Just raising the minimum wage won’t do anything other than intensify class warfare for anyone who isn’t rich or mildly rich (making more than 200k per year) and work further in the Republicans favor. What needs to happen is this:
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Cut social security entirely (all this shit does is support the old rich fucks) and instead initiate a universal basic income which yields a yearly income equivalent to working a full time job at 18.50 an hour. Why 18.50? Because that’s the amount needed to cover the cost between the 7.50 minimum wage and 26 an hour which is where the minimum wage would be if wages hadn’t stagnated. Furthermore this increases everyone’s wealth by the same amount so the people at the top effectively get nothing while the middle class is also helped in addition to those near the poverty line (effectively mitigating potential class warfare). Also the homeless would be helped, whereas a minimum wage increase would only help those with jobs.
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Pay for the UBI with taxes that massive tax anyone effectively making over 1million a year. This means corporations and billionaires. In order to do this we have to break the slimy garbage they pull to leverage their non-liquid wealth to avoid paying any taxes while further increasing their billions.
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Impose strict regulations on corporations so that they cannot arbitrarily raise their costs in response to the newly raised tax rates.
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Biden was the Dem that passed many of the Republican bills including making it impossible for students to declare Bankruptcy on their student loans.
Current Dems are more right than old Republicans. Republicans just went even more to the right.
Cherry picking a bit, there.
Who Made Student Loans Nondischargeable?
Allen Ertel, a Congressman from Pennsylvania, pushed to make student loans hard to discharge. Ertel was in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983. Despite stats showing less than 1% of federal student loans were ever wiped clean in bankruptcy, Ertel argued student loan defaults were jumping up. His convincing talk changed the rules, making student loans stick around after bankruptcy unless the borrower faced severe hardship.
Joe Biden’s Dual Role in the Student Loan Crisis
Joe Biden has affected the dynamics of student loan debt and its dischargeability, playing two distinct roles:
As a senator, Biden backed multiple pieces of legislation that unintentionally exacerbated the student loan crisis. These laws facilitated the growth of student loan borrowing, often increasing borrowers’ monthly payments and making these loans tougher to discharge in bankruptcy.
As President, Biden’s policy changes have further altered the landscape of student loan dischargeability, albeit in a different direction. While his administration has sought to alleviate the student loan crisis and lighten the burden on borrowers, the reforms implemented may have indirectly made it more difficult for some student loan borrowers to discharge federal loans in bankruptcy.
Here’s how:
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The administration created the most affordable repayment plan to date, shielding even more of a borrower’s discretionary income from student loan payments. While this new student loan repayment plan provides immediate relief, it might inadvertently discourage some borrowers from seeking bankruptcy discharges.
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Biden implemented an interest waiver, effectively reducing the debt burden. While beneficial for most, it could indirectly create an environment where discharging student loans through bankruptcy becomes harder.
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All federal student loan borrowers, including those with a consolidation loan, are eligible to get retroactive credit toward income-based repayment forgiveness. This move alone has already erased $39 billion in federal student loans. Experts expect that this will ultimately lead to a $400+ billion bailout by the federal government, again potentially reducing the instances of borrowers resorting to bankruptcy.
https://www.tateesq.com/learn/student-loan-bankruptcy-law-history
As a senator, Biden backed multiple pieces of legislation that unintentionally exacerbated the student loan crisis. These laws facilitated the growth of student loan borrowing, often increasing borrowers’ monthly payments and making these loans tougher to discharge in bankruptcy.
Yes literally what I said. Cherrypicking lmao. If you want to learn something:
How Biden helped create the student debt problem he now promises to fix:
“Biden was one of the most powerful people who could have said no, who could have changed this. Instead he used his leadership role to limit the ability of other Democrats who had concerns and who wanted the bill softened,” said Melissa Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specialising in bankruptcy
(please stop using this formatting btw)
Oh, I’m afraid you misunderstood. I was doing you the respect of including what you were talking about along with the context for it, because you aren’t wrong that Biden contributed to the problem. But you are very wrong that he’s exacerbating it now.
But hey, the difference between then and now, true and false, right and wrong - why should any of that bother you? You’ve for an agenda to push! 🤡
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We could raise the minimum wage if it weren’t for republicans
Most brainwashed country, I swear to god.
Are you saying Republicans aren’t obstructing any kind of legislation, including their own?
