I keep seeing Democrats insist we have to be the good guys and respect decorum and rules and honestly what is it getting our society? Republicans do neither and they get power and their agenda passed. Even the stink of Trump on them is worth it to pack the courts.
It's like: Are we in this to accomplish things or to get a "good citizen, stuck to the rules" ribbon? I'd much rather improve the country than uphold the rules.
If anything, Trump has made it very clear that the rules barely matter. Most of what he has done has been within the letter, if not the spirit of the rules. And frankly it feels like all the Democrats running just want to reset when the horse is out the barn door. All of them.
The minute Trump is gone it's not like Republicans are going to go, "welp, that didn't work, guess we play by the rules now." They're going to keep pushing the limits to get their agenda through. Meanwhile even the dem candidates who say "revolution" don't want to kill filibuster
Meanwhile House and Senate Republican candidates are getting more and more radical and Democrats are just holding on, chattering about "the rules, the rules." It's got to stop.
MLK didn't follow the rules and got thrown in jail for it all the time. And none of us is as good as MLK so I think it's ok not to be suicidally attached to the rules.
Are we in this for rules and procedure and to enforce those rules? Or are we here to make life better for the most people possible? I say the latter.
