in case of Manchins. All they can do until then is make small gains here and there while staving off republican bullshit.
You keep saying dems are incompetent but they don’t have the numbers in Congress. That’s politics 101.