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As long as republicans continue to say no to that, it's impossible to do. Democrats basically never have actual control over the American Government, it's happe
by mrguyorama 3y ago
As long as republicans continue to say no to that, it's impossible to do. Democrats basically never have actual control over the American Government, it's happened like 4 years out of the past 20, and that's not a new phenomenon. Even in the times they have had "full" control of all portions of government, republican senators are still able to "block" stuff through made up rules and "norms" that democrats don't want to break, because that gives republicans cart blanche to break those same rules in a way that can do a lot more harm. Also like 4 of the democrats that are part of the "majority" for various reasons like to be contrarians to the rest of the party, meaning even the few times there have been a majority of democrats in the senate, there has not been consensus in the party for basically anything since probably FDR.
- lowbloodsugar 3y agoOh sweet summer child. The Democrats have absolutely been in a position do this, but they did not, because they would lose that voting block. They need the issue. It will become legal once big pharma and big tobacco have decided they want it to happen, regardless of who is in charge.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Democrats have absolutely been in a position do this, but they did not, because they would lose that voting block. They need the issue. Correct on the first, wrong on the second. Stockpiling issues doesn't work in U.S. politics: it's how you get primaried. The truth: there are enough Democrats in competitive districts where legalized marijuana would lose them the next general. It's a majority of the minority problem. Not anything strategic.
- cute_boi 3y agodems can do many thing, but they don't because they need something for next election.
- mrguyorama 3y ago[flagged]
- throw10920 3y agoPlease keep partisan politics off of HN.
- red-iron-pine 3y agopffff when has that ever happened? 50% of the threads are proxies for those discussions anyways
- throw10920 3y agoYou're confusing "is" and "should". Politics violates the HN guidelines - the fact that lots of people are violating them doesn't mean that it's now acceptable. Also, if you go back say, 10 years, you'll see that most HN threads have very little politics in them, so yes, that has been the norm before.
- tracker1 3y agoYou mean the couple times that D had super majority of both houses and the WH for 2 years never happened?