Democrats Always Cave in to the Republican Party. No Wonder their Popularity is so Abysmally Low

Trump got what he wanted with the 43-day shutdown. The Democrats didn’t get the SNAP funding nor the Obama Care subsidy. But this isn’t the first time they have surrendered. For years the Democrats were the ones who favored reconciliation across the aisle and the Republicans consistently snubbed them.

 

What about the 2000 electoral fraud in the 2000 presidential contest, and that happened even though Al Gore received 540,000 more popular votes? What about Mitch McConnell’s maneuver in 2016 to deprive the Democrats a Supreme Courte judge, creating a situation in which even though the Democrats almost always win the popular vote, the Republicans have 6 judges on the Supreme Court as against only 3 Democrats? And what about the fact that Washington DC, a Democratic city with a larger population than some red states, doesn’t have representation in congress? And what about Obama’s refusal to take advantage of national sentiment by proceed with judicial proceedings against Cheney and Bush for having committed torture in CIA blackholes, a move which would have clobbered the Republicans following their defeat in 2008.

 

Gavin Newsom now talks about fighting fire with fire, but the Democrats should have begun employing that strategy several decades ago. The real reason why they don’t is that they would prefer to face a strong Republican Party in a two-party system that pits the center against the right, rather than face the risk of opening a space on the left side of the political spectrum. Furthermore, with a Republican Party veto capacity in congress, the corporate-funded Democrats have an excuse for not enacting the reforms they supposedly champion.