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Trump Used "Palestinian" as a Slur. Biden and Debate Moderators Didn’t Say a Word.
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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As people- agreed.
As people with the potential to make world critical decisions that can shape the rest of mankinds history you should be interested.
You must be young, believing politics can change anything. :) It's charming.
The decisions of where the world is going is made almost exclusively by random strangers you will never vote for or even know their name. Trump or Biden or whatever are just figureheads for the public.
Trump and the Republicans chose who's sitting on the SCOTUS and let me tell you, they changed the lives of a ton of women. That's all politics, had Democrats been in power from 2016 forward that wouldn't have happened, the only way to change that would have been to elect them.
Either you're very young and trying to sound edgy or you're old and ignorant if you don't realize that everything is political and it's the politicians we elect that have a real say in the matter.
They had a 60-seat senate majority in the senate in 2008 and chose not to codify Roe. They twirled their thumbs while Republicans openly plotted to do exactly what they did, for decades. If Democrats had been in power in 2016, Republicans would have done the same thing in 2020, or 2024, or whenever they got power back.
I'm not saying don't vote Democrat, but electoral politics is not enough.
Thing is, there's no reason the US should ever have the Republicans in power in the first place so maybe if people actually took the time to realise their vote matters and that politicians have power, they would go out and make sure it's people that will actually improve their lives who get in power instead of going on the internet and say "Politicians don't do anything, it's done unknown person hiding in the shadows who make decisions."
They effectively had a 60-seat senate majority for only 3 months at the end of 2009. They had three months prior to that but had two seriously Ill Senators, Kennedy and Byrd, who were unavailable for votes. Even when they had 60, Byrd was barely available.
The real failure is that Obama ran an inspirational campaign in 2008, then turned to milquetoast centrism the second he took office. That led to suppressed voter enthusiasm and the Democrats got clobbered in the 2010 midterms.