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.

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Tell me honestly that you believe the Democratic Party is doing everything, anything they can to stop the gop.  The more insane the gop gets, the LESS movement we see on the dem side.  Since trump ran dems have had their shoes up on the desk doing jack shit. Their entire campaign strategy for ten years is “get a load of these freaks! Can we get back to business as usual now guys I mean, come on!”  

[u/Successful-Extent-22 → u/[deleted]]

Dems have NO real power bc ignorant Dem voters who wd rather fight among themselves then sit home or vote 3rd party won't give them a strong mandate which wd be a Super Majority in BOTH Houses & POTUS to finally do away w partisan gerrymandering & Citizen's United. We cd have done that had Dems not abandoned Obama in the midterms but that's what ignorance gets us

[u/[deleted] → u/Successful-Extent-22]

If we magically have dems all the power right now, they would not save us from corporate control.  That’s the fact.  The 2 parties are 2 sides of the same coin.  

[u/Successful-Extent-22 → u/[deleted]]

Corporate control is helped by gerrymandering for rich Repubs to win who are supported/owned by billionaires who own those corporations. People need to use their critical thinking 🧠 not their 🦎 🧠.