It's pretty bizarre to have abortion rights depend on the Supreme Court instead of positive legislation
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I get the argument "this is what happens if you elect the Republicans!". But there's a flip side—why doesn't anything happen when we elect the Democrats? After 48 years, why does such a fundamental human right still depend on whether a vainglorious old person decided to retire?
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During the Presidential primaries, the debate was between taking our medical system to full socialism, or making a pit stop first at Scandinavian style social democracy. And now with the House, Senate and Presidency we can't even safeguard reproductive choice? It's fucked up.
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What is the purpose of electing a party that given full power can't pass bedrock parts of its legislative program?
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"Maintain our ineffectual majority or you'll be sorry!" is a real stirring slogan for 2022
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Ineffectual? Look, they haven’t done everything I want either—Voting Rights Act, for example—but COVID relief and infrastructure didn’t just happen.
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You're absolutely right that infrastructure didn't happen.
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