No, I’m saying it’s ridiculously dumb that people thing democrats are heroic saviors when they do the bare minimum and maintain the status quo. I’m making fun of the trend that “if it weren’t for republicans the US would be a utopia”. But thanks for the strawman I guess.
I’m making fun of the trend that “if it weren’t for republicans the US would be a utopia”.
No one is making that claim. “If it weren’t for Republicans, the Democrats could pass useful legislation” is absolutely the case.
But thanks for the strawman I guess.
You say this immediately after using a straw man…
If it weren’t for the republicans the democrats would have an actual opposition party instead of a death cult to contend with
No one is making that claim. “If it weren’t for Republicans, the Democrats could pass useful legislation” is absolutely the case.
If it weren’t for Republicans, Democrats would find another excuse for not wielding the power we give them.
If enough young adults actually voted so that the Repubs would be guaranteed to never win with a Trump candidate, the entire apparatus would have to move left.
Instead, young adults sit it out or throw votes away because of bothsidesing. So the brainwashed Fox News viewers (who actually will vote in every election) have been moving the whole thing rightward instead.
Yeah but not in the way you’re thinking.
I get the sense that people mistook the sentiment behind your comment.
Except the Dems have controlled the house, Senate and Presidency since 2009…
I mean. 2021-2023 Biden had House and Senate majorities…
Did I miss something?
Was it that as soon as we had a majority just enough Dems said they wouldn’t vote with the party? And then party leaders saying “welp, trying would be pointless”?
Is that what I missed?
Don’t get me wrong, it should work the way your meme makes it sound. But unfortunately the rich bought out both parties awhile ago.
It’s why Biden and the DNC have their PAC, the Biden Victory Fund, that coordinates directly with the candidate and party, and you can give up to a million!
That’s why I’m voting Trump.
Everywhere I see you, you’re fabricating facts.
Democrats have controlled the Senate and the House for six years since 2009.
Only four of those years included a Democratic President.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses
Another day, another fascist account to ban
Like fucking clockwork. Goddamn you’re so predictable.
There’s a reason the right have earned the label of the poorly educated. This guy doesn’t realize a simple majority in the senate isn’t enough to move legislation.
It’s covered endless in the political news cycles but morons cannot retain the information and spout the most banal nonsense as if they’re uncovering some grand conspiracy that they aline have discovered.
If such people could feel shame they would still spread their bullshit because they don’t realize how far down left side of intelligence the curve they are.
It would be entertaining if they weren’t voters.
This guy doesn’t realize a simple majority in the senate isn’t enough to move legislation.
Democrats could have changed that any time they had control of the Senate with a simple majority vote.
They chose not to.
this is an “i’m rubber you’re glue” moment for the ages
That makes no sense. But nice try.
people whining that obvious criticisms of biden are made “like clockwork” while offering absolutely no counterclaim happen “like fucking clockwork”, because goddamn, you’re so predictable.
Nah, you’re just stupid enough to fall for the posters bs. He’s got a long history of spreading misinformation and propaganda. But go ahead and keep drinking that kool aid champ.
circling the wagons and ignoring any criticism of democrats come hell or high water because their only possible source is clandestine trump supporters IS drinking the kool aid
Ironic.
They play both sides so that even when we win, we lose.
We just try to lose less.
Trying to win means votes too…
It cost Biden over a billion last election to barely win, this year they’re predicting it will cost 2 billion
The reason we’re told we’re tuck with bad candidates who take corporate money, is it costs that much to win and the only way to get is billionaires and corporations…
But that’s not true, only “moderates” need that to win.
Jimmy Carter didn’t need it. Bill Clinton didn’t need it, Obama didn’t need it…
Bernie was able to run a competitive primary against Hillary without it too.
I don’t know why people act like Hillary and Biden are normal, they’re terrible candidates voters don’t like, but we don’t have a say in it anymore. The DNC took Biden on a victory lap before the majority of states even voted.
Shit was still bad 20/30 years ago, but it wasn’t as bad as the last decade.
Like, I’ve never understood the rationale that because trump is so dangerous, we had to run candidates that voters from both parties strongly dislike.
When the minimum wage is not livable, you subsidize their employers with your taxes.
It’s not the minimum wage people should get. It’s the minimum we’ll accept
And “blue no matter who” means we accept people who think it doesn’t need raised
it doesn’t need raised
Wow, I hate this fucking grammatical diarrhea.
