Lol, the “self righteous” accusation here is unbelievable.

Healthcare isn’t a stock. Healthcare is a large industry, comprised of many companies, and government entities. Individual companies in the healthcare industry may have publicly traded stock. Hope that helps.

No, not at all actually. I was joking.

What about nancy pelosi though?!? Her and her husband traded google stock! No one trades google, its such an obscure stock where almost no major news happens. Clearly both parties are the same.

True. Democrats only want to govern like actual adults.

I spent enough time in my teens and early 20’s doing that. I grew out of it when I got smarter and more jaded.

lots of unironic communists on lemmy?

Just wrong. Democrats absolutely deviate significantly. I don’t even know how to push back against this, it reads like you fed an LLM exclusively lefty influencer takes.

I have been extremely pro-democrat and it has driven me insane how the far left ONLY ever shits on democrats when they are objectively better than republicans on every single issue. Democrats generally vote in the direction of increased taxes on the rich, more access to healthcare, better safety nets, etc. while republicans are just demons who obstruct all progress for the sake of destroying the world. But after Trumps election, watching the cowardice of the dems actually fucking disgusts me. They might as well be republicans with their lack of response. Just a fucking disgrace. Fuck Cuck Schumer. I will stop defending dems. Trumps election is the official end of both parties. Neither of those parties can be allowed to survive if the US manages to survive this.

keep telling yourself that you represent “the voters,” any not a tiny group of white college kids

I didn’t even know that one. It’s so sad how Biden’s name has gotten dragged through the mud.

Incrementalism is just democracy, shit moves slow, people disagree, there are laws and procedures it prevents the country from wildly steering back and forth like a schizo. Not anymore now that Trump has won, we get to see those large scale structural changes now. There is no hostile out of touch group with a death grip on the dems, the far left just doesn’t vote, or they are not that big of a group. Moderate dems appeal to more Americans then the super progressives. Harris lost by like 1-2%, and that is AFTER trump/elon most likely rigged the election through suppression and probably also hacked voting machines. The far left not voting for Harris knowing full well that Trump is an actual fascist, is suicidal accelerationism that will get millions killed. Fuck em, get the fuck out, stop associating yourselves with dems. Make your own shitty fucking party and lose every election instead of pretending your dems and then throwing a hissy fit every time the candidate doesn’t do fascism the way you want.

Joe Biden was extremely left leaning for the average American. He did so many pro union things. He held an EV summit and didn’t invite Tesla, because they didn’t have a union. First president to cross a picket line. https://uwua.net/2023/10/president-bidens-union-record/ Democrat platforms have always been in the direction of higher taxes on the rich to fund more social safety nets. People just don’t like them because they aren’t good enough. When the alternative is explicitly anti-worker, anti-union, tax cuts for the rich, destroy social safety nets. This narrative needs to die. It’s not a failure of democrat policies or platform it’s just a failure of the media environment. It is purely a media problem. Democrats just need to start shitting out more tik toks and get more sycophantic youtubers like trump has, to jerk them off so the vibes shift.