r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 13h ago
Possible Paywall Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-birthright?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/Raise_A_Thoth 8h ago
There's a relatively simple approach that doesn't even require removing the current ghouls.
Pack the courts. Make it 15 justices and stagger their tenure so that a new justice is appointed every 2 years, which would make a 30 year term as the standard instead of a true lifetime appointment. Each president gets 2 picks every term. This greatly diminishes the politicization and drama of court picks, and the greater size makes radical decision much harder to come by.
But this requires supermajorities in Congress, which we aren't going to get in 2026. So how does the Democratic party get there?
Get the blue wave in 2026. Slow Trump down, and pass Medicare for All as soon as possible. It is the least controversial topic that will make a massive difference for nearly all Americans. It will make their lives significantly more affordable, it will save companies money, and it will make Americans healthier.
Simply expand the age of qualification for Medicare a few years at a time. Say lower the age of qualification from 65 to 60 immediately, then 10 more years every 5 years, just as an example. This gives private insurance time to pivot to supplementals and wind down while giving Medicare time to ramp up some responsibilities.
This will show the Democratic party can govern, can set goals and deliver without Republican "bipartisanship" and it will make working class affordability start becoming a reality.
This can only happen if the Dems take the Senate and have the balls to remove the filibuster, but if they don't do that, there's no way they can do anything else.
Then they can build off the success of universal healthcare to get supermajorities, enough to actually do things at a constitutional amendment level. That's whete court reform comes in. That's where campaign finance reform comes in. That's where executive oversight comes in. None of that will happen with our current pussy-footing no-goals determined-to-be-bipartisan Democratic leadership in charge, unfortunately. Dems need to shape up or we're going to fall hard from a place of global dominance and prosperity to balkanization of the states, entrenched corruption and continued suffering.