• doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    2 years ago

    Tell me more how Democrats improved living wages and our healthcare system.

    No question the Republicans are going to be worse, sadly (and with full control). But the fact the “party of the people” also gave us a fuck off is a big reason team red won everything.

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      2 years ago

      Tell me more how Democrats improved living wages and our healthcare system.

      affordable heathcare act

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        That and Obama was actually the first President to ask Congress to raise the minimum wage and be told to fuck off… Which is one of many unfortunate examples of how far our country has turned to the Right

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        2 years ago

        Yeah, I was about to say, I can you know, not choose between dying or a life of debt?

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        2 years ago

        Affordable Care Act was terrible at first. It’s barely better now. And I was talking about the last four years mostly. My family’s wages went down when you factor healthcare costs (not even considering the inflation on food etc). Democrats need to be pushing for single payer, it’s actually popular even among some Republican voters if the Democrats knew how to communicate with people instead of calling them names. If they would run on fixing minimum wage and European style healthcare they would probably be able to get it done.

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          Affordable Care Act was terrible at first.

          As a representative of everyone with a preexisting condition before the ACA was passed, I am mentally violating the community civility rule at you right now.

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          Democrats need to be pushing for single payer

          Guess how Hilary Clinton first became Public Enemy #1 to conservatives in the early '90s.

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            This was before the current enshittification. My family was all against it in the 90s and today they’re all saying that insurance companies are what’s wrong with health care. Things have changed.

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                2 years ago

                I can’t predict the future. But I can say it depends on the whole policy picture. They’d vote for a socialist before they’d vote for someone pushing gun control. Funny thing is, real leftists should be completely opposed to disarming the proletariat.