MicroWaveOct 16

Senate Democrats, holding out for health care, ready to reject government funding bill for 10th time

https://lemmy.world/post/37428370

Senate Democrats, holding out for health care, ready to reject government funding bill for 10th time - Lemmy.World

Senate Democrats are poised for the 10th time Thursday to reject a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government, insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up health care benefits. The repetition of votes on the funding bill has become a daily drumbeat in Congress, underscoring how intractable the situation has become as it has been at times the only item on the agenda for the Senate floor. House Republicans have left Washington altogether. The standoff has lasted over two weeks, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed, even more without a guaranteed payday and Congress essentially paralyzed.

Show threadpartial_accumenOct 16
The GOP is doing a great job of building the opposition campaign slogan: “The GOP kept the government shut down for X days for the sole purpose of denying Americans access to healthcare.”
Show threadthe_qOct 16
Except the people that need to hear that truth won’t believe it.
Show threadassaultpotatoOct 16

North American elections aren’t decided by changing people’s minds, they haven’t been for decades. They’re decided by getting the non-voters out for your party. 30ish % of the electorate will never drop Trump. 35ish % of the electorate will never vote R. Elections are decided by the 35% in the middle who usually don’t even vote.

They only vote when the impact on their lives is impossible to ignore, hence why Trump’s COVID inflation gift to Biden got them off the bench. “Food is much more expensive now, I blame <person currently president>”. These people can be swung, but it requires their lives to be directly and obviously impacted. Maybe loss of healthcare would do it.

Show threadprole
I’ve shifted my goal of convincing my parents from trying to get them to disavow Trump, to simply trying to convince them not to vote at all.
Oct 16 at 7:06pmWeb
Show thread4gramsOct 16
I tried that, they cut me off.