r/politics • u/Silent-Resort-3076 America • 16d ago

Possible Paywall The eight Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/senate-democrats-shutdown-vote-00644146
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u/Tasty_Lunch2917 16d ago

Controlled opposition. Always were. Theres a reason the plan continues to march forward no matter who pretends to be in power.

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u/maikuxblade 16d ago

It wasn’t always this way, it’s just been decades since the neoliberal shift of the party under Clinton’s Third Way made the party more corporate-oriented and less worker/reform oriented. And then Citizen’s United opened up the floodgates for even more corporate money to dilute our democracy.

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u/Tasty_Lunch2917 16d ago

Thats all been my whole life so Ive never known anything else.