Regardless of the outcome in the coming election, a new AP-NORC poll shows voters from both major political parties want the next Congress to focus on making life more affordable and ending the war in Iran, while fewer are looking for an emphasis on Donald Trump — whether it’s investigating him or supporting his agenda.
The results suggest that voters are ready for Congress to tackle core issues, despite Trump’s centrality in the midterm campaign.
About 8 in 10 registered voters, including a large majority of Republicans and Democrats, say lowering the cost of living should be one of the highest priorities for the session coming up, the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds.
This thread is full of people who actually think laws apply to rich people. No wonder y’all ain’t commies.
You want accountability, the only kind of court that would ever do anything to them would be goddamn revolutionary tribunals. And you can say that unrealistic, and it is, but it’s more realistic than thinking the existing political and judicial system would ever take real, meaningful action against a former president. And even if they did, Trump’s fucking 80, he can easily drag out any legal precedings long enough for them not to matter. At best, maybe you get a fall guy, but you’re never getting the main culprits.
Laws are just threats made by the ruling class, and the ruling class has a level of class solidarity that puts the rest of us to shame.
There was no justice for Bush’s crimes, and there was no justice for Trump’s first term. You’re kidding yourself if you think it’ll be different this time.
If the collapse of democracy is not a “core issue”, then what is?
No take, only throw.
Addressing Trump will not, by itseld, fix any problem but taking care of him is the first step in fixing any of them.
He has at least dozens of accomplices that need addressed, too. Imprisonment, disbarred, assets seized, etc.
We can do both.
Absolutely agree. Disciplining those that got us into this mess should also be as big of a priority so that we can show that this isn’t how you run things while simultaneously working to fix the fuckups of the anal warts we call “representatives” of the people.
Actually I want drumpf and all his allies/sycophants to be prosecuted past the furthest extent of the law. I want them to be tarred and feathered. Drawn and quartered. I want drumpf to watch everything he ever owned get taken away while he rots to death in solitary confinement.
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I don’t believe that’s true. And how convenient on the eve of a possible win for Dems. America wants to see crooks and pedos, and pedo protectors in jail.
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Congress can do both by staying in session and actually fucking working for more than a few weeks at a time.
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Maybe the voters know that we don’t need investigations, only prosecution based on all the mountains of corruption that has been done in plain view.
Lol “and Iran” makes it sound like the poll respondents agree with the war rather than to end it*
Yeah that’s IF they pull significant* majorities in both houses.
* Not your Sinema-Manchin bullshit in-name-only majorities
After that we can squabble about why we aren’t doing everything at once all the time.
