That’s what I’ve been arguing for years, those on the left that want change to happen, have to change the democratic party from within. It’s not just the best way, it’s the only way.
How about we figure out how to pay down our debt and then we can attack healthcare
Maybe stop paying $1.5 trillion dollars to the military industrial complex serving Israel, Wall St, military contractors and big oil.
And maybe stop giving the rich tax breaks on generational wealth and capital gains.
We only need a homeland defense force. That’s it. $100-150 billion a year is plenty. If we stopped the disgusting amount of military spending, we could have modern safety nets just like Europe.
People like you would go after pennies in the name of downplaying the debt. There are bigger fish to fry in the budget than not having universal healthcare. Let’s look at the oil subsidies, telecom subsidies, in fact give every single one a good glance over. I’m certain we can save enough billions to pay for healthcare multiple times over.
Yeah, Zohran Mamdani should focus on balancing the books before he opens the government communism store.
Oh, he did? And he fixed the potholes? And did it quicker using the machines of the government rather than corporate bureaucracy? And he wants me to earn more money each year, pay less to live, and cares about me as a person?
Well, all that sounds great in theory, but this billionaire said that we still need to pay off our debts, and billionaires know a thing or two about money!
They know about exploitation to get money, not making it. No one earns a billion dollars, they exploit workers and the stock market to get that wealth. In fact, they wouldn’t know anything about money because they don’t have loads of money, it’s all wealth in various assets that they have accountants shift around, appreciate, depreciate, take loans on, etc.
We can walk and chew gum.
Can we?
We have to really.
Or disaster will force it, one way or another
Don’t get me wrong I’d love universal health care but you also can guess disaster will have to force
Universal healthcare is pretty cheap compared to all the money we’ve been hemorrhaging on wars, support to countries like Israel, tax cuts… hell, all of this is small potatoes compared to the economic destruction that’s been done with these tarriffs.
We could have good healthcare for everyone for far less money than has been spent fighting with Iran this year.
Also, the USA can still afford all this and more because we are the richest society in history. Let’s keep some perspective. Even with all the crazy bullshit that’s happened in the last few years, we’ve never actually been lacking for money. It just gets prioritized into stupid shit.
There’s enough money in this country to pay for everything we want, and still have lower taxes than Europe. We just have to stop letting hoarders control the money.
Of COURSE! We MUST try to get MAGA Votes if we Want to WIN!
-Democrat Strategists!
I see you’ve been taking to Katie Hobbs!
Duh! All the recent losses to Progressives finally clue you in?!?
Raises the question as to why human decency is considered progressive….
Aha! Excellent question! The reason why human decency is considered evil is very simple.
When Jesus escaped the cross and purged everyone who tried to kill him at Golgotha, he explained that forgiveness, mercy, and humility are weaknesses of the human condition. If you feel someone has crossed you, then you are obligated by the LORD to get revenge, or you would be committing the mortal sin of mercy.
Observe Figure A down below. The evil ones who perverted Christ’s message favor the straight cross, since they believe that he actually wanted humans to be humble, forgiving, and weak. The true followers use this bent ends variant, which demonstrates how Christ changed his mind after the Romans failed to kill him.
Is this a shitpost? I can’t find any evidence of any of this. Is this like some fringe version of Christianity like the Rosicrucians or something?
I feel like I’m missing a joke.
There’s a massive silent /s at the end of that. It’s pointing out how warped conservative culture Christian ideology is, that they’re preaching the exact opposite of what Jesus actually taught, under a nazi symbol.
Exactly what I was going for.
Thank you lol Its really hard to distinguish that especially on something like Lemmy because so many people will actually believe and post about the most insane shit and be 100% sincere about it.
It’s the “Inquisitor Cycle” variant of Christianity. I don’t think they have an official name, so…yeah.
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet!!
As far as this position on the issues, I’m pretty sure this was already a majority opinion anyway?
That kind of thing - polling on issues that actually fucking matter to everyone - is exactly why the Republicans work so hard to try to paint the Democratic Party as trying to make everyone transgender and have men competing in every single K-12 female sports event…
Suddenly we are arguing over “bathroom bills” and “men in women’s sports” instead of about things on which there is majority support, but which the oligarchs oppose.
Hey, if Musk can make “everything computer” why can’t I make everything transgender?
men competing in every single K-12 female sports event
I kind of do want this, though? Like, not every event, but every once in a while let’s have a soccer match of a team of 6 year old girls versus a couple of middle-aged men. Just to see what happens.
They distract with the culture war to divert attention from class warfare.
Yeah they see it, but the standard Democratic politician will not do shit about it. Vote for the Progressives.
