• retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    No. Dems had the opportunity to make RvW law under Obama. They simply refused and used their super majority to force everyone to buy private insurance instead. We lost RvW because of establishment democrats and this naive belief from neoliberal voters that Dems will reform themselves “one day” if we just keep voting for their establishment picks and pretending Millenials and GenZ don’t exist. “Vote blue, no matter how beyond the pale the candidates behaviour and beliefs become because we will always make sure the other option is worse”

    it’s starting to sound more and more like you just want Trump to win to tear down the system and you’re not worried about all the innocent people who will be hurt by that.

    I am the people who will be hurt, I’m literally part of one of the first demographics the GOP will target. No one wants Trump to win but that fear for myself doesn’t stop me from staying true on my own moral limits and remaining focused on applying real pressure to reform dem party politics, because that’s literally the only viable path out of the situation Democrats have put us all in while they’ve been busy shoving corporate and Israeli cash up their asses.

    We tried it your way for 40 years. It does not work. no amount of feeding the dem establishment will weaken them, only starving them will work. Yes, that is painful for all of us, but the other option is staying on the slow road to fascism.