• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    My guy I’m saying it’s the goal in general not this election. It is the existential goal of anyone left of maga.

    You should review the electoral college maps compared to population, in addition to gerrymandering. Democrats actively seek to improve voter access, proper districting and so on. If those topics are continued and eventually successful, the republican party is exposed for the minority population that is is. Republicans cannot win in a “fair” fight.

    Lastly my point regarding judicial appointments is critical here: redistricting and voter access issues are won in the courtroom. Reducing conservative appointments is absolutely possible with a Harris win.

    Delusional is thinking all this happens in one term, while ignoring the backslide of progress a trump term would mean.

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      16 days ago

      it’s the goal in general not this election.

      One Party Rule is the goal of both parties, and equally unattainable for similar reasons.

      Democrats actively seek to improve voter access, proper districting and so on

      They do not, as evidenced by the failure to advance DC Statehood when they had a majority.

      my point regarding judicial appointments is critical here

      Republicans will control the Senate at the end of this election. Harris will not shift the balance of power under these conditions.

      thinking all this happens in one term

      Do you think this is the first term Dems and GOPers have been struggling for power?

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        16 days ago

        I do not. Why would I?

        Trump has made judicial appointments a key goal of his first term, so it stands to reason he’d do the same now. Avoiding that is progress, even if Harris gets zero.

        Edit: to avoid playing nickel and dime debate club:

        The democratic party is wildly imperfect and often ineffectual. I’m not satisfied, and I’m not cheerleading for them.

        Harris may also be wildly imperfect and often ineffectual. That’s still better than the massive equality, stability and integrity sink trump represents and that’s what I’m arguing for.

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          16 days ago

          Trump has made judicial appointments a key goal of his first term

          McConnell made it a key goal. That’s why he blocked Garland for 10 months under Obama.

          Schumer has not. That’s why he let a SCOTUS nomination fall into Trump’s hands a mere 10 weeks before Biden took office.

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            16 days ago

            Please note I had a late edit that should head off this back and forth on specifics.