Because the government is a terrorist state that sponsors genocide and the branches of that terrorist state sponsor terrorism globally.
“UWU the dems are just so powerless UWU!”
Didn’t the dems control the house and the senate for like 2 years after Biden was first elected? Which they used to do approximately jack and shit?
“Yeah but but Biden couldn’t do anything because some democratic senators were going against the party!”
It’s not like there’s a party whip whose entire purpose is making sure congress falls in line with the rest of the party, especially if the party currently holds the executive. Biden definitely couldn’t have threatened republican-voting senators with pulling their campaign funding or endorsements or brought their kids up on corruption charges.
Sorry, we just had to save all that political capital for getting Jill Stein off the ballot in Rhode Island.
“Get over yourself and elect a moderate Dem!”
5 minutes later
“We regret to inform you that moderate Dems are obstructing progressive reform”
“You can just Primary consevative dems!”
Attempts to primary
“No! don’t you see you’re damaging our election chances with an untested candidate and anti-democratic rhetoric!”
dems change rules to prevent an effective primary ever again
Ah, but you need 60 seats in the senate to bypass the filibuster. And even though there are procedural workarounds, you need the blessing of the parlimentarian, a sacred and infallible office where it would be braking the sacred norms to use our powers to ignore them or replace them. /s
