The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a case on the abortion pill mifepristone has unnerved Republicans from swing districts.The court's decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade limited GOP gains in last year's midterm elections and is expected to again play a major role in next year's elec...
They aren’t tone deaf, but I do understand why establishment Democrats have a hard time understanding it.
You see, they have an actual ideological political project with goals, and they work to achieve those concrete goals, no matter what.
The festing sore that is our post-labor movement Democratic party doesn’t have a larger political project other than “maintain power and influence”, which is why they proactively work to co-opt or shutdown any insurgent and ideological left members.
The Democrats can’t understand why conservatives would enact policies that may hurt their influence, because they don’t understand that the end goal of politics is supposed to be policies, and not just maintaining your own personal fiefdoms of power and insider trading tips.
The Republicans’ only agenda is to hurt people and further enrich the wealthy, and you say the Democrats’ only goal is power? Stopping the Republicans is a worthy goal all by itself.
There’s this trope “only Democrats have agency”. It’s where we look at Democrats for failing to do things or making choices, but Republicans are just like automatic forces of nature. We don’t hold them accountable for their actions.
It’s not that Republicans are not responsible for their actions. The issue is they can’t be influenced to be less evil. They’re the Borg, the Daleks, or Sauron’s orc hordes. All we can do with them is try to defeat them.
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