Fueled by election gains, Democrats in Minnesota and Michigan this year enacted far-reaching policy changes that party leaders in other states are looking to as a potential roadmap for what they co…
“This is the first time in 40 years that we’ve had this opportunity,” Whitmer said of Michigan Democrats, who last held a trifecta in 1983. “This is a huge step forward that we’ve taken.”
It’s only a step forward if youre in the half that agrees with you. It’s a step backwards for the other half… This is a huge step to the left, nothing more. It’s not progress universally.
“The quick work by Democrats in the two states was due in part to uncertainty over how long the full control will last considering voters could decide to flip state House majorities back to Republican control as soon as next year.”
Because you’re only representing half… Get 5% of the population to waffle a little and boom, pendulum time, and you got Dems running one branch, repubs running the other, and both are entirely focused on obstructionism and get jack shit done.
We see the inaction, and the inability to actually do anything, as a bad thing, stifling progress, but half of us want progress to the left, half want progress to the right, both to the detriment of the other half, and the inaction is the only real way that everyone gets something. Half getting it all isn’t progress… Not in either direction… Go go gadget gridlock… I’m pretty ok with that
That is a lot of words to stick up for the half of the country that needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future on virtually every issue.
“This particular problem doesn’t affect me, so I don’t care that it gets solved!” or the even better mindset of: “Your continued suffering is validation that I am am superior.”
You do understand that half the country thinks banning abortion is “progress”, yes? They had bans passed before the ink on the scotus decision dried. Their justification is that they are preventing murder.
I don’t agree with that, Im simply using it as an example of how everyone assumes their version of “morality” equates with progress… They want their version to be the only one allowed, and you want yours to be the only one allowed.
I prefer the decision on ones morality be determined at the lowest level possible, and in the case if abortion, that lowest level is a single individual, which means I’d agree with preserving an individuals right to an abortion, but that has fuck all to do with any political affiliation (I have none, both parties fucking hate hearing anything I have to say because I’m not toeing their stupid lines in the sand), but rather a desire to preserve individual liberty.
Your statement that the right is regression is an immediate first hand example of exactly what I was saying, that everyone wants “the other guys” to just get fucked…
If you think that the right had control of the house and Senate in Michigan because they constitute roughly half of the population, you are sorely mistaken. Dems have a majority now because for the first time since I can remember, districts were created fairly by a group of normal citizens and not state Congress and therefore not gerrymandered.
The inability of both dedicated Democrats and Republicans to see that the other side represents, at worst, just under half the population, and to completely dismiss the concerns of that other half, is baffling to me. And the fact that both sides are utterly devoted to identity, whether national, religions, racial, sexual, or gender, to the near total exclusion of real economically based suffering (outside the occasional table scraps for “the children”), is maddening.
That’s because we have two economicly right wing parties that both use identity politics differently to distract voters. Republicans give their voters someone to hate, while Democrats run token minorities that have almost nothing in common with the minority communities they supposedly represent.
“This is the first time in 40 years that we’ve had this opportunity,” Whitmer said of Michigan Democrats, who last held a trifecta in 1983. “This is a huge step forward that we’ve taken.”
It’s only a step forward if youre in the half that agrees with you. It’s a step backwards for the other half… This is a huge step to the left, nothing more. It’s not progress universally.
“The quick work by Democrats in the two states was due in part to uncertainty over how long the full control will last considering voters could decide to flip state House majorities back to Republican control as soon as next year.”
Because you’re only representing half… Get 5% of the population to waffle a little and boom, pendulum time, and you got Dems running one branch, repubs running the other, and both are entirely focused on obstructionism and get jack shit done.
We see the inaction, and the inability to actually do anything, as a bad thing, stifling progress, but half of us want progress to the left, half want progress to the right, both to the detriment of the other half, and the inaction is the only real way that everyone gets something. Half getting it all isn’t progress… Not in either direction… Go go gadget gridlock… I’m pretty ok with that
The word you’re looking for is regression.
That is a lot of words to stick up for the half of the country that needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future on virtually every issue.
“This particular problem doesn’t affect me, so I don’t care that it gets solved!” or the even better mindset of: “Your continued suffering is validation that I am am superior.”
Got to love these crabs
Half the country didn’t want to regress to the right, a shrinking minority does. The rest of us are all sick of waiting on you
And half doesn’t want to “regress” to the left…
You do understand that half the country thinks banning abortion is “progress”, yes? They had bans passed before the ink on the scotus decision dried. Their justification is that they are preventing murder.
I don’t agree with that, Im simply using it as an example of how everyone assumes their version of “morality” equates with progress… They want their version to be the only one allowed, and you want yours to be the only one allowed.
I prefer the decision on ones morality be determined at the lowest level possible, and in the case if abortion, that lowest level is a single individual, which means I’d agree with preserving an individuals right to an abortion, but that has fuck all to do with any political affiliation (I have none, both parties fucking hate hearing anything I have to say because I’m not toeing their stupid lines in the sand), but rather a desire to preserve individual liberty.
Your statement that the right is regression is an immediate first hand example of exactly what I was saying, that everyone wants “the other guys” to just get fucked…
Did you not see me say that I know what they stand for and I stand against it?
I don’t care what they call it, they’re views are oppressive and wrong. So yeah, they can get fucked
To be fair, the majority of the population is left now, because the right wing decided to die of coronavirus like it was going out of style.
The majority of the country was left of republicans before coronavirus, but telling their supporters not to get Healthcare definitely widened the gap.
If you think that the right had control of the house and Senate in Michigan because they constitute roughly half of the population, you are sorely mistaken. Dems have a majority now because for the first time since I can remember, districts were created fairly by a group of normal citizens and not state Congress and therefore not gerrymandered.
The inability of both dedicated Democrats and Republicans to see that the other side represents, at worst, just under half the population, and to completely dismiss the concerns of that other half, is baffling to me. And the fact that both sides are utterly devoted to identity, whether national, religions, racial, sexual, or gender, to the near total exclusion of real economically based suffering (outside the occasional table scraps for “the children”), is maddening.
No, I see what the right represents. I don’t want to support it in anyway. The idea the the right is just misunderstood is dangerously innacurate.
That’s because we have two economicly right wing parties that both use identity politics differently to distract voters. Republicans give their voters someone to hate, while Democrats run token minorities that have almost nothing in common with the minority communities they supposedly represent.