The problem with the Democratic Party, as it’s mentioned elsewhere in this thread is the Democrats run an issues based campaign. When those don’t line up with their voter base voters abandon them and don’t show up to vote.

As I see it, a lot of these progressive policies are unpopular with the corporate controlled portion of the government. Since corporation control a sizable portion of both parties via their “free speech” monetary donations to campaigns, They’re not interested in supporting any types of progressive initiatives because it eats into their bottom line, their shareholder profits, and they certainly don’t wanna pay more taxes or higher wages. Not when they can spend the money they have on massive stock buybacks, make more money, tax-free, and figure out how to pay even less taxes on those profits.

There is no significant government works projects that can be paid for or completed on time because the powers it be would rather have the money sitting in their pockets were going towards their third luxury yacht. And they’re willing to spend the money to get politicians and judiciary do what they want.

Add to that that the US government is $37 trillion in debt and any money that is collected from taxes and whatever other sources goes towards paying the interest payments. The central banks have tamed America and the corporate elites are sucking what’s left dry.

There are hardly any left leaning congressmen left. The Overton window has been shoved so far to the right for decades that most Democrats are right of center, neo-liberal corporatists.

Even if you got rid of most of the Democratic Party, there’s only a handful that are not right of center. There is no such thing as a progressive part of the Democratic Party.

The stark reality is that the government has been so corrupted and under funded for so long there isn’t money for big public works projects or to overhaul the medical system or really innovate or build new things because it just going into corporate shareholders pockets.

The American people have been duped and the wealth of the nation has been transferred to Wall Street over the course of the last several decades. The corporations are flush with cash, and the country is falling apart. Since corporations and the wealthy elite don’t pay their fair share taxes, and keep taking all the cookies out of the jar, everybody’s fucked and fighting with each other instead of uniting to get these corrupt assholes out of politics.

The very fact that all these tech bro, billionaires have seized control of the government along with white nationalist crysto-fascist think tanks, like the heritage foundation, shows the weakness of the American style government.

If we’ve learned anything from cyberpunk, this is always the endgame for corporations. The more technologically advanced they become, the easier it is for them to subjugate the masses. Corporations are built for long-term control of assets long after their founders die.

What we should be currently figuring out is that once corporation become sufficiently wealthy and allowed to donate endless amounts of money to politicians, they become more powerful than the governments ability to control them.

You can thank the Supreme Court for ruling that is sitting president can do whatever the fuck he wants for four years unless he pisses off Congress so bad that they impeach him, Which isn’t enough because the Senate also has to want to remove him.

So I guess you become president, do whatever you want for four years, make a whole bunch of money By stealing it from the American taxpayers convincing half of them that it’s OK to steal from their opposition, wipe your ass with constitution, and then die before you can be held accountable while passing off all the grift to your nepo-children and vapid family.

That will never happen. The current system is designed to keep the status quo for rich and corporate interests. They will never work against the monied interests that support them. If they do, corporate money will just fund their opponents from both sides of the political spectrum.

Citizens United and the bast amount of money available to corporations has eroded the power of governments to actually govern.

And water is wet.

**Translation:**The law is whatever you pay me to make the law.

Not really a surprise. The rise of social media, the lack of third spaces, and the high cost of everything are all factors leading to this statistic.

Tell me where in the suburbs people are supposed to hang out without having to pay to be there? How are young people supposed to afford any sort of entertainment for like a concert or movie when the prices are all jacked up? If you can’t afford your rent you’re not gonna leave the house to go spend more money. You’re gonna sit your fat ass on the phone and be alone on Instagram and the rest of the Internet cesspool.

Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the US and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world. But for a long time, unlike many of his peers, he was unable to boast that he controlled a chunk of the news and opinion reaching the American public.

Boo hoo. Cry me a fucking River you privileged fuck.

Porn for me but not for thee.

Ironic that the party of fucking pedophiles wants to block pornography because it’s indecent. But raping little children is OK by them so long as you’re sufficiently rich and well-connected enough to avoid any consequences.

Interesting.

I wonder if soybeans can be turned into ethanol.

The solution for this seems to be legalization, regulation, and testing. In this way you disincentivize buying from the black market and making it less accessible to those not of legal age.

Have the day you voted for.

Good luck serving your corporate overlords when they buy your farm for pennies on the dollar and hire you for minimum wage.

The answer is simpler than you might think. Progressive policies often ask you to change things that you don’t want change for the benefit of a larger group.

The idea that new policy will fix old problems and magically make things better is simply laughable.

Add in a constant stream of nostalgia that is constantly tells the younger generations how everything used to be better back in the good old days, and none of this should be a surprise.

Why the fuck would anybody support progressive policies that make their life more difficult, more cumbersome, and add extra bureaucratic red tape so that somebody else might benefit 50 years from now?

Why would anybody agree to make changes in their life and adopt progressive policies that make things more difficult and more restrictive while constantly being told about how used to be so much better before the government stepped in and decided that this is bad for you can’t have it anymore.

Right wing = conservative = people don’t like change. So yeah, people are const being told how things used to be better and resisting new policies that they don’t like that make things worse.

What a hard concept.

Let’s use recycling as an example. Before recycling was sold to everyone as the way to save the planet, everyone put all the trash in one can and it went to the dump.

Somewhere down the line, corporations managed to convince government that everyone should help them recycle the packaging trash that they produced. Recycling is good and will save the environment if everyone does their part.

Fast-forward 40 years and now there’s 8 different bins to separate all of the different types of plastic and glass and metal and paper and trash. And who has to do all of this work? yiu and me and everyone except the corporations that created it in the first place.

Why is the corporation that created that garbage and plastic waste not responsible for us clean up in the first place? Why are these progressive policies such as recycling everyone’s face instead of solving the problem which is too much plastic packaging?

Are you surprised that people would not want to recycle because it’s a huge pain in the ass specially in rural places where there is garbage collection and everything has to be sorted manually at the dump?

Are you surprised that people don’t like California’s restrictive emissions, laws, and anti-modification laws? But it’s good for the environment. It will improve the air quality. Gasoline is bad.

Why would I wanna buy a new car that runs shittier needs more maintenance brakes but it is environmentally friendly? (go do some research on how the EGR system works for diesel engines and tell me that you want that shit on your car)

Seems like a better solution would be to increase public transportation so people don’t need a fucking car as their primary mode of transportation.

But it’s much easier to guilt trip people into thinking their car is bad for the environment and convince them that they need to be the savior of the fucking planet then it is to legislate and force oil companies and car companies that want to sell more oil and more cars.

My point is people keep getting told life used to be easier things used to be better and everything sucks now in order to fix it. We need to pass these laws which no one wants and surprise that people are voting for the conservative part is it we don’t want to change shit.

Conservative parties have a lot of other way worse ideas as they relate to social issues and societal problems. Usually the easiest solutions to scape goat somebody else and say hey this group of people over here sucks. They are the cause of all your problems not these corporations and rich fucks who pay us lots of money to ignore you and your needs.

Honestly that would be an upgrade at this point.

Does he just take one off his chest when he gives medals to soldiers?

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