• hark@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as the saying goes. My only hope as far as voting goes is that democrats get a majority so large that they can’t just conveniently flip two senators to continue to do nothing. I feel like democrats purposefully eek out the smallest victories they can so they can pretend to be powerless. It’s either that or they’re ridiculously incompetent, neither inspire confidence. They’re just too good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Regardless, their excuses and lack of results will be even more flagrant if they’re given a huge majority.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOP
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      6 months ago

      I suspect that there’s a lobbying pool, and as the majority grows the reward for flipping sides gets bigger.

      I think it would be bad but a little funny if democrats split their tickets, and they get a supermajority in congress but lose the presidency or vice-versa. They’d get nothing done and shit would get worse, but it’d probably mitigate the worst of the damage and they’d be trying to analyze what went wrong for a decade.