• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The problem with the Democrats is that they still have respect for the constitution and institutions. Otherwise they’d get a lot done.

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      5 days ago

      I don’t agree. They waited until they lost a supermajority in congress to push healthcare reform (what became Obamacare). And dang, wouldn’t you know it, mean old republicans wouldn’t let us have single payer.

      So we got a healthcare bill that mandated we buy (generally) private market insurance. A bill written by Penny Pritzker, an insurance industry lobbyist.

      It’s kabuki. There’s only one party — the billionaire party.

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        “The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them,”

        ~ Julius Nyerere.

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      No, the problem with the leading Dems is that they ONLY respect the institutions. And their owner donors, of course.

      They’d rather let a million people die from lack of political action than subvert the Holy System or inconvenience the rich people legally (and sometimes illegally) bribing them.

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      The problem with democrats is that they feign respect for the constitution and institutions when it means enabling fascists.

      They didn’t give a shit about the constitution or institutions when they ignored the Leahy law to play arms dealer for genocide.

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      Then why don’t they take office when elected?

      They dont have respect. They just would rather see the other guys win than the the window move one nanometer left