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In reply to the discussion: ACA credits people are accusing Chuck Schumer of abandoning would not even exist without his leadership [View all]walkingman
(10,088 posts)we take the House or not. If the people think that the Democratic Party represent their interests more than the GOP, then they have to participate in the mid-term elections and it will happen. If they don't and either vote for the GOP or simply don't vote then it won't happen. It is really that simple.
The recent elections have shown that voters do not like what is going on now. This is just year one of this shitshow so it is naive to think that it will change unless we change who is in charge. We can't change the past but if we take the house and control the spending it will stop a lot of this chaos.
There is no reason to think that otherwise things will change - it might not be everything we want, I wish that our caucus had held out because I think the GOP would have blinked, but that is water under the bridge. We have to get over it and realize it is in our hands, nobody is going to come save us.
I think we should have learned one thing if nothing else - we have to unify if we are going to win and unless we win there is absolutely nothing we can do to change the direction of our government. The last 50 years have shown that if we don't participate (half of America doesn't even vote) things will just get worse and worse until at some point we might not have a choice in the matter. ☮❤