The mood is so bad at the U.S. Capitol that.....

[Lonestarblue]

42. They're like the religious end times folks whose predictions never come true.

Yet they just make another prediction and their supporters buy it.

I waffle between feeling hope that Biden’s straightforward approach and focus on regular people instead of the wealthy, the Q nuts, and the racists will pull us out of this era and fear that the US passed a point of no return with Trump and the broken Republican Party that has jettisoned any principles and is now bent on destroying democracy with any means possible. We no longer have sane Republicans in Congress.

I read an opinion piece this morning by Ruth Marcus (WaPo) in which she predicted potentially dire consequences for getting rid of the filibuster because Republicans will one day be in charge again and there will be nothing to stop them from total annihilation of democratic principles without the filibuster. I somewhat agree with the attitude, but if we don’t pass much of Biden’s agenda this year. especially the voting protections and the infrastructure plan, Democrats will be shut out of elections for the next decade—both because of voting restrictions and because Republican obstruction will prevent accomplishing the things that voters want. Then they can crow about a failed administration.

Plus, if the voter protections in H1 are not passed, we can say goodbye to state legislature gains until Republicans so decimate the country that they eventually get voted out. I’m not holding my breath for Republicans and right-leaning Independents to wake up to the threat.