5C5C5C comments on Trump move to dismantle climate agency blows up Senate funding deal

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[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

It's much easier to fight when you don't care about what kind of damage it'll do.

I'm not saying this to defend the Democrats, just to point out that Republicans have a massive natural advantage on this stage. I don't think their success comes as much from competence as it does from being naturally aligned with doing harm.

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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I see they play by an entirely different rule book. It almost seems like fundamentally by caring about something other than yourself, you are limited by a moral constraint.

By the way many Democrats have the same end goal as Republicans, to make and preserve as much wealth and power for their in-group. They are just nicer about it. But there is a small chunk of Democrats that are actually trying to get real radical change, but they're being fought against by the other 95% of Congress.

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