My eighty year-old parents are driving for DoorDash, and if they don’t, no one in this government will lift a finger to help them. Tens of millions of Americans can’t absorb a $400 expense without going further into debt. Most Americans don’t see much wrong with the fact that people are working 2-3 jobs at upwards of 100 hours a week and all their labor buys them is a roach-infested studio.
Respectfully, me and most Americans have every right to be angry, and it shouldn’t have taken the onset of fascism to make you partisans actually see how negative your politics are, because this severe impoverishment is now in its ninth year, and all we heard from Democrats were excuses.
Well maybe if people don’t vote (or vote third party, same thing), that’ll help. Or at least that’s what you’re strongly implying.
Yeah, we’re all angry. But when two parties control 98% of the government, you have to be a little more discerning than “they’re all bad”. Particularly so when one side is fucking Nazis and the other side ranges from Bernie to Pelosi. And I don’t give a shit how much you hate Pelosi, she’s not a fucking Nazi. Even Pelosi is still better than the best federally elected Republican who has retained their office. When things are so clear between the parties, it’s a moral crime to be so lazy as to say they’re both the same. They’re not.
You don’t have to get on board with every Democrat. But if you’re not on board with Bernie and AOC, I don’t know what the fuck you expect to get done. And Bernie and AOC are largely supportive of the Democratic party. When they’re not, they’re very precise and directed about it. They never imply “they’re all the same”, and we shouldn’t be that lazy either.
Well maybe if people don’t vote (or vote third party, same thing), that’ll help.
After the last eight years, neither of these two parties is appealing, and the people who don’t vote saw both parties do nothing about their impoverishment for the last eight years. Blaming them is like punching someone in the face and then complaining to them that you broke your hand. It was particularly disgusting watching Kamala Harris tell poor people that she’d do nothing about it for three months AND that they should just “be joyful”.
you have to be a little more discerning than “they’re all bad”.
We’re way past that. Unless you’re willing to commit an act of terrorism or vigilantism or have a billion dollars, you have zero power now. Same as the rest of us.
But if you’re not on board with Bernie and AOC,
They’re powerless too, mostly. Dems invented superdelegates in order to subvert their own primary rules and force Bernie out. I will give Bernie some credit as his use of the bully pulpit has created positive change. Remember when he gave speeches on Disney’s and Amazon’s labor practices and ended up winning living wages for a quarter of a million people? I sure do.
That’ll happen when you live in a country like this. Everyone’s desperate.
Mostly your comment.
I wish I were just being dramatic.
My eighty year-old parents are driving for DoorDash, and if they don’t, no one in this government will lift a finger to help them. Tens of millions of Americans can’t absorb a $400 expense without going further into debt. Most Americans don’t see much wrong with the fact that people are working 2-3 jobs at upwards of 100 hours a week and all their labor buys them is a roach-infested studio.
Respectfully, me and most Americans have every right to be angry, and it shouldn’t have taken the onset of fascism to make you partisans actually see how negative your politics are, because this severe impoverishment is now in its ninth year, and all we heard from Democrats were excuses.
Well maybe if people don’t vote (or vote third party, same thing), that’ll help. Or at least that’s what you’re strongly implying.
Yeah, we’re all angry. But when two parties control 98% of the government, you have to be a little more discerning than “they’re all bad”. Particularly so when one side is fucking Nazis and the other side ranges from Bernie to Pelosi. And I don’t give a shit how much you hate Pelosi, she’s not a fucking Nazi. Even Pelosi is still better than the best federally elected Republican who has retained their office. When things are so clear between the parties, it’s a moral crime to be so lazy as to say they’re both the same. They’re not.
You don’t have to get on board with every Democrat. But if you’re not on board with Bernie and AOC, I don’t know what the fuck you expect to get done. And Bernie and AOC are largely supportive of the Democratic party. When they’re not, they’re very precise and directed about it. They never imply “they’re all the same”, and we shouldn’t be that lazy either.
After the last eight years, neither of these two parties is appealing, and the people who don’t vote saw both parties do nothing about their impoverishment for the last eight years. Blaming them is like punching someone in the face and then complaining to them that you broke your hand. It was particularly disgusting watching Kamala Harris tell poor people that she’d do nothing about it for three months AND that they should just “be joyful”.
We’re way past that. Unless you’re willing to commit an act of terrorism or vigilantism or have a billion dollars, you have zero power now. Same as the rest of us.
They’re powerless too, mostly. Dems invented superdelegates in order to subvert their own primary rules and force Bernie out. I will give Bernie some credit as his use of the bully pulpit has created positive change. Remember when he gave speeches on Disney’s and Amazon’s labor practices and ended up winning living wages for a quarter of a million people? I sure do.
Lazy, damaging, useless shit.