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Seeing a lot of this lately... (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You’re literally using tactics developed by fascists in your argument here.

[citation needed]

Somehow, the president is little more than a “powerless cheerleader” if we’re talking about Dems but “the end of democracy” if talking about Trump/Republicans. Both can’t be true.

They're over simplifying the problem. Trump is a cheerleader for fascism inside of the United States, a vote for Trump is a vote for every Republican in congress to be emboldened to do Trump like things (and even if they don't agree with them, fear their own removal).

There's certainly a different aspect for international issues and relations as well. However, ultimately, congress has all the power in this country. If Democrats had solid super majorities in the house and senate, or there was a super majority that was willing to side with Democrats to protect from Trump, there would be very little reason to worry.

In fact, we wouldn't even be having this discussion because congress would have held Trump accountable and convicted him during the impeachment hearings preventing him from holding office.

Obama and the Dems chose this over any sane single-payer option to allegedly “appease Republicans”

[Citation needed] see the majorities at the time, they could not get single payer past the majority of the Democrats in congress let alone Republicans. There was not a sufficiently progressive majority.

In another attempt to appease Republicans, they allowed them to steal Obamas SCOTUS appointment while also allowing Trump to steal what should have been Biden’s SCOTUS appointment

They "allowed" that to happen? What could they have done?

They didn't have control of congress.

I'd go on but I don't have time to say "they didn't have control of congress" all day. If you want something done in this country, you need congress (either via super majority) or via a slim majority and an aligned president (and even then in the latter case, results may very due to personal votes/perspectives of representatives).