Honestly if they could just undo the damage Trump has done, I would call it a win. Part of how we got here in the first place was never fixing the illegal wars, gulags, and other abuses of power under bush and trump. If you don’t fix them, they just keep building on each other, and any other initiative you succeed in building will quickly be destroyed by an ever more powerful fascist state.
So just for example, on that, if that’s all they try to do then they’ve failed. It’s not enough anymore to simply reverse it, they need to actually fix it by implementing actual universal coverage via Medicare for all, or NHS, or a German SHI. They need to actually stand for something other than the old bullshit status quo to win.
I truly think a system like the German model has a chance to succeed in the US without causing so many knock-on effects that there’s immediate backlash. I know Medicare For All is the catchier phrase but I’m surprised so few even mention Germany as a possible US model.
we see ourselves in the mirror, restoring the status quo means billionaires stay in charge, bombings continue, innocents die
even when we sweep the house it’s not enough:
I want to see us get medicare for all, trump and his cronies in guantanamo, the supreme court reformed, gerry mandering removed, age limits, term limits, data center moratoriums, an end to war, no more super pacs, no more citizens united, billionaire wealth tax, house and senate reform, ranked choice voting
and they end the filibuster to do it
then if we wanna quit “capitalism” we continue (we should end whatever this is)
I want this too, trust me. But if we get medicare for all and then lose democracy, will it really be a win? The fascists will just take it away again after long enough in power.
For the first 100 days, restoring the status quo is already going to be a tall order given they’ll have opposition every step along the way. Fixing the damage needs to happen first and foremost before being able to progressing positive new change. Even if Dems somehow sweep both the house and Senate they still have to deal with Trump vetoing bills and such unless they miraculously win a super majority. They should at least be able to block his EOs and mitigate more damage though.
I’d love to see them play hardball and do things like, “No budget will be passed and no money will be available for anything until ICE is abolished and disbanded” … but I’m pretty sure they don’t have the balls to even try that.
The math on the Senate won’t get a supermajority this cycle - Dems would have to win EVERY Senate race, and even then it gets us to 66 + Fetterman. So supermajority would need to be 2028 at the earliest.
reinstating Affordable Care Act tax breaks, reversing Republican Medicaid cuts, holding votes against the Iran war and undoing President Donald Trump’s tariff regime.
I just lost my job to AI after 20 years. Losing Affordable Care Act coverage would limit my ability to study for the exam I need to pass to get a better job in the same field. It sounds pretty damn good from here.
So their agenda is restore the status quo. I had hoped maybe there would be more ambition than that.
Honestly if they could just undo the damage Trump has done, I would call it a win. Part of how we got here in the first place was never fixing the illegal wars, gulags, and other abuses of power under bush and trump. If you don’t fix them, they just keep building on each other, and any other initiative you succeed in building will quickly be destroyed by an ever more powerful fascist state.
If that’s all they did it would be losing, hard. It would leave everything open to happen again, or likely much worse. Heads need to roll.
Well yes by undoing it I mean undoing it so it doesn’t happen again. Which means heads rolling.
So just for example, on that, if that’s all they try to do then they’ve failed. It’s not enough anymore to simply reverse it, they need to actually fix it by implementing actual universal coverage via Medicare for all, or NHS, or a German SHI. They need to actually stand for something other than the old bullshit status quo to win.
I truly think a system like the German model has a chance to succeed in the US without causing so many knock-on effects that there’s immediate backlash. I know Medicare For All is the catchier phrase but I’m surprised so few even mention Germany as a possible US model.
oh really so you’re not going to vote dem?
me thinks you are just as much the problem here
DINOs are the problem. If we haven’t hit rock bottom enough to see that then all is lost.
we see ourselves in the mirror, restoring the status quo means billionaires stay in charge, bombings continue, innocents die
even when we sweep the house it’s not enough:
I want to see us get medicare for all, trump and his cronies in guantanamo, the supreme court reformed, gerry mandering removed, age limits, term limits, data center moratoriums, an end to war, no more super pacs, no more citizens united, billionaire wealth tax, house and senate reform, ranked choice voting
and they end the filibuster to do it
then if we wanna quit “capitalism” we continue (we should end whatever this is)
all that said, vote. vote. vote.
I want this too, trust me. But if we get medicare for all and then lose democracy, will it really be a win? The fascists will just take it away again after long enough in power.
oh i’m voting blue on my end for sure, we can’t afford to not
but we need to hold these fuckers feet to the fire when the inevitably don’t do shit
id still rather democrats in office over trumplicans any day
For the first 100 days, restoring the status quo is already going to be a tall order given they’ll have opposition every step along the way. Fixing the damage needs to happen first and foremost before being able to progressing positive new change. Even if Dems somehow sweep both the house and Senate they still have to deal with Trump vetoing bills and such unless they miraculously win a super majority. They should at least be able to block his EOs and mitigate more damage though.
They can also fuck with Trump’s funding.
I’d love to see them play hardball and do things like, “No budget will be passed and no money will be available for anything until ICE is abolished and disbanded” … but I’m pretty sure they don’t have the balls to even try that.
Some of them voted to fund ICE, so I don’t have high hopes there.
The math on the Senate won’t get a supermajority this cycle - Dems would have to win EVERY Senate race, and even then it gets us to 66 + Fetterman. So supermajority would need to be 2028 at the earliest.
I just lost my job to AI after 20 years. Losing Affordable Care Act coverage would limit my ability to study for the exam I need to pass to get a better job in the same field. It sounds pretty damn good from here.
Timothy Snyder warned this would be one of the worst things they could do.