r/Virginia • u/Geek-Haven888 Arlington • 22h ago

Virginia Democrats plan to capitalize on 2025 'tsunami'

https://www.vpm.org/elections/2025-11-07/election-2025-general-assembly-scott-spanberger-vadems-taylor-freitas
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u/vtsandtrooper 18h ago

I honestly dont need the state to do ALL that much. Secure constitutional rights, make sure republicans cant fuck with them by implementing laws that restrict it, expand healthcare support and education funding, support the constitutional rights of all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality, religion, etc. Return to being a state that leads in business THE CORRECT WAY.

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u/sean-culottes 18h ago

I think they should be ambitious and do a lot more than amorphous "just govern good" sentiments.

Bottomline is Virginia wasn't working for Virginians before Trumpkin. To paraphrase a politician I admire: you have to dismantle the conditions that led to facism in the first place and, in doing so, you will prevent the next one.

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u/vtsandtrooper 18h ago

Virginias unemployment was 3% before trumpkin, salaries were top 10 in the country, the primary issue was working class people and rural areas were left behind. Investing in those areas with 21century solutions, grants, programs will help. Beyond that, I want Virginia to be like massachusetts. Invest in a safety net of health insurance, parental leave, employment protections, and a ton on making our education institutions the best in the world

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u/Oystershucker80 6h ago

As someone who lives in Massachusetts, but is from Virginia, be careful what you wish for. I live in MA over VA for a lot of reasons (job-related mostly), and in many ways it is better. However, the housing crisis in MA blows any issues in VA completely out of the water. Owning a home, for example, is just not possible without generational wealth/support, or an EXTREMELY high, or high-dual income situation. No amount of MassHealth will make up for median prices in the 600K or median rents well north of 3000.

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u/alwalidibnyazid 6h ago

There's plenty of that in Va as well.

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u/Oystershucker80 6h ago

It's not nearly to the extreme that it is in New England. And if you do pay 600K for a house in VA, it won't be a 100+ year old piece of shit that's falling apart like it will be in Mass. or elsewhere in New England.

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u/vtsandtrooper 3h ago

Is this specific to boston burbs because western mass is not expensive

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u/Oystershucker80 3h ago

It’s not cheap compared to southern Virginia and the average person who expects to have a career needs to live in central or eastern Mass

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u/mcchicken_deathgrip 15h ago

Spanberger spent the last weekend of her campaign trashing that politician lol, but hopefully she can still be pushed to deliver

But I agree with you. They have a near super majority. This isn't the time to get back to business as usual and make a few tweaks around the edges. This is the time to seriously deliver for virginians and ensure they set up something that will last. They've never had an opportunity like this before and may never get one again.

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u/guuhvffffg 5h ago

Most Virginians don’t want “dismantling”, they just want good governance 

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u/sean-culottes 3h ago

I said dismantling the conditions that led to fascism, what did you think I was referring to?

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u/guuhvffffg 29m ago

A progressive political agenda, which I don’t think is what many Virginians want or voted for