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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.
Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.
“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”
Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.
Americans, pay attention. Both parties are selling you out. This is evidence. Republicans, their approach, while brutal, is refreshingly honest.
Democrats merely pretend they care about you. They don’t. They, like the Republicans, only wish to continue playing the game at your expense. If they actually cared about you, Rove v. Wade would have been enshrined as a Constitutional right ages ago, rather than used as a political football.
Time to create REAL alternatives for yourselves.
Primary them by all means but not supporting an alternative against the current gov is supporting the fascist status quo.
Need to support AOC and Bernie to overall that party while the stupid FPTP system exists.
Catch 22. A vote for either party is also a vote for FPTP because neither of them want to get rid of it since they both benefit from it.
Which is why you primary the current reps. Of BOTH parties.
I can’t vote in both primaries.
Of course not. Pick the one that’s most likely going to get elected. Or if that’s R and you can’t bring yourself to be involved in R politics, primary the D.
The point is that this isn’t something that should be limited to a single party.
Believe it or not, not everyone on Lemmy who’s in the US votes D across the board.
Want to tell me the playbook for how FPTP goes while avoiding one of the main parties.
Yeah, because Congress can just crank Constitutional amendments out effortlessly, no problem, right?
They had a chance with all the majority they needed under one of Obamas terms and they didnt bring it to the floor.
A constitutional amendment requires approval by ²⁄₃ of each house of congress & ratification by ³⁄₄ of states. Can you link to a resource stating when they had the supermajorities in congress to do that?