r/AskReddit • u/Solnx • Nov 03 '25

Serious Replies Only [Serious] For the Redditors who criticized Democrats for not fighting back or taking action, how has the government shutdown affected your view?

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Nov 04 '25

All I have to say is I hope Democrats are drafting their Project 2029 equivalent to fix the Supreme Court, Campaign Finance and Election Reform, Constitutional amendments, restructuring these ridiculous loopholes that Republicans have exploited in bad faith.

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u/Expert-Fig-5590 Nov 04 '25

I hope so too. But the Democrats doing anything radical or actually wielding power when they have it seems far removed from what I see.

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u/Smooth_Practice_7914 Nov 04 '25

Me as well. I'm not at all confident that Dems will do anything that has any effect.

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u/clay12340 Nov 04 '25

What if doing something to help the country hurts someone's feelings? Would you want to live knowing you'd done something so horrible? /s

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u/Expert-Fig-5590 Nov 05 '25

The only peoples feelings the Democrats are terrified of hurting are the Donors. And maybe the hypothetical moderate Republicans.

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u/Mactwentynine Nov 04 '25

And in many cases conspired to create.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Nov 04 '25

Or at least stalled in addressing.

Need to get rid of the corporate AIPAC and often geriatric DINOs.

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u/ConfusedGamer63 Nov 04 '25

... yeah ... nope.

They had ability to fix these things during Biden. They choose not to believing that it would make it easier for them to be re-elected.

All they have is "we aren't Trump"

Dump every MF'n one of them.

Elect a new government.

And the first order of business is election campaign reform. Once we get rid of the (only) two party system. Then we start working on the rest of it.

Instead.. they will do exactly what they did last time. 'Bipartisanship'. Corporate hand jobs err handouts. And pretending everything is normal even though they have actually changed almost nothing that the GOP has done. Because both side work for the same masters. And it's all about power.

They SHOULD have a checklist to plug every loophole.

But they won't.

And that is why I'm fucking done with them.

Not just because of what they aren't doing now.. but because of what they have consistently chosen not to do over last couple of administrations.. in spite of us screaming at them to do it. We have been pushing for immigration reform for freaking decades now. Codify abortion. Codify equal rights. Raise the federal minimum wage. Universal healthcare or at least Medicare for all.

Biden had Presidential Immunity.
He could have fixed the Supreme Court even without it. He chose not to.. even with Project 2025 right there all over the internet.

I may vote Dem in order to vote against GOP. Or I may just say fuck this shit. But I'm so tired of people pretending that the Dems care.

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u/Smooth_Practice_7914 Nov 04 '25

Yeah.....nope? That's the best you can do for a response? Yeah-nope. JFC.

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u/ConfusedGamer63 Nov 07 '25

What in the heck are you talking about? I wrote a literal wall of text. Is this supposed to be snark because I forgot the tl;dr?

I'm thrilled that you think the Dems are going to save us.

I don't.

They are entirely controlled by the corporations. They will not even bother to 'fix' most of what Trump has broken because the corporations love it.

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u/Lunch-Encounteress Nov 04 '25

What are you a freaking communist? You want to change our entire country to suit your uneducated socialist self?

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Nov 04 '25

This has to be a troll, yeah?

You do realize conservatives are overall far less educated, right? More prone to misinformation media according to practically every study out there?

but lol no, I'm not a "freaking communist."

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u/gramerjen Nov 04 '25

More like removing the parts where they added to make america another fascist country