Regardless of the outcome in the coming election, a new AP-NORC poll shows voters from both major political parties want the next Congress to focus on making life more affordable and ending the war in Iran, while fewer are looking for an emphasis on Donald Trump — whether it’s investigating him or supporting his agenda.
The results suggest that voters are ready for Congress to tackle core issues, despite Trump’s centrality in the midterm campaign.
About 8 in 10 registered voters, including a large majority of Republicans and Democrats, say lowering the cost of living should be one of the highest priorities for the session coming up, the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds.
This thread is full of people who actually think laws apply to rich people. No wonder y’all ain’t commies.
You want accountability, the only kind of court that would ever do anything to them would be goddamn revolutionary tribunals. And you can say that unrealistic, and it is, but it’s more realistic than thinking the existing political and judicial system would ever take real, meaningful action against a former president. And even if they did, Trump’s fucking 80, he can easily drag out any legal precedings long enough for them not to matter. At best, maybe you get a fall guy, but you’re never getting the main culprits.
Laws are just threats made by the ruling class, and the ruling class has a level of class solidarity that puts the rest of us to shame.
There was no justice for Bush’s crimes, and there was no justice for Trump’s first term. You’re kidding yourself if you think it’ll be different this time.
Both issues stem from the fact that Trump started an illegal war; he needs to be impeached for that, if nothing else.
Yeah, the fact that the survey treated this like an “either A or B” issue instead of a “to get A we need to B” one is some narrative crafting bullshit
Bingo - this is one of the primary reasons billionaires buy control of media outlets and systems - to be able to shift focus and change narratives in order to change the path of democracy, of oversight, of public discourse. There isn’t limited focus, we are humans and can pay attention to many things at once, but there are limited resources, limited patience, limited time, so they just have to change those things enough to make their preferences the only options viable and give plausible deniability to the leaders who want to ignore the cries for change from the “extreme” elements of society. Even if it’s coming pervasively from all portions.
Lol “and Iran” makes it sound like the poll respondents agree with the war rather than to end it*
To be able to say the phrase “8 in 10”, of course you have to exclude Trump. I bet you could get pretty close to two-thirds of respondents who want him removed as well, tho.
I believe the new Congress will be smart and competent enough to do both! 
with 535 members of congress (senate and reps) can’t we do both? maybe set the bar higher than just do the least possible. Look to Mamdami and NYC for an example if you must, I’m sure they would love to provide a map.
Yeah that’s IF they pull significant* majorities in both houses.
* Not your Sinema-Manchin bullshit in-name-only majorities
After that we can squabble about why we aren’t doing everything at once all the time.
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I don’t believe that’s true. And how convenient on the eve of a possible win for Dems. America wants to see crooks and pedos, and pedo protectors in jail.
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Congress can do both by staying in session and actually fucking working for more than a few weeks at a time.
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If they try to business as usual this shit, I’m going to lose my mind. There need to be serious consequences for everyone doing wrong right now.
I already lost my mind when there were zero consequences for all the illegal, fucked up shit Bush did. At a certain point you just have to come to terms with the fact that the ruling class has solidarity and no president will ever be held accountable to the law under the current system. Trump already faced zero consequences for anything in his first term.
Addressing Trump will not, by itseld, fix any problem but taking care of him is the first step in fixing any of them.
He has at least dozens of accomplices that need addressed, too. Imprisonment, disbarred, assets seized, etc.
No take, only throw.
This kinda sounds to me like a bunch of people who know they enabled him and don’t want to have to face what that really means
Our government is large enough to do multiple things. This narrow-sightedness only risks our democracy.
Laying the groundwork for democrats to say, “what we really need right now is unity, and that means letting everyone who is still actively trying to kill our country, off the hook.”
Maybe the voters know that we don’t need investigations, only prosecution based on all the mountains of corruption that has been done in plain view.
