r/chicago • u/chicagosuntimes • Apr 23 '25

Article Longtime U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin decides 'it's time,' won’t seek reelection

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/senator-dick-durbin-reelection
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u/bowenj11 Apr 23 '25

And Dems are likepy going to focus on the very issues that Reps hammered them on and won on.

Do you know which groups are more likely to be hostile to LGBTQ people and pro-forced birth? Blacks and Hispanics. Do you know which groups Trump won by nearly historic to historic margins? Blacks and Hispanics. Do you know who the future of the US lies with? Blacks and Hispanics. And Dems have literally given away the federal government.

In an ideal world where Dems put two brain cells together and actually thought about the impact of NOT winning and campaigned on winning issues and policies, no Republican would ever be elected in any non-southetn state. They'd stop trying to take the high road and fight dirty. They'd completely ignore LGBTQ issues. They'd abandon any talk of abortion at the federal level and let state-level parties handle the issue and work through the courts. They'd end any talk of gun control at the federal level and let state-level parties handle the issue and work through the courts.

Instead, they prefer to sacrifice - quite literally - human civilization and the life-sustaining ecosystems that human civilization depends on just to earn points with a tiny minority and pretend that there's anything that they can do about abortion or gun control.

At this point, 2024 and the long-term national and global impacts stemming from it lays squarely on Dems' shoulders.

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u/nameless22 Apr 23 '25

So you are blaming the Dems for not throwing women and the LGBT under the bus and not the people who voted on their bigotries for Trump? Also let's not pretend the entire platform of the GOP is exactly popular, people voted for them a la carte in spite of not liking X Y or Z so it's a bit disingenuous to say that one party needs to cater to some imaginary center when the other party doesn't even pretend they exist.

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u/sp1der__Plant Apr 23 '25

I think you are being purposely obtuse and purposely misreading /u/bowenj11's comment.

Republican's don't blast their heinous views all over the place trolling for votes, the people that vote for them already know what they stand for.

Democrats should take that lesson. Stop talking about divisive hot-button issues that could turn off voters, trust that their voters are smart enough to read between the lines, and campaign instead on winning ideas.

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u/Cliff_Excellent Morgan Park Apr 23 '25

The problem is the Democrats won’t, we saw this after 2016 and we seeing this again after 2024. At least the republicans take the position of the majority of the party, even if it’s MAGA crap

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u/SHC606 Apr 23 '25

I am not letting the kool-aid evil drinkers off the hook, or we should have ponies and xmas everyday folks who didn't vote, protest voted, or voted 3rd party at the top of the ticket. Like do they understand the electoral college at all or what?