I hope you’ll give him another look. Any person’s supporters can be shitty. I’m sure if he heard what they were saying in his name he’d lay the smackdown. If you consider him just as a politician, on the merits of the legislation he has supported and opposed, I hope you’ll see he’s a valuable ally.
When we only have three or so people in Congress working for the workers of the country maybe we shouldn’t throw him out because of something his supporters did.
Check out Bernie Sanders. Yeah he’s 80 years old but he’s fighting for the poor and middle class his whole life. He’s the only senator in the US that doesn’t belong to either political party.
This guy got arrested marching for civil rights with Martin Luther King. It sucks that he’s so old but his mind is sharp. He, Warren, Lina Khan and Alexandria Cortez are the only national level politicians I respect. And Lina Khan got fired by Trump already.
That’s just one video. Every day he’s out there fighting for the workers.
For what it’s worth Elizabeth Warren is considered one of the few left of center Democrats in the US. With this information I would say you are close to a social Democrat, and definitely not a conservative as we understand it in the US.
Liberal. Not in the way it’s used in the US these days, but the actual definition.
If it weren’t for illegal weed and the free market part (depending on what you mean by consumer protections) I’d say you’re pretty progressive for the US.
What do you think of social safety nets? What about universal basic income? What about tax rates (individual and corporate)? These answers would give me a better picture of your politics.
My wife kept her name when we got married ten years ago. It has only caused minimal problems with bureaucracy.
That’s awesome. Who usually wins?
For some reason people stopped buying his products. It’s a mystery really.
Most of the leftists I see on Lemmy and know personally begrudgingly voted for Kamala. The people on here saying genocide Joe constantly were plants.
The fact is, at least 2 million democrats who voted in the previous election did not vote this time. Leftists are an incredibly small portion of the population unfortunately.
I just want to point out that $10 an hour, even at 60 hours a week, is absolutely not “lower-middle-class”. It’s poverty.
Well I said progressive instead of leftist for a reason. But yeah star power could help. AOC could do it. She’s got nothing to exploit and she can obviously talk circles around whatever the fascists put up.
Agreed, but nobody I talk to even knows about the water release or the Kennedy center. Trump’s guaranteed die hard followers will never hear about his errors, and wouldn’t care if they did. They will never turn on him because that would involve admitting they have been wrong for so many years, in many cases they’ve made it their personality.
And that’s, what, 40% of the vote? The Democrats must run real progressives in the midterms and a real progressive for president in four. If we get to have a legitimate election again.
Hopefully since recent events have mirrored Hitler’s rise so well they will also mirror his fall. But faster please faster.
Meanwhile Elon’s team is moving so fast that the courts can’t catch them in time, which is I believe the only legal option for the opposition.
So for every dollar of funding the IRS gets, the nation gets five dollars back. If the department of government efficiency wasn’t a sick joke, they’d love the IRS. Imagine if you had such an easy investment. Quintuple your money in a year.
RFK will be the new boss of the CDC through his health and human services appointment. He believes that HIV does not cause AIDS. He believes AIDS comes from recreational drug use, a topic he should know a great deal about.
I have this terrible feeling that Turkey would veto, even if somehow we could distract Trump with enough McDonald’s and fake tits to try to get it done.