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by atmavatar 256 days ago
We are a frog in a pot of water placed upon a stove.

Every time the Republican party gains power, they turn up the burner.

When the Democratic party gains power, they don't turn the burner up any further, but the most we can give them credit for is they may occasionally toss an ice cube in the water.

They do not turn the burner down.

They do not remove the pot from the stove.

They do not take the frog out of the water.

The Democratic party isn't as bad as the Republican party, but they're still ultimately boiling the frog.

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For all their crowing about how bad Republican policy is, how often do you really see them repealing bad laws passed by Republicans - especially the disastrous tax cuts and sabotage of government agencies? Biden couldn't even be bothered to replace all of Trump's appointees.

The last few decades have demonstrated that at the very least, we need a number of constitutional amendments to fix the cracks and gaping holes in our current governmental structure that allowed us to get here, and it'll probably take burning down both major political parties and starting with new ones to make that happen.

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> how often do you really see them repealing bad laws passed by Republicans - especially the disastrous tax cuts and sabotage of government agencies?

how often do you see a D majority in the House AND the Senate with a D president?

We saw (an admittedly razor-thin) majority in the first half of Biden's term and a much more solid majority in the first half of Obama's first term. Clinton also had a solid majority in the first half of his first term, and Carter had a solid majority throughout his entire term.

It may feel skewed in favor of Republican majorities across the executive and legislative branches due to GWB having it for 6 years, but the fact is, every president in the last 30 years has had a majority in both branches at the start of their first terms.

> We saw (an admittedly razor-thin) majority in the first half of Biden's term

Two (2) years.

> more solid majority in the first half of Obama's first term.

Two (2) years and one (1) month out of Obama's Eight (8) years. Okay.

> It may feel skewed in favor of Republican majorities across the executive and legislative branches due to GWB having it for 6 years

Four (4) years, One (1) month total majority TOTAL in the past Twenty-Four (24) years.

The last time Democrats tried to turn down the heat, they lost tons of seats countrywide, up and down the ballot.

https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/under-obama-democ...

Your problem is the people. The call is coming from inside the house.

Biden is given 4 years to grow a tree, Trump is given 8 years to cut down as many trees as he can. The government is also intrinsically hard to change (filibuster, gerrymandering, fptp, electoral college, supreme court etc).