That’s a great way to put it. Both parties are funded by dark money interests, one drives us to the right and the other keeps us in place. This is described as the ratchet effect

Only one candidate has committed to:

• medicare for all
• free college tuition
• legalizing marajuanna
• eliminating the social security cap

It’s all laid out in a policy page that’s more detailed than even Bernie’s ever was.

Meanwhile Biden’s website just says ‘lets finish the job’??

I’m going to assume you’re acting in good faith, but I hope you realize how ridiculous that argument is. The only reason this is so is because the DNC is systematically shutting down the primary process and so elected politicians would be harming their negotiations by supporting challengers.

They for sure align more with Marianne WIlliamson whose policy page is the most detailed and progressive I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. Meanwhile, Biden is running on “finishing the job” and saying the economy is fine.

I’m interested in understanding why so many have picked Joe Biden. According to several top posts, Lemmy is supposedly left wing, yet the vast majority are voting for a conservative democrat over the progressive.

Does anyone here actually care about pushing against dark money, treating climate change like an existential threat, and fighting for universal health care? What’s drawing you to voting for him? Looking forward to respectful debate

Not just any government, but a government captured by capitalism

Inflation rate in a vacuum doesn’t mean much. We lowered the inflation rate by harming workers, and our safety net is terrible. We could have dealt with the situation by using price controls and wealth taxes that affect the top rather than the bottom.

Can we get this neolib bullshit out of here?

The economy is not doing well for a majority of Americans. The majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and are not optimistic of the future.

They dealt with inflation by raising interest rates which harms the working class. They use the stock market to justify the economy, when 80% is owned by the rich. They use job numbers to justify the economy, when more and more people need to get 2nd jobs just to be able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment.

Please stop linking to mainstream media. It’s so aggravating.

Finally, A Third Party For Billionaires

So fucking stupid that the forward party supports ranked choice voting and not STAR which is superior in every way
RCV oversells itself and some states are repealing it after being burned by it

• complex ballot
• easy to get your vote voided
• centralized, complicated tallying process
• can still cause vote splitting!!!

I doubt many of you have 3 hours to kill on this, but here’s a debunk video. You can trim the first 40 minutes which covers approval voting

Isn’t it obvious? Most of the recent wave of users to federated sites was caused by the enshittification, which means:

when an online platform becomes more monetized and less user-oriented the longer it lasts.

This is a problem caused by capitalism. Therefore many of us will be anti-capitalists. Many of us will value creating things that put people over profits.

Making this meme took longer than opening a book to understand what communism actually is.

What everyone points to as “communism” shares more in common with capitalism than anything else. They had authoritarian rulers and a small wealthy class that lords over the rest of the populace.

There is nothing “worker owned” about these examples and it only serves to spread FUD about moving away from capitalism towards a more human centric economy

The major oil companies acknowledged climate change is a major threat and they are primarily responsible for it decades ago

man I wish Biden was a strong advocate for even half of those things lol