• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Congress might also have been able to get more done if there was a filibuster-proof majority for more than several months in the last several decades.

    I do vote for the most progressive person available in the primaries tho.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      The fact that we even need a filibuster proof majority to get anything done is yet another glaring example of how fucked we are.

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      16 days ago

      Yeah, the focus on winning the presidency ignores the down ballot, small market and “off-cycle” races, and, to get to fillibuster-proof majorities, those races are the ones that need to be won. Berating progressives in urban areas to vote for moderate liberal candidates for president is not exactly harm reduction.