• JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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    8 months ago

    If we do the work to make sure that have 60 votes in the senate*, control of the house and presidency, I have no doubt they’d begin passing lefty legislation. For examples look what happened when Minnesota and Michigan gave their Democratic parties a trifecta in the government. At minimum we just need enough people in control (51) that are willing to offset or eliminate the non-speaking filibuster or enough people that we can have some room to have some space to negotiate with the more extreme right wing members of the Senate à la Joe Manchin.

    We will still have to fight the courts that have been captured by the federalist Society, but any new appointments still get to be done by the non-fascist faction.

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      8 months ago

      So we’ll finally get universal healthcare, a federal livable wage, free college for all, guaranteed housing, and other Leftist policies?

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        8 months ago

        The reason we don’t have a public option was because of one vote and a razor thin margin. Put in some work with your local chapter of the Democratic Party, and I bet you’d be surprised.