I find that the opposite is true. Poor people tend to lean left. It's just that conservatives don't take care of their impoverished populations, so the whole area rots economically from the bottom up.
One example that hits particularly close to my home is how republicans are vehemently against raising the minimum wage. But they also can't figure out why fast food joints and grocery stores around here can't keep enough staff to stay open.
Nobody can afford to live on 7.25/hr anymore. But republicans here will never acknowledge that. So our economy suffers.
Notice what the girl in the picture and snow white has in common that Mulan does not? Same reason you won't see them post about Princess Tatiana open carrying either..
I don't know, man. The wording of that still paints the act of having a union as a bad thing.
You wouldn't say, "I'm disappointed that my son only has a 3.9 GPA, but actually I'm disappointed in myself for letting that happen" If it's not truly a bad thing, no one needs to be disappointed at all. Unions are good for everyone, except literally the people at the very top who might only make 7 digits instead of 8.
The framing matters, and this is still worded like a backhanded framing of "unions bad" from corporate like they're saying "Yeah, the dog shit in the bed but we should be responsible as owners"
That coupled with the cookie cutter anti-union advice to just talk to your manager if you're unhappy (so they can unfailingly steer you away from a union) makes this whole thing just sound like an HR guy framed it to be as inoffensive as possible while still painting the union itself as bad.
I know you've probably heard this about a dozen times by now, but..
Don't join Facebook.
They track everything they can about you, down to how long you spend looking at something on your screen. I'm fairly certain they listen to what's going on around you if you put the app on your phone. An ad for something I've mentioned in passing has popped up on my feed shortly later too many times to be a coincidence.
They follow you around on your browser, too. They know what you shop for. It's all specially tailored to sell you their ads.
I keep an account to stay in touch with my family, and it's appalling how much more information they get from you than any other app. Not to mention the heavy prevalence of MAGA hats and I'll-kill-you-before-I-consider-your-opinion conservatives.
Instagram isn't much better, but at least the people there are nicer.
As a fellow Louisianian, I'm here for it too. But I have strong doubts about it going anywhere.
Anyone reading this thread and genuinely interested in it should go listen to the dollop podcast. It's American history, mostly between the 1500's and now. But the different episodes they do are stuffed full of this kind of faulty logic from the past.
Look into the death of George Washington. His doctor responded to what could have been a mild cold by taking a liter of blood 4 separate times from him. Washington very well could have recovered if he was just left alone.
Oh, and the doctor somewhat realized his mistake and tried to put some of the blood back after(!) Washington expired, with the logic that if blood loss killed him giving it back should revive him.
So yeah. Pumping blood back into a dead man. That was done on the founding president of the United States.
Was listening to an American history podcast (the dollop) about the radium girls. They wore uranium infused lipstick because it glowed and they thought it was cute. They licked their fingers regularly to help apply uranium dust to things.
While their male supervisors were wearing full lead suits totally for no reason and let those girls do that.
Many of them lost their jaws. There was a suit filed that they won, but every single one of those girls died before they could collect the money.
The suit led to a law establishing workers' safety rights, so it wasn't all bad. But that law was definitely written in those girls' blood.
Infrastructure expansion like trains
We'll see. Congress doesn't like the president spending money without their explicit approval. At this stage of planning, it's little more than grandstanding by the president.
investing in education
See above. Congress undid Biden's first attempt at debt relief. It's still unclear if the second attempt will pan out. Cool if it does though. Still an if.
healthcare plans
The ACA really only pays out for people far enough below the poverty line that they basically don't have income. My wife and I make $50k/year. Not even enough to own a house here. I still shell out $600/month for basic healthcare for two, with a $1000 deductible we each have to pay before the insurance even starts covering costs. And that's considered a good plan. Deductibles can legally be as high as $10,000 per person before insurance starts paying anything.
The ACA isn't exactly a shining achievement for democrats.
environmental programs
I