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Focus on your corruption problem. Insider trading and money from Israel
You assume the other branches will listen to the house or that democrats won't continue to be out maneuvered or betrayed by their own party members.
He's actually encouraging that. His messaging here is, don't be picky about who the candidate is...just vote for them. In theory, that means gaining as many seats as possible. In practice, it means many of those seats won't be representing their constituents...only their corporate donors.
Democrats need to start being pickier about who they elect. If there's even a whiff of corporate money on them, they need to be primaried.
He looks very oddly orange in that thumbnail.
Is orange the new meta?
This motherfucker is one of the last nails in democracy. History will not be kind to Barrack Obama, if anyone is left to write it.
I don't think public opinion of him is great today. The right hates him for a number or valid and invalid reasons, and the left hate him for his war crimes and not pushing for universal healthcare instead of obamacare, as well as trying to browbeat people into voting democrat last election.
I guess I could be out of touch on him though.
And the comments here illustrate exactly why it’ll never work.
The far left seems to be totally fine with status quo while they arrogantly wait for their perfect candidate to white-knight themselves into our political system.
It must be nice to be entitled to such an extent so as to risk other people’s lives and freedoms while they hold out for Mr/Mrs. Perfect.
News flash: Politics isn’t defined as issuing the most perfect policy. It never was! It’s about making the best compromises you can. It’s about making difficult decisions, but the best ones you can given the options you have.
You people make up this perfect world where everything should be so easy with ZERO understanding of how it works. And when those things don’t happen- you throw a shit-fit online to complete strangers and fold your arms, refusing to stand on the line drawn against fascism- all while complaining about how much fascism sucks.
Hate to break it to you- but you don’t fight against those that work forces with funny memes.
Or you know policies…
In the United States, for reasons that are difficult to explain, it is legal to gerrymander.
I think that Democrats should be trying to gerrymander to insane degrees to give Democrats the advantage, and at the same time, they should introduce a constitutional amendment to make gerrymandering illegal. The amendment needs to be written by experts in political science and gerrymandering so that we can do our best to get rid of this disease.
As long as they say, "We are against gerrymandering, and all of these states have ratified the amendment. But if we don't do this, the red states will never ratify the amendment," then I think they can make it work.
In the short run, the Democrats would win, and in the long run, as long as the amendment is written well, the American public would win, which hopefully would also be wins for progressives.