Alright, fuck Republicans, I'm onboard with that.

Living wage, I'm onboard with that too.

Fuck landlords as well, I'm waay onboard with that.

How about we raise minimum wage, but also regulate the hell out of several sectors so that the wealthy don't just consume whatever we raise it to with obscene inflation, otherwise what's the point?

if you want affordable housing we need to de-commodify it and get the investors out. no more airbnb, no more one investor group owning 10s of thousands of single family homes. Dumping regular people's money into this system, even if we give them a bunch extra, is only gonna drive prices even further up. The necessities of living are not speculation opportunities for the ultra rich.

When the minimum wage is not livable, you subsidize their employers with your taxes.

except democrats dont care either

start building a new system now.

You forget that dems vote against it as well: Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Jon Tester, Tom Carper, Chris Coons, Angus King...

You also forget that a $15/hour minimum wage isn't even a living wage in current year and that's what they voted against. Both sides fight for billionaires, stop deluding yourself.

I would argue you need unions more. There's no minimum wage in Iceland because we have people who negotiate it for us.

Which is why when Dems had their supermajority they passed a raise to minimum wage.

They codified Roe v Wade too, because it's just Republicans that were after that.

If there's no corresponding regulation on rent prices, minimum wage is irrelevant.

Raise the minimum wage to a bazillion dollars? Great! Rent is now three hundred bajillion!

Don't forget the decision banning non-competes. Apparently the decision went along 'party lines', with you know who Gop trying to keep them. But nooooooo, bOtH sIdEs SaMe.

Repugs want nothing less than slavery

Lot of dems voted against it too

Video evidence of a democrat voting down a minimum wage increase.

There's also an argument to be made for building better cities and more affordable housing (both more affordable and more of it), as well as building a society where you don't have to buy a car to participate. Life could be a lot more affordable if we didn't arrange our policies to make it so expensive.

Except the Dems have controlled the house, Senate and Presidency since 2009...

I mean. 2021-2023 Biden had House and Senate majorities...

Did I miss something?

Was it that as soon as we had a majority just enough Dems said they wouldn't vote with the party? And then party leaders saying "welp, trying would be pointless"?

Is that what I missed?

Don't get me wrong, it should work the way your meme makes it sound. But unfortunately the rich bought out both parties awhile ago.

It's why Biden and the DNC have their PAC, the Biden Victory Fund, that coordinates directly with the candidate and party, and you can give up to a million!

There is a mentality from Boomers and passed along to Gen X that full-time work does not entitle you to anything. That there are just millions of jobs in America that shouldn’t be required to pay people enough to live in the community they work, or anywhere for that matter. As long as that mentality aligns with the goals of capitalism, nothing will change.

You will hear all the excuses in the world justifying low-paying jobs. “Just get a better job if you don’t like the pay” “Those jobs are only for high school kids” “If they raise the pay they will raise the prices” The list goes on. None of them make a ton of sense if you explore the idea any further.

The idea of working hard and being, eventually, rewarded with good pay has been dead for decades. It is widely accepted that the easiest way to increase your pay is moving to a different company, which speaks a lot about longevity in this late-stage capitalism era most of us are living in today.

You are right both sides aren't the same. But by absolute standards, both sides are really really bad and I think that's a fair assessment all things considered. One has to be better than the other, but both are bad.

8 members of the Democratic caucus in the senate hate workers so much that they voted against increasing the minimum wage.

Pretending that anyone who notices is "both sides"ing is insulting to the workers Democrats said they totally wanted to help and then betrayed.

The party expects perfect lockstep from the electorate, but doesn't care about voting with the party when it comes time for the elected to do what we voted them in for.