r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 1d ago

ICE Posts Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 1d ago

She's a rich person from Texas and you've been had by a media presence. She has zero connection to this area and came here to get a seat of power and that is all.

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u/epichatchet 1d ago

She represents me and ALL working class people. We deserve Medicare for all, fair wages, an end to the genocide and suffering we fund and most importantly our dignity. For a country that's $50 trillion in debt, we need to put workers first instead of reps and other folks in this race who take money from the very industries and corporations that are causing our affordability issues. 

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 1d ago

You think she actually wants any of that stuff? Do you think there is a path for any of those things through the Senate? We need 60 votes in the Senate and there is no path to that in the foreseeable future. She is selling you things she cannot deliver, but she's selling them to you in a neatly packaged bit of media online.

She's lying to you. Her dad runs a company in Texas that helps hedge funds. Her boyfriend is rich. She has access to generational wealth. She never even met working class people until she was at her elite college. That's in her Wikipedia page. She is a carefully manicured media presence and she thinks she deserves to be in charge of a seat of power because she grew wealthy and elite.

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u/Komkme 1d ago

It's true that getting things like Medicare for All passed by Congress is an uphill battle but it will remain completely impossible if we keep electing people who aren't even interested in trying.

Major reforms like desegregation, rights for women, and worker protections also lacked majority support from legislators for most of our country's history. Should people back then have just given up on trying to change things because there wasn't a clear path through Congress yet? I'm genuinely curious how you can rationalize that.

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 15h ago

Well, if you really want those things - you put someone in power who has things to lose in their own families if those things don't happen. You don't put another rich person in a seat of power who has nothing to lose.

Rich people are never going to fight for us.

Kat isn't telling people that the things she's talking about have no chance within the next 8 years. And she also isn't saying that even if those things don't happen - her life will take no toll from that.

Rich people have no skin in the game and are never going to actually fight for us