• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Even more stunning is how many people think the midterms are either going to be A. Honest and free or B. Change a goddamn thing

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      10 hours ago

      What are you looking to change? Really the best we can hope for is stalemate. If democrats gain enough seats, cons won’t be able to pass more damaging bills nor rubberststamp donvict. Hopefully we’ll see resistance to donvicts evasion of constitutional checks and balances.

      But given the partisan divide and dysfunctional Congress , without the white house and a filibuster-proof majority, there’s not much hope for starting the recovery

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      2 days ago

      Midterms, like all elections, are run by the states. The states will be sending their elected leaders to Washington next year. I’m confident that the midterms in my state will be honest and free.

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        2 days ago

        Not if the SAVE act passes. It breezed through the House. It might not make it through the Senate, but if it does, that one act will federalize elections, in addition to disenfranchising almost every married woman in the country.