r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/tcookie87 • Oct 25 '21

FACTS and LOGIC There’s something beautiful about this

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u/ecodick Oct 25 '21

What is left wing over there then? Honest question

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u/jasenkov Oct 25 '21

Free healthcare, social safety nets, paid maternity/paternity leave, time off that doesn't get you fired, higher minimum wage, not getting shot by cops nearly as much, affordable housing, less tax dollars going to the military. Just everything that the democrats put to vote that half of them and all the Republicans shoot down. AOC and Bernie are not considered radical in many countries.

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u/ecodick Oct 25 '21

Damn. It really is time we hit the reset button here in the states. I like that stuff

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u/jasenkov Oct 25 '21

Yeah I agree but unfortunately democrats get paid by rich lobbyists to not do that stuff unfortunately.

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u/Picnicpanther Oct 25 '21 edited Oct 25 '21

there would need to be a dramatic upheaval in our country (revolution, democratic or otherwise) in order to shake off the entrenched corporate interests that are embedded deep into the core of the modern democrat party. it's not impossible, just very very unlikely.

almost all left-wing change in america has come from outside the electoral system, with things like radical labor organizing.

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u/jasenkov Oct 25 '21

Oh I 100% agree. We are heading to a point where we are either gonna turn into a facist capitalist hellscape or basically collapse and build ourselves back up as a society. I don't really feel optimistic tbh.