Dem leadership is ass. Rep leadership is ass.
We're cooked.
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This enslaver state has been an ongoing disaster since its inception.
I think the Democratic leadership is now certain to follow the Whigs into the Home for Infinite Losers, alongside the Republicans too. That situation sounds VERY familiar. "They flip-flopped, then they caved."
The Whigs Collapse! | Why Slavery Killed the Age of Jackson
And once again Bernie Sanders is fucking correct
Yes he hasn’t signed on wanting Schumer to be replaced.
Either has AOC.
That’s it IMO. That’s the death of it all right there.
I really wish Bernie would enter the presidential as an independent. Not necessarily as the presidential pick but maybe as VP, given his age. Although if you see how the annoying orange has been doing recently I think Bernie could take over even in 4 years from now and be better.
I fear that by doing that it would split the left vote. Resulting in more easy Republican victories.
Calling democrats "the left" is a bit funny...
For the American Overton window. Of course they're more right wing when viewed in the light of European or even Canadian political sphere.
Or Asian sphere. Or South American sphere. Pretty much we're the crazies.
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I'm thinking that the US needs to go back to A/B testing. The "christians" in the midwest think social safety nets and "free handouts" should be illegal? They can get that. The countries who want them handouts, however, get them. And in 30 years we compare how's everyone doing.
The biggest problem with leaving it up to the states is that the party that is always harping on about states' rights is a bunch of disingenuous liars who immediately start restricting states' rights the second the state doesn't do what they want.
They refuse to fund disasters and social programmes in "blue" states while demanding it in theirs. Gloat about "voting to repeal Obama care" while taking credit for ACA (the same thing) in their home state (cause people like it)
It feels like there's basically no point in trying to make a deal with them
I’m thinking that the US needs to go back to A/B testing.
Like the Civil War?
The rich assholes in Washington do not care about us. They are set for life with the best Healthcare in the world. Why should they care about us?
Fuck the democrats. Fuck the Republicans more, but these democrats need to fucking go as well. They all need to go.
Bernie should have started 3rd party when they cheated him out of the presidential nomination. He played it safe and achieved nothing.
Third party won't work in a FPTP system.
We can pass RCV in local elections across the country, but progressive Dems need to work within the party lines to get shit done.
And he is a 3rd party: Democratic Socialist.
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Americans are too stupid to vote for a 3rd party and they're too stupid to implement any kind of ranked choice voting.
We all suffer because of our collective stupidity, and rich people continue to profit off of it.
Oh no, we aren't too stupid to implement ranked choice voting, we live in a country run by people who have a vested interest in not implementing it
Por que no los dos?
MA lost the ballot initiative for ranked choice voting by lobbyists who made enough people believe it's too complicated.
Too complicated? Motherfucker you've been ranking favorite things longer than you've been shitting on a toilet.
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With all due respect. Because we probably agree on a lot of things. However, the "Americans are too stupid/lazy" take is the excuse used by stupid/lazy Americans to avoid making effort for change. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
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Incredibly relevant discourse for the current US political environment
Apologies for reddit link, can't upload video directly in a comment on lemmy. The information this individual covers is absolutely vital for understanding modern politics in the US, and needs to be common knowledge if the US is ever going to recover from the exploitation that has led us here.
Most on lemmy will already be aware of the basics covered here, but for anyone confused as to why dems always choose failure in the most frustrating ways, this will explain it for you. This is why we need to support actual progressives who refuse to be bought and paid for.
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Can someone explain to me simply (and I'm assuming the answer to that is "no"), why they can't force the insurance companies to compete with each other on price. That would seem to be the obvious "free market republican" thing to do, and a prerequisite for removing the fat subsidy to the insurance companies that they're currently trying to remove.
Because as usual, it's a crime against humanity to pay gamblers to rob us of our healthcare.
This is ancient news that will never accepted in the phony capitalist/hegemonic narrative of "insurance" and "markets".
https://web.stanford.edu/~jay/health_class/Readings/Lecture01/arrow.pdf
Because insurance doesn’t work like a normal product or good.
What ends up happening is they charge as much as they possibly can. The book “an American sickness” explains all the problems if you’re interested.
The ACA was never going to be great. It was the best that could get passed.
It wasn't the best that could get passed. The Dems had a super majority during Obama's 1st two years and could have gotten us Medicare for all, but Rahm Emmanuel blocked it.
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