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Irrelevant. Read again, except this time more closely.

What matters is who changed first.

Democrats.

Democrats changed first.

As, in recent history preceding the great ideological shifts of party banners, they always do.

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Irrelevant

Nobody ask who co-sponsored the '94 Crime Bill.

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but they haven’t changed, and if they want my vote at this point, after the shit they pulled, they basically need to go down on me.

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in recent history preceding the great ideological shifts of party banners

How old are you?

A lot of us consider 1994 to be pretty recent but maybe not to the younger crowd

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Asking how old someone is completely defeats the purpose. We’ve seen how boomers mishandled things and pulled the ladders up behind them so let’s not pretend that being old and remembering 1994 “like it was pretty recent” (it wasn’t) makes your opinion in any way superior.

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It’s relevant and recent when the majority of the legislators who passed the law are still in congress

We’ve seen how boomers mishandled things and pulled the ladders up behind them

That’s exactly my point. We’re still living in the reality of laws passed by boomers - hell, we’re still being governed by them. That reality doesn’t just go away when the boomers acknowledge they fucked it up, they have to actually fix their shit.

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Does it really matter to the point being made?

Oh man, how far we’ve come in 30 years. I really am quite proud of the Democratic party.

On the flipside, Republicans have if anything continued to regress.

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Does it really matter to the point being made?

Idk? What point is being made? That Democrats took a modest aesthetic step toward fixing a problem they helped create? A problem that runs much deeper than the scheduling of drugs and a problem that destroyed entire communities of color?

I’m not interested in engaging in a debate with you, I just think it’s important to recognize the depth of the issues being discussed and be skeptical of the accomplishments being touted during an election year.

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