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To hand power 'back to the people,' House Dems propose amendment to reverse Citizens United
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“But they didn’t have a 90 seat advantage in the Senate and 400 house seats and the presidency!!! How do you expect them to get anything done without that?!?” - centrists
Well, yes. This. Just reduce the numbers appropriately so it's not a strawman.
The American people have voted against democracy. If they don't have a solid majority of the vote, they can't do much.
2024 is far from the only example of this.
I literally see these every week here. Like somehow when they have a majority they are unable to pass any laws, and when in a minority, they can't stop anything Republicans do.
Like every time there is a majority, every democrat just is unable to do focus on anything but one bill. That one bill is all can be voted on, all anyone can vote on, and all that can be focused on. Any other legislation by legislators can't exist.
The excuse I always see is “we’re a big tent party so Joe Lieberman/Joe Manchin tells us what to do.”
Which is not the response of an effective political party.
Like when the Republicans tried to repeal the ACA?