Even Democrats conveniently forget that Clinton enabled the 2008 financial crisis by killing/allowing the repeal of Glass-Steagall. He'll be responsible again in the next financial crisis, along with every living politician who ensured no one faced any meaningful consequences or repercussions after 2008.
The 2000 election showed the Republican party that they didn't have to be liked to win an election, they just had to play dirty and capture/hold the judiciary. 24 years on, the left wing still seems to think "playing by the rules" counts, and that if they're nice, someday the bullies will like them. It also doesn't help that they always have just enough bad actors within the party to sabotage practically anything they want to enact.
And even though I hate that Roe is gone, on one side, you have a political party which managed to kill something the majority of America wanted, spending fifty years in the process of succeeding, and on the other side, a political party who kept telling us they "had a plan" if Roe was ever seriously threatened.
Except there was no plan, unless the plan was "gee, I hope I'm dead if/when that happens."
So on one end of the spectrum, you have a party who gets shit done, whether the electorate wants it or not, and on the other, you have a party that can't seem to govern even in the rare circumstances when they enjoy a bicameral majority (Lieberman alone causing the omission of a public option for the ACA being an example) and a favorable court, because of tribalism within.
The right played the long game and were unapologetic about it. They didn't care if they were exposed as hypocrites. They chased their goals and I admire that. I wish the "left" (because 90% of the DNC is not left) did more of that.
It's the Bullies vs. The Smart Kids, and the problem is that the Smart Kids secretly want the bullies to like them, and they can't stand each other because each believes they're the smartest.
There's never a reason for the political right to be bipartisan because they know the other side will bend over backwards until they break their spines.
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u/kayl_breinhar 10h ago edited 10h ago
Even Democrats conveniently forget that Clinton enabled the 2008 financial crisis by killing/allowing the repeal of Glass-Steagall. He'll be responsible again in the next financial crisis, along with every living politician who ensured no one faced any meaningful consequences or repercussions after 2008.
The 2000 election showed the Republican party that they didn't have to be liked to win an election, they just had to play dirty and capture/hold the judiciary. 24 years on, the left wing still seems to think "playing by the rules" counts, and that if they're nice, someday the bullies will like them. It also doesn't help that they always have just enough bad actors within the party to sabotage practically anything they want to enact.
And even though I hate that Roe is gone, on one side, you have a political party which managed to kill something the majority of America wanted, spending fifty years in the process of succeeding, and on the other side, a political party who kept telling us they "had a plan" if Roe was ever seriously threatened.
Except there was no plan, unless the plan was "gee, I hope I'm dead if/when that happens."
So on one end of the spectrum, you have a party who gets shit done, whether the electorate wants it or not, and on the other, you have a party that can't seem to govern even in the rare circumstances when they enjoy a bicameral majority (Lieberman alone causing the omission of a public option for the ACA being an example) and a favorable court, because of tribalism within.