• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah, fair, but those are all step 2 problems. Like, Fetterman has been infuriatingly awful, but Dr. Oz would have been at least as bad.

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      5 hours ago

      We never get to step 2 because like clockwork they lose seats every couple years and we need those assholes just to keep a slim majority.

      It’s been this way my entire life. Step 2 will never come.

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        4 hours ago

        It’s been this way my entire life

        Same. FWIW, I felt totally alone when I was complaining about this stuff decades ago, now even the most moderate people I know will say things about Republicans that I wouldn’t repeat on public forums.

        Step 2 will never come.

        Honestly, I don’t know if you’re right or not, but I do know that they will make it feel impossible right up until it actually happens, and I just don’t think there’s any better way forward than this (admittedly difficult) one

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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          4 hours ago

          There’s no “they” doing it. It’s a fact of the structure of the government and 250 years of cruft. We can’t not vote for the democrats, no matter how bad they are, which means they don’t need to care what we think.