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i can excuse racism, but i draw the line at ~~animal cruelty~~ funding cuts!
This is my mother. In her 80s, racist AF, conservative, voted for Trump, has cancer, on Medicare, etc. Now she expresses her worry that Medicare funding will be cut. But she's also betting that because Musk is a "genius" he won't take benefits away from the elderly.
It's even worse/dumber than this, due to her federal unionized employment pension. Unions are apparently evil, despite her pension and paying for her Medicare B late enrollment penalties. The brain rot is really maddening and sad to see in person.
They already wanted to sacrifice the elderly for the economy during covid.
They only remember what racism Fox News or Newsmax told them the night before.
I don't know how the Democrats managed to ignore it when all the data they had made it very clear people didn't care about identity politics anymore. They're working 80-100 hours a week at three jobs for the privilege of housing their kids in a roach-infested studio apartment and they've seen their purchasing power diminish so much that they're having to choose between food, rent, and their prescription drugs.
Yes, they're unlikely to care about racism right now.
That'll happen when your basic, everyday existence is in survival mode, and it doesn't make them bad people. It makes them sad and desperate.
The sad part is anyone with half a brain knows conservatives won't fix these issues (the capitalist class are having record profits as they squeeze the working class like this, and they are now in full control).
What we are looking at is a dead democracy - a zombie really, it died years ago when it became an oligarchy (or maybe the death process started years ago)
Fox News started October 1996. Or you could point to AM radio being unleashed by Reagan's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.
Propaganda works. Everytime. And it only goes in one direction.
Both parties rule as conservatives, so there really is no choice unless you're pulling the lever for the Green Party, and we can look at our history and see that they have no real shot either outside of local elections. Look at how Biden's presidency went, for example: Abortion became criminalized, massive inflation (and record corporate profits), record numbers of new homeless every year... and his major focuses seem to have been keeping his scumbag son out of prison and funneling as much money as possible to war.
My advice to people is this: Don't donate your money to political parties. Put it in stocks instead, and at least your investments will have some measure of representation. There are even ETF's you can invest in that follow the stock trades of notorious insider-trading federal legislators. (Tickers NANC and KRUZ)
Oh fuck off, this is your typical "both sides are bad" argument to keep people from voting - we know it's the conservatives in SCOTUS that shitted on Biden, the corporations are price gouging us (the corporations are the true masters btw, and we know it) and the Hunter shit was the usual conservative media shit they do every cycle (email servers, laptops, Hunter).
Two things can be true. The Democrats can be an absolute shit show of conservatives masquerading as a party of hope and change. And you absolutely should vote for them instead of republicans, because despite that, they're still better, and at least they won't be throwing us all in camps.
But it doesn't mean they're good, or that they can fix any of this shit. It means they're, at best, a minor stop gap for us to get organized around something better. The Dems aren't going to save us, they're corporately controlled and have a vested interest in making sure things don't improve too much, lest they lose the easiest way to gain money: by being the slightly better alternative to literally fucking dying. Do I wish Kamala had won? Absolutely. Do I think we'd have gotten anything out of a Kamala win? Nope. I think we would have sat stagnate for 4 years at the federal level while republicans continued to chip away at any and everything they could at the state level. But it would have given us 4 years without active decline in the Fed and potentially allowed us to rally behind an actual progressive and build a progressive wing in the Democratic party that could have helped us in the long run.
Wait a minute: Biden pardoning his son after saying he wouldn't was made up by the conservative media?
That's some stinky borscht there. Cripes.
So they couldn't be arsed to vote against trump. The Democrat's pamphlet wasn't as glossy. SAD. three jobs just got worse. Bon appétit.