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In reply to the discussion: Please stop calling Dems "weak" because we don't have many options for stopping Supreme Court nomine [View all]whopis01
(3,491 posts)Because the people you are blaming are not going to do it.
You are absolutely correct in what you are saying. Anyone who had to opportunity to vote for a different outcome and chose not do so is responsible for the current result.
But the problem is that they don't care. They didn't care back then, and I doubt very many of them care now. And if they don't care in the next election, the outcome is going to be very similar.
I'm not trying to say that this is the fault of the party leadership, or the fault of anyone who is passionate and cares about this. But I am saying that those are the only people who can do something to change this for the next election.
Maybe some can be won over by forcing them to face the fact that they bear the responsibility for this. But I doubt that is very many of them. In order for that strategy to work, they would have to care.