This is what happened in Ontario. Our premier took away mandatory paid sick days right away and guess what happened next? ...Ontario voted for him again 4 years later with a majority. And then they did it again earlier this year.
Never underestimate how stupid the voter base is.
It's because they do these things strategically. They passed these corporate centric laws that hurt voters in the years when there's no election. Then they spend the rest of the time pumping social issues that their conservative minded voters care about like abortion and immigration totally overshadowing the thing they did to screw over the voters. And the, now conservative controlled, media helps them to cover it all up.
This is why progressives win when they’re not being undermined by corporate Democrats. Average people, including Republican voters, support this stuff by large majorities most of the time, even in the face of right wing propaganda.
I don’t think they deserve this because they vote Republican. I think they deserve paid sick leave and a higher wage. We should look inward and ask how we’re failing them if they’re voting traitor lunatic.
It's because we let the Democrats get away with being awful. Their goal is to be barely less evil than Republicans. If they had to actually fight for votes, we'd start to see results.
I don’t really follow this reasoning. How would they earn votes? What would be different than now?
The thing that is crazy to me about all of this even when midterms come up people will still go out and support the GOP. There is no bottom floor to hit for them.
You keep voting them in though. Enjoy!!!
Yeah, screw the people who can't afford to leave! Their neighbors are morons so they deserve to eat shit as well!
NOTE: Not a literal gut punch.
Thank you for your attention to this grammar.
"Literal" has been used metaphorically for emphasis by better writers than you, centuries before you were born. Shut up.
I think "veritable" is more fitting.
Even on a day where Missourians sort of overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump, Josh Hawley and Governor Kehoe, they also overwhelmingly voted for an increase in paid sick days.
So they elected candidates who historically have opposed labor protections and government benefits, and then expected to get paid sick leave?
Fox news tells them the GOP are pro-worker and the Democrats actually hate America and workers.
It's infuriating :/
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for three decades straight and I'm the average Republican.
Yeah but I pray to the photo of Reagan on my wall every night that if I keep my mouth open and look up then the wealth will ~~piss~~ trickle down from the rich as they get richer
I'm a school bus driver and our shop is union (Teamsters). My coworkers rabidly support our union, but are opposed to all other unions (except police unions of course) including even the teachers' union in our district. They're also mostly MAGA. They're just so fucking clueless about their own self-interest, leaving aside their utter selfishness. Our dispatcher is a lesbian who proudly talks about her wife, and she's the most rabid trumper of them all. I had one painful conversation with her where she insisted that it's the GOP that brought about same-sex marriage.
There's a lot of lead pipes here still. And massive swaths of empty land that votes against anyone that might try to maintain or replace them via the necessary step of raising taxes.
Kansas city and St Louis didn't vote for Republicans. Unfortunately both blue patches aren't quite half the States population. But were close enough that there governor is looking to take away our representation.
When you vote for GOPers, this is what happens
It's pronounced "misery"
I was talking with my brother about how republican state congresses tend to overturn voter initiatives. I don't understand this cuck attitude that keeps so many people voting for them.
Because the Democrats aren't running on those platforms, because they are also opposed to thise initiatives. The Democrats COULD run on a platform of guaranteed sick leave, mandatory holiday pay, rent control, and other wildly popular pro-worker policies, but they don't ecause they want to "appeal to moderates" or some other dumb bullshit. So you end up with a useless Democratic party in states like Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin who refuse to help people because they don't want Republicans to call them socialists. Then come election time they get caleld socialists anyway who support " illegals stealing jobs and giving abortions" or whatever and and shocked Pikachu when they keep losing elections. Until Democrats start openly campaigning on things that immediately benefit workers, they will continue to lose ground to the Republicans.
Oh dumbass Missourians.
Just like in 2018 when they voted against right to work and on the same ballot voted in a Republican majority and the Republican majority tried to implement right to work as the first item on the new session.
Never learn Missourians, never learn.
Sorry, but get fukt red Missourians. I hope they feel as much pain and anguish as possible, because it's the only way they learn, if it personally negatively affects them. And even then they sometimes still don't learn (see: COVID). I feel terrible for the democrat voters that get screwed anyway.
Missouri has voted on numerous laws that have been repealed by state legislators. We voted an anti-gerrymandering law in but it was repealed a year later. We voted for abortion and they tried to take that back, we voted for better pay and sick leave, and they are taking that.
I don’t know how red Missouri actually is or if it’s just getting fucked by some bad representation. (Don’t get me wrong, Missouri voted in Josh Hawley and Roy Blunt, it’s not perfect)
Ironically they will still vote Republican. They will somehow blame Hillary for it.
This administration is definitely trying to kill off the poor
cant spell missouri, without misery.
Missourian businesses basically want workhouses... say goodbye to modern ideas of a weekend.
Read the article to see if someone was punched in the gut. Spoiler: nobody was.
Fuck Missouri.
It wont stop them from voting republican.
I've never understood this. Even from the viewpoint of an extremely selfish person; do you want someone with COVID, the flu, or a cold making your food, or even just interacting with you in a retail environment? And as for employers; how shortsighted are you that you don't realize that while one sick person coming in may be better for productivity than them staying home, that quickly becomes five sick people working much less efficiently instead of four healthy ones and one person out sick?
The irony is that in the passing of sick leave and the repeal of it Missourians still got what they voted for. No sympathy.
If something is voted in, how can 'lawmakers' just choose to ignore it ?
In the US votes don't actually matter. The democratic and republican party work for corporate donations. So, if everyone votes for issue A, but corporations lobby against it, sometimes for as little as $10,000, then issue will not happen. What are you going to do? Sue? The judges also work for the corporations.
Thanks, Citizens United.
Have you not been paying attention for the last 8 years?
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