• krolden@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Then why have things been getting so much worse over the past 50 years even with plenty of blue boys and gals getting put in office?

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      What about the good that has happened?

      Do you think gay marriage would have been protected?

      Access to birth control secured?

      Anti-sodomy laws getting struck down?

      The Affordable Care Act passing?

      Disability rights?

      Do you think any of those things would have happened if Republicans been able to seize power and hold it unopposed over the last 50 years? No. None of those things would have happened. Those things happened because people further left than them got elected, the lesser of 2 evils won some elections.

      Don’t let perfect be the enemy of better.

    • Lightor@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ummm because nuance is a thing that exists. Global conditions, etc. I mean the guy in power during the pandemic saying we should inject bleach or nuke incoming hurricanes sure as shit helped things be worse.

    • AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Because Republicans? We’ve not had plenty of blues elected. We’ve seen abysmal showings from the left and republicans being elected across the nation who are setting out to destroy people’s rights.