Why must we keep playing this game? This happens every time. There's always these articles that say how much Democrats are winning and how much Republicans are dying out. Then Democrats lose afterwards. We already did this. I'm so tired of doing the same thing over and over. Shit like this and the inevitable other studies that say the same shit will be used as reasons why Democrats don't have to try to win the election. They'll take it for granted that everyone is on their side and then get completely side-swiped.
Democrats outnumber Republicans by quite a bit which is why Republicans instead do shit like gerrymander the districts, game the electoral college, and make it harder to vote. The GOP has a system set up where they can lose the national vote by 3 or 4 points and come out with complete control of the government.
Oh without a doubt. Democrats suck ass and cave to shit like the Senate Parliamentarian (lmao) when they have the opportunity to get shit done. Could you imagine Mitch McConnell giving up on his ghoul ass agenda because an office assitant told him no?
Funnily, under the Bush admin the parliamentarian at the time did rule against what R's wanted. He got thrown out by then Senate Majority leader Trent Lott and was replaced; R's then proceeded to do what they wanted to do.
Could you imagine Mitch McConnell giving up on his ghoul ass agenda because an office assitant told him no?
I mean yeah. They had a Senate majority under Trump and didn't pass any major legislation besides tax cuts under budget reconciliation. They could've added more to a reconciliation bill and told the parliamentarian to fuck off
Dems have dogshit local campaigning, Republicans have spent the last 30 years focused on controlling state legislatures just so they could rig everything - I remember reading an article about it 15 years ago - and Dems just stand around with their dicks out.
Eh. Texas has been trending bluer - county by county - for about that long. Flipping Harris was a BFD and getting Tarrant and Ft. Bend was equally establishment-shaking.
The state is changing in much the same way California changed, and for much the same reason. But that just means we trade our Greg Abbotts and John Cornyns for Gavin Newsoms and Diane Feinsteins.
California is a neoliberal shithole and there's nothing worth getting excited about Texas switching from red to blue. I realize this is what you said, but it confuses me to have any care whatsoever if TX is red or blue, if these are the underlying facts.
There are things the GOP government does that are entirely to fuck with locals in Houston and Austin. Just petty obnoxious "fuck you" rules and laws the state would be better without.
Sort of like the Anti-Trans shit in Arkansas or the "you have to have hospital hallways to run an abortion clinic" shit the state passed a few years back.
I'll be happier if that goes away.
CA dems just nuked decades of working rights via Prop 22, and now they're trying to pass a law with a mandatory 3-25 year sentence if a person is found with something containing fentanyl. TX and the US in general would still be in a death spiral, just a slightly slower one with slightly nicer social aesthetics for a few people (maybe).
No one's saying Democrats are good. It's more that they'll do some decent things, on occasion, when they're forced to, while Republicans won't.
Look at marijuana legalization, which is a huge blow to mass incarceration. That's almost entirely a Democratic project at this point. You're never getting anything that good out of Republicans.
Both parties suck, but they do not suck equally.
CA dems just nuked decades of working rights via Prop 22,
Prop 22 is a ballot proposition, CA govt had nothing to do with it. This ballot proposition was made to undo the California Law AB5 which made drivers employees.
There could have been a concerted effort to stop it. If CA Dems gave a shit about workers, this is what would have happened. Instead, they ignored it and ceded the fight to Uber. I see your point that it was a ballot measure and therefore not the direct responsibility of lawmakers, but the fact that such a big thing slipped through just shows how hostile the party is towards workers in CA.
Uber and Lyft spent $200 million in advertising. If you ordered anything from an app (Uber, Doordash, etc) you saw messages about how Yes on 22 was good. Drivers had to agree to vote yes on 22 in order to use the Uber app. The ads were literally everywhere
CA Dems passed a bill to make Uber drivers employees. Ubers sued and the courts held that up. Newsom is bad and didn't say much about 22 but the California Dem Party told people to vote no on 22
It was an insuffucient response and any legit contender would have recognized what was happening and put in more resources. The CA Dem party told people to vote no in like the fine print of one mailer that only a few people got. This failure, in my view, was intentional -- at best they didn't give a shit and that's basically the same thing as perpetuating the grift.
"...used as reasons why Democrats don’t have to try to win the election."
I'm sorry to be the hexbearer of bad news but this is literally all they want, dems literally don't ever plan on winning or want to win (See the Georgia runoff, and how they LITERALLY DID NOT PLAN ON WINNING THE SENATE)
They want to win, but they want to win on their own terms. Following all the rules (written or unwritten), getting buy in from the other party, and in a way that never threatens their power.
yeah I remember this article from after Clinton and Obama won
libs have no object permanence
There were talks of "permanent majorities" in 2008. Really mind-blowing stuff after the previous few decades.
There’s always these articles that say how much Democrats are winning and how much Republicans are dying out. Then Democrats lose afterwards.
In the popular vote they win most of the time. All this article can hint at is the future popular vote.
