Have I been out of the loop on politics?
Wasn’t it the Dems who voted to protect Union Pensions? Republicans voted against it.
Dems voted to extend the child tax credit this year. EVERY Republican voted against it.
And didn’t Kamala Harris run on helping with funding for first time home buyers?
When did the narrative of Dems being against the working class start? Was it just because Bernie said it recently?
NAFTA and Wall Street bailouts come to mind.
In regards to Bernie, his premise is that wealth inequality is the core problem, which means tax the rich until they can’t have an outsized influence on our politics.
Taxing the upper class was part of their platform though…so…still unsure as to where there against the “working class”.
We can keep telling ourselves Mark Cuban’s “opportunity economy” was good enough but objectively it was a flop with working class voters. Either it was a messaging failure or it wasn’t populist enough, Bernie is saying it is the latter. If it was a messaging failure, then we’re likely to conclude it is because our media landscape is toxic. Bernie would agree and say that is why we need a populist message to cut through.
ive been waiting 30 years for them to end the ‘war on drugs’. or enact ‘universal health care’.
notice they let the post office get brutalized with irrational fiscal policies and have done nothing to stop it. hell, biden still hasnt removed the guy that was put in place to fuck it all up.
college costs an arm and a leg because the let student be victimized by student loans. they arent trying to stop that loan process. just clear out some old debts. half-assed at that.
theyve done almost nothing to simplify the tax paying process despite every other modern taxing country having it be automatic.
so many little bits they just dont give 2 shits about because money. because corporate interests.
biden still hasnt removed the guy that was put in place to fuck it all up.
And this right here is a large part of why Trump was just re-elected. People whining about how Biden and Democrats haven’t done enough, so they don’t vote or vote 3rd party, when in reality, they have no clue what they’re talking about.
Biden doesn’t have the authority to fire DeJoy on his own.
People saying things they know nothing about, then other people reading it and thinking it’s true and getting upset about it, then making irrational decisions based on fallacies.
Thanks, dude.
I moved to a bluer state and …
ive been waiting 30 years for them to end the ‘war on drugs’. or enact ‘universal health care’.
We’re we’re one of the first to decriminalize pot, and created sort of universal healthcare that served as a model for aca.
college costs an arm and a leg
Free community college, means tested free public universities
I think there’s a misconception about elected officials. Many people believe they work to improve the lives of American citizens, but they don’t. Most of their time is spent fundraising and catering to wealthy donors. The majority of them don’t care about you at all.
I think there’s a misconception about elected officials. Many people believe they work to improve the lives of American citizens, but they don’t.
This. They want votes. They do what they think will get them votes. And yet, often – and in the last election – the democrats that help the people (like by walking a union picket line, supporting LGBTQ+ and basic human rights, legalizing cannabis, reducing penalties petty crimes, etc.) don’t get the votes that are part of the bargain.
They vote for and enact legislation that helps the people, and the people don’t re-elect them. The incentive shifts to satisfying wealthy donors.
300 years of screwing poor people. Support for the 2008 bailout for Wall Street. Donations from tech companies. They claim to support Medicare for everyone but haven’t done anything about it. Democrats tend to disregard working class and rural populations. In fact they denigrate them and think of them as uneducated hicks. Remember the basket of deplorables? Obama deported more immigrants than any other president.
It’s not that they’re against the working class, it’s that they don’t do enough to fight for the working class. How can they when they all take money from billionaires and invest in their companies?
Not having any real plans to solve the problem of shrinking wages and an ever growing wealth gap makes Democrats stay home. And only when enough Democrats stay home do Republicans win.
Yes, the Democratic party is against the working class. Yes, the Republican party is much, much, much worse. Yes, you have been out of the loop if you need examples.
