"Making matters worse, if Trump is elected this year he could veto any congressional attempt to reverse such a disastrous ruling of the Court by passing a law guaranteeing same sex marriage rights."

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[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

“Making matters worse, if Trump is elected this year he could veto any congressional attempt to reverse such a disastrous ruling of the Court by passing a law guaranteeing same sex marriage rights.”

Call me crazy and naive but there is a small part of me that thinks the democrats can peel off enough republicans to make that happen. There are a lot of pink districts/states with GOP in their seats that would instantly lose their next election if they did that.

[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

LMAO no. They absolutely cannot. The Repubs have basically deadlocked Congress now in their ideological war. Dems won't get any Repubs to join. But it's moot because Dems won't even bother. Even if they had a supermajority trifecta, they'd still kowtow and refuse to pass a bill without bipartisan support (like they always do). And we even have examples already. Congress knew for over a month that Roe was about to fall and did literally nothing to stop it. And in the time since, Dems haven't said a single word about it or done anything to codify reproductive rights at the federal level.

[–] thedevisinthedetails@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

The dems haven't had a supermajority trifecta in over a decade and even that was just a few months and included a few independents. They passed massive legislation in this short time too. So it's time to get over it and learn how our government has worked at every other moment in time.

[–] agegamon@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

For all of our sakes I hope you're right.

Then again, underestimating regressive politicians leaves us with a massive blind spot. You can bet they're counting on that while they lie to literally anyone who will listen about how "evil" progressives are.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Regrettably, it seems like most mainstream Democrats are happy being the anti-Republican Party. They've been happy to try to play centrist or even center right for the last 30 years on a great many issues.

Are enough of them willing to step up on this issue? I wouldn't bet on it.