“Progressives” use political change like priests use Heaven
She is unbelievably shit at politics lol
Makes sense she’s basically besties with Lindsay Ellis who spent the run up to the 2020 election crying over Shaun tweets that Biden was bad lol
Find it baffling these people can apply so much critical thought to media but then just go “goodies have to beat baddies” when it comes to politics.
“goodies have to beat baddies” when it comes to politics.
literally the same level of nuance that goes into china discussions on this or when any butthurt euroshit gets offended when someone says any other country in the west is just if not more capitalist and bigoted as America.
really good sign that your party can hold the presidency for 9 of the last 13 years and still be powerless to do anything lmao
13 years
what an arbitrary time frame. They’ve also held control in Congress for 3 of those random 13 years.
Prezzie gets to pick supreme Court justices and generally, who controls Congress doesn’t matter for that. Only Obama has rolled over to give away a pick in living memory.
13 years ago is referring to when Bush left office, which would otherwise mean including 8 years of a Republican president. The 13 years highlights the longest period of Democratic presidents within most Hexbear users’ adult lives.
During those 13 years, in 9 years of Democratic presidents they have chosen 2 justices and the single-term Republican chose 3.
Though I would actually include Bush’s 8 because his election was stolen. This would remind everyone how much individualist electoralism is a slot machine that constantly threatens to divert your potential for organizing into a false sense of potential impact (like a certain left-punching breadtuber) - whereas much larger forces are actually at play and you’re not gonna do shit about them on your own. Some people will even buy into the game so hard that they feel the need to guilt/attack comrades disillusioned with this particularly ridiculous bourgeois democratic expectation (like a certain left-punching breadtuber).
who controls Congress doesn’t matter for that. Only Obama has rolled over to give away a pick in living memory.
i mean it does, though….
Amazing and very realistic strategy for keeping your basic rights: just have one party never lose!
Well, she can feel like a good person taking people’s money and telling them to vote and campaign on behalf of a former segregationist and pro-lifer.
Liberals like this spend their whole lives losing politically because the free market allows them to still leech and grift off empire in some way. They do not care so long as they get their tenure, or their house, or their fancy regional district manager promotion. It’s pure self-interest and a complete lack of faith in anything else.
Why did the 2016 election have decades-long consequences but the 2020 election didn’t? :thinkin-lenin:
Perhaps the separations of power was really meant to separate the workers from power? :thinkin-lenin:
Separations of power were meant to make the feds beholden to Congress above all, with Congress designed to distribute power based on the interests of the economic elites between states. The Senate was given the most power, by far, and would only be elected by states, while eligibility to vote was restricted to land-owning white men, and practically, those who had the means to take time away to vote as well (and run for office).
Also, the judicial branch’s power was stolen bureaucratically and is barely specified in the Constitution. So neat that far-reaching policy is dictated based on an electoralist slot machine that was given power based on a bureaucratic gotcha question in a system that was supposedly meant to adapt itself to the needs of the times.
