The problem I was listening to a historian discuss the other day is that we're stuck in a cycle of:

   1. Republican breaks norms/laws
   2. Democrat cleans up after, but by *not* breaking norms, doesn't go far enough to actually undo all the damage
   3. We end up with a more broken governmental configuration, and head back to (1)

They said this pattern goes back to Nixon.

▲ Jcampuzano2 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Theres a reason 99% of actions taken by democrats are just "strongly worded letters" and how they consistently come up with the exact small number of Democrats needed to push legislation and bills that the party proposes to be against.

Most Democratic politicians are in on the game too. Its all just political theater and their in-group rotates out who gets to be the bad guys.

Yes Democrats clean-up by not breaking norms, but as mentioned they never go far enough because they legitimately do not want to go too far due to corporate interests and the elite.

I am left leaning but do not align with the majority of the Democratic party because they are in on this too. They have the tools to be much more antagonistic to the GOP but they purposely don't use them

	▲	gcanyon 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think this take is on the cynical side. A more charitable interpretation would be what they say (but maybe I'm being naive): that they don't want to break the rules to fix what someone else broke by breaking the rules. I'm not sure what you mean by "they consistently come up with the exact small number of Democrats needed to push legislation and bills that the party proposes to be against" -- if you mean the Republicans manage to get some Democrats to "switch sides" -- it's important to remember that this is how everything used to get done. Check the old votes: party-line was less common back in the day. And even now, Democrats tolerate members with differing opinions far more than the GOP does, and it shows in their voting patterns.