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Yeah, there isn't really much you can do to "prepare." Ds would pass campaign finance reform and singlepayer if we gave them the 60 senate votes, so that seems like the only option for anybody even remotely concerned about these issues.
Yeah sure, the party that jumped right to betraying the voter base it claimed to protect against the end of democracy, but not so much that it would run on an anti billionaire platform, would totally limit billionaires power if it just got more votes...
Yes.
Actually Yes.
Like you do realize there were two options, right? And that the worst option won because people were too afraid of the lesser evil?
I fail to understand your argument. So you think the lesser evil will do good on changing one of its core evils because the other evil is worse?
Why? Which motivations would they have? Which pressure applies to them? They just have proven again that they rather betray the people than the donors.
They rather lost to Trump than oppose the donor class. Why would you think they would change it if working for the donor class got even rewarded by the people they fuck over?
What "core belief" do you think Democrats have? Because I'm pretty fucking certain I can find a bill they voted on which directly contradicts your statement.
Is it Campaign Finance? They voted 45D + 6R in 1995 to enact Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act but it got filibustered until it passed in 2002 with 48 D + 11 R + 1 Ind. Then, the SCOTUS took it down in 2009 in a 5-4 vote. That was immediately followed by Speechnow org v. FEC (2010), which authorized the creation of Super PACs, and McCutcheon v. FEC (2014), which struck down other campaign finance restrictions.
End Citizens United is a group that has received endorsements from Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Beto O'Rourke, and many other high profile democrats and is one of the largest grassroots funded committees out there.
Have you ever even heard of H.R. 1 For The People Act? It was the very first act of the 118th Congress in 2019 after Democrats won the majority in the 2018 election, and had 217 co-sponsors, easily passing the house with 234–193 PARTY LINE votes and it was reintroduced AGAIN in 2021, but got filibustered by Republicans AGAIN.
Why the fuck are you people so stupid?