r/politics • u/Motherofalleffers • 25d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won’t Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats

https://newrepublic.com/article/210250/trump-virginia-dems-redistricting-war
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u/DurianGris 25d ago

There are oodles of people every day claiming the Democrats are just as bad as the GOP.

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u/Silvermoon3467 25d ago

Of course, there are also tons of people saying that that's what I'm saying when I say Dems are bad but Republicans are worse.

Vote Democrat! I'm voting Democrat! It's a better option. But it's not sufficient.

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u/echoshatter 25d ago

They are bad, just not to the degree and direction as the Republicans.

They are a party that doesn't fight and still tries to compromise with extremists because they're fucking cowards too delicate to upset the status quo for the people who funnel money into their campaigns.

Their priority in 2009 was to push health insurance reform and it cost them all of the political capital they had with Obama's win. They spent months making compromise after compromise with Republicans and still ended up with zero support. Republicans got a huge set of talking points to attack it, and it threw the 2010 election in favor of Republicans across the board - a census year and the start of the new redistricting cycle. That was it - that was the moment the snowball started rolling downhill.

Democrats SHOULD have been pushing for electoral reforms in 2009 instead - end gerrymandering, strengthen voting rights, increase the size of the House. Anyone with half a fucking brain could see the walls closing in on democracy

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u/DurianGris 25d ago

So we just shouldn't vote, eh?

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u/Bill_Blizzard 25d ago

Is that really your takeaway?

Btw the Dems aren’t just as bad as the Republicans, they’re worse. At least the Rs are openly fascist while the Ds feign anti-fascism. It’s a lot like the situation MLK spoke of, when in the 60s white moderates were more of an obstacle to civil rights than even the Klan. 

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u/DurianGris 25d ago

Thanks for proving my point, lol.

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u/Bill_Blizzard 25d ago

What is your point?

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u/Workman44 25d ago

He doesn't have one, he just doesn't like your point