Elected officials, almost to a one, are there protect the ruling class, to protect capital. The Republicans aren’t “scared” of their base, they just use that as cover to be more and more fascist. Those voters are so brainwashed they’ll literally fight you to protect billionaires while their own pockets are being picked. No one in politics needs to be afraid of them, they’re idiots, they’ll go along with anything they’re told to support and that, invariably, means supporting policies that benefit the ruling class.
Democrats are also a capitalist party. It’s why we’re told that we can’t go “too far left” because we can’t capture middle America with policies that will actually help the working class. Which makes no fucking sense. It’s why no one is calling for Medicare for all except Bernie Sanders and a few marginalized people in the House. It’s why the party establishment refused to endorse or reluctantly endorsed Memdani.
The closest we ever came to actually doing things to help the working class was during the New Deal era. And that was only to hold off a true workers’ revolution. And they immediately started rolling that back the second FDR died and after they backdoored Henry Wallace from being VP in anticipation of that occurrence. Little by little the ruling class has been chipping away at every advancement we’ve ever made. Worker’s rights, civil rights, women’s rights, healthcare…:all on the chopping block. All at the behest of the owners.
They are going to kill the ACA. They are going to end all the programs they despise. They don’t care who dies, they don’t care who suffers. All the money going to those “wasteful”, “fraudulent” programs will go into the hands of the ruling class where it belongs. To the people who “deserve” it most.
Unless WE stop them. And I don’t see anyone ready to do that. Not yet, not in a meaningful way. Unfortunately, things have to get so bad that the problem cannot be ignored any longer even by the cultiest of cult members.
And by then it might be too late.
But we have to try.
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