The Senate and House Democrats get millions more votes every cycle, yet republicons nearly always control things.

Failing to show up isn't the problem. Doing nothing about republicon cheating and stealing is.

We agree on this completely. Republicans need to be stopped!

and gerrymandering are the problem. American "democracy" is hopelessly broken and possibly not worth saving in its current form.

That freaking Electoral College has to go, but nothing can be done when we have Democrats voting with republicans.

And a Constitutional Amendment? FUGETABOUDIT.

3,000,000 no in the states where it would make a difference.

Democrats have to overachieve at the polls to counter the bullshit obstacles republicans have put in place.

Why is that acceptable?

That's my point. Why is it considered normal that we have to "win" by 70% in order to pull off a squeaker?

3 million votes should have put Clinton in office, no matter where in the US those people live. Furthermore, Biden's 7+million vote win was almost overturned by a similar margin. About 100k votes the other way in certain states and we'd be in the second term of a bloated orange anus who lost even BIGGER the second time.

That is not acceptable, and Democrats should have made it a top priority. Since they didn't, they may never regain control next time they lose it.

Hillary lost Michigan by about 10k votes. She lost Wisconsin by about 20k votes. She lost PA by a little over 45k votes.

Had 80k people who voted for Obama in those 3 states but didn't vote in 2016 actually showed up to vote for Hillary, history would have changed.

Few people on our side think strategically, at least from what I’ve observed. No longterm thinking and/or strategizing. They always appoint somebody to head the DNC to raise money.

But just raising money ISN’T enough! We’ve raised fucking fortunes, and WHAT have we gotten in return for that investment? Nothing but stalemates, and that’s on a good day.

It was probably the single-most important thing to get passed. If we can't vote and take the offices we win, this country's democracy is over. Thanks to two "Democratic" Senators, we can do nothing about the system that republicons are exploiting to steal elections we win.

The majority of the public votes D, and wants liberal democratic policies. But if certain Democrats we elect work with the republicons to thwart us, we'll still end up with fascist rule.

How many times do you expect the poor and POC to wait for hours and hours to vote? It's not like we were not aware of this issue after 2000.

They've been trying things out since the 90's. How much longer before our side does something about it besides scream "OH NO!! This is THE most important election yet!!! We must GOTV!!" Frankly, I'm surprised that still works at all.

He totally destroyed her candidacy. Time and time again, throughout the election, he damaged her as badly as a candidate can be damaged.

People were disgusted enough with the republican agenda (Iraq War etc) to show up and kick GWB and the Republicans to the curb hard.

And here we are today with an even larger military budget

5 decades have seen Democrats with majorities at various times. Making Americans feel like today is all their fault is a losing strategy

... insane. (spell check)

We do away with the filibuster. We’re unlikely to get 60 Senate seats. Of course, if we have 52, we might be able to get rid of the filibuster. A solution, but not a simple one.

there will be a Manchin to fuck it up.

Obama had 60 for about two months after republicons finally seated Al Franken, before Ted Kennedy died. Joe Liebermann was the main Manchin then. Obamacare was damaged by him and others who always objected to something.

They were the Manchin and Sinema of their day.

overturning Roe v Wade is not an ultimate goal, it’s a step towards declaring abortion itself as unconstitutional.

Forget about "there is no precedence" do you really think that if republicans had to do it that lack of precedence would stop them?

JUST DO IT!

It's easy to assume that federal law could restore the status quo ante.

I'm skeptical that is the case.

Why be negative? Lets push people to vote instead...I mean, if your last line is true then why bother, I won't vote, we have lost already?

Sorry but, I really don't get the negativity, it is a defeatist attitude, it is sad that is so prevalent with Democrats, and don't tell me "well, republicans always get away with murder"...Yes they do, because they hear that negativity so they say "OK, Democrats expect us to do this and they also expect us to get away with it...good, lets do it!"

It is a very uphill battle for liberals/Democrats

It was more of a statement of reality.

returns for the effort people put into it.

I don't think that's the case.

A third of the country is politically disengaged and never votes.

Those who do vote are almost evenly split between us, indies, and Pubs. We might have a tiny numeric advantage over the Pubs, the impact of this is more than offset by our inherent geographic disadvantage of being heavily concentrated in city centers.

The way we win is by focusing on the top issues for the overall electorate. Polls show this is economic and labor issues, not abortion. Focus on the people's top priorities to get elected, and deliver on them to stay there. While we're at it, try to do what we can on issues like this, but it cannot be the focus if we want to stay in power.

One more Democratic party member turning out has half the impact of flipping one indie voter from Pub to us. Turning out our side matters, but grabbing swing voters does more. This is how we had record turnout in 2020, yet lost House seats. If it wasn't for a favorable map and the Pubs lunatic fringe costing them the GA runoffs, we'd have had problems with the Senate as well.