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In reply to the discussion: Beware of People Pretending to Be on Our Side [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The Republicans are extremely close to getting control of congress next November. McConnell probably fantasizes about Democrats failing to pass both. Once in control of the budget he can pass out contracts as he wishes to whom he wishes.
Normally, it takes double-digit years for the electorate's demands and all the rest of the stars to line up to pass major legislation. 17 years passed between the defeat of a national healthcare plan in the 1993 and passage of the ACA in 2010, which is almost exactly what political scientists predicted in in 1993. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people, continued to die from lack of healthcare, millions made destitute; continued great need and suffering did not make it happen sooner.
Missing this opportunity is not like forgetting ice cream and putting it on the list for next time.
And the next change might not happen for many decades, on the other side of great national decline and disaster, if a RW authoritarian coup d'etat succeeds in the next couple of years. They intend to dismantle everything we've done over the past 90 years. tRumpists look at strongman dictators and want their own; they never look at the state of the people dictated to or the state of the roads.