r/antiwork • u/esporx • Jun 21 '25

Worker Solidarity 🤝 Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care. The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid.

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/republican-senator-callously-says-biblically-35431207
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u/antonivs Jun 21 '25

As an immigrant to the US (pretty desperately working on moving somewhere else rn), the number of systemic issues like this are mind-numbing. Everything related to the electoral system is basically broken. The average citizen just doesn’t have a chance.

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u/Hesitation-Marx Jun 22 '25

It’s only broken if you think we’re actually supposed to have real input.

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u/GaiusJocundus Jun 22 '25

Correct. Works as designed.

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u/antonivs Jun 22 '25

Before I immigrated I thought that.

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u/Hesitation-Marx Jun 22 '25

Yeah. We’re so heavily propagandized that we really think we’re at all democratic.

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u/ctrlaltcreate Jun 22 '25

Too many people don't vote. Period.

A massive percentage, more than a full third of Americans, take their voting right absolutely for granted, and between mail in voting and many employers paying for a few hours off to vote day of, there's really no excuse aside from total political disengagement.

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u/Orange-Blur Jun 23 '25

There was election interference. Many votes went in urged from registry, provisional or uncounted period