The alternative to not voting blue in general elections is not socialism, it’s republicans.
No it’s not, it’s taking control of the party back from the people that only care about donors.
It’s a private organization, but they haven’t always had the keys, it’s like a HOA.
When it’s good, no one cares who’s in charge, so shitty people sneak in.
The shitty people make things shitty, people accept it because the shits stacks up slowly.
Then one day they’re tired of it, and they have to wait till the next HOA board vote to replace them.
It’s not as easy to replace the people leading the DNC, but it’s doable.
So if 3rd party is something you think can’t happen, are you working on fixing your own party? Are you fighting to replace them?
Do you know any of their names without googling?
If your idea of taking the party back is “voting independent in the general” I think you have absolutely no idea how elections and parties work. You’re throwing your vote away. You wanna change the party? Run in or work for local elections. Build from the bottom up, not the top down.
Or just whine and throw your vote away.
Or just whine and throw your vote away.
What is hard to understand about this?
The way to get the most votes is a younger progressive candidate.
How is saying the party should get as much votes as possible “whining”?
Is it because a younger progressive candidate isn’t who you want?
Tough shit
40% of the electorate is gen Z or Millenials.
And the majority of over 45 wants trump
You’re arguing against doing what the bulk of the Dem party wants, but some how I’m the one whining for wanting better than a coin flip chance to deal with trump anymore?
What the fuck is the logic you’re using for this shit?
No it’s because voting for a progressive third party candidate in the general election for federal office
- doesn’t work
- benefits republicans
- is the prevailing wisdom of people like you
It’s mastubatory whining. You get to claim that anyone who cares about actual outcomes is somehow less pure than you while you are absolved of any of the responsibilities of your vote. You wanna pretend voting third party for president helps? Bully for you. It fucking doesn’t help progressives, it helped Trump get elected and it will do it again.
You get to claim that anyone who cares about actual outcomes is somehow less pure than you
That’s not the discussion.
The discussion is a younger more progressive candidate is what the base wants, so why aren’t we giving it to them?
40% of this electorate is either Gen Z or Millenial.
And over 45 years old is going to trump.
So why isn’t the DNC going after all those voters so that we can beat Trump?
Stop thinking about if you’re right and how people under 40 are “whining” and start thinking about the best way to beat Trump:
Running a popular candidate. Whether that means Biden starts listening to his voters and becomes more popular, or running someone less than 20 years over retirement age.
You seem to be getting down voted a lot for this comment, but I absolutely agree. The long term solution is to fix the DNC by replacing the corporate schills with progressives. In a city in NH in 2016 we were able to completely replace the local Democratic party with our people. It’s not even that hard, like 50 people vote in those elections.
Everyone should find out who runs their local and state Dems, and start working to replace them if they are garbage. Once the local and state chapters are taken over it won’t be hard to take the DNC
Except the party wants as little turnout as possible in the general
It’s why they started saying Biden was the winner a good 5 months before the convention and only a handful.of.primaties had happened.
Its why the stole NH’ delegates for voting progressive.
If people could show up and say who they want for president, then theyd vote down ballot tok.
The Dem party isn’t for us, it’s to take advantage of us
But it wasn’t always, and doesn’t have to keep being that way.
But I’m barely old enough to remember when it wasn’t
They certainly only want people who are going to vote for them to turn up.
I’m not sure what you mean by stole NH delegates.
I wish more people would vote down ballot. Rs almost always vote top to bottom of the ticket, Ds tend to only vote for names they’ve heard of. That’s why Republicans have taken control of so much local government. Democrats need to win the presidential race by a huge margin for enough of it to trickle down to local stuff.
Yes, the current DNC is there to work for the rich, just like the RNC. If we took over the party though, we could make it do whatever we wanted.
I’m not sure what you mean by stole NH delegates.
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When the party took away NHs say in the Dem primary for something only their Republican state government can control.
I mean. Technically NH Dems could violated state law to keep the DNC happy like they asked, are you saying that’s what they should have done?
Because the most common sense explanation is they were made NH kept rejecting moderates like Clinton and Biden.
If we took over the party though, we could make it do whatever we wanted.
Which is what I’m saying to do, and if you haven’t noticed, the more we vote “blue no matter who” the more conservative candidates we get.