That’s great! Just keep your hands off firearms for law abiding citizens and you’ll have my vote.
The strawman, he’s long dead.
That’s hilarious coming from a Canadian where it’s difficult to get or even keep anything other than a pellet gun.
If your guns – that you presumably virtually never need to use – are such a ridiculously high priority to you, then your priorities are seriously out of whack. Especially since nobody’s trying to take them from you unless you’re mentally unfit to have them. Or is that the real reason for your “concern?”
Hobbyists don’t need guns at all. And, in order to preserve game species for future generations, hunters should be limited to using Stone Age bows with flint-tipped arrows, spears from the same era, and (in a bow to modernity) Louisville Sluggers, but only for bears over 1/4 of a ton.
As for self-defense, do something useful like learning situational awareness.
Wow, tell us you don’t understand herd management at all.
Wow, tell us you don’t understand sarcasm at all.
Yes, why don’t you since you don’t know how to use it.
They have in Canada and Australia. Aren’t those the places you keep creaming your pants about, hoping the same policies happen here?
Can’t rebut my argument (or won’t, which may be telling), so you lamely try to move the goalposts. Hard to take you seriously after that. What happened in those places isn’t going to happen here anytime soon (at least not with regard to guns). There are plenty of other much more pressing issues that should be higher in your priory list.
BTW in case you didn’t notice, I’m not the person you were talking to a couple comments back.
anytime soon
See, it’s saying things like that that’s making people like them skeptical.
Riiggghhhhttttt. Ignoring the fact that the distant future is almost completely unpredictable makes people less skeptical. Make sense.
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For those of us grounded in reality, the likelihood of gun ownership being forbidden anytime in the foreseeable future – especially when there are so many millions of people out there with them already – is extremely unlikely.
At the risk of sounding like a “think of the children” argument (which, ironically, that side of the political spectrum loves to misuse), I don’t believe anyone sane wants mentally unfit people to have access to guns.
Man, if we convince every single issue gun rights voter that the left is actually pro gun - shit, we could go bring justice to the pedophiles by next week. Fuck voting at that point.
Seriously though. We literally have our own version of the NRA on the left, the SRA. Any self respecting leftist owns at least one firearm.
Its a conservative supreme court, you don’t have to be a single issue voter. Progressive candidates can try to make promises to get elected, but no ones going to be able to take your guns away. Even a progressive court wouldn’t be able to do that much. A law for background checks or waiting periods on purchases might be upheld by a progressive court, but the right ultimately won’t be infringed.
Do something useful with your guns or shut up about them
I can’t access this site because of a Datadome block.
I’ll give you the first paragraph of each section.
Introduction
Liberal Democrats now make up a clear majority of their party and view universal healthcare, greater abortion access and higher taxes on the rich as essential political positions, underscoring how Democrats have moved leftward in recent years, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
String of Victories
Insurgent left-wing candidates this year have racked up a string of primary victories over more centrist Democrats, many of whom were backed by the party establishment. They have gone beyond New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s election last year in a deeply liberal city to vie for office in more politically divided states.
Divisions on Israel
Only 16% of Democrats support military and economic support for Israel, while 57% oppose it, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Among liberal Democrats, more than 80% said reducing or eliminating that support was either important or essential for any liberal; only 18% said it was not important.
And this is the poll of interest:
While I’m in favor of increasing taxes on the rich if given the option, it’s always felt like such a bandaid measure. Our society should be structured in a way that doesn’t produce these people in the first place.
Yeah but taxing the hell out of them helps with lowering production of them. The highest bracket tax rates used to be >90%
I’m aware of this. The problem I have is that it basically means they are subsidizing large segments of our economy, making us more dependent on them. More dependence gives them more leverage, and eventually only continues this back and forth we have now.
I still support it, as I said previously. But it’s never going to solve the root problems, which are executives and corporations as institutions. They need to be supplanted.
THESE are the Things that Democrat Voters WANT and will WILLINGLY vote for? Well I GUESS we have NO Choice but to TRY and Court MAGA votes!
-James Carville!
It’s a cold war between the rich and the middle class (the poor are already casualties). You can’t negotiate a truce with them because they’re winning. It’s way passed time to fight back so if we keep pulling our punches we’ll end up in a prison planet.
Wait are they seriously listening finally?
No this is just the people saying it not leadership saying/part of the dems platform
I am sure they just mean democratic voters not actual democratic candidates.
Democratic candidates will campaign on retaking both houses and then promise to work across the aisle for common sense tax reform.
The polls have been consistently showing progressive policies have been popular for quite a while. It’s the party that wasn’t going along with the wishes of voters.
