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[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In reality the Dems will do none of those things though. They won't nationalize anything because they are neoliberals. They won't fully defund ICE because they want racists to vote for them too. They'll just reduce the budget and maybe stop putting kids in cages. They won't shut down funding for the exec branch because they'll say it is "irresponsible".

More things they'll never do:

  • Demilitarise and defund the police
  • Provide free public healthcare and education for all
  • Raise taxes on billionaires
  • Stop mass surveillance programs
  • Reform the electoral system to allow proportional representation
  • Properly regulate and tax corporations
  • Stop providing weapons to their genocidal allies

I'd love to be proved wrong, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Shutting down funding for the executive program means cutting pretty much every program the government has, if you're not going to reformat it. Which is not implied.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

They should still do it and bring the country to a standstill if necessary. If extreme measures aren't applicable now, when will they be? It'll cause some short term pain, but it'll get everyone out in the streets.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Founding Fathers, 1776: Democracy is worth fighting and dying for! We must water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. We must risk our fortunes and our lives so that our children can live in freedom.

Democrats, 2025: Trump is a dictator destroying democracy, but we can't risk temporarily shutting down government transfer payments in order to stop him.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The person who posted the tweet in this post who suggested cutting funding was a Republican and now is a independent