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Four Democrats Pass Bill Making It Harder for Married Women to Vote
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“Four democrats passed this,” but we are just going to ignore the 216 conservatives that passed it?
So when do we get to start calling bullshit like this propaganda?
"man bites dog" vs "dog bites man"
We all know what the Republicans unanimously stand for. Apparently some democrats do too, and that's worth noting.
People expect the representative they voted for to vote how they want. Conservatives' representative voted as they wanted. Whereas Democrats' representative voted against their wishes. Hence the outrage.
This is a simplistic explanation, 4 Democratic representative might have voted as their constituents have demanded.
Based on what I hear on local news, Perez at least probably is doing what her constituents want. She won a very red district as a Democrat by appealing to the people in her district. I don't like her vote, but I get it.
I'd bet most conservative women didn't vote to have their ability to vote taken away as well. Having to have a "real ID" license accepted in every state not be accepted to vote is pure ridiculousness.
Everyone expects the scorpion to stab the frog, it's in its nature.
Everyone expects Republicans to be totally corrupt monsters.
The people we are supposed to depend on to fight monsters keep helping them pass bills when they could be blocking them.
This means they are complicit. There's always enough traitors to make the bad things pass, never enough cooperation to make the good things pass when they have a majority.
The Democrats have been playing this game for too long and it's saf you haven't started to notice too.
Everyone already knows all the republicans supported it; anything under their jurisdiction is already a lost cause. What I want to know is how many people from the "left" party can't even keep their own votes on the right side of history. It's not news when villains are villains - it's news when the people who say they're here to fight back against the villains are caught supporting them, and it's important not to drown out that important detail among a bunch of already-known regressives. People need to see that the current democratic party isn't a viable defense against conservativism, and that we need to do something more to get things moving in the right direction again than simply trusting democrats to fix everything.
I get what you’re saying… but have a hard time accepting that just because, conserves are being conservatives, it’s seemingly fine that they do villain-shit. We’ll just be outraged at the audacity of four idiot democrats that voted in lock-step with them.
ALL of them need to be held accountable.
But here, when all I see are people ignoring the villains, it makes me wonder why I ever bothered to question how we got here.
Conservatives have survived on their ability to never be held accountable for what they do. And seeing everyone focused on holding four democrats responsible for their joint effort with 16 conservatives and not even mentioning the assholes that drew this up to begin with-
I guess it all makes more sense now how thoroughly we are fucked.
It’s totally Democrats fault.
Stop copy pastin this slop its barely coherent
And what I said is slop?
I’ll digress and simplify it for you since you seem to be having trouble:
I find it strange how here on lemmy, whenever something happens, any time a democrat is involved in the slightest- whatever bad happened, it’s entirely blamed on the democrats, regardless of the fact that it wouldn’t have even happened to begin with had it not been for conservatives.
Further simplification:
• A bill is drafted- by conservatives
• 216 conservatives vote for it
• 4 democrats vote for it
You: “See? We told you! All of the democrats are evil!”
Or is it every time (cuz there are countless times) people get mad at Dems for failing just enough to enable the Republicans some copy pastin breathless newbie to politics comes in with copypasta defending them?
Hmmmmmm 🤔
I’d prefer to go with what’s empirically provable vs. some random shit you came up with because you can’t be seen to be proven wrong about something- in an argument with someone that you need to assume shit about in order to look like you know what you’re saying.
And “breathless newbie”?
Hilarious! You know nothing about me, therefore, you don’t get to make edits to who I am.
Now… You’re just going to have to be okay with all of this and move on, alright?
We’re done talking now. Enjoy that ever-important last word you seem to always have to have.
Im blocked already? Man what a whirlwind
Is this bait to get me to respond after I said this discussion is over, or do you need someone to help you understand that nowhere in my comment did I say that I was blocking you.
I simply said we’re done discussing it because you’re not here in good faith. You just like to debate troll people and it’s not worth my time.
Do better.
If it were bait to engage you, wouldn't you have just given me exactly what i wanted?
Since you asked, I do in fact enjoy telling folks like you (who talk down to others while offering insipid, child-like political takes) off.
I hope with every encounter with commenters like yourself, to break thru the crunchy shell of ignorance. When i do, (believe it or not) my wish is to help. Help them see themselves for just one moment in the mirror. Understand, briefly the damage to political commentary they cause.
Now let's be real. Today isn't that day for you. But yeah, I've said what i came to say
This is exactly the trick that has got us to this point, and you are giving the average news consumer way too much credit.
Yes, democrats being villains on this is novel and republicans being villains is not, but news reports bias our attention and skew reality. Viewers who are only exposed to this unconsciously end up completely turned around, saying in general democrats are the problem. This is how we end up with elections where voters stay home. And young people have internalized the disproportionate criticism of democrats, and that is probably helping give right-wing influencers credibility.
Objective and credible news should NOT just report on what's novel. They should report on proportional responsibility.
My initial reaction to this headline was: "what now?", and my first reaction on reading the article was "oh, it's a continuation of the horror show that calls itself US government - not actually something that four democrats are responsible for"
So I'm totally with you. Stop the sanewashing of the continued and systematic madness rising to ever new heights of depravity, should be the headline.
