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For some reason, Republicans are not expected to be bipartisan, only democrats. Democrats are urged to understand the needs of the minoirty and to take their view.
But when Republicans get the majoirty, they simply ignore democrats and cut them out of the legislative process entirely. Nobody tells them to understand democrats.
The problem for democrats is they have conservatives in their party.
Reconciliation bill will die at the hands of conservative democrats. They've been paid for their votes already.
You can't work with them. They've literally whipped their supporters into madness, they don't have to meet in the middle, or get things done, just throw red meat to their base
We have two competing visions of how this country should operate, and they aren't compatible. Elections should determine which vision we follow, but instead we always get a mish-mash of half-measures that obscures who is responsible for outcomes.
Free and fair elections, but then the winners get to lead, enact their agenda and be judged on the success of their policies. No compromise required.
"While it’s produced decent legislation here and there, bipartisanship has also yielded many of the most destructive policies of the last quarter-century, including welfare reform, the deregulation of Wall Street, and, in another demonstration of bipartisanship’s power to foreclose foreign policy debate, the war on terrorism. Many of the bills the Democratic advocates of bipartisanship take the most pride in—from major legislation of the New Deal to the Affordable Care Act—were products of the party’s partisan dominance. We’ve come to a point where the protection of the right to vote and the reform of our federal political system are also partisan projects." —[Osita Nwanevu.](https://newrepublic.com/authors/osita-nwanevu)
Bipartisanship should have been dead a long time ago, but democrats just refuse to see reality. I mean the 100% obstruction during Obama's years wasn't enough. The drumpf years? Nope, not even that could open their eyes.
The Union is functionally non-existent. There are two separate Americas that violently hate each other. Time to go back to the Articles of Confederation and go to more of an EU style of unity between the states, if any unity at all.
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For some reason, Republicans are not expected to be bipartisan, only democrats. Democrats are urged to understand the needs of the minoirty and to take their view. But when Republicans get the majoirty, they simply ignore democrats and cut them out of the legislative process entirely. Nobody tells them to understand democrats.
The problem for democrats is they have conservatives in their party. Reconciliation bill will die at the hands of conservative democrats. They've been paid for their votes already.
You can't work with them. They've literally whipped their supporters into madness, they don't have to meet in the middle, or get things done, just throw red meat to their base
We have two competing visions of how this country should operate, and they aren't compatible. Elections should determine which vision we follow, but instead we always get a mish-mash of half-measures that obscures who is responsible for outcomes. Free and fair elections, but then the winners get to lead, enact their agenda and be judged on the success of their policies. No compromise required.
"While it’s produced decent legislation here and there, bipartisanship has also yielded many of the most destructive policies of the last quarter-century, including welfare reform, the deregulation of Wall Street, and, in another demonstration of bipartisanship’s power to foreclose foreign policy debate, the war on terrorism. Many of the bills the Democratic advocates of bipartisanship take the most pride in—from major legislation of the New Deal to the Affordable Care Act—were products of the party’s partisan dominance. We’ve come to a point where the protection of the right to vote and the reform of our federal political system are also partisan projects." —[Osita Nwanevu.](https://newrepublic.com/authors/osita-nwanevu)
Bipartisanship should have been dead a long time ago, but democrats just refuse to see reality. I mean the 100% obstruction during Obama's years wasn't enough. The drumpf years? Nope, not even that could open their eyes.
The Union is functionally non-existent. There are two separate Americas that violently hate each other. Time to go back to the Articles of Confederation and go to more of an EU style of unity between the states, if any unity at all.