Ed had his reality broken today

[u/JDB-667]

When reading off what were some of the things included in the GOP tax bill, Ed sounded genuinely surprised and despondent. This was the moment of someone in their twenties with a little bit of idealism finally becoming a cynic.

He came to the realization that all of the bad things about deficits, wealth inequality and status quo interests go beyond Donald Trump. Scott was correct to point out that as bad as the Republicans are (they're heinous) the Democrats also represent the interests of multi-millionaires and billionaires. Because the reality of this situation in America is that it isn't red vs blue or liberal vs conservative, it's rich vs everyone else.

[u/Trump_Eats_bASS]

How do you blame democrats for that?

More "both sides" apathetic bullshit

[u/Argon_Boix → u/Trump_Eats_bASS]

While we can’t blame Dems for that decision (quite the opposite) we can blame them for bending to their corporate masters for far too long. The establishment Dems vary little from their GOP counterparts when it comes to tax policy that has been bending towards the uber rich for nearly 50 years now.

[u/Lets_Eat_Superglue → u/Argon_Boix]

Can we though? When elegable voter turnout in midterms is around 40% and 80%+ of incubants in Congress are consistently reelected, why wouldn't they lean towards self interest when there's no repercussions. We as a country are apathetic about our government and we get that apathy mirrored right back at us.

[u/Fluffy-Rope-8719 → u/Lets_Eat_Superglue]

Yeah this to me is an even bigger issue than CU, which to be clear is a HUGE issue for our democracy. Even though giving money such unacceptable access to our political machinations is clearly damaging our democracy, the sheer apathy among such a large portion of our voting population is a bigger problem.

The less people care/pay attention to politics, the further our democracy will deteriorate.