• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    And why does it have zero chance?

    Gerrymandering in the House and vote caging in the Senate, combined with a media that’s the mouthpiece of genocidal billionaires, guarantee Republicans a permanent advantage in Congress no matter how unpopular their leadership becomes.

    Imagine all Democrats stood together on this and they could get a few Reps over.

    Hardly have to image. That’s exactly what occurred in 2019 and 2021. All the Republicans who defected got primaried out and replaced with MAGAts. Dems who played footsie with your Liz Cheneys and Jeff Flakes ended up poisoning their own electoral campaigns and losing supporters. The horse trading between centrist Dems and Repubs backfired colossally, as the legislature could only do shit people hated, while Nancy and Chuck whined about needing bipartisanship to Beat Trump.

    Then Biden took office, Merrick Garland refused to press charges of any sort, and Trump scampered off Scott free to run again in four years.