• SaltyAmerican@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    But they’re not mad at their own party for promising for 50 years to do something and then doing nothing. Despite having the chance multiple times. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are just as guilty of Roe versus Wade being eliminated as Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      I hate “Both Sides”-ism, but it’s hard to deny when you look at the historical record. 50+ years since Carter, and we’ve had Clinton, Obama, and Biden, and not one of them got us health care. Obama got closest, with a REPUBLICAN plan. The one time they throw us a bone, and it’s a Republican bone.

      Add in everything else, Abortion, taxes, minimum wage, college tuition, housing, and more, and we’ve gotten literally nothing, or even gone BACKWARDS, with these Democrats, for decades.

      It’s like the middle management at your work. There’s one supervisor that everybody loves, and everybody wishes they were on their team. Then there is the supervisor that everybody hates because they make every minute of every day at work miserable. Nobody wants to work for them.

      But they both have the same basic job - to advance their THEIR boss’ agenda. They accomplish it different ways, but ultimately they are serving the same agenda, and have the same objective.

      That’s the two-party system, and we should just opt out. I’ve been an Unaffiliated Independent since I first registered to vote 49 years ago. Neither party knows what I’m up to, and neither party can count on my vote. If you want my vote, you have to EARN it, every time.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Those elections didn’t matter because they were in the past. This election and only this election is the most important one of our lifetimes. If you can secure nothing over something bad, then after this Democratic win then we’ll have time to start organizing for real.

      You aren’t already organizing? That’s a you problem. I organize all the time. I’m just here on the internet telling you how to vote right now.

      Also they couldn’t have done anything because they never had a super majority with the president and the entire Supreme Court. They can’t even deny budgets, we need some of our money back!