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[-] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Obama had a super majority for 72 days and even then that required independents to caucus with them. Independents who are the reason the health care talks stalled. This isn't Obama's fault it's Liebermans. No matter how many times you repost this bull in this thread it still won't be true. Stop doing the GOPs work and convincing people to not vote for the only side that is doing anything to stem the tide on every issue you are bringing up b

[-] raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not telling people to not vote democrat in the general, I'm saying that if you keep electing people like Biden in the primaries then there will be no meaningful long term progress away from the corporatocracy we are stuck in. Ever. Not "a little slow progress" not "generational change" not "good instead of perfect" we will continue to backslide because yes, the GOP is pulling backwards with all their might, but the establishment democrats are sitting on the cart with corporate money shoved in their mouth and calling it progress.

Things are not getting better because we are not putting better people in office, they have been getting worse, we are losing rights at an unprecedented speed and if people like Biden cannot effectively fight that they need to get out of the way, urgently.

Biden has declared his climate funding "once in a generation". Yet we're nowhere close to addressing climate change and we easily spend many times that amount yearly on things like military and corporate welfare without blinking an eye, so what does that tell you about his motivations and sense of urgency? That's him telling you he thinks what he's done is good enough for a generation and can go back to waiting on wall street.

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