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Progressives Up in Arms After AOC Loses Key Committee Seat
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I love how neoliberals are always more concerned with street lamps and trees for the dwindling middle class areas while never bringing up our greatest sin you have no interest in addressing, housing all homeless without condition. That should come before all else, from the worst off citizens upward. They're dying right now, needlessly. While others live in their compact cars and try to reframe it as a lifestyle because a studio is out of reach.
But they have no bribe checks, and serve capitalism as scarecrows. Dying of exposure, being legislated as not being allowed to exist at all even in supposed leftwing states.
Fuck the pretty commons, the less poors are rooting for the deaths of more poors for the crime of lowering property values while being killed themselves by the rich they trusted, and some still sadly do, to do the right thing by them. But that's your priority.
Honestly beautifying the commons in the areas protected from our most struggling, while our tent cities burst at the seams is beyond perverse.
People where I live, Seattle, regularly vote to tax ourselves more to try to help the homeless. Somehow nothing seems to ever help very much. We vote for all sorts of different programs. Maybe it just hasn't been long enough to see which might be working.
You didn't mention the traffic lights or the sewers. I got the zeal for single-minded politics but in reality that doesn't work because, well, there are many many other things that have to be done. And not just traffic lights and sewers! Other things too. Uh, schools, hospitals, and . . probably industrial waste or disaster recovery. Good on you for the single thing tho - are you running for something?
I don't bullshit with a big fake smile, and that's all Americans are willing to buy, so no, I don't have what they want to buy to sell.
You're the one that started with trees and traffic lamps as paramount issues. I started with the capitalist rot, the blight that creates or informs all others. Clearly traffic lights and trees are your top ticket items. Good for you I guess. And we can barely do anything, so I always find it hilarious when you guys talk about us doing many things at once. We can't. We've proven we can't. The signature legislative achievement in most of our lifetimes was a healthcare bandaid that further enshrined the profit for murder capitalists into the system we begged them to remove and end as an industry. We the people aren't permitted to effect anything that would diminish private profits for the sake of the public, let alone several at once. Way, way, way too much credit being given.
If we can't reshape our economy to start rewarding prosocial vocations like teachers and nurses and start actively punishing runaway avarice, very little, and none of the most destructive issues, can begin to be addressed. There is profit to me made in human cruelty and murder, so long as it rolls downhill exclusively.
I don't know how you mean - we got here somehow. By doing many things at once, was my take on it.
Yeah me either, so I hear you on that one. Still - with all this old "new media" maybe someone will figure out how to run for office with it and we'll see some fast change for the better.
Doesnt matter much if we dont get a chance to vote for the better candidates.