My bad,
Reagan being so wildly popular is what made the Democrats go "third way" in the first place. If the dems get the blame for banning abortions, the Reps get the blame for that. The GLBA was introduced by 3 republicans And passed with bipartisan votes where democrats were more likely to oppose than republicans
But it was signed into law by a democratic president who could've just vetoed it. The whole abortion thing is basically that scene from Watchmen where the comedian shots the pregnant girl and Dr. Manhattan does nothing and it basically asks the open ended question of what is worse and I honestly don't know what is worse in that scenario. I don't know why you keep defending your team so vigorously when they ain't a good team plain and simple. I don't care if the DNC or GOP is say 10% better than the other side, they're both really bad and there's no reason for me to join either team. To think voting for democrats is significantly making people's lives better is just a bunch of bullshit backed really by no solid evidence. The fact that money is donated basically equally from corporate America to the GOP and DNC says just about everything anyone needs to know.
That's not true, though. Corporate America bankrolls both parties, and both parties are full of shills-- but Corporate America bankrolls the Republicans a great deal more, and as a result the Republican Party is almost exclusively shills.
www.spglobal.com
That source does not support your claim. That article is analyzing the fraction of a percent of fundraising given by specifically CEOs to political groups. Dark money went more to Democrats than Republicans in 2020 and that dark money was over 100x as plentiful as the personal donations of CEOs to campaigns in their sample. And that's before you account for intangible benefits like having almost the entire entertainment industry shill for one party.That's not true, though. Corporate America bankrolls both parties, and both parties are full of shills-- but Corporate America bankrolls the Republicans a great deal more, and as a result the Republican Party is almost exclusively shills.
Political donations by US public company CEOs largely favor Republicans
CEOs' Republican leanings were more pronounced in the energy, manufacturing and chemicals sectors than in the utilities, telecommunications, business equipment and financial sectors.
Congratulations, you have figured out that Democrats who've adopted Reagan's neo-liberal policies are corporate shills. Do you want to actually back the folks who voted against it or not?
The Comedian is worse, obviously. Not saying Dr Manhattan is good but it's plainly obvious that The Comedian is worse. How is that even a question? How doomer pilled are you?
...this is "vigorous"? I'm just pointing out that making an ego vote every two years for no-hoper candidates with zero power isn't "sending a message", it's just burning your ballot with a side order of sanctimony
The amount of money given by CEOs is certainly not an exhaustive or perfect metric, but it is supportive: to argue it says nothing about the political inclinations of such people is disingenuous.
Looks like energy is the main reason, which makes sense.That's not true, though. Corporate America bankrolls both parties, and both parties are full of shills-- but Corporate America bankrolls the Republicans a great deal more, and as a result the Republican Party is almost exclusively shills.
Political donations by US public company CEOs largely favor Republicans
CEOs' Republican leanings were more pronounced in the energy, manufacturing and chemicals sectors than in the utilities, telecommunications, business equipment and financial sectors.
Basically all of them are shills, put on those sunglasses man, I'll fight you in a back alley for a hilariously long time.
Who's fighting?
Neat. A national abortion access bill worth a damn would cost significantly more political capital than "just a thought" and would've been just as easily State's Rights'd away as Roe
...you get exactly what we have now: a duopoly who has power and a bunch of sanctimonious assholes who whine about nobody giving them a shot at the big time when they haven't proven they can be effective at so much as a local level
There was zero point in the last 50 years that the democrats could have inserted abortion rights into the Constitution of the United States. Any baseline federal law could've easily been added into their current ruling, because a good chunk of the Supreme Court is made up of partisan hacks citing Witch Hunters instead of actual case law. The fact that it took 50 years of work and unprecedented partisan judicial hackery to get it overturned probably means it wasn't nearly as flimsy as you are desperate to pretend.
While I have certain disagreements with how well my local, state, and federal government runs, it definitely functions. I'm just not willing to believe that it collapsing during the tail end of a stint of having the GOP in power is coincidental
And the Supreme Court that originally ruled on Roe wasn't hacks? Just read the fucking thing, it never made sense, you don't need a law degree for that. If doctors have the right to perform any procedure (that's what Roe said), euthanasia would be protected by the same argument. There'd be no such thing as any banned procedures.
You keep voting for democrats and expecting them to actually implement progressive policy.
Because they do? Sure its not progressive heaven, but very few people in america would call themselves progressive, it would be a massive breach of trust for the democrat to apply a blanket progressive agenda that few people in the nation would support. Instead they slowly but continuously shift the nation toward progressive policy (which is pretty damn hard when GOP will vote against everything for no other reason than they can't take credit for it and can block almost any law with a ridiculously small portion of the national vote).
The fact that we don't have public healthcare at this point is beyond ridiculous. I've said this several times here, but I still don't at all understand how there wasn't a massive unrest and protests during covid over the fact that 10s of millions of people lost their jobs and their health insurance during a pandemic. The democrats shift the nation progressively in ways that really don't matter. Gay marriage really doesn't do much but give but give gays the rather minor benefits of marriage, it's not like they weren't living together and doing all the stuff everyone else does. For me, there was so much of a battle over that because it was a distraction to keep people off the more important stuff and when passed, it doesn't upset the status quo at all. It also made people feel like they accomplished something more important than it actually was. Most of the progressive environmental stuff is pie-in-the-sky stuff that isn't going to work like switching to electric cars hardly helps with global warming nor can the grid handle electric cars if everyone had them.
Oh yeah, that looks flimsy as fuck in the fantasy land that happened in. Least you're backing off the idea that the Dems could've altered the constitution on a whim at any point in the last 50 years
Economic downturn at the end of Bush 1's term lead to neo-liberal Clinton winning, the economy was on fire in '08 before Obama won, look out the fucking window to see what we're dealing with in the aftermath of Trump. So yeah, in my lifetime literally every time.
Which is why I asked about local races, which are more resistant to said forces, and about relevant policy being absorbed by the national organ, ala the Tea Party and the MAGA cult
It seems like your angry at the democrat for not seizing absolute power, or maybe you're angry at the GOP fro existing.
Well, I don't, because I'm British.
I'm one of those people that doesn't get mad but more so disappointed, the Steph Curry smh gif is my favorite smh gif because it like perfectly encapsulates my emotions when I'm shaking my head at something. Who actually likes the current medical system? A democrat would try in a way that's the least effective way to try to then only blame republicans for blocking it and be able to use that as political capital for their next election. Democrats don't actually want to reform healthcare. How hard is it to give a very "rallying cry" type speech about healthcare literally pointing out how our system failed us during the pandemic and how asinine it is that sending people home in a pandemic to stay safe could easy lead to more death because people lost insurance and didn't want to go to the hospital until they are in an actual dire situation? Any democrat could've made a speech like that and had their sorta "Obama moment" and rode that to some higher office and still it didn't happen. The fact that wasn't even attempted says a lot. I'm not blaming them for gay marriage just telling you why they backed it because it didn't upset the status quo. There's tons of issues with electric cars like the mining of lithium (also literal kids mining for it), the power grid, the fact that it doesn't actually lower carbon emissions much. You can be focusing on other things with those resources that would do much more. Nuclear is currently the best option for energy and no one ever talks about it, solar and wind have massive problems.
Democratic policy for me has gotten to the point that it's even more regressive than republican policy.
