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This country is so fucked. We have a blatant criminal running for president with half the country too stupid or incapable of believing the facts and actually getting his ass in jail, all because he has an R next to his name. Our government is completely deprived of doing anything positive or good for it's people. We're going to spend the next 50 years walking a fine line between fascism and democracy, with all our energy spent on trying to stay on the democracy side, while the citizens of the US suffer the consequences. I hope I'm wrong but with this stupid MAGA cult so high up the chain of the government, it's hard to see a bright future.
In the country's defense, those assholes literally ran the government from the highest level for 4 years and ~~gave up power~~ were forced to give up power after their term ended. We have a pretty robust system. I am concerned that so many people are so stupid to be hoodwinked by him and his ilk, but the system was built to withstand this type of shit...at least for a single time.
Meanwhile Biden and democrats have been out there with things like the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Bill actually helping Americans. If you think that the government isn't capable of doing positive or good for it's people anymore, you haven't been paying attention. It may not be sweeping, and only barely enacted, but a lot of good has been done recently.
Biden and the democrats doing such good things like preventing the working class from striking. Take the blinders off.
The rail road workers got everything they wanted and more. The admin followed up even if the media fell off. They also just raised the construction workers minimum wages on federal contracts.
Did you ask him to take the blinders off because you wanted a second set for yourself?
Wowee you are really drinking that kool-aid aren't you?
Sick leave? You know that crucial safety issue of staying home when you can't perform your job. How about the skeleton crews the rail companies run giving inspectors a total of 2 minutes per car to do mandatory inspections? All these issues labor was raising before the national disaster of East Palestine.
Do you even know what you are championing in this statement? "CSX was the first to grant paid sick days to several of its unions and has now granted sick days to 61% of its 17,089 unionized employees." OH boy 10k people got 4 days of sick leave, what a joke. That's bread crumbs. It's nothing to celebrate, that's what the rail companies want to diffuse the public pressure.