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W_HAMILTON

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8. You seem to confuse "fighting like the pukes do it" with an understanding of what is and what is not possible.
Thu May 22, 2025, 02:19 PM
May 22

As long as we had Manchin and Sinema to deal with, we were not going to get rid of the filibuster.

And the smart and ACTUAL progressive-minded ones around here knew not to pull "a pox on all of you!" and slur Democrats as a whole for the positions of just a handful of senators on our side because that just makes it more difficult to eliminate the filibuster because it deludes those that don't know better into not voting because they are led to believe that Democrats are the problem when, in fact, it is just a handful of those that caucus with us that were/are the problem.

And when Democrats don't win elections, getting rid of the filibuster to pass progressive policy becomes more and more of a pipe dream.

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