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Eat the rich already (lemmy.world)
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[–] 28 points 1 week ago* (16 children)

The Democrats have had almost FIFTY YEARS to increase taxes on the rich to pre-Reagan levels.

I'm starting to think that maybe they're in on it

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago

    The side of the democrats who actually want some vaguely leftwing policies is currently increasing their numbers

    Support them, please

    Sanders has a whole book showing how even in the dems there are people paid by corporations and AIPAC, he knows, he says it publicly, yet he's out there supporting some democratic candidates.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago* (6 children)

    You can complain about this on any other day but today. It doesn't matter how bad you think the democrats are. Currently they are the only way to limit Trump's power.

    This sort of stuff discourages people to vote.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    You vote for the Democrats to slow the slide to the right. But never hope for them to ever reverse anything. They will just do it more discreetly.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    I'll vote for them because there's no viable third party option that speaks to me.

    They're also easier to push to more progressive laws.

    Also: all the Republicans are pushing trans ads HARD. I'm paying so much more for groceries and they're airing ads about trans kids. Out of touch asshats.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    This is actually a tough point, because of all the non-mainstream parties available, I've got the Greens for a moderate reform and that's basically it. A Natural Law party appeared on the ballot, but I get the prayers-over-pursuit vibe from them, even if they may not associate with Christianity.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    You know Republicans have to vote for it to pass it right? The last time they had a majority was for only 2 months in 2010 and it wasn’t a true majority because Kristin Sinema and Joe Manchin blocked everything.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    they had both house and senate in 2019-2023

    From the article:

    Control of the Senate shifted over to a 50-50 party split on Wednesday as Democratic Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were both sworn in as the 49th and 50th Democratic senators, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris as the deciding vote should the chambers' votes ever end in a tie.

    50-50 split with Republicans potentially posing as Democrats is a pretty weak level of absolute control, but you're technically correct.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    Yeah thats pretty much been it. Since Reagan both parties had a trifecta three times each. Democrats have always had a few spoilers on anything (Sinema, Manchin, fetterman types) and razor thin margins. Republicans are much more likely to vote lockstep unless someone (Collins) can do a vote against for show. They also have had more years with a trifecta total.

    Thats not even factoring in the supreme court bullshit we've had going on since Bush.

    The thing is we've already seen that voting matters. Republicans always showed up and voted for the furthest right. That made more of them keep fucking going right. Meanwhile progressives stay home because "theyre not good enough" and that Overton window just keeps going.

    If the working class would show the fuck up and always vote for the most left, we could make that Overton window shift further and further left.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    What did they actually block?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Off the top of my head Sinema became famous for blocking a minimum wage increase. She was definitely a establishment spoiler because she didn’t do anything but block stuff. Manchin gets a pass in my book because he was actually voting for his constituents. He ran as Democrat but he was actually a left leaning republican representing West Virginia which is Republican territory. He didn’t block much but he stonewalled anything that was remotely progressive. Torpedoed any bill that didn’t give massive concessions to republicans or West Virginia.

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