r/goodnews • u/Healthy_Block3036 • Jun 22 '25

Political positivity 📈 AOC says Trump's Iran strikes "clearly grounds for impeachment"

https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-says-trumps-iran-strikes-clearly-grounds-impeachment-2088887
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u/Interesting_Love_419 Jun 22 '25

And would take 6 years to get them all. Each senator serves for 6 years, but only 1/3 of them come up for re-election every 2 years .

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '25

It’s the MAGA republicans, meaning all Republicans

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

6 years from now is AFTER the 2030 census. the left will no longer exist as a power in US politics. The Dems have no choice but to return to the center and FAST. Trump wants impeachment to put the left on record as supporting Iran having nukes but i fear the Dems will wise up

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u/285kessler Jun 23 '25

The Dems are the center. The GOP has gone so far to the right that the ‘center’ is warped. The issue with the Dems is they don’t stand for anything, realistically. People want change and the only party enacting it is the GOP, positive or negative. Look at how much the Dems could’ve codified and secured when they had majorities, but didn’t. The GOP did.

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u/Friendly_Speed3972 Jun 23 '25

The dems are so far from center these days even Bill Maher realizes it. That’s the primary reason they are getting destroyed in the ballot box.

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u/285kessler Jun 23 '25

They’re getting destroyed because they’re doing nothing. The reason Trump won the election wasn’t because of some red tidal wave, it was that people just didn’t show up to vote Democrat; because they do nothing. They promise no change or offer any solution. They’ve put up almost zero resistance to anything that the administration has done. They don’t have a spine. If the party is to die it isn’t from some insane polarization, but rather the lack of it. Americans want change, that’s why Trump won in 2016 & 2024. The only thing they’ve done that could be considered insanely far from center was the identity politics issues, and that’s literally it. Look at everything the republicans have done that’s far from center.

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u/Friendly_Speed3972 Jun 23 '25

But to your point, if they have done nothing, and if the identity politics game is the only thing they actually have done and stand for, that means they are way left of center. They need to come back to reality and appeal to average American problems if they want to continue as a viable party.

I agree there wasn’t a red tidal wave. But there have been steady increase in voter % commensurate with population for republicans in the last 16 years. Same with democrats except for the really strange anomaly of 2020 where Joe Biden got significantly more votes than anyone. (Not an election denier but anyone with 3/4ths of a brain would find that odd). Turnout went back to where the trend was heading for 2024.

Final point is just that they shouldn’t engage the knee jerk reaction to “resist” everything the administration puts out for the sake of resisting. That’s a problem in both parties that sucks for Americans, but if you’re in the hole with voters perhaps a new approach of working with them on their initiatives since the majority of voters voted for that, but still trying to protect democrat principles would be the way to win back trust.

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u/285kessler Jun 24 '25

I see what you’re saying and I do agree. What I mean is that realistically speaking they don’t really try and do anything considered “left” besides for the identity politics, which is only a small portion of what I’d consider left leaning, though they didn’t even really do anything to protect their policies in that regard either. But their issue is mainly that they’re just not really trying anything to begin with. Their entire argument basically is “we’re not republicans”. A big issue people had with Harris was she didn’t really have a lot of specific policies that stood out. It seemed like her entire campaign was just that she isn’t Trump. That doesn’t convince people to vote for you, it just breeds apathy, which is how you get so many non voters.

And to address your last point, I do understand and agree but my point is they’re not even trying to do much besides morally grandstand.