05-09-2023, 07:05 PM
$tevie wrote:
I wish a time traveler had come to us in the 90s and warned us that the GOP was going to concentrate on Gerrymandering, and appointing and buying judges, and buying politicians, while we just let it go on like a party of innocents. All the advances we made since then are being wiped out one by one because we never saw the forest for the trees.
I suspect that national Democratic leadership wouldn't have done anything differently. They had their sinecures to reinforce and a national policy of co opting GOP campaign points, from crime bills to "workfare", by making them their own. Any attention they paid to women, women's right or civil rights in general didn't amount to anymore than lip service.
So no, even with the benefit of time travel, it's doubtful today's Dems could have moved the 90 Dem needle at all.