The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.
Touche, though passing a constitutional amendment as the method is a pipe dream, and you’ll have to forgive me for not really believing they mean it given how many of them are completely governed by special interests.
They don’t get credit for something they did 15 years ago and have completely backed off on.
Ok why didn’t that do that when they controlled the house? Oh yeah because it’s something they only do to drive engagement and never act on when they actually have the power to.
Bodily autonomy was a protected right by the 14th Amendment as of the Roe V. Wade decision until in June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned it. After it was overturned the DNC had control of the house until the 2022 midterm election but only narrowly held a 50:50 Senate WITH HELP OF CAUCUSING IND. Since abortion is a core policy stance for Republicans they would fillibuster it at ever opportunity and last I checked the 48 seats they had, the most they have held in over a decade, is less than 60 needed to bypass fillibuster. The DNC could change senate rules to remove fillibuster, but then the GOP still held more seats and the fact that Independents Manchin and Sinema are both the real moderates while Angus King does his own libertarian thing means they might have sided with the GOP on key legislatures, putting us in an even worse position than we are right now.
Abortion rights (and everything else that was a constant campaign point for both the rs and ds) were hanging by a thread on supreme court decisions for years and years. They had decades to actually legislate them.
Perhaps if they had changed the filibuster rules in 2010 they could have done something about it. Otherwise, there have been no opportunities, we need more seats.
Abortion rights (and everything else that was a constant campaign point for both the rs and ds) were hanging by a thread on supreme court decisions for years and years. They had decades to actually legislate them.
Perhaps if they had changed the filibuster rules in 2010 they could have done something about it. Otherwise, there have been no opportunities, we need more seats.