Because the DNC thinks anything left of republicans have to vote for them. From that misguided assumption. The party keeps moving right
It’s not working, it’s never worked, and to keep trying it would be fucking insanity.
Yet here we are.
If we are really willing to sacrifice anything to stop trump, why won’t Joe Biden and the DNC sacrifice anything they want?
Why do millions and millions of voters have to vote for someone they don’t want? Why can’t we run someone that agrees with the party platform and will work towards?
The party isn’t the important part, voters are. No matter how much either party tells you differently.
A general election is still about votes
Which is why when Dems had their supermajority they passed a raise to minimum wage.
They codified Roe v Wade too, because it’s just Republicans that were after that.
Which is why when Dems had their supermajority they passed a raise to minimum wage.
Do you remember what they did with that ~70 days they had to pass legislation? Affordable Care Act? Let’s not act like they don’t pass shit when we give them the legislative ability to do so. 51-49 that includes people like Sinema and Manchin is not a majority.
The vast majority of elected Democrats support and vote for raises to the minimum wage and codifying Roe. 100% of elected Republicans oppose those things, and it’s the Democrats that are failing us?
But, but joe biden and i dont agree on everything!
We better elect a fascist instead just to make sure.
Oh, they passed the Affordable Care Act?
Healthcare is SO available and affordable now, huh?
Then you come in and say “but it wasn’t even a real supermajority!”… that supermajority. Not even realizing you are saying even with a supermajority, there isn’t one, because it’s all the same muddle.
It must be exhausting for you to still shill that hard.
Register independent. Vote third party. It’s our only hope to end Party Fascism.
Bro I’d have no insurance because I’ve had Covid ever right now if it wasn’t for the ACA.
Y’all need to take stock of what you’re taking for granted, because the fact that the fascists are taking stock for you right now should be all the fucking warning you need of what they’re going for next time we decide teaching the dems a lesson is more important than preventing an acceleration to fascism.
Ummm… sounds like a good reason to swallow some good ol genocide and look the other way.
Tragic story, really.
As opposed to letting the genocide come here too? Sure, without a second thought.
Unlike you I’m not inclined to hand my trans neighbors to the freedom defenders because not doing that involves the herculean feat of standing in line and checking some boxes.
Yall really just opened with “let the dems genocide the Palestinians because I’m afeared Trump will genocide me”… and you don’t think that won’t catch up with you…
I sympathize with your condition but challenge your conviction.
No genocide. Anywhere.
If you condone one, you condone them all.
“I don’t like genocide, that’s why I am working as hard as I can to figure out what Donald meant by ‘Israel should finish the job.’ Something good, right? It isn’t like he has done Muslim bans in the past or anything.”
Mother fucker I am Palestinian. Don’t you dare start using my people’s corpses as set dressing for your cynical play at getting to keep calling yourself an ally without even doing the barest minimum of the work.
People who follow your “convictions” are what will see Palestine wiped from history when our people are hunted down even abroad because of who you let in.
You self righteous twats will burn us all as fuel for your endless crusade against a group of people who are never going to be hurt by the consequences of your actions.
I’d say implementing STV at the state level across multiple states has a waaaaaay more realistic chance at ending the duopoly tbh.
Register independent. Vote third party. It’s our only hope to instill Party Fascism.
FTFY
You’re naive af if you think voting 3rd party in the presidential elections will do anything more than entrench fascism into this country and likely solve your issue with party voting, just not how you want.
At this point they seem to be willfully ignorant or just having malicious intent.
Yeah, anyone dumb enough to suggest voting 3rd party in the presidential elections should be mocked because their political opinions aren’t even worth wiping my ass with. And that’s the charitable interpretation of it.
I fully endorse going 3rd party at the local level and building up support for alternative candidates, but going straight for the president is a negative IQ move.
You left out “Tankie” and “Russian Bot”.
Try harder next time, Fascist Dem Shill.
Post the stats on successful third party presidential campaigns, buddy. The closest was former VP Breckinridge. I guess running a campaign in 1860 that promised to continue slavery ensured the wealthy class in the south would push his campaign.
You have been deceived by others who want more fascism but pretend otherwise. Or you yourself are one of those.
Wasn’t trying to keyword you, you fucking fascist technique promoter.
But please, jeep sabotaging democracy because you can’t understand electoral politics.
