I’ve been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama’s first term in 2008 more wasn’t accomplished. Shouldn’t that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but outside of Obamacare getting passed which didnt go far enough it seems like they didn’t really do much with all that power. Are there other important accomplishments from this time that didn’t get the news they deserved? It seems like the voters have done their job in the past to elect people to fix things and yet we are still here begging people to vote to fix issues like abortion rights.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    121·
    6 months ago

    This is it. Trump didn’t give a flying shit at all if anything he did was legal, he just went for it, and it worked.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      That’s not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

      -Karl Rove

      They know this is how it works and they abuse it freely and are open about what they’re doing. Democrats are fucking pussies in the face of it.

      • nomous@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        Turd Blossom is an evil little pigman but he’s not stupid and he’s not wrong. There’s too much discussion and not enough action from the left side of the aisle.