Human Nature

[Belacqua]

This is the Dems in a nutshell. The Republicans won't let us; the corporations won't let us; we'll never get that even if we try. Well, maybe so, but then why should anyone vote for you? 

To give them enough of a majority to have power to do something, because of how our representative democracy works.

When Obama took office he had a majority in the House and Senate. He didn't keep his promises about "bailing out Main Street" (although he did bail out Wall Street) and he didn't work for universal health insurance. He didn't keep his promise to close Guantanamo, but he did repeat the promise four years later, and fail to keep it then too.

So even if they have a majority, that's no guarantee they'll do what we want.