Quote (fender @ Mar 3 2020 04:21pm)
it's so funny. people (on both sides, and from all backgrounds) act like they are in favour of things like universal healthcare, adequate wages, worker rights, environmental protection, affordable education, and against the washington establishment, against the donor class dictating policy by basically buying their president through financial contributions - but when it comes to voting, they will still support the guy who will continue with the same old ways of the oligarchs, who is completely beholden to big pharma, oil, the military industrial complex, and wall street, and who will do virtually nothing to better the lives of average americans.
why? i mean, people can't seriously be stupid enough to still fall for the empty promise of 'gradual change' (mk. 374 - this time we're suuuper cereal about it tho) by people controlled by the very corporations who oppose ANY such change - that promise has about as good of a track record as 'trickle down economics' - it NEVER works. but for some reason, ppl still buy into the bs narrative that the guy, who actually fights for the things they pretend to be in favour of, is somehow too 'radical', a 'communist', or totally unreasonable... it's really mindblowing how easily so many people are manipulated into voting against their own best interest. again and again...
at this point i think it's fair to ask if americans simply don't deserve any better. maybe they deserve to get fucked by their government, their employer, their insurance... maybe they deserve to get unhealthier, poorer, less educated, locked up, and exploited. you can only lead a horse to the water, but you can't make it drink...
You can be for these things without being a socialist. Its as simple as that. Yang was basically the only choice that seemed to actually want to help and was a capitalist.