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[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I kind of think that we don't have an argument here. Trump is obviously the worse of two choices. It's just that the Democrat offering is not actually a good choice, just a less bad one. Unless you're a member of the bourgeoisie.

I am going to have a moderate decline in living standards because I live in the UK. Where our supposedly centre-left government have just decided to cut benefit payments to the disabled rather than raise taxes.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Unless you're a member of the bourgeoisie.

Mmm.

Well here in America, the incremental progress made by Democratic Presidents indicates we can have much more if we could get more that 50% representation in Congress. But we very rarely do, for a number of reasons, some of which were pioneered in the UK.

Still we got a budget surplus, some sort of universal health care, and a huge investment in environmental rebuilding. Because a lot of self-described leftists were targeted to be outraged by the outrageous war crimes of Likud, we now have rolled back 100 years of structure and process in roughly three months. Like Brexit-on-steroids.

And that’s just fuckin stupid.