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It’s nice to see the senate opposition functioning.

Edit: 18 hours of holding the senate floor, giving voice to the american people. Lots of tears as american suffering is read out loud for the congressional record. Testiment from Americans across the country. This is the voice of the people. Please click the link, share and watch. The media needs to know we care about the opposition more than we care about trump rambling on a plane about fort knox.

  • tomi000@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Im not that deep into US polotics but my impression is the dems cant implement left policies, because the population is so indoctrinated with “communism is pure evil” that they would rather vote for a criminal fascist. They cant just implement policies that 95% of their voters disagree with. Theyre about as left as the farthest right democratic party in Germany, excluding the AfD of course, which was proven anti-democratic and might get banned soon. But this represents the population. Suppressed education plays a big part in my opinion. To me it seems that most of the dems are content with either party being in charge, the things they argue about like DEI and migration are huge distractions from the massive lobby deals both parties agree upon. Its a two-party dictatorship pretending to fight each other while suppressing anyone but the richest.

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
      21·
      2 days ago

      That’s the thing, left policy is overwhelmingly popular when you don’t attach it to a democrat and you don’t complicate it with means testing or market solutions or anything else.

      Even republican voters like the idea of “free healthcare”. But you say “free healthcare, for people who meet X Y Z requirements” and 90% of people will assume that this program won’t apply to them.

      You say “tax credits for people with children, after you fill out 5 forms and prove you make more than X but less than Y, applied to this scale”, and even people who meet that criteria children will assume it won’t help them. You just tell them “every working family with a kid under 18 gets a $3,600 check”, they’ll support it.

      The democrats are miles to the right of their voters. This situation is further enforced by the media, who push the narrative of the “median voter” or “moderate republican”, who is half way between democrat and republican; who will vote for “up to 40K college loan forgiveness for people with STEM degrees who were born on a prime numbered day and operated a business in an underserved neighborhood for 3 years” (Kamala’s 2020 policy) but thinks that “free college” would be a step too far.