@April_Z since the days of newt, rove & murdoch & enormous dark money hauls, and the appeal to majority of americans of structural societal change, republicans have voted in lockstep. whether through real conviction, fear, threats or cash, if they had the majority, the votes were an ironclad guarantee. let’s go back to the dems. remember manchin & sinema sabotaging most of biden’s agenda? or aoc et al trying to keep any environmental bill from being voted on unless it met all dsa demands? /2/

@April_Z fortunately, pelosi can get her bills passed. i don’t know how she does it. ideally, a dem pres, house & senate should produce results. once upon a time, they did. now we’re in a terrifyingly new world. will voting dem up & down the ballot save us & improve our country & world? at this point, it’s a maybe. we might be too damaged. but we’ll never know if we don’t at least give it a shot. /end/

@barbaraedelman We've been giving it a shot for 50 years. I'm a 49 year old progressive - as in, way left of the est. dems. I've watched our rights being chipped away, our standard of living crumbling, our costs of living go through the roof. The rights that have FINALLY be giving the LGTBQIA+ community and others are now on the chopping block.

And now the Dems are using their most recent failure to try to get me to give them money...for failing me again.

@April_Z i hear you loud & clear. i donate to local food pantries, domestic violence housing & animal shelters, not politicians.