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If you still believe the Democrats are going to come through on universal healthcare or free college, you're also part of the problem.
I feel like if our voting system wasn't skewed so heavily toward Republicans (between the Electoral College, gerrymandering being legal, and a general "states can run their elections however they want" to allow Republican-controlled states to make whatever changes they want to favor themselves), we'd see a lot more progress. Instead, it's harder and harder for liberals to vote, the votes count for less and less, and we're barely scraping to just vote out fascists (if possible).
Fix the voting system, and we might get something worthwhile out of Democrats other than undoing some of their predecessors terrible actions and giving just enough to their supporters to whet their appetite without ever leaving them satisfied.
I disagree with that...their only incentive these days is to NOT be Republicans. They've taken up traditional right leaning republican policy at this point and are getting away with it. For example: The ACA is terrible, we NEED universal healthcare, however, the D's are content letting big health insurance continue to rape the US. The D's have also strongly backed off climate protections, and honestly, it's too late for climate change so that's maybe moot.
The point is, they don't have any incentive to actually push policy...they just need to point and say "Republicans are bad" and the donations roll in.
Wait so your plan is to wait for the republican party to become progressive?
What are you doing to help change it?
This is an amazing joke .
Dems and Reps aren't the only groups that can get things done, and I'm not talking about voting third party.
Electoralism is purely harm reduction for leftists, no leftist policy will get through in a 2-party Capitalist state. Instead, change must happen at the grassroots level.
Organize, unionize, protest, all that good stuff.
No one is deluding themselves into thinking that will happen. The alternative, voting for Trump, however, is unacceptable.
Fortunately, that isn't the only alternative.
Vote Green.
You mean literally mainstream policy positions for Democrats?
Lol...sure...lol. They burned Bernie at the stake for suggesting those things.
Agreed that it's harder, but that "private for-profit industry" shouldn't exist. It needs to be abolished. Democrats loooooove their Obamacare, but all Obama did was make that industry mandatory. That's the opposite of abolishing it.
I believe Democrats will at least make proposals to improve healthcare coverage and free college. More importantly, there has been significant progress over the last four years or so.