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Vote Blue No Matter Who
Any Democrat is Better than Any Republican
This is why we need a centrists political party. Solutions shouldn’t be a false dichotomy.
And we shouldn’t downvote people into oblivion. Take my charitable upvote.
That will require reform of campaign finance laws and progressive reform for elections, both of which are highly partisan issues.
I bet there are corporations that want regulatory stability over political football. If someone could figure out how to tap that with Super PACs they could capture funding. Probably easier to do in local elections where on party or another has failed to put up a candidate for a judge.
I see one party races in Texas for justice of the peace and for judges. The Dems have no viable candidates in some jurisdictions because no one wants a democrat or to be labeled as one. But maybe a centrist could brand themselves as the anti democratic alternative to republicans.
Oh yeah, Local Elections are wildcards for sure. You're also correct that they favor conservatives as a whole.
Plenty of Democrats are voting to put trump nominees in office, plenty are voting on partisan spending bills. The CR vote should tip you off that any democrat is not better than any republican.... half of them are complicit too. 10 Senate Dems just financed this authoritarian takeover.
Not a single Democrat voted to confirm Hegseth and 3 Republicans also didnt but he still got confirmed.
Every single Democrat was present and voted no for the Budget which passed the House and it still passed.
Even if 10 dems voted not to shutdown government and enter congressional recess, the CR only exists because Republicans wrote it and won't compromise.
Any Democrat is Better than Any Republican.
Scheumer rubberstamped autocracy by not filibustering the CR. I think anyone who protects the constitution and their constituents is better than someone who doesn't. Not that any repuclicans fit the bill, but its not like we can just trust any old democrat. Look at Gavin Newsome sliding to the right to maintain power. That the kinda dems we want?
Autocracy is 100% guaranteed in the USA since November, Schumer never had any choice on the matter. Whether or not Congress went into recess Trump would be acting like a God King. The only people who can do anything about it? Congress, who in this hypothetical wouldn't be able to because of the recess and in our actual reality aren't able to because more than half of them are traitors.
We'll never know what happened because the senate couldn't even filibuster it for a day to try to force a negotiation or a shutdown. There was no reason for 10 senators to vote yes on the CR.
I don't like that 10 dnc senators voted yes, but I absolutely place 100% of the blame on the GOP.
Reminder that failure to pass a resolution by the 14th, within 4 days of its introduction on the 10th, would automatically trigger government shutdown and recess of congress, giving Trump even more authority to discontinue payments to government programs and offices. It was made law on the 15th of March. Republicans left no room for negotiation.
Any Democrat is better than Any Republican.
Ah yes so just let them shut down the government for the most vunerable americans, and let the part that throws people in jail run free. This is good because instead of everyone hurting, only the people republicans want to hurt are hurting. The rest of the population is free to ignore fascism and go about their normal day.
This brilliant strategy brought to you by people who need to color code morality!
You think that congressional recess stops the president's executive orders...? Thats... not how anything works...
I'm talking about the Continuing resolution. Here have a read and let me know if you want to discuss it. I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I am certain you have not read the CR, and I'm suspicious you do not understand how government opperates.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1968/text
I mean guy like its the money trump is using to fund all the executive orders, wtf are you going on about?
Yes, talking about the CR vote, as was I in my previous comment when I gave a precise timeline of the events surrounding the bill you just linked to.
To be clear the CR cuts funding, but a government shutdown would have cut the funding regardless.
It didn't cut funding. It expanding funding leading up to next years funding bill. It also expanded executive powers needlessly. Vaguely worded clauses that will be used for more executive overreach. So ya. Shutting down the government for a week or two to force a bipartisan CR, and showing the american people what it looks like when they cut half the government for tax cuts this summer.
Non-Defence spending decreased 13 Billion with the CR compared to last year.
I would have preferred the shutdown, but don't act like it would have accomplished needed goals in opposing the Budget or the Executive Branch.
Ah sorry I only saw the 6 Billion dollar increase in spending on the defense side.
But ya saving 13 billion by what slashing IRS, and critical enforcement that would have also been shut down? Like thats the point. They're cutting critical services and allowing more executive overreach. We're just gonna stand by all year and watch them strip us of all our resources and leave us with crippling debt. This is foreshadowing for the next round of cuts and taxbreaks.
In my country blue is conservatives... But I agree with the sentiment! It worked for California, it can work for your whole country, let the Dems stop fearing they'll lose elections, give them comfortable margins and then massively support progressives who can bring in the good stuff, they won't have a chance if the party core thinks the very future of elections is on the line, but if they think they'll likely win anyway, you might just be able to push through a progressive candidate and end the Neoliberal decay.
To be fair, California is kind of dysfunctional and constantly trips over its own regulations when trying to get anything built. For instance, needing excessive environmental impact review for things like trains that will obviously help the environment, or limiting ferry boats crossing the bay to protect the environment even though it likely results in more people driving instead.
You need a strong and agile state. This dysfunction often stems from complexities introduced by corporate interests during the legislative process.
It's so rare to get positive reinforcement like this, these days. Thank you.
No
Then you will get Republicans
Blue no matter who is precisely how we got Trump.
Blue No Matter Who is the opposite of what happened in 2016 and 2024. In 2024, Millions of people who voted for Biden did not vote for Harris because she wasn't "pure enough".
The Republicans voted for Trump in the same numbers as the previous election, very very slightly more, and that's how they won. Republicans will vote red no matter who. Conservatives are united while Progressives infight.
You sound like the DNC blaming voters for their shitty candidates. Do you get all your news from The View?
Those candidates support every stance of progressives en masse, they have every intention to fix everything wrong in this country, but bad actors like you have them branded as shitty corporate goons so we haven't given them more than 50 senators in any congress in 10 years, we haven't given them 60 since 1979, we gave 12 of the last 16 congresses to Republicans, and we get this constant news feed of how horrible and awful things continue to get more and more and people still don't connect the dots.
Ok Whoopi 👍