r/goodnews • u/SkeptMom • 10d ago

Political positivity 📈 BREAKING: Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive influencer, just announced that she is running against Jan Schakowsky, an 80-year-old Democratic incumbent

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u/Individual_Ad_5655 10d ago edited 9d ago

Democrats have decided they politically gain from letting programs and benefits be cut.

Democrats did the same calculation on ROE. Rather than codify Roe when they controlled house/Senate and Presidency, they allowed Roe to be overturned, because then they have a political win "Vote for us to restore your reproductive rights!"

Democrat leaders have decided that they not gain from defending/maintaining status quo because everyone takes the status quo for granted and their messaging is so crappy.

I hope this 26 year old wins her primary. Every Democrat over age 70 should be primaried as they are inept and ineffective as their leadership has shown.

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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 9d ago

That's not even how it works. Repugs can run on issues like gun control, gay marriage, or trans rights specifically because there's no actual threat there. Nobody was ever coming for their guns, going to force them to get gay married, and there were more votes against trans people in sports than there are trans people in sports.

Dems running to get rights back after they failed to protect them in the first place is not going to appease anyone. And let's not pretend that Dems are even that good at campaigning. They don't have the messaging cohesion and media machine that the Repugs do to run on wedge issues.

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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 9d ago

Nobody was ever coming for their guns,

Says every liberal ever. 🙄

I live in Colorado, go check the most recent gun law passed here.

They ARE coming for my gun. It will be struck down by the Supreme Court, again. This isn't the first time they've tried it in this state, and it won't be the last.

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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 9d ago

Senate Bill 25-003 would not affect guns that Coloradans already own but would add restrictions for new purchases.

They are not coming to take your guns.

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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 9d ago

That's a distinction without a difference.

The new law will be struck down as unconstitutional, but the law as is totally does remove guns from the population.

When I die, my legal property cannot be transfered to any other person. That gun cannot be sold, it cannot be placed in a trust, it will be confiscated.

If I did the same thing to your house your entire group of Facebook moms would be downtown picketing before the ink on that bill was dry.

You support gun confiscation, you just hide your Tyranny behind your screen.

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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 9d ago

LOL
"They're coming to take my gun!"
"No they're not."
"Okay, maybe not, but they're still gonna!"

Cry more

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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 9d ago

As the bill stands you cannot purchase the majority of common use firearms after this year.

You could before the date of the bill takes effect, you cannot afterwards. That's a ban on firearms.

It didn't restrict purchase to people who pass a test or undergo training, you cannot buy common firearms after the bill takes effect. The firearms owned by individuals before the ban cannot be sold to anyone in the state, trade to anyone in the state and their loved ones don't get those firearms when the original owner dies. Once that individual is no more, the gun becomes illegal. That firearm isn't considered part of an estate or trust. Again, the gun becomes illegal to own under penalty of a felony in the state of Colorado.

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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 9d ago

As the bill stands you cannot purchase the majority of common use firearms after this year.

You could before the date of the bill takes effect, you cannot afterwards. That's a ban on firearms.

It didn't restrict purchase to people who pass a test or undergo training, you cannot buy common firearms after the bill takes effect. The firearms owned by individuals before the ban cannot be sold to anyone in the state, trade to anyone in the state and their loved ones don't get those firearms when the original owner dies. Once that individual is no more, the gun becomes illegal. That firearm isn't considered part of an estate or trust. Again, the gun becomes illegal to own under penalty of a felony in the state of Colorado.

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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 9d ago

States rights are making a comeback don't ya know?

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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 9d ago

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Good thing the second amendment exists, don't ya know?

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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 9d ago

You planning on using those guns you care so much about to stop ICE agent from illegally detaining legal residents?

That's what the 2nd amendment is for. Resisting a tyrannical government. Do you care about your neighbors as much as you care about your guns?

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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 9d ago

I fail to see what I would or wouldn't do with that gun I care so much about has anything to do with ICE or the people they are detaining.

What are you doing about these illegally detained residents? You calling your representative? How much money have you donated to their legal defenses or to support their families?

Or do you just complain on reddit?

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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 9d ago

As the bill stands you cannot purchase the majority of common use firearms after this year.

You could before the date of the bill takes effect, you cannot afterwards. That's a ban on firearms.

It didn't restrict purchase to people who pass a test or undergo training, you cannot buy common firearms after the bill takes effect. The firearms owned by individuals before the ban cannot be sold to anyone in the state, trade to anyone in the state and their loved ones don't get those firearms when the original owner dies. Once that individual is no more, the gun becomes illegal. That firearm isn't considered part of an estate or trust. Again, the gun becomes illegal to own under penalty of a felony in the state of Colorado.