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The Lesser Evil (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 150 points 7 months ago (76 children)

Dems are beholden to billionaires. They just don’t want to be as obvious as Republicans.

It’s not liberals versus conservatives.

It’s the rich versus the rest.

There’s a lot more of us than there are of them.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (72 children)

    DNC platform is tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs. They have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years, currently 45. The last time they had 58 for less than two months they caucused with 2 independents to pass Medicaid. They would have launched a Public Option identical to Germany's healthcare if not for one of those independents opposing it.

    DNC is liberal, DNC is on our side, Vote DNC. Or, if an independent polls higher, then vote for them because at least they're not a Republican and removing every single Republican should be our goal.

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (21 children)

    Many democrats are on our side. Historically, traditionally the DNC AKA leadership absolutely isn't. There have been some changes in recent history. And that's good. But till there's enough history to plot out a new pattern of behavior. We'd be fools to treat them as if they changed.

    The biggest problem with the Democratic party for decades has been that they're serving two masters. Lip-service to the voters to try and get their neoliberal candidates in office. But legislating largely for the major donors that took over funding the party once Reagan broke the unions. The DNC talks the talk. But atm are unable to walk the walk. I hope that changes soon. With each death and retirement, things look a little better for them.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    Many democrats are on our side.

    Yeah, like three of them.

    And the rest are fighting harder to stop Democrats who actually are on our side than they are against fascists: people like Mamdani and Platner.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Yep, but thankfully it looks like Mamdani and Platner might be changing the equation. Fingers crossed.

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  • [+] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Everyone does. AOC and Mamdani literally are marching with us. It's largely leadership that keeps anything from getting done or changing. Blame them.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    The DNC has had multiple opportunities to tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs during my lifetime and they have not done so once. I don’t believe them anymore when they say it’s their platform.

    Being anti-Republican isn’t enough anymore. This shit will keep happening for as long as we allow private ownership of the means of production.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    The quiet part is there wasn’t a plan to tax the rich for another decade or two when they thought shit would actually hit the fan. Shit hit the fan much sooner than they hoped, as this was an issue they were going to leave the next generation to handle. It’s more an issue of the baby boomers having had control of the DNC for decades.

    Business was booming during the Obama years; why did it matter to the rich people in Congress if the rest of us had to hustle more? That’s the real reason they didn’t tax the rich when they could have, well that and they were getting tons of funding from the big businesses.

    The pro-corporate Dem plans went up in flames quite a lot when Hillary was not elected. Now that shit got worse much sooner than they hoped, they’re in a rock and a hard place because they still don’t want to tax their rich buddies but the voters are actually pushing to vote them out if they keep doing nothing.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (26 children)

    DNC platform is tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs.

    And their campaign promises have so much value, clearly.

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  • [+] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    they have absolutely no chance intention of pulling any of it off

    I corrected this slightly, but you're right. They know that none of it is actually going to get done, and they have the excuses already lined up: not enough votes, obstruction, filibuster, parliamentarian, etc. etc. etc.

    It's the same reason some billionaires insist that they support higher taxation on themselves, because they know it is never going to happen.

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