Also I have to add that it’s really bizarre to the point that I’m wondering if you are real to claim that it’s the left that is neglecting the sorts of rights that you’d categorize under “identity politics” when you are actually supporting Dems running prolife candidates that lobby against reproductive rights.

Nope. Well therein lie our major ideological differences. I’m from a red state too. It has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and this especially affects POC. And the Reps- far right and brutal as they get- are attacking women and closing clinics and all sorts of health care. The appropriate…

“It’s a capitalist country founded on capitalism”? Compelling argument, Ayn. If you’re using the US as an example *in favor* of that system...dang. I legit don’t know what to say other than good luck to you.

There were three willing to vote against their party. Three. Three facing extreme push back and hatred from their party and even from some of their constituents. Those aren’t moderate republicans, those are outliers.

How many “moderate republicans” actually exist right now? The vast majority of Republicans voted for this shit bill. It would be nice if we could depend on more than three Republicans to make bipartisanship work.

The incompetence doesn’t matter if you very competently gerrymander the shit out of the country.

Really? Politics in the US has always, from the nation’s founding documents on, been about protecting and enriching ownership classes at the expense of productive classes. The makeup of those ownership classes has changed some, but the de facto power relations remain intact, with de jure rationalizations adjusted as…

GOP motto: “Fuck you, we got ours!”
Dem Motto: “Leave it fucked up, we want our turn!”

This is just so accurate. So many people have been played into believing the middle is actually the middle and not conservative. Hell the entire idea the democratic party are actually liberals is funny.

Compromise is only possible if both sides have weight in the decision process. Republicans are simply looking to share blame for whatever garbage they try to pass... and Democrats are rightfully saying “If you’re not talking about fixing the current system, or replacing it with something that provides the same…

The problem is when they do, far left economic “progressives” scream about Identity Politics!!! and how Dems are pandering and how those issues are “distractions” from the REALLY important economic stuff that we should care about because it impacts white working class men. I cannot total up all the comments I saw on…

The unfortunate thing about this is this really doesn’t feel like bipartisanship. The three that voted against their party - did they do so because they spoke with the Democrats and liked what they said? Or was it because they recognized the damage these agendas would do to their states?

Compromise only works when both sides are willing to approach the table in good faith.

Agreed, as long as the 8% isn’t about actual humans’ inalienable rights. I’m not down to compromise on abortion rights, LGBTQ+ protections, black lives matter, disbaility rights, or any of the other shit that Dems sometimes flee from. Dems better work as a coalition to protect those like they did the ACA.

I understand why they have to say it, but I wish I trusted Schumer to not actually pursue it. Americans claim they want bipartisanship, then they by and large hate the policies that bipartisanship produces. Then half of them go and vote for the cynical nihilists that caused the goddam problem in the first place and…

The problem is we’ve all seen this movie before. The Democratic establishment’s version of compromise is giving Republicans 90% of what they want and running on “Well, it’s not the worst possible outcome” which interests precisely nobody.

They agree on plenty of shit though. Like tax cuts for corporations, keeping monopolies on telecomms in tact, defunding public education in favor of charters and making sure they all get a raise.

I’d also like white supremacists to suddenly realize the ills of racism, and for all wasps to magically transform into unicorns that shit gold coins.

God, what is the altright even doing these days besides gnawing old crusts in a cave and rage-yanking it?

What’s left of the Alt Right that supports Trump won’t be happy about his shiny new toy’s comments about their Selfsucker In Chief.