Why don't some of you get that if you give something away for free, no one's going to buy or trade fair value for it? "Y'all just trying to make the Republicans win." We're trying to see if the democrats are going to do something in return for our vote. In a negotiation, sometimes you walk away from the table until the other party meets your demands. It's basic business and human nature. The only time someone will pay for something that's free is when they actually care about the person, and well, we see how that has played out. Even I will support a project i've pirated, just so that I'm not taking advantage of someone that did something for me. It's good karma to not take advantage of people.
Sometimes negotiations don't go well. Sometimes people cave. That's what y'all did this go round. Hopefully next time, the democrats cave.
On the topic, that's an excessive punishment. This would be a good opportunity for Biden to pardon her. There. I'm the first person that posted an actual solution instead of using the situation to play petty games.
Have you pondered the Supreme Court recently.
They have like 20 more years as a 6-3 conservative majority.
If the politics would have cut differently and we would have been able to keep it majority liberal, then you might not see them overturn Roe or whatever deviltry they come up with.
If we sit back and watch, all kinds of changes will be made that affect you directly
Different elected officials in this woman's area may have had a very different outcome here.
You think we don't understand the concept of putting pressure on the Democratic politicians by not voting.
But we do understand that. What you don't get is: them several years of just letting the Repubs do whatever they like may result in us not ever being able to use voting as a tool again in the future
You think letting Trump win in 24 will have a positive effect. But in reality they will just dismantle the voting mechanism altogether.
And here you go in 2028
"Okay NOW I'm ready to vote cause MAGA ain't so Great after all"
By then it's too late.
This perfect world where you don't budge from principle is in your mind only. The real universe requires pragmatism. Being realistic.