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They do the bare minimum to trick people like you into thinking they give a single fuck about you. I'm sorry, but that don't. The Democrat party is owned by wealthy interests that unlike the Republicans are smart enough to give the working class enough crumbs to keep society from collapsing, but that's not enough to energize people to vote anymore because life just keeps getting harder and harder for the average American even when they're in charge.
All that isn't to say that people shouldn't vote for a corporate dem when it's that or a republican, but you're completely blind if you can't see that there are real problems with the party that are contributing to their losses.
It's also been a stated goal during campaigns for literally every DNC I've ever seen, and it's been a constant political battle for over 15 years with bills being constantly introduced.
YOU DON'T BELIEVE THEY WANTED TO PASS THE THING WHICH THEY VOTED TO PASS?!
They do introduce bills like that, all the time. A recent one was 119th Congress "H. R. 12 - To protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services" which is mainly about women's right to choose but it also explicitly mentions the rights if LGBTQ healthcare as one of the casualties of the reversal of Roe V. Wade by Republican stacked SCOTUS. It was never called to vote by the Republican Speaker of the House. Link Here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/12/text
The problem with arguing with you people is it's easier for you to ask these questions and make random shit up than it is for me to provide this evidence. I hope you left this conversation more informed than you entered it because otherwise it's just been a waste of time.
People, including YOU, are contributing to the problems we face by coming in here with no other purpose than to shit "constructive criticism" all over the Democrats. The next election won't be decided by whose policies are the best or worst, it won't be decided by those of us who want to make the party better and are taking actions towards that goal, what will decide the election is whether or not people are energized and excited to vote for the DNC like they were in 2020 and in 2008.
You can fix a minority party all you like, but what we need right now is to remove the GOP at any cost.
Abortion rights (and everything else that was a constant campaign point for both the rs and ds) were hanging by a thread on supreme court decisions for years and years. They had decades to actually legislate them.
Perhaps if they had changed the filibuster rules in 2010 they could have done something about it. Otherwise, there have been no opportunities, we need more seats.