Republicans built the foundation for what's happening now for decades, and it was always like you said in your other comment: "Conservatives have survived on their ability to never be held accountable for what they do." Well, slightly more differentiated.
This bill is yet another voter supression tool. This is what they ultimately want: you have to be rich, male, of a certain ethic, and "white" to have a say. And they're almost there. If voting was really made easy for everyone, do you really think the GOP would still win?
This is yet another piece of codified and systemic racism, misogyny, homo- and transphobia, richism.
The hollowing out of what was once a working, relatively democratic system to a point where even the empty shell is starting to break up.
All that said, Democrats should start wielding what power they have (both in the government and in media, public opinion etc.) way more decisively. Between elections we must talk about how fucked up both parties are.
This comment (from this post) puts it best imho:
https://lemmy.world/comment/16414382
https://feddit.org/post/10702307/6001640
I've been calling out this propaganda since 2016. Dividing the left is an extremely successful tactic.
What do Democrats have to do with the left? Especially the Democrats in question.
Establishment Democrats have shived the left a million times and I never hear this pearl clutching about how they are "dividing the left" from folks like you. When a progressive primaries a corporate Democrat we get told that we shouldn't mess with incumbents. When a corporate Democrat challenges a seated progressive, the establishment pumps tens of thousands of dollars into the challengers campaign.
We aren't "dividing the left", we are acknowledging a divide between the left and third way neoliberals. Establishment candidates want our votes and especially our donations, but then they want us to sit down and shut up.
Little-l left. As in, encompassing everyone left of center. Not "the Left".
Neoliberalism is not a left of center political philosophy. We have to right of center parties and a moderately left of center population. That's why the Democrats are always referred to as the lesser of two evils.
Mathematically, Democrats are by definition left of center. You can't just place the "center" wherever you want.
Huh? What center are we talking about? Democrats are left of Republicans (marginally before Trump, but still) but the center of office holders is a pointless measure. Issue by issue the Democrats are solidly to the right of the vast majority of the US population.
da fuq? It's the definition of "center". It's the literal way we measure political leanings.
One problem is that when it comes to individual issues, Americans are fairly to the left of Democrats. But when it comes to politicians or broad policies, Americans are to the RIGHT of Democrats. The American voting population is stupid, and they don't consider individual issues (and in most cases, never vote on them via ballot measures etc). Also, a lot of policies are given the broad label of "reform", and Americans have very different ideas of what "reform" means. "Immigration reform" could mean anything from an open border policy to immediate execution of any illegal immigrants. Most Americans support "reform" though.
So, half of the Taliban is left wing? Half of the third Reich was left wing? No, the center of office holders is not how we measure political leanings. You can go with political theory that defines left and right in a pretty fixed way, or you can go by the center of the population. By either of those standards, the Democrats are moderate right wing.
There is nothing particularly "stupid" about Americans. They are just flawed humans, and there is a reason for the mismatch between where they fall on issues and where they fall on (let's call them) themes. The themes come from the narratives they receive from our two right wing parties. Ask them about particular issues and they think like individuals. Ask them about themes and they line up with the narratives coming to them from our two right wing parties.
Yes. There's no universal human left vs right. Political ideologies change over time and place. The far left wing in the Taliban is roughly similar to the far right wing in America.
Gonna have to disagree there.
Damn. So, no right wing government exists or has ever existed will ever exist or could ever exist. What a clever model you dreamt up. No wonder you find it so easy to defend establishment Democrats. Everyone is just as good as everyone else if just put in the right context. You are certainly right about the math. It's a pretty damn useless way to model the world though.
No "-wing" government exists except in relation to something else. That's a fundamental feature of reality. The current US government is more right wing than I would like. It's more right wing than most of Europe. It's more right wing (though not by as much as you think) than the US population would like. It's less right wing than Saudi Arabia, or the Taliban.
And, of course, not all governments map perfectly to the left-right dynamic as we view it in the West. It's a mostly useful metric though.
And, of course, there's a difference between what people would want if they could wave a magic wand and make it so, vs what the people will support as politically achievable. That's a big thing the Left fails to realize about the more centrist Democratic majority: yes, we want universal healthcare. Yes, we want strong unions. Yes, we want equal treatment for all under the law. Yes, we want higher taxes on the rich. Yes, we want monopolies broken up. A lot of us (maybe a majority?) even want worker ownership of the means of production. But we recognize that given the strong opposition to any progress, it's just not possible to get those things immediately and without reservation. We advocate advancing towards those things as quickly as is practically feasible, while preventing backsliding from the opposition.
So asking people "what they want" without the context of what is feasible will give you answers that seem to support more radical Leftists when in reality the people giving those answers are going to vote for Harris, Biden, Warren, Pelosi, Obama, Newsom, etc. and not whatever random no-name 3rd party candidate the Socialists or Greens or whatever the flavor of the day is puts up.
Calling people who voted to disenfranchise millions the 'left" is an insult.
Havent you heard the term "It goes without saying"? I just don't need to tell you that the sun rises in the east, 2+2=4, or Republicans are evil. But apparently, some of you insist on giving a pass to Democrats, who act like they're on our side, but continually help make things worse.
The point is that it's all kayfabe and just enough Democrats will vote to make things worse or prevent something from getting better. If you only blame Republicans, you're not paying attention.