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They have half of Congress at the moment, holding a majority in the House by the way. They could pass a bill right now addressing anything (pick your favorite i
by erentz 6y ago
They have half of Congress at the moment, holding a majority in the House by the way. They could pass a bill right now addressing anything (pick your favorite issue that is broadly supported by the Democrat voter base) and send it to the Senate to be debated. Yet they don't. People need to wrap their head around the possibility that Democrat party leadership doesn't actually agree with their "base" on the issues, they just pretend to. The evidence is there in the record.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> They could pass a bill right now addressing anything (pick your favorite issue that is broadly supported by the Democrat voter base) and send it to the Senate to be debated. The word you are looking for is “ignored without hearings, debate, or votes”, not “debated”. > People need to wrap their head around the possibility that Democrat party leadership doesn't actually agree with their "base" on the issues, they just pretend to. The Democratic Party leadership agrees almost entirely with the base of the faction that has dominated the Party for the past ~25 years, the center-right neoliberal faction whose powerbase was in the conservative (compared to the party mainstream) Democratic Leadership Council — openly founded in the 1980s to reverse the progressive direction of the Democratic Party — before it took over the party apparatus rendering the DLC itself superfluous. It's not a secret to anyone in the party, whether in the progressive or neoliberal faction, that those two factions have a deep and abiding conflict of values and are only, when their relationship is at its strongest, in an uneasy alliance of necessity against the Republican Party and the far right.