I don’t support genocide. I recognize the unfortunate reality that either Democrats or Republicans are going to be running the country right now. Maybe one day we can get better options, it is not an option here and now.

The way I see it, Democrats are convincible, Republicans aren’t. Republicans hate nonwhites and Muslims, Democrats don’t. That makes Democrats the better option.

You and I both know why medical costs are inflated. It’s not just greed. It is to pay for all the people who go in for emergency care but can’t pay and the people who go bankrupt and don’t pay. We are all subsidizing each other’s care one way or another and I agree it’s stupid that we just don’t have universal healthcare. The thing is, til we get there, the more people who are covered, the cheaper it gets for everyone (or it should if insurance companies don’t just pocket the difference).

You don’t just throw your hands up in the air and give up because you can’t return a patient to perfect health, right? Sometimes you have to accept a less than perfect outcome is all that is available right here and now.

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act included a cap of $35 a month for all Medicare part D plans and limits part B copay for insulin to $35 a month. Just the part D portion covered 3.3 million diabetic patients. It’s not perfect, but it’s a step closer. It’s harm reduction. The bipartisan INSULIN Act which would cut the price for everyone was introduced in March and has been held back from a vote by the Republican leadership.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4189/text

Tell me honestly if you really think if Harris had been president we would have been “killing brown people” in Iran right now.

And there’s a party whip and the power to take representatives off committees or remove their access to party infrastructure.

The whip can not take tepreststives off committees. The decision must go through the party’s internal Steering Committee or be voted on and approved by a resolution of the full House chamber.

The Speaker of the House has the authority to appoint and remove members from temporary select or conference committees at any time.

The whip can only make threats and offer new committee positions.

It hasn’t been useful for him because he appointed a parliamentarian who does what he wants.

Elizabeth McDonough has been parliamentarian since 2012

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_MacDonough

The literal only use any government institution is to enact the will of the entity that controls it.

Unless that will breaks already established laws. If the majority wants to reinstate slavery, they shouldn’t be able to just ignore the 13th amendment and the essential civil rights of millions of people.

No, not really.

It’s more complicated than you are presenting it. There are hundreds of representatives each with their own motivation on every different vote.

Yeah, sometimes they vote against the will of the voters (Israel). Other times, they can’t do the will of the voters because of the rules. For example budget reconciliation can be used to pass financial-only laws with a simple majority that would otherwise need a higher vote threshold to pass. The parliamentarian will say no if they try and squeeze something non-financial through that way.

Even Trump hasn’t been willing to fire the parliamentarian and blow up that system. It has a purpose.

You want to throw out the whole Constitution and start over? Fine. How many dead are worth it to you? There Conservatives are sure as hell not going to give up power without a fight and they are willing to kill to keep it.

Hoppin John

https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/classic-hoppin-john-recipe

Don’t let the number of ingredients scare you. It’s basically just bacon or ham, black eyed peas, and veggies over rice.

This version says to strain the cooking liquid (step 4). Sometimes I like leaving it in and eating it as more of a stew with cornbread (no rice).

If you think any of those explanations aren’t valid excuses, then you don’t actually know how the government functions. Sure everything is easier when a dictator like Trump does it because he doesn’t follow the law.

Half measures add up if you keep doing them. If you go half way 3 times you are 87.5% of the way there. You know what I mean?

I don’t think we should refuse to help people unless we fix the underlying problem. It’s not like we should have waited to end slavery until we eliminated racism, right? Expanding healthcare to another 50-60 million makes a hell of a lot of difference to those people. I would say that is better “in a way that matters”.

You’re acting like Obama didn’t endorse more drone strikes than any president in history.

That we know of. Trump stopped reporting the numbers, so I wouldn’t bet on that record holding.

Trump promises to immediately add $1.7 trillion to national debt immediately upon being elected.

Many argued it was immoral for black people and white people to drink from the same fountains too. That’s the problem with using morals as a standard.

It’s simply choosing the least objectionable of the two options.

Of the states that have adopted election reform, nearly all are Democratic run (Alaska being an exception but they are weird). Meanwhile Republicans have actively passed laws to disenfranchise as many people as possible.

Between the ACA, Medicare expansions, pre-existing condition coverage requirements, VA funding, and medication price reduction, Democrats have ensured that tens of millions of Americans have healthcare. Republicans have done their best to strip this away.

Democrat states usually do not have “right to work” laws that weaken union membership.

Democrats heavily pushed for a move away from fossil fuels, subsidized the expansion of electric car use, increased protected lands, and strengthened environmental laws. Republicans have undone most of this.

Democratic support of Israel is rapidly waning under public pressure. Republicans have not weakened their stance an inch.

Democrats funded and supported international aid across the world to generate soft power. Republicans have pulled this back and replaced it with threats and military force.

Dems are not perfect, but they are closer to your ideal by an immense amount.

Only in the most broad sense, i.e. control of the government. What they want to do with that power is very very different (especially if you are nonwhite, LGBT, or a woman).

With the KPD effectively banned and the SPD violently suppressed, 1933 was in no way a fair election. I can’t say that it represents anything about how those parties related to one another. There had been no clear parliamentary majority for the past 3 years, so it was clear to everyone that a coalition was needed.

The Christian Center Party as a potential ally was certainly hampered by the Nazi rhetoric of LGBT people as “degenerate” and a threat to the birthrate.

Morals are relative. The law is not (at least ideally).

Propaganda can have multiple purposes. It also drove a wedge between the far left and the center left. The same goes for the Nazis attacking LGBT people (sound familiar)?

We should absolutely push the Democrats to do better and support DSA and other farther left candidates. Short term though, they are the best chance to wrest control of the government back from the MAGA fascists.

There is a reason however that in such cases the law differentiates between murder and accessory to murder. The latter carries less severe penalties. They are simply not the same thing and one is objectively worse than the other.

Yeah, fascists never use propaganda to twist the public’s beliefs to their benefit. /S