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This is just the first in a long list of "messaging" bills that will come from a very slim Republican House, because there is Democratic control of the Senate.
by _null_ 4y ago
This is just the first in a long list of "messaging" bills that will come from a very slim Republican House, because there is Democratic control of the Senate.
They know it won't become law. The point is to rile up the media, get hits on cable news, fund raise, and generally be useless as a governing body. This is what both parties do when they are out of power, and I would say is what they _prefer_ to do. It's easier than governing, makes them money, gets them media attention, etc.
Both parties here in the US _want_ to be minority parties so that they can behave this way and assume no actual responsibility for anything.
- optimalsolver 4y ago>They know it won't become law Didn't Brexit start as a "there's no way this will actually happen" signaling gesture by establishment Conservatives?
- _null_ 4y agoThere is literally no way a Democrat controlled Senate even reads this bill. To your point though, a good example of that kind of thing is the idiocy of Republican states who passed years of anti-abortion "trigger laws" in case Roe/Casey were ever overturned. They all assumed those precedence would never be overturned, and so they could be as extreme as they wanted. Now they are reckoning with their posturing.
- ashwagary 4y agoWill voters barely making ends meet dealing with inflation prefer the party that doesnt send government agents to attack them while they are struggling?
- V__ 4y agoI really don't get this “both parties” attitude. There is no basis for that argument. There is a lot to criticize about Democrats, but they at least want to govern.
- homeland221 4y agoDemocrats want to govern? Maybe you want to check the 10 bottom cities in America say by crime rate and poverty metrics. Name too 10 cities or even towns in USA and check which party doing the governing.
- kodyo 4y agoThe kind of people who want to govern other people are not the kind of people we should encourage.
- _null_ 4y agoThe "Green New Deal" was 100% a messaging bill, never intended to pass, and was admitted to be as such by those that drafted it. Just one example. *I'd argue that most people in either party do _want_ to govern. But each one is being hijacked by loud minorities who would rather perform.
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