Congressional Democrats are marching in lockstep into the fourth week of a government shutdown, even as lawmakers brace for what could be the most painful point yet — a cutoff in federal food aid for more than 40 million people.
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are signaling that there will be no change in strategy: Democrats won’t provide the votes to reopen the government unless their demands over health care are met. And they’re increasingly hammering President Donald Trump for his failure to sit down to negotiate with Democrats, while instead embarking on his second foreign trip so far during the shutdown.
“This is all Trump,” a visibly frustrated Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont told CNN. “Trump’s not engaged. Republicans won’t negotiate,” Welch said, arguing that Trump’s trip to Asia this week as “an indication of how he could care less.”
I don’t think this take is fully thought out.
Their system is monumentally slow.
For important decisions, they need a super majority in the senate and a majority in the house, and the presidency, and then they need to word it extremely carefully to not have it monkeys paw’d by the supreme Court.
They haven’t had an actionable super majority for over a quarter century.
The reason they appear not to do much is because without bipartisan support or all the things I just mentioned they can basically only change how money is spent and taxes (only sorta IIRC).
Basically, your comment hurts everyone by encouraging voter apathy due to pushing ideas that aren’t compatible with the reality of their slow system.
Is the DNC filled with center right people who love a lot of the bad things in place? Yes.
Are there still absolutely positive changes they would make given the opportunity? Also yes.
Is it possible to change the party through primaries and local politics? Also yes.
Anyhow, my point is, it needs to be considered the system they’re working in before loose accusations are thrown at them.
Finally, we here in Canada could literally have proportional representation right now, giving everyone’s vote equal weighting and giving us true choice and increased leverage over politicians, but we don’t, despite having a majority liberal government and so what I am saying, is having the supposed left leaning party win (or in their case less right), still doesn’t garunteed results, but it does garunteed you won’t ramp up the very real discrimination and crony corruption like you see when right wing governments win.
It matters, even if choices are mid is the point.