I’m about done here, but I’ll take the bait this once. Republicans didn’t do shit until we stupidly voted them back into power. Trump was on his way to jail until millions of people who voted for Biden found some dumb ass reason not to vote for Harris. Every horrible thing the Supreme Court has done for the past 10 years would have gone the other way if the “But her emails” crowd had held their noses and voted for the admittedly horrible Hillary in 2016. If 1 percent of Florida Nader fans in 2000 had voted for Gore, we could have had someone who wrote a book about environmental issues instead of someone who got rich exploiting oil and gas. Obama wasn’t perfect of course but he did get healthcare access for millions of people who didn’t have it before and was working on other things that would have made things better until the 2010 “shellacking” swept democrats out of power and neutralized the rest of his presidency, just like what happened to the very flawed but better than republicans Bill Clinton in 1994.

I’m farther left than ANY of the democrats I’ve mentioned and it sucks we have to settle. But the things some people insist don’t matter baffles me. Truly, what would you have Senator Merkely do? Go nuclear and shut down the government to stop benefit cuts? Done. It’s not accomplishing anything either, because trump is a lawless president and the republicans in congress refuse to stop him. He just keeps paying ICE and uses the so called shut down to defund things he doesn’t like. This is possible because we voted republicans back into power.

The problem is always republicans. The only way to stop it is unity. Instead we splinter. Nice.