Honestly agree with her on the first point, the dems are just using this as an excuse to grab more power, and if we’ve learned anything for the past couple decades they won’t use that power to actually help people.
The second response is dumb though, the answer should be it’s just 5 seats in an election that should be an easy slam dunk for the opposition. It’s a midterm election, they’re the opposition, Republicans have an extremely small majority going into it, and trump is very unpopular. If the dems gave any sort of positive platform to help people they could easily take a huge majority. They don’t want to do that so they’re just gonna cheat like the Republicans and get even more complacent with their new easy districts where they’ll run shitty corporate California dems like Newsom wants.
The dems need to be afraid of losing if they’re ever going to change and this sort of shit just takes away that fear.
the dems are a lost cause and won’t change
OK, so we shouldn’t give them more power to suppress popular movements. They aren’t just going to use this to suppress the conservatives, odds are they’ll be “forced” to put conservatives in progressive districts and then they’ll say they have to run a centrist for “safety”.
Honestly agree with her on the first point, the dems are just using this as an excuse to grab more power, and if we’ve learned anything for the past couple decades they won’t use that power to actually help people.
The second response is dumb though, the answer should be it’s just 5 seats in an election that should be an easy slam dunk for the opposition. It’s a midterm election, they’re the opposition, Republicans have an extremely small majority going into it, and trump is very unpopular. If the dems gave any sort of positive platform to help people they could easily take a huge majority. They don’t want to do that so they’re just gonna cheat like the Republicans and get even more complacent with their new easy districts where they’ll run shitty corporate California dems like Newsom wants.
The dems need to be afraid of losing if they’re ever going to change and this sort of shit just takes away that fear.
OK, so we shouldn’t give them more power to suppress popular movements. They aren’t just going to use this to suppress the conservatives, odds are they’ll be “forced” to put conservatives in progressive districts and then they’ll say they have to run a centrist for “safety”.