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    alrighty. I’ve watched the democrats sit on their thumbs and do fuck-all for over 40 years. that is the definition of conservative if you remove the fascist parts, which are wholly republican.

    they trimmed a conservative love letter to insurance companies by mitt called ‘obamacare’ and called it a huge win while spending trillions policing the world and telling americans what they can do to their bodies.

    current democrats are yesterdays republicans. and pelosi? what a conservative cunt.

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        Claim they need to be educated, then just link fuggen wikipedia??? and hit ‘reply’?? Im actually a little mad.

        That’s your whole comment? Where is your actual political education coming from that you would consider that link in any way acceptable.

        Ridiculous!

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      You have said the actual truth.

      Democrats should be viewed as an enemy of progressives … because they ARE. They constantly hamstring progress and constantly capitulate to Republicans. They are nothing but an excuse for normies to ignore the rise of fascism. The fact they sometimes slow Republicans down is nothing but the coincidence of having someone who doesn’t vote ENTIRELY in lockstep with the Republicans.

      Progressives like AOC being in the Democrat party is nothing but a consequence of our shitty two-party system. I’m positive neither of those fucking ghoul parties would be in power if we had a proper voting system.

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        Democrats should be viewed as an enemy of progressives … because they ARE. They constantly hamstring progress and constantly capitulate to Republicans. They are nothing but an excuse for normies to ignore the rise of fascism.

        They’re literally white moderates.

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      Because neoliberals always sell us out to corporations. They’re moderate Republicans fiscally when it comes to helping the public.

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      How many times over those 40 years did Democrats have a supermajority in the Senate, a majority in the House, and the presidency?

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      I am shocked that the hardcore leftist also has no qualms about using misogynistic slurs.

      By the way, that “conservative love letter to insurance companies” has saved well over 20,000 lives. I’d imagine those people who are not dead might disagree about it having been fuck-all nothing, but I suppose you’d have to ask them.

      https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/medicaid-expansion-has-saved-at-least-19000-lives-new-research-finds

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        While the ACA is better than before, I wonder if 20,000 lives is even half what we’d have saved if we had real universal healthcare.

        We certainly wouldn’t have increasingly record insurance, hospital, and pharmacy profits (which are all the same vertical orgs anyway).

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          You’re not wrong, and we should always push for more! But we also shouldn’t delude ourselves into thinking that literally nothing has been accomplished either, particularly when you look at what the other side has been blocking. Biden attempted to institute a $15 minimum wage for federal contractors, which was shot down by a conservative court. The student loan forgiveness was absolutely nuked by the SCOTUS. Just a tiny handful of Republican votes in the Senate could have saved the expanded child tax credit, which had directly observable effects on childhood hunger rates (which shot right back up when it expired).

          For issues that hit a bit closer to home for me, the Respect for Marriage Act is a huge comfort allowing me to know that, if I ever have to move to a red state for some terrible reason, my marriage rights will still be upheld. In schools, some basic respect for trans rights has been tied to federal school funding. Trans people are allowed to serve in the military again.

          None of these are super huge things, but they are real, and they have meaningful effects on real people’s lives. There are trans teens in high schools, right now, that are able to use the bathroom they want because of Biden. Sure, it’s not universal healthcare or a solved housing crisis, but to them, it is still very real progress, and it’s worth fighting for.