Not when you're a government.
Mandate that payment processors have to support the state debit network and you'll be on half the terminals in the country in under a year.
I'm trans, and I'm not the only one in my family.
My Dad claims he votes Republican for tax purposes.
If you're aware of what a back-of-card network is then you should understand how transformative a state-backed zero-fee interchange would be.
yeah, that's just politics, idk what you really expect it to do lol.
Right? I guess I'm just a cynical old anarcho-commie but American politics has always felt like one step forward and two steps back.
What’s different this time is how many “moderate” Republicans are endorsing the Democrats.
they are moderate btw. That the reason they're supporting dems.
They were never moderate, that's why they were Republicans in the first place. The only reason they're supporting Dems now is because the Dems have stopped pretending to be left-wing and openly embraced their status as America's non-wingnut Capitalist party.
i don't think the democratic party is over, i think you're just either being wildly over dramatic here, or simply wrong about how the democratic party works.
Dramatic, sure, but I don't think it's overly so. The party no longer needs to appeal to the interests of us small folks now that business interests are starting to abandon the Republican project. Working within the system to enact meaningful change was already nigh-impossible, but now that the Democrats have an unassailable electoral position there's no reason for them not to become complacent and allow themselves to be influenced by lobbyists even more than before.
I feel like bernie probably just wasn't popular enough to win, certainly a beloved candidate, but idk if people would've genuinely voted him in. Maybe if he was the primary candidate, but they obviously didn't pick him, to whatever consequence that had.
If the Democrats had put their weight behind Bernie then 2016 wouldn't even have been a contest. He was literally the single most popular politician in America at the time and Clinton was close to the opposite, but the DNC decided it was "Her Turn" and arranged the rest of the competition to drop out and endorse Clinton ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries. Between that and the superdelegates there was no way for the best candidate to win.
They also promoted Trump under the assumption that he'd be an easy opponent for her. XD
And credit unions offer accounts with lower fees and higher interest rates than commercial banks, whose only advantages are having more branch offices, ATMs, and a bigger marketing budget.
Postal banking solves this deficit by making every post office a branch of the national credit union.
What service? Debit cards for postal banking accounts?
It absolutely would be because for-profit banks would have to compete with non-profit government services..
Petite bourgeoise, the managerial class who wield structural control over the labor power of others but lack sufficient capital to simply hire someone else to maintain that structure for them. Same as gang members, small business owners, corporate middle-managers, etc.
Cultivate a fascination for neologism and you can be the old person that correctly and unironically uses modern slang to the horror of young people everywhere~
Become the reason that kids have to find new words for things all over again and you'll never run out of new material~
No need for crypto, there are plans on deck for a postal banking system that already include debit card service (and a government union for the workers who have to maintain the infrastructure). That's pretty much the end of the credit card mafia if it comes to pass.
*with or without
FTFY
There can be more than two categories.
Yeah, well, my weirdness continues. I've got that ADHD time-blindness pretty damn hard, so future events which are inevitable might as well have already occurred in my perspective.
That's my prediction as well. Now that the Democrats are the new right-wing, the obvious competition would be a new left-wing party. It probably won't be one of the existing "left" parties though, as they are almost all thoroughly captured by either foreign interests, state security agencies, or both.