• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    For precisely the opposite reason you are suggesting. They do not listen to what people want. They are out of touch and capitulate to the Republicans.

    Most people don’t want more corporate affiliation. Most people want food, healthcare, housing, education, and a living wage so they don’t exist as slaves to their company.

    All of those things are positions the GOP work actively against. The Dems currently do not act effectively to PROTECT those things. That’s why they’re unpopular.

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      2 days ago

      Most people want food, healthcare, education, and housing but not to the extent of the left. It would require very high taxes to pay for them. A high minimum wage doesn’t work. . California passed a $20.00/hr. minimum wage law for fast food workers. The result was that employers hired less workers.

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        2 days ago

        OK, smart guy, how do you propose we pay for these things if not with taxes. Right now, our taxes go to wars we don’t believe in. The Pentagon has failed its audits for years, misplacing billions and there’s no accountability. Politicians get to take advantage of gold standard Healthcare, but deny us a public option.

        We subsidize bullshit, our cost of living goes up, our wages stay stagnant, our food becomes more expensive, and affluent white dickheads in charge stay in charge.

        You propose keeping things the same, or at least you believe that’s what people want. We’ve been getting fleeced for years. Should we just hold out a little longer?

        The only people who speak like you are comfortable. You’re the minority.

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          2 days ago

          Taxes are necessary but if they are too high it lessens the motivation to work. The purpose of working hard is to make money not give it away. If Russia conquers Ukraine, it will lead to more defense spending as the threat from Russia would increase. Giving the Sudetenland to Hitler didn’t appease him.

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            False. China has lower inequality and simultaneously far greater economic growth and more innovation.

            And Putin is bad, but not remotely as harmful to world peace as the US regime. The US (both parties) has been involved in literally 200 military interventions just in the last few decades.

            Democracy is not when a black woman is chosen as the Nurembeg-deserving war criminal in chief.

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              8 hours ago

              Military intervention does not mean harming world peace. Examples, World War I and II and Korean War.