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[โ€“] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You are embracing fascism as long as it's your guys.

That's the problem.

There's no winning. Democrats embrace fascism, everyone loses. Democrats play by the rules, Democrats lose.

It's not for lack of trying. Congress has been too split for too long, Republicans care more about open-carrying to committee meetings than to get anything actually done. They get to make the Democrats look bad by dragging their heels and voting no on anything they bring up. And that makes them heroes, somehow.

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

No, fascism isn't when you break rules to be effective in government.

Would you call FDR a fascist?

Republicans care more about open-carrying to committee meetings than to get anything actually done

So go around them. Did you learn nothing from Obama giving the republicans half of the discretionary budget to appeal to their better nature, which the republicans voted against anyway? Or the compromised republican healthcare plan, Obamacare? West wing-brained libs claimed this was a stroke of genius, because everyone would see how civil and reasonable the dems were by reaching across the aisle.

And then the dems got blown the fuck out in 2010 because republicans saw their representatives fighting for them, and dem voters saw their representatives unilaterally passing republican policy despite having a super majority in the house and senate.