Things weren’t moving forward though, that’s exactly how we lost the support of the working class. Inequality and cost of living have been going up every decade.
Invested about $160 billion to provide the supplies, emergency response, testing, and public health workforce to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Provided critical relief to more than 15,000 school districts to reopen safely and support student well-being and academic recovery.
Delivered immediate support for families hard-hit by the pandemic, including extending enhanced unemployment insurance benefits and eligibility for millions of Americans temporarily out of the workforce, lowering taxes for working Americans by increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit for 17 million workers, and providing $1,400 per-person checks for most Americans.
Delivered assistance to help over eight million hard-pressed renters stay in their homes and kept eviction filings below historic averages in the aftermath of the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of losing their homes also received assistance through the American Rescue Plan’s Homeowner Assistance Fund to help prevent mortgage delinquencies and defaults, foreclosures, and losses of utilities and home energy services.
Provided a historic expansion of the Child Tax Credit, leading to the lowest child poverty rate in American history in 2021.
Created the first-ever summer nutrition benefit, helping the families of 30 million children nationwide who rely on free and reduced-price school meals afford food over the summer.
Delivered historic investments to help over 225,000 child care programs remain open, lowering costs for millions of families and helping speed the return to work of hundreds of thousands of mothers.
Provided direct fiscal relief to every state and territory and 30,000 cities and towns, enabling critical investments in housing, workforce, public safety, and water and high-speed internet infrastructure.
Lowered or eliminated health insurance premiums for millions of lower- and middle-income families enrolled in health insurance marketplaces, leading to record-breaking health insurance coverage nationwide.
Delivered more than $28 billion in emergency relief to help keep 100,000 restaurants and other food and beverage businesses open during the pandemic.
Powered a small business recovery and boom, including through a historic investment in the State Small Business Credit Initiative to catalyze tens of billions of dollars in private investment, and new small business financing and support, for up to 100,000 small businesses over the next decade.
What if we win - will we just try again, but voting harder until we need revolution again? With our current demographics, it could easily become a right wing revolution too.
We need a new power structure centered around workers, and always have. This is where capitalism leads.
You still could, but it requires taking to the streets in protest. The days are ticking away as he consolidates his power. It won’t always be an option.
Seriously?! Stopping the march of fascism is “very little return”?! You understand that this will get worse and worse, right? It might not seem that bad now, but they’ll haul away more and more minority populations, steal more power, start wars, and oppress everyone else. You’re not fighting against what conditions are like now. You’re fighting against what they will be when he takes full control.
There is only one way out of fascism, and that’s by fighting with everything you’ve got. But it seems like once you finally realize this, it’ll be too late.
If only we could have stopped this somehow
The government has always been run by the wealthy, half-assedly protecting workers rights at best. The only logical choice remains - unionization.
The logical choice was to not let trump win, to keep things moving forward and to make progress.
There are a lot of accelerationists in the crowd and they don’t appreciate how bad accelerationism makes things. It’s a shame.
Things weren’t moving forward though, that’s exactly how we lost the support of the working class. Inequality and cost of living have been going up every decade.
Bit late for that. I think at this point what you need is a revolution.
What if we win - will we just try again, but voting harder until we need revolution again? With our current demographics, it could easily become a right wing revolution too.
We need a new power structure centered around workers, and always have. This is where capitalism leads.
You still could, but it requires taking to the streets in protest. The days are ticking away as he consolidates his power. It won’t always be an option.
I appreciate the protests that are happening, but protests won’t do much until polling changes.
Pretty sure Trump just made a thinly veiled threat on the life of the Governor of Maine while declaring that, “I am the federal law”.
You’re asking a lot of people for very little return.
Seriously?! Stopping the march of fascism is “very little return”?! You understand that this will get worse and worse, right? It might not seem that bad now, but they’ll haul away more and more minority populations, steal more power, start wars, and oppress everyone else. You’re not fighting against what conditions are like now. You’re fighting against what they will be when he takes full control.
There is only one way out of fascism, and that’s by fighting with everything you’ve got. But it seems like once you finally realize this, it’ll be too late.