• astronaut_sloth
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    11 months ago

    I’d say the Democrats should extend an olive branch at the price of heavy concessions, or try to get a few Republicans to vote for Jeffries. Unfortunately, neither concessions or getting someone to cross the aisle will happen, so…guess we’re back to square one.

    EDIT: Why the downvotes? Literally, I said the Republicans wouldn’t go for something that is workable and potentially advantageous to the Democrats.

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      11 months ago

      The Republicans are completely untrustworthy. The party has built itself on the idea of “owning the libs” which has killed all compromises.

      The only olive branch the Dems should offer is “we’ll keep things functioning if you abstain from the next speaker vote”. They don’t need anything else. The majority of Dems aren’t the socialist communists Republicans like to fearmonger over

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        11 months ago

        That’s exactly my point. Their olive branch should come with rule changes, committee re-shufflings, etc. to get the Democrats in a more powerful, better position. But like you said, the Republicans won’t go for that because they’re intransigent, so…back to square one.

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      11 months ago

      You’re getting downvotes for suggesting the Democrats should be the ones reaching out. No. That’s on the Republicans. The most we should be doing is saying “we’re voting for our choice. If you want to end the madness, vote with us.” That’s it.