I suspect the truth is that this time, the Democrats really mean it in regard to scrapping the filibuster, adding DC and Puerto Rico as states, packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the Electoral College, implementing the Green New Deal, removing the second amendment, eliminating ICE and tearing down the border wall, cancelling student debt, paying slavery reparations, and all the things they claim they will do if they are returned to power. The only reason they haven’t done those things so far is that they never had enough political power to do them. President Clinton wanted to, but in his first mid-term, the 1994 Contract with America led to Republicans taking control of the House/Senate, and Democrats plans were stopped dead in their tracks. This led Clinton to start issuing EO’s, which in 1998 Paul Begala described as, “Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool.” In Obama’s first two years, he achieved what Clinton tried to but didn’t – i.e. passing Obamacare because Bush-hatred (actually Iraq-war-hatred) led to the Democrats having a filibuster-proof Senate margin. When the Tea Party landslide of 2010 crushed Obama’s further plans, he then put Clinton’s “rule by EO” into hyper-drive to overcome the roadblock of the Republican House and the Republican Senate (since 2014). When Trump took over, the Democratic block of the Supreme Court asserted its power (with the help of Roberts) to rule that Trump could not revoke Obama’s DACA EO. The historical pattern is that Democrats always use the maximum power of the elected national offices (President, House, Senate) and appointed court positions to their full advantage, and a subset of Republicans often support their efforts. In 2020, even local political officials (mayors and governors) joined the Democrats fight for control, allowing rioters to destroy their cities because they knew the media would blame Trump and stir up their low-information voters. The only thing the Democrats ever lie about is being moderate. There are a gazillion examples of Democrats landing on both sides of an issue, with Biden flip-flopping on support for Trump’s travel bans, a national-mask-mandate, eliminating fracking, SCOTUS precedent, etc. But after being elected, so-called moderate Democrats are nearly unanimously forced to follow the party line, with Trump’s impeachment being one of many examples. So voters can believe the clear historical pattern or they can believe that Democrats simply want to play nice with Republicans and end division in America, if only people would be sensible and return them to power. That has always been the choice of the 2020 election and the magnitude of this choice is now clearer than it has ever been.
This makes good sense. Go for it. With Democrats running the country for a while, we'll need a well-balanced Court.
Whatever happened to for the people, by the people? Now it's for the party , by the party. I think the Democrats need to sit down and shut up.
I suspect the truth is that this time, the Democrats really mean it in regard to scrapping the filibuster, adding DC and Puerto Rico as states, packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the Electoral College, implementing the Green New Deal, removing the second amendment, eliminating ICE and tearing down the border wall, cancelling student debt, paying slavery reparations, and all the things they claim they will do if they are returned to power. The only reason they haven’t done those things so far is that they never had enough political power to do them. President Clinton wanted to, but in his first mid-term, the 1994 Contract with America led to Republicans taking control of the House/Senate, and Democrats plans were stopped dead in their tracks. This led Clinton to start issuing EO’s, which in 1998 Paul Begala described as, “Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool.” In Obama’s first two years, he achieved what Clinton tried to but didn’t – i.e. passing Obamacare because Bush-hatred (actually Iraq-war-hatred) led to the Democrats having a filibuster-proof Senate margin. When the Tea Party landslide of 2010 crushed Obama’s further plans, he then put Clinton’s “rule by EO” into hyper-drive to overcome the roadblock of the Republican House and the Republican Senate (since 2014). When Trump took over, the Democratic block of the Supreme Court asserted its power (with the help of Roberts) to rule that Trump could not revoke Obama’s DACA EO. The historical pattern is that Democrats always use the maximum power of the elected national offices (President, House, Senate) and appointed court positions to their full advantage, and a subset of Republicans often support their efforts. In 2020, even local political officials (mayors and governors) joined the Democrats fight for control, allowing rioters to destroy their cities because they knew the media would blame Trump and stir up their low-information voters. The only thing the Democrats ever lie about is being moderate. There are a gazillion examples of Democrats landing on both sides of an issue, with Biden flip-flopping on support for Trump’s travel bans, a national-mask-mandate, eliminating fracking, SCOTUS precedent, etc. But after being elected, so-called moderate Democrats are nearly unanimously forced to follow the party line, with Trump’s impeachment being one of many examples. So voters can believe the clear historical pattern or they can believe that Democrats simply want to play nice with Republicans and end division in America, if only people would be sensible and return them to power. That has always been the choice of the 2020 election and the magnitude of this choice is now clearer than it has ever been.