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Unless you've got a better plan in the next 6 months, grab a fucking bucket (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m sure you could. Are queer people actually safer under Biden? Or has their safety just not gotten worse? Abortion rights? Health care? Separating families at the border? Has the average American’s life actually improved or is it just “not worse”?

It's funny, because I could answer all of those, and the inevitable response back would be "But Republicans are working against it, so it doesn't count"

I've been through this song and dance too many times.

Like every time Republicans go more fascist, Democrats see it as an excuse to move to the right and go “vote for the not fascist”. Fool me in 2016, shame on me. Fool me again in 2020, shame on you. Play the same goddamn game in 2024, I’m not sure what to say anymore.

You think... Democrats are further right now, in 2024... than they were in 2004.

Okay. You have fun with that delusion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You think... Democrats are further right now, in 2024... than they were in 2004.

What are these people smoking...the Democratic Party of 2024 is way left of the one from 1992, by any measure, fiscal or social

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right, but go back a bit further and we had Nixon (A Republican) starting the EPA and having a very handsomly high tax rate for thw wealthy.

This Blue Dog really is the result of Reaganomics infecting our brains.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

The party realignment was still well underway during the Nixon Admin, as he purposefully courted George Wallace voters who were white segregationists and disaffected conservative Democrats. Both parties used to have conservative and liberal caucuses, and where a specific politician stood on an issue couldn't typically be pinpointed by the letter behind their name, but Nixon's Southern Strategy was the beginning of the end of that.