can the democrats please stop playing by the fucking rules or acting like they’re bound by the rules or by honor in any meaningful way? the other side doesn’t give a shit, by not actually competing you’re fucking losing and making things worse for everyone
The current goal of the right is the erosion of state power to cede control to a corpo-feudal model. It would be playing into their hands.
What they need to do is enforce the fucking rules. Literally just letting Reich wankers get away with anything because they’re scared of retaliation or don’t want to set a precedent of enforcing the law on the political class.
Edit: Ok so Jamal Bowman (D-NY) might have read your post.
When they don’t play by the rules, they make it a game where nobody else should play by the rules.
“MAGA is not a government of, by, and for We the People: instead, it is a government of, by, and for the most wealthy individuals and powerful corporate interests in the nation, seizing power by pitting the people against each other, inflaming political, racial, and religious conflict for political gain.” - https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-biden-take-on-trump-and-the-maga-310
The main reason why is because the democratic base want their representatives to have the moral high ground, even if it means losing major bills in Congress. It’s deeply frustrating because many of these people would rather Democrats “meet in the middle” and “negotiate”. What has made the right, and to a larger extent the alt-right, so powerful is that they know this about Democrats.
So Republicans can say with a straight face “I’ll put in just the tip” and then when push comes to shove, go in balls-deep and say, “mEeT Us iN ThE MiDdLe!”
Republicans have a base that doesn’t care about decorum. Democrats do.
If we could just pass some form of term limits, we should see less of this.
can the democrats please stop playing by the fucking rules or acting like they’re bound by the rules or by honor in any meaningful way? the other side doesn’t give a shit, by not actually competing you’re fucking losing and making things worse for everyone
The current goal of the right is the erosion of state power to cede control to a corpo-feudal model. It would be playing into their hands.
What they need to do is enforce the fucking rules. Literally just letting Reich wankers get away with anything because they’re scared of retaliation or don’t want to set a precedent of enforcing the law on the political class.
Edit: Ok so Jamal Bowman (D-NY) might have read your post.
When they don’t play by the rules, they make it a game where nobody else should play by the rules.
“MAGA is not a government of, by, and for We the People: instead, it is a government of, by, and for the most wealthy individuals and powerful corporate interests in the nation, seizing power by pitting the people against each other, inflaming political, racial, and religious conflict for political gain.” - https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-biden-take-on-trump-and-the-maga-310
The main reason why is because the democratic base want their representatives to have the moral high ground, even if it means losing major bills in Congress. It’s deeply frustrating because many of these people would rather Democrats “meet in the middle” and “negotiate”. What has made the right, and to a larger extent the alt-right, so powerful is that they know this about Democrats.
So Republicans can say with a straight face “I’ll put in just the tip” and then when push comes to shove, go in balls-deep and say, “mEeT Us iN ThE MiDdLe!”
Republicans have a base that doesn’t care about decorum. Democrats do.
If we could just pass some form of term limits, we should see less of this.
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