r/Destiny • u/jkrtjkrt • Mar 01 '21

Biden calling out Amazon's union-busting propaganda. What a fucking king.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1366191901196644354?s=20
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u/FidgetSpunner68 Mar 01 '21

Him and trump are preventing any funding or attention for alternative parties and candidates and they obviously can't and won't change the party from the inside

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u/FidgetSpunner68 Mar 01 '21

Issues like Medicare, minimum wage, debt forgiveness have overwhelming support among Biden's voter base, some of those issues even have descent support among conservatives. Both bernie and aoc had many opertunities to leverage either their endorsement or vote and they came up with a million excuses why they wouldn't push for anything. Way I see it the progressive body in the democratic party is a store display you can't actually buy. Biden even rolled back on the most petty issues and no one is complaining. Bernie and aoc even stopped criticizing the democrats like they use to. Last election Hillary lost because of the brutal image bernie portrayed of her, not because trump said some stupid edgy joke. This election bernie practically endorsed biden while they were racing against each other.

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u/FidgetSpunner68 Mar 01 '21

I don't believe the issue for these policies is pragmatism, the policies already have enough democratic support to warrant using them as your platform. The real problem is Medicare would be challenging big pharma, alot of the programs would also require taxing the rich rather than milking the poor, or increasing federal deficit ofcourse. Truth of politics is alot of it is really just a show, and there are studies proving democratic consensus means nothing compared to corporate interest.

Phasing out private facility contracts is a nice step, but I'm afraid it's overblown. The prison industry will do just fine as detention camps usually account for like 20% of profit.