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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (38 children)

Both sides are not the same. Republicans are the ones who don't want to help the workers and lower/middle class. Tax the rich and the big business. Make public college free, make healthcare free, make child care free. How? Tax the rich and big businesses. They have hoarded all the money we generated for them. (They are using it to create space ships for fun and buying up EVERYTHING). If they want to do business in the USA tax them. Stop voting for republicans, they don't care about our democracy. Get more liberal justices on the supreme court to fix what republicans have done to our rights. Money shouldn't be speech and corporations are not people.

I'm sure that Republicans right now are trying to stop student debt relief, again. Stop voting for them. They have no policies to help the workers. Only tax cuts for the rich and hate, i.e. woke, i.e. minorites, LGBT, women, non Christains, and diversity.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Y'know, the only reason the Democrats struggle to win at all is that sometime in the post-Nixon era they collectively decided to stop standing up for labor's buying power. When they did this, (which helped them a lot in terms of their ability to get corporate donors to finance their elections), it meant that working people would go from having 1 party represent labor to 0 parties doing that.

In the 50s an entry-level job that a high-school graduate could get would support a family, buy a home and a couple of cars, and pay out a retirement. Today, that job won't even pay for an apartment without roommates.

That right there is the whole reason the GOP is a viable political party at the federal level- with both parties beholden to corporate donors, winning elections is more or less a matter of spending money on campaign ads attacking the other party because neither party has to do anything that voters want

[–] SuddenDownpour 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As things stand right now, the GOP's platform is "let's pick a scapegoat to exhume the lower classes' frustrations", while the Democrats' is "let's not do that". It's no wonder why the Dems can only garner around ~27% of all elegible votes (vs the Republicans' ~25%), most of their voters don't particularly like their politicians nor their policies, they just don't want to be governed by fucking crazies.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (44 children)

For anyone that wants to really know exactly what the conservatives plan to do against the American people, read their ”Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership."

At least read the Forward, but here's the whole PDF:

https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

The rhetoric just in the Forward is frightening, disgusting, and dangerous.

We MUST vote for the Democrats if we're going to maintain any semblance of real freedom for everyone and not just conservative white people.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

(Side note, I found it hilarious that the "Forward" felt like it was 1000 pages down. And reading that much BS made me feel gross.)

Ok so, the Project 2025 thing is terrifying. Their Forward is terrifying. They have no plan for making this country better for anyone except themselves. They state very clearly they want to delete anything they don't like.

They want to ban books and open discussions.

They want to deny racism exists or ever existed.

They want to deny that biology exists outside of their narrow minded beliefs.

They want to force a single religion on everyone.

They cite problems and point the finger at everyone except themselves.

As if it wasn't abundantly clear at this point based on their ACTIONS what Republican rule will be... And yet we still have millions of people fully invested in that cult of hate and fear.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not American, but reading the Foreword was just plain scary to me since it comes from a major party. There's nothing about economics and all about moral outrage. You guys need to diversify your parties somehow.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

no no no he has it all wrong. It's the party of the WORKING class. E.g. they are going to put you all TO WORK.

Keeping the wealth with the wealthy means you get to work for them. They're in charge don't you see? We're just their worker bees. There's enough of us that we don't need healthcare. Education is a luxury for the children of the wealthy elite, NOT the workers. The dumber and more ignorant the worker the less they need to offer them in compensation. If you don't know better, you don't ask for more!

It's all about being the smartest in the room. Why do good things for people when you can just fuck them over and have them sing your praises? This is why they want to teach that slavery taught valuable skills. They want to enslave us, and they are slowly doing that generation after generation with income disparities. Pretty soon we'll work our whole lives just to subsist and owning a home will be only afforded to the wealthy elite. The rest of us will work for them in the form of rent and they will be our land LORDS.

It's definitely the party of workers. More workers! Work for your owners!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

BuT hOw ArE wE gOnNa aFfOrD iT!?!?!?!??!?!?!!?

the fucking pentagon can't account, literally cannot conceive, of where more than two thirds of its budget WENT.

Of almost a TRILLION DOLLARS, 886 billion dollars, they only know where ONE THIRD of it went.

That ~600 Billion Dollars have afforded all those things.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Pentagon does know where there money goes but they are never going to tell a committee of idiots who cannot keep a damn thing secret. If you can't trust even the President to not run his mouth or expose classified satellite capabilities to our enemies then why would they ever tell anyone in politics where that money is going? I want a transparent govt as much as the next person but it isn't going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're legally required to tell those things, and democracy is not built on secrecy.

This is the major interest point for me in UAP investigations - it looks exceedingly likely that the Pentagon is embezzling some of those funds through "pet projects" that are all legacy, ultra-secret, unaccountable, and need to produce nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

"Oh no no no, you misunderstand, we're the party of WORKING the lower CLASSES to death, gotta read that fine print". - Lionel Hutz, GOP Supreme Court Justice Candidate

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

This is not a meme.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Image Transcription:

X/Twitter post by user Robert Reich @RBReich reading: "The Republican Party is against:

  • National paid family and medical leave
  • Universal childcare
  • Universal pre-K
  • Tax increases on the wealthy and corporations
  • The expanded Child Tax Credit
  • Student debt relief

Doesn't sound like the party of the working class to me."

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It never was 🌎 👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's just do much more obvious now. The only real values holding this shell of a "party" together are fear and hatred. Emotions >> platforms/issues in modern politics. It's pathetic, and this complete death grip on a two party system will ultimately kill American democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not American, so I curious why they have only two parties?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Their election system (basically winner-takes-all) pretty much guarantees that it will converge in a two-party system with roughly 50/50 share and people voting for "the lesser evil" rather than their favourite. If a third challenger appears, it will split the voter base of the more close candidate and guarantee a huge victory for the farther candidate (the opposite of what the challenger stands for). So essentially it's doomed to be a bipartisan circlejerk unless the election system itself is changed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ranked choice voting seems to be the solution

However, both parties are against it because neither want to give up power

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Correct. Also worth saying that because it was designed by rich white male British colonists over 200 years ago who deliberately made it almost impossible to change, our system is hopelessly outdated and very difficult to upgrade. This is especially true when there are certain demographics that get a ton of over representation through the existing system.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

There are more parties than two, they just aren't very popular

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Republican Party is against:

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