Bro do you remember what it was like before the ACA? I’m not saying it’s good now but I think you are showing a pretty stark lack of awareness for what it used to be like.
Yes.
I could afford food and shelter.
And when I had employment based health insurance, I could afford the co-pay.
None of the 3 are true today.
You could afford shelter…during the 2008 housing driven financial crisis? Everyone could afford shelter…until the system collapsed. That was kind of the whole problem. I fail to see how the ACA being passed caused your housing and food prices to go up.
Glad that you had employment based insurance. Before the ACA if you didn’t have insurance through your employer and you had conditions you were just fucked. They could deny your coverage. I guess you forgot about that?
Insurance is fucked because we’re finally paying the cost of care, rates and prices are fucked and broken across the board, and the insurance companies are savage vultures. None of that is BECAUSE of the ACA. It was all true before the ACA and is true now. The difference is millions more people have healthcare coverage.
So the ACA was a half measured failure of a waste of time.
Yes.
That was part of the point I was making.
Dems decided to do that instead of passing actual universal Healthcare, or minimum wage, or modifying Roe v Wade. Or addressing the rising cost of rent/mortgage. Or do ANYTHING of value.
That is the point I am making.
So the ACA was a half measured failure of a waste of time.
God forbid anything help anyone if it’s not perfect. What a privileged fucking outlook on life. Some of us have to live here, yeah?
Yeah I guess the GOP is blameless for all that right? Seriously the amount of leeway you people give the republicans is wild. The democrats are to blame for those things? The GOP voted unanimously against the ACA in all its forms and tried for a decade to repeal it. But sure the democrats not going far enough was the grievous sin.
And when I had employment based health insurance, I could afford the co-pay.
So you don’t have employment based heath care today? What happened?
I do.
And it is neither affordable or available.
The healthcare I need.
Do you… not know how this is a pretty massive thing these days?
Your comment implied that you had lost your insurance because you no longer had a job.
If you can’t afford healthcare, be mad at the for profit companies making massive profits off of health care and companies who’ve stagnated wages since Regan.
But don’t be pissy at a president who advances healthcare in this country. The ACA did a LOT of good for MANY people.
Don’t forget the decision banning non-competes. Apparently the decision went along ‘party lines’, with you know who trying to keep them. But nooooooo, bOtH sIdEs SaMe.
Nothing is ever good enough for republican stooges.
In this case it was “corporations can do no wrong, all hail corporations”.
Alright, fuck Republicans, I’m onboard with that.
Living wage, I’m onboard with that too.
Fuck landlords as well, I’m waay onboard with that.
How about we raise minimum wage, but also regulate the hell out of several sectors so that the wealthy don’t just consume whatever we raise it to with obscene inflation, otherwise what’s the point?
I had to scroll to the bottom to see this. This is what happens every time the wage increases. No point in increasing the wage when everyone else increases the price. Can’t agree with your statement more.
The prices are rising without a matching increase in wages. The increase in wages has no significant impact on the increase in prices.
It’s just about chasing a never ending profit that’s higher than last quarter’s profit. It was never about inflation, it’s the cancer that is unregulated capitalism.
Okay but when you’re done griping about the inefficiency of humanity we have some immediate solutions to immediate problems and all we need is some people to be on board and participate in good faith.
Did you just make a bunch of shit up pretending I said it?
No, I accused you of griping about the inefficiency of humanity. I’ll add some commas to make it easier for you.
Then you wouldn’t mind quoting me and explaining your moronic self. Show me where the bad comment hurt your feefees.
No need to increase prices if you convert all employees to perma-lancers and then eventually outsource the labor to another country.
Also, this article is written by a Wall Street trader and frequently says things like “A strong cohort of economists believe a national minimum wage increases inflation.” I’m not sure if this is the slam dunk you think it is. I’m not even against raising the minimum wage, but worker protections have to be done at the same time or else something’s got to give, and it’s not going to be profit.
If there truly were no point then it wouldn’t have so much opposition from the wealthy.
You mean those guys who raise the price afterwards?
Those guys who raise the price regardless of what happens.
Yeah, those guys - which is why there should be a limit on what those guys can and cannot do. Which is what’s being discussed.
Increasing the minimum wage is being discussed.
Pretending that inflation is caused by wage increases as an excuse to never raise the minimum wage is what Republicans do.
