Or maybe there’s no voting holiday and people are too burned out from working 3 part time jobs to make ends meet.
Perhaps if the dems offered anything of substance to the working class, people could have found a way to get to the polling booths. But they didn’t, so here we are.
I see what you’re saying, and sadly your analogy does fit the current situation. To add to it, the Dems were in the driver’s seat a few miles back - they saw a shallow, placid lake just off the side of the road that they could have rolled the bus into to safely extinguish the flames. Unfortunately, the senate parliamentarian placed a sticky note on the dash that said you can’t drive the bus into large bodies of water. So the poor Dems had no choice but to floor the accelerator and speed right past the bus people’s salvation. Besides, they promised nothing fundamental about the bus’ trajectory would change under their stewardship, and by golly that’s the one promise they intend to keep!
Yeah, I think it might be. We already knew full well what republicans were planning. It’s been obvious for decades now, and they often told us literally (heritage foundation, proj 25, etc.)
Dems could have stopped this in a variety of ways, but chose not to because they are too addicted to the corruption and bribes. We got “Other priorities”, “look forwards not backwards”, etc. when we needed things like paid family leave, prosecuting war criminals and traitors, codifying roe, and significant campaign finance reform.
I’d say this is worse, because Dems are so disingenuous about it. They got elected into a supermajority multiple times with a mandate to give us meaningful support and then once they got into office consistently did nothing. At least the republicans are honest about their bigotry and hate-filled platform, and pursue it vigorously when elected. Again, I wish the Dems did the same.
I get your sarcasm, but let’s be clear - Dems have had a supermajority 3 times in the past 25 years, and we got none of this shit. They’re full of crap when it comes to fulfilling campaign promises. Wish we could say the same for republicans.
Agreed, would love to see FPTP replaced with ranked choice voting, and getting rid of the electoral college altogether. This would open the door for a party actually on the left, and if given a platform I’m sure they’d dominate the current establishment. Believe it or not only a relatively small fraction of America is full on maga fascist.