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this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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Because the Dems would need a supermajority in both Houses. They had one in 2010 and still had to worry about defectors.
Look at the record, the GOP is going to fight anything that actually helps people.
The GOP has convinced a large percentage of the voters that they will lose everything if the 'socialists' take over.
The dems aren't interested in dismantling the private healthcare industry. It's too profitable and their donors need it.
Even while I was still a clueless lib, when I saw insurance companies sponsoring the DNC, I knew we'd never get publicly-funded healthcare.
Yep, great point! Gotta connect class interests.
the democrats have had the opportunity to remove the super majority requirement from 2021 to 2023; again from 2007 to 2011; and again from 1987 to 1995, yet they chose not to.
It's not red v blue. It's people vs $s.
A plan - https://represent.us/
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQij4aQq1k
agreed and my comment was a response to the assertion that democrats would vote on healthcare.
To be clear, the guys who voted against it in 2010 were literal 70 year old boomers who were raised in McCarthyism and scared of communism. Like actually cited that "it's too communist" as a reason to vote against it.