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Joe Manchin is a coal baron pretending to be a Democrat and Kristen Sinema was bought by corporate interests. So Republicans unofficially controlled the Senate. This same bullshit gets trotted out every election.
The Senate is stacked against Democrats because it favors low population states. On top of that, there is a filibuster rule that makes most things take 60 votes to get passed. To get anything done, senators have to get rid of the filibuster for whatever they are trying to do, which requires a majority.
Democrats would much rather run on having codifying Roe v Wade. But their party is controlled by and full of neo-liberals who cling to institutional norms to their own detriment. There is not a conspiracy, just minority rule baked into our democracy, and ineffectual and flawed neo-liberal ideology entrenched in the minds of Democrats. edit: typo
Manchin and Sinema are like schrodinger's democrats. They're not real democrats, but you better shut the fuck up and vote blue not matter who or some shit.
One has accepted numerous corporate donations and the other is only interested in protecting his coal business. They aren't Democrats whether being observed or not. But they have been observed to be DINOs so it's not a question, it's a fact. An argument that is based on facts from an alternate reality is not convincing. Believing alternate facts is how a person can be stuck thinking conspiracy theories are real though.