Remind them what the Democrats did during the 2009-2010 congress. Reid, Pelosi, and Obama had no problem handicapping themselves by continuing to play by the Republicans' rules when the GOP senators were in the minority, such that they needed 60 votes to pass most of their significant legislation and had to invoke cloture to even get the watered-down final version of the ACA passed.
The HEROES Act is never passing without being adulterated beyond recognition. A Dem majority in the Senate wouldn't change that. If you're poor, hell, if you're just working-class and make less than something like $60k or $70k a year, Democrats fucking hate you. They have nothing but contempt for the poorer half of the US population, and are smart enough to express that contempt through pity and half-assed platitudes rather than open hostility like the Republicans so often do.
Even if that happened they would just move the goalposts again and claim it was also necessary with a democratic Supreme Court or a democratic pope or something.
Texas is Oklahoma with patches of California. It's not going to secede. Most of the big-name Republican politicians call the big blue cities their home. They rely on international trade and transit in order to finance their lifestyles. And they mostly just use "Secession!" as a call to violence against their ideologically opposed neighbors.
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Remind them what the Democrats did during the 2009-2010 congress. Reid, Pelosi, and Obama had no problem handicapping themselves by continuing to play by the Republicans' rules when the GOP senators were in the minority, such that they needed 60 votes to pass most of their significant legislation and had to invoke cloture to even get the watered-down final version of the ACA passed.
The HEROES Act is never passing without being adulterated beyond recognition. A Dem majority in the Senate wouldn't change that. If you're poor, hell, if you're just working-class and make less than something like $60k or $70k a year, Democrats fucking hate you. They have nothing but contempt for the poorer half of the US population, and are smart enough to express that contempt through pity and half-assed platitudes rather than open hostility like the Republicans so often do.
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They had that and we got Obamacare lol
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Even if that happened they would just move the goalposts again and claim it was also necessary with a democratic Supreme Court or a democratic pope or something.
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Texas is Oklahoma with patches of California. It's not going to secede. Most of the big-name Republican politicians call the big blue cities their home. They rely on international trade and transit in order to finance their lifestyles. And they mostly just use "Secession!" as a call to violence against their ideologically opposed neighbors.