bOtHsIdEsAmE is bs.
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I mean something happened in between The Simpsons owning their own home and raising three kids on one income, and that being like this crazy dystopia that was hailed as a good illustration of how messed up things were for American families, to now people going to work at Walmart at 65 as a greeter because they can’t do anything else but the system still wants to squeeze a little more value from them. It wasn’t all Ronald Reagan for those intervening 30 years.
I mean something happened in between The Simpsons owning their own home and raising three kids on one income,
What happened is that the Dems have had control of all 3 (house of reps, senate, presidency) for 6 of the last 44 years. That’s right, 6 years out of the last 44 fucking years. If you want filibuster proof control, then it’s 4 months of the last 44 years. Not 4 years, 4 MONTHS out of the last 44 fucking years. When they don’t have control of all 3, they have to reach across the aisle to get anything done.
Want progress? Give Dems consistent and overwhelming victories.
One side wants to fuck the working class. The other side wants to fuck the working class and kill gays.
They both effectively want to kill gays, just one of them is overt about it and the other restricts itself to the degrades living conditions of the marginalized under capitalism while covering itself in a rainbow flag.
As another queer example, trans people face hardship like other marginalized people. They disproportionately face rejection by their support systems, homelessness, difficulties with employment, access to healthcare. I have personally interacted with many, many Democrats that claim to be pro-trans but demonize the homeless and fight against universal healthcare. They support the systems of marginalization but selectively tap into empathy and acceptance.
But materially, the primary outcome is the same. Republicans usually embrace the overtly reactionary psychology of marginalization while Democrats ensure the material consequences of marginalization remain intact.
Though we shouldn’t forget that Dems are also often homophobic, racist, transphobic, islamophobic, etc etc.
Oh yeah Union empowerment from Dems is sooo bad. The non compete clause being stuck down is sooo bad (came from Dems appointments). ACA from Obama is sooo bad. Student debt relief from Dems is soooooo bad.
You need to open your eyes.
Biden broke the rail strike and tons of Trump-era NLRB decisions remain in place. Dems are not pro-labor, though many do try to wrap themselves in the aesthetic selectively. For example, none of them care about the global working class and virtually none care about the economic underclass of undocumented labor.
I see them show up to give speeches and then fail to provide material support when it’s needed. I see them cut worker protections. I see them cozy up to their business owner donors and do the bidding of the chamber of commerce.
Good-cop/bad-cop ass system.
Asking in genuine good faith: when you see politicians that abuse their power to this extent, how is your argument that they need more power through either socialism or communism? How would giving them that kind of control improve anything?
This is not an abuse of power- this is them exercising the power they are granted by the capitalist state to defend the capitalist class.
Replace “democrats and republicans” with “the worker’s party” and “the working class” with “the capitalist class” and picture all the implications of that, and then understand why we’d like socialism.
Politicians serve who controls them, ie who funds them. The idea isn’t to take an existing Capitalist state and add a bunch of state power, but to restructure the state and economy along proletarian democracy, ie worker councils and whatnot.
Socialism isn’t giving Capitalist politicians control, but giving workers control of the state and economy.
the working class votes democrat and republican.