No, I responded to someone’s comment within this post, and that’s what is being discussed. And they, and myself, are for increased minimum wage, he said it plainly and I said I agreed with him. I also agreed that we should have restrictions placed to prevent the rich from increasing prices on everything else just because the wealthy know that everyone got a base raise. I never said inflation is caused by a wage increase, you came to that conclusion on your own. Republicans also dislike restrictions on the wealthy, which it sounds like you’re not a fan of it either…are you a Republican?
There is no correlation between wage increases and inflation. Firms will charge consumers the highest number that they can to reach supply:demand equilibrium already, if they could charge more then they would regardless of how much poor people get paid.
The actual effect of wage increase is a negative correlation with wealth concentration and a higher money velocity, and in some cases a lower number of jobs, but the good outweighs the bad.
Do you have a source for these findings? Because the last 20 years I’ve lived through minimum wage increases, each time it led to the increase in the cost of living.
Ah yes, all of those federal minimum wage increases in the last 20 years. The many great examples such as the raise to $7.25 in 2009 and also the uh… erm… No, that’s it, actually.
Then the average Price of Goods fell for the next 3 consecutive years. Also, the inflation rate from 2005-2009 was 13.24% while the rate from 2008-2012 was 8.77% according to that same consumer price index data, you can use a calculator for it HERE.
So either Wage Increases decrease inflation and cause prices of goods to fall, or it has no measurable effect in the face of many factors which do actually affect those things.
I’m simply asking for a source and your reaction is to be a dick? Smooth. Also, you’re only referring to the federal wage increase. States have had their own minimum wage increases throughout the years and each time, the cost of goods would rise, causing the boost in minimum wage to fall flat eventually - and that’s what the original guy was referring to.
We gonna let passage of broader more difficult to pass reform be a prerequisite for increasing the minimum wage?
Sounds like making the perfect the enemy of the good to me.
Just tie minimum wage to inflation
If you do that you will give even more incentive for the government to underreport inflation.
Also inflation usually measures consumer prices. Ever wonder how education, healthcare, housing, and most other major expenses can increase significantly faster than inflation? This is why.
If your rent goes up, its not inflation. If the cost of chips goes up it is. Tie it to a better metric.
It’s crazy that inflation doesn’t take these things into account.
I guess we’d need a better system for measuring real inflation then
Check prices against things that can’t be created through clicking a button. Like gold, prime beach front properties, art, etc.
There’s also an argument to be made for building better cities and more affordable housing (both more affordable and more of it), as well as building a society where you don’t have to buy a car to participate. Life could be a lot more affordable if we didn’t arrange our policies to make it so expensive.
Then we would need to get rid of lobbyists
Or just show up to city council and county supervisors and shout the NIMBYs down
Lot of dems voted against it too
Yeah, Kirsten Sinema (currently an independent and dropped out) and Joe Manchin (who will also be gone soon).
So by “many” you mean “two”?And do you think if those two senators are replaced with GOP senators it will make an increase in minimum wage more likely?
The “uniparty” meme is a Marjorie Taylor Greene thing. Do you agree with the space laser lady?
The 2021 federal minimum wage vote had 41 Yea votes from Democrats, 1 from Independent. 7 Democrats and 1 Independent voted Nay. Every single Republican voted Nay.
Do you consider 7 out of 48 Dems to be a lot? Versus every single republican?
What percentage of Sanders supporters do you imagine voted for Trump?
Do you suppose it’s higher than the percentage of Democrats in the Senate who were willing to go on record as hating workers by voting to kill the minimum wage increase?
Because Sanders supporters are still catching shit for the loss Clinton earned, regardless of who they actually voted for in 2016.
If we’re expected to vote like the party wants, why aren’t legislators?
Nice whataboutism.
I suppose it makes little sense to you that I was comparing centrists not getting what they want (Clinton’s coronation) to centrists getting exactly what they all want (no increase to the minimum wage.).
Hello from California! Democrat majority everywhere but it’s “still too hard” to do it. Things that make you go hmmmm
Some of the strongest worker protections in the country and the CCPA. Really makes you wonder how much more you could get if young adults actually voted in elections.
Repugs want nothing less than slavery
Always have. And yet morons who didn’t pay attention in class talk about the party of Lincoln
They proclaim “party of Lincoln” while waving a Confederate flag without a shred of irony or self awareness.
