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This is an insane take. "Once you show the democrats they have your unconditional support and have given them unchecked power, that's when they'll listen to you." If you want to move american politics left the republicans sure arent gonna do it, but the dems arent going to either if you keep voting for them as they move further and further center. Thats just positive reinforcement and shows them that youre a little bitch who will vote for them no matter what. (Disclaimer: i agree people should vote for kamala in this upcoming election if theyre in a swing state, but they should also be as loud and obnoxious as possible about how distasteful it is, and all of you little bootlickers voting 'blue no matter who' just empower them ignoring the voice of the people and continuing to commit war crimes. Stop attacking good citizens who want an end to genocide and start using your voice to pressure the people responsible for it).
No, it’s because you can’t get anything done in the American federal government without clear majority support from at least both houses of congress, just by the nature of how the government works and the current partisan climate. Democrats cannot pass progressive legislation without that support. Republicans are consistently successful in their goals because their goals do not require passing legislation; they require blocking it.
This is naive. Democrats have been stringing you along, decade after decade saying one thing and doing another, using whatever excuse they have available, and you seriously think they're just waiting for the perfect time to unleash all this progressive legislation? Theyll just keep moving the goalposts as long as they have a willing voter base who never questions them because theyre better (undeniably true but still not good enough) than the evil republicans. They set up the opposition as the ultimate boogeyman so you'll never question their half-measures. You should demand more when you have the power and leverage.
Right, yeah, they’re evil and they’ve had unfettered power to enact popular policy that would work in their favor for decades but haven’t done any of it yet because we’re dumb sheeple who actually understand how the U.S. political system works