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i have similar memories & thoughts pertaining to biden & clinton with 10450; doma; don't ask, don't tell; ICE & immigration reform; etc. experiencing first hand how our collective memories about biden stop working before 2008 shows that reality of the past doesn't matter at all. every time we're in this situation we collectively agree that there's a problem; but then we opt to do the same things over and over again (eg democrat or republican) instead of trying something new.
no one knows what the right answer is; but we know what the wrong ones are because we keep doing them and here we are; each time squabbling all over again and thinking that the next time will be different despite doing nothing different to make it happen.
here's one of the clearest examples: we know democrats are moving rightward and we know that they're usually the lesser evil. so we support them more often in the hopes that they don't fully embrace a rightward movement and they move rightwards anyways and we have no leverage to get them to change because we're going to vote for them anyways.
100%. It’s tragic that we’re so incapable of remembering the lessons we convinced ourselves we’d learned from all your examples and more. Biden’s chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee still gives me nightmares…
Which we are still feeling the impact from, like much of his legislation as a Senator