• @silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    55 months ago

    That would require having both houses of Congress in favor of spending significant amounts of money. The Republicans control one, so it’s not happening this cycle.

    • @eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      15 months ago

      the same has been proven true when democrats control the house, the senate, and the presidency.

      • @silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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        15 months ago

        They actually did a whole lot when they had absolute-minimum majorities in 2020-2021. Just not on spending for housing — a couple of the Democratic Senators were bought off and opposed to it.

        • @eldavi@lemmy.ml
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          05 months ago

          a couple of the Democratic Senators were bought off and opposed to it

          as will happen the next time around we get leftists to vote for a center-right establishment candidate, but it’s also proven that that requires the far-right establishment candidate to be considerably worse than the center-right establishment candidate that we have now.

          i suspect that the democrats are going to lurch further to right if trump wins this election, as the latest polls suggest; making the difference between both establishment candidates harder to discern and, thus, guaranteeing that leftists will continue to have a weak showing on election day due to even more reduced meaningful outreach from either rightist candidate.

          • @silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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            15 months ago

            That’s not the underlying problem — it’s that we’ve got a Senate structured in a way which favors the right-wing parts of the country, and a population which isn’t voting for left-of-center candidates with the kind of overwhelming (think 75%) majority that it takes to reshape the country.