• 3abas@lemmy.world
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      The Democrat party is a neo liberal party that aims to transfer wealth and power from workers to corporations, they just want us to have a “safety net” to fall back on when our over exploitation breaks us.

      The Democrats are not your friends. We can achieve way better than their sorry little steps of “progress”. Yay gays can get married now, too bad very few can afford to!

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        Welfare as just one more method of transferring wealth to corporations, it’s just the money is coming from the government and going through poor people first. Which means it at least generated some economic activity by cycling money from the top to the bottom, but if the tax structure becomes too regressive then that cycle breaks. Both sides acknowledge this problem, it’s just that the neo liberals want to push those limits while keeping the money flowing (so that most of it flows upwards) while the fascists just want to stop the cycle altogether.

        This is evidenced by the fact that SNAP is funded by the Farm Bill. It’s not a handout to poor people, it’s a subsidy for farms and the food industry at large.

      • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The only reason that they support LGBTQ is because it gives them an opportunity to pretend to be leftists in spite of being center to right on basically every single other issue. And because it’s okay with their megarich donors.

        If the donor class opposed it, they wouldn’t even support that.

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          It took them a long fucking time to even support gays. They’re on the wrong side of just about every moral panic including the current one where oh no you guys we can’t say Israel is committing genocide because that’s antisemitic or whatever.

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        they just want us to have a “safety net” to fall back on when our over exploitation breaks us.

        Do they?

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          “safety net”, the quotes are vital. While some Democrats are bought into the bullshit neo-lib narrative and think this is what society should look like, I think the majority of the bought and paid for Democrats are fully aware these measures are only intended to squeeze every last bit profit out of us, keeping us and our children as wage slaves.

          The safety net is meant to allow you to recover so you can go back to work for the capitalists, not to take care of you so you can contribute to society.