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Democrats Are Reviewing a Plan to Investigate Corporate America
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Do they have good people looking into it? The best? Really, seriously, nobody has ever seen people this good at investigating before because they're gonna find all the corruption?
Don't tell me about plans you hope to have, show me the fucking results.
No. It’s their headline plan and byline to repeat while they DO NOTHING for 2 years, keeping the Republican seats warm in the meantime.
My partner told me in the same sentence as the blue tsunami news. I chose to hope. That’s gone now. Reality has taken over.
It’s going to be another crushing 2 years if the progressives don’t fight the Dem old guard. It’ll just be a game music off crush, quieter this time.
So look, I'm ambivalent right now.
Blues are incoming. This is better as at least things will stop getting actively, aggressively worse since Reds won't have full free reign. I will take what victories I can right now.
However, your entire point remains entirely undisturbed. I don't believe they will actually do much. What keeps me ambivalent versus bitter is that nothing has had a chance to happen yet. They haven't been sworn in, nothing but words have been thrown around yet. Talk all you want, I'll believe it when I see it.
People didn't believe AOC was gonna be anything. Now I'm not glazing her, but those same people also predicted she would fail immediately. All I said was she has to make it through her first term before we can really take a measure of the girl, and look where we are now. Those folks were wrong and she is a voice that people have no choice but to reckon with one way or another as she has a following and sway within it. Like her or not, those are facts.
There is a glimmer here, and I think what we can expect from the voting public of this generation is the genuine desire for not the same old shit. That's why we got Trump in the first place; he wasn't the same old fart who made empty promises. He came in with passion and common speech rather than boilerplate PC phrases and promised to change the status quo. Monkey's Paw activated on that one for those who voted Trump, but I am seeing that in the current vote as well.
Again, I've got no crystal ball to see how it will turn out, but the hope I once had has somehow limped its way out of the rubble of this administration. Doesn't mean it'll get very far, it just isn't dead yet, y'know?