• chaonaut@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I swear I hear this regardless of how close we are to the next presidential election. Can we maybe focus on some of the other races on the ballot? I would love if we could get a Congress that was actually able to make good things happen, instead of trying very hard to do nothing so bad things don’t happen.

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      5 months ago

      Congress might also have been able to get more done if there was a filibuster-proof majority for more than several months in the last several decades.

      I do vote for the most progressive person available in the primaries tho.

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      5 months ago

      Sorry, media is now handled at the national level so covering local and state races outside of ones that get clicks isn’t profitable

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        5 months ago

        Oh, good! Is it also owned by large corporations who have interests that cause them to favor certain stories because it impacts their bottom line and the editorial desk does not have strong independence from the business side of things because of a monoculture of publishers? Surely, this will bring us a wide variety of political candidates and not an endless parade of arch-capitalists and fascists who give kickbacks to corporations!