8 members of the Democratic caucus in the senate hate workers so much that they voted against increasing the minimum wage.
Pretending that anyone who notices is "both sides"ing is insulting to the workers Democrats said they totally wanted to help and then betrayed.
The party expects perfect lockstep from the electorate, but doesn’t care about voting with the party when it comes time for the elected to do what we voted them in for.
You keep saying “Democrats” and “the party”
Tell me, which party was it that voted in pefect lock step against? Surely by your statements it’s the Democrats…
Oh? It’s not?
Only 8 of the 48 Democrats voted against it?
Well fiddly fee fuck me it sure seems both sides are the same and every Democrat hates workers and would never vote yes for a minimum wage increase
I didn’t vote for Republicans.
I’m not being told that voting for more Republicans will totally get a minimum wage increase passed.
We gave Democrats a majority. They found enough no votes. It’s what they do. In order to overcome the votes of those eight plus all Republicans we would need 59 Democrats in the Senate. And may as well make that an even 60 because Democrats won’t ever get rid of the filibuster.
Of course both sides aren’t the same; that’s just something centrists say when people criticize Democrats in any way at all, because it’s easier than defending the party’s deliberate uselessness.
They don’t expect perfect lockstep from the electorate, they don’t even expect 41 out of 48 voters like they voted. They have literally never gotten it either.
They don’t expect perfect lockstep from the electorate
Vote blue no matter who.
Just checking here, what percentage of blue representatives voted for and what percentage of red representatives voted for? I think that’s where you’ll find the answer for why you vote blue no matter who, because people’s lives are on the line, not because they’re perfect. Then you harass that blue candidate, 'cause fuck those centrists. Still better than the fascists in the far right, though.
Nice diversion. I answered your question about Democrats demanding lockstep behind even their shittiest anti-worker candidates.
I never asked you a question.
Because the alternative is fascists, you dunce. You can’t move the needle left if there’s no needle. Vote blue no matter who has to do with not letting fascists take away our rights and kill women who need abortions.
It’s not Democrats asking you to vote blue no matter who, it’s your fellow Americans who don’t want a fascist takeover. It’s common sense that shouldn’t even need a slogan.
You can’t move the needle left if there’s no needle.
You don’t move the needle by being content, either. Which is why centrists are so fucking angry at people who aren’t pleased as fucking punch at all the deliberate failure of the second worst party.
That’s why I wrote this
Then you harass that blue candidate
We have three powers of control over politicians
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vote
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protest
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media
That’s why they work so hard to take away, delegitimize or sow distrust in those powers. You want to move the needle left, you vote as left as possible and protest and harass them until they do what you want.
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Yep. Time to drop the uniparty. Vote TRUMP 2024!
The fuck you doing on Lemmy, you little bitch?
Republicans can’t be on Lemmy? I know it’s mostly Dems on here, but diversity and differing views is a good sign for the platform
Being a current day republican isn’t a “view”. It’s hate and should be shunned.
I don’t want those assholes here.
You sure can, but don’t start crying when you’re constantly being shitted on for supporting the orange piece of shit. Either way, they offer nothing of value to any conversation other than stupidity, hateful rhetoric, and Donnie. So they can fuck right off.
You guys are atleast at the “both sides”. My people are fully convinced(brain washed) that far right is the only way.
“Both sides” is a position taken only by edgy idiots who are too lazy to do an iota of research.
“Both sides” is a strawman argument employed by people who like the status quo against people who are discontent with same.
And nothing else.
Wouldn’t raising minimal wage just raise prices higher without dealing with the underlying problems?
Prices are already getting higher, and we don’t have other solutions.
In Australia, minimum wage is quite high and so are the costs of many goods, but things like Amazon and flight tickets are much cheaper comparatively
That doesn’t answer my question. Prices might be high, but when you just give people more money, they will grow higher. Why wouldn’t they?
That’s just greed. They’re doing that already. Prices right now are crazy high, BUT guess what else is? PROFITS. Record profits everywhere. That shit should be illegal.
Are the record profits still record after being adjusted for inflation?
Money is worth less now than it was this time last year.
Let’s say a profit of $1000 last year is equivalent to a profit of $1200 this year.
Have you made $200 more this year? Well, technically yes but it doesn’t quite have the same purchasing power as it would have if you made it last year instead
