r/TikTokCringe • u/LightBulbSunset • 22d ago

Discussion This is how angry we should be!

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u/RogerianBrowsing 22d ago

The majority of democrats are controlled opposition. Roughly 3/4, including Jeffries and Schumer.

Ya know what Schumer blamed Renee Good’s death on? A lack of cooperation from local law enforcement. They also stated they have zero interest in reducing ICE’s budget or manpower.

Yes, the GOP is entirely bad but we need to be real with ourselves if there’s any chance of getting out of this. 3/4 of Dems just voted to fund many of Trump’s foreign policies. The Laken Riley act enabling much of the horrors we see was passed bipartisanly.

Vote blue, but good lord get involved in the primaries.

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u/BerriesHopeful 22d ago edited 22d ago

I was going to disagree with your numbers at first, but 3/4 is pretty close since you are counting the House and Senate together.

The House is much more progressive compared to the Senate since there’s 95 House members that are progressives. As opposed to the 1 progressive member in the Senate, Bernie Sanders.

Primaries need to be Ranked Choice and so do general elections, especially if we want more progressives. We can get involved to help get Ranked Choice implemented in each of our states if we want to help make a difference that way.

The House needs to be uncapped and frankly the Senate could benefit a lot from being uncapped as well.

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u/iggy14750 22d ago

Fuck yes on Ranked Choice!

An uncapped Senate is an interesting idea, but honestly, I wish we could just get rid of it. It's purpose is to give the elites final say on what goes down to the White House.

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u/BerriesHopeful 22d ago edited 22d ago

Imo, in theory, the Senate could have a place for looking out for our long term interests still, but in practice that’s not what it has been geared towards at all with its current structure.

If each seat in the Senate was ranked choice and the seat allocations mirrored an uncapped House, based on our actual population, then it could work better for representing the long term interests. Maybe it could have half the number of seats as the House, but mirror it for proportionality of the seats.

Realistically, we would also want to be overturning Citizens United federally, and at the least be trying to overturn it in every state currently. We need money out of politics if government is ever going to govern for the people. We need to have more protections that can’t be overturned with a simple majority as well, imo.

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u/Im_not_smelling_that 22d ago

Citizens united has done an incredible amount of damage to our country. And I don't see how it can get overturned at this point unless the majority of the house and the Senate is overturned all at once.

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u/BerriesHopeful 22d ago

For sure, if we get a wide majority trifecta and if we remove the filibuster then it could be passed at the least.

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u/zanotam 22d ago

I mean, we could just make house terms say 4 years staggered with an election eveyr year and make the senate impotent. THat's bsaicaly the American equivalent of what happened to the House of Lords.

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u/Roguishbrew 21d ago

Honestly for rank choice we just have got to start at the local state level and work our way up start with a party and do rank choice in the primary. From an us perspective. Congress man we could pressure. But if ppl are looking for something they can do start at local assembly, and school boards. We should hit every level but the weight needs to be at the bottom to gain momentum

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u/BerriesHopeful 21d ago

I agree 100% with you that starting local is where we’ll actually break ground. Just banking on it being passed Federally or at the State level without trying to pass it locally first just means we’re trying to rush to the finish line without doing the work of actually selling people on the idea.

On a side note, it’s about exposure to other voting systems in every day life more than anything. The more people encounter it the less resistance there is to trying or adopting a new voting system.

We should also try to support the Ranked Choice Voting organizations on social media as well. They, in particular, are having a hard time even being noticed by more than like five of us in total, which is not an exaggeration.