MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
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No politician is owed votes for anything
Every election politicians need to offer things that they will then do when elected in order to attract voters.
When they don't do the things they say they will do, that makes them a liar.
It's amazing how many people fail to understand that when a party loses an election, it's the fault of the party and nobody else.
There are times when a promise can't be fulfilled. It has become wildly more difficult for Democratic priorities to pass through the legislative process in the last 25 years as Republicans have used more and more obstructive tactics. I think a very good case could be made that Republicans have tilted the table enough to completely block a Democratic agenda even if they took Congress and the Presidency.
Lisa Murkowski got fucked by her own party literally this week. She negotiated and got legislation passed, only for Trump to basically line item veto it with an executive order.
And I'm so old I can remember when the Supreme Court struck down the line item veto. How can you possibly get an agenda through when there are no rules but what the Roberts court says there is?
When people promise me things and don't fulfill them i consider that a broken promise.
I have no sympathy for Dems who take power and then whine that their hands are tied.
Maybe they should let someone with balls be in power if they want to change things.
What would that look like in real terms?
It would look like a Democrat that tells their rich doners they they are going to be forced to make concessions.
There has been tens of trillions of dollars funneled to a group of less than 5,000 people over the last 50 years.