[bluGill]

Don't blame the GOP, both parties have been doing it for the last 200 years (the republican party isn't that old, but the Whigs before them as well). They target different areas to stall progress. Sometimes the stalling is good, sometimes is bad - and it is often a matter of opinion which is good or bad.

[wayoutthere]

I mean, sure; the democrats do some of this but the entire GOP strategy over the last 40 years has been to bring the government to a standstill to avoid passing anything.

The GOP strategy succeeds in the case of “passing GOP-sponsored laws” and in the case of “doing absolutely nothing”. The Democrat strategy only succeeds in the “passing Dem-sponsored laws” case — it disheartens the Dem base to see an ineffective government while confirming the pre-held anti-government bias of the GOP base.

Also, I would avoid this argumentation approach related to modern politics in the future; “whataboutism” which is widely recognized as a GOP propaganda technique. The Progressive agenda is not actually about getting even, it’s about fixing a system that has oppressed the middle and working class into a rent-seeking economy with little social mobility. We don’t care that it’s “always been done this way;” the “old guard” of the Democratic Party is only slightly less of a problem than the GOP.

We’re trying to fix the systemic issues in our electoral process, which also includes the Democrat “superdelegate” nomination process designed to weed out populist candidates. Like it or not, we’re in a populist era...