If we’re going that far back let’s go back further to when the Democrats had a super majority under Obama. They could have codified Roe v. Wade then, but they didn’t. Instead they passed a Republican healthcare plan from the 90’s (requiring citizens to buy insurance while leaving it up to states on how to actually do that) and completely turned away from demands for a single-payer system.
We don’t blame Democrats for the harm Republicans do. We blame them for caving to them at every turn and doing nothing to fix the damage when they have the opportunity. Not to mention the harm they themselves do (supporting/funding genocide, Biden’s crime bill from the early 90’s that helped create the modern culture of policing, Kamala campaigning to keep nonviolent weed offenders in prison after legalization, etc.)
“But ______ is so much worse” is a worse and worse argument the more the political ratchet moves to the right. Reps drag us right Dems keep us from moving left.
If we’re going that far back let’s go back further to when the Democrats had a super majority under Obama. They could have codified Roe v. Wade then, but they didn’t. Instead they passed a Republican healthcare plan from the 90’s (requiring citizens to buy insurance while leaving it up to states on how to actually do that) and completely turned away from demands for a single-payer system.
We don’t blame Democrats for the harm Republicans do. We blame them for caving to them at every turn and doing nothing to fix the damage when they have the opportunity. Not to mention the harm they themselves do (supporting/funding genocide, Biden’s crime bill from the early 90’s that helped create the modern culture of policing, Kamala campaigning to keep nonviolent weed offenders in prison after legalization, etc.)
“But ______ is so much worse” is a worse and worse argument the more the political ratchet moves to the right. Reps drag us right Dems keep us from moving left.