• SOMETHINGSWRONG@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I fail to see how this helps your point?

    What good have Democrats done? I don’t mean throwing some crumbs out to a small subsection of student loan holders, or passing small goods such as credit card fee guidelines.

    I mean reversing the trend this country has been on since Reagan. Why do Citizens United and Glass Steagall still exist? Prison and prosecutorial reform? Making companies actually pay taxes? Democrats have held plenty of majorities. What’s the excuse?

    Why do Dems let the fascists walk all over them and never lift a single finger in retaliation? Why is it always Dems compromising and sinking their bills to please Republicans?

    Are you genuinely saying that throwing literal breadcrumbs out is an acceptable trade to all that shit?

    And then you wonder why you get called collaborators?

    The fact that after all this discourse, you liberals are still spamming this tired debunked shit instead of coming up with any actual critique is, as usual, yet another self report of your complicity to fascism.

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      Glass-Steagall was repealed by Bill Clinton. Which is the problem since it was regulations on banks which may have prevented the 2008 financial crisis had it been strengthened rather than repealed.

      The reason why a new version of Glass-Steagall can’t be passed is because the GOP can fillibuster it in the Senate. And right now the GOP holds a slim majority in the House so it wouldn’t even be brought up for a vote, let alone get enough GOP votes to pass.

      Same goes for Citizens United, and that one probably would need a majority in the Supreme Court as well. Maybe even a constitutional ammmendment. To get a majority in the Supreme Court they need to hold the Whitehouse and a majority of the Senate for long enough that the GOP Justices retire. To make a constitutional amendment they’d need to hold the Whitehouse, Congress, and a majority of the State Legislatures.

      The fact that the GOP is leading the US towards fascism and you still can’t get off your high horse to vote against them makes you complicit in their fascism.

    • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      My right to marry my partner was won by democrats. Anyone calling that a breadcrumb can go fuck themselves right into the sun. The party does a hell of a lot more than the left wants to give them credit for. Not even arguing the pic above is not lacking nuance or that democrats are perfect, but they’ve won me a hell of a lot more than you leftist armchair politicians who have never given me a single thing but promises you never fulfill.

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      2 days ago

      Because the Democrats have not had an actual majority since 2010. The closest they got was 2020-2022, but two senators ended up being traitors who were bought out.