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Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill (prospect.org)

submitted 4 days ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Thanks to a Republican vote to stop California from setting its own auto emissions, Democrats can challenge virtually any Trump administration action, and eat up time on the Senate floor.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What you are saying is that we tell out representatives what we want.

We have been doing that the whole time, they ignore their voters.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The American population generally speaking is not politically engaged. They have the idea -- one you appear to share -- that civic engagement is a chore that they don't have time for and that it's someone else's job.

So, continue doing nothing and pretending you've tried everything.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

That's a deliberate feature. Keep people so concerned about basic survival that they don't have the time or energy for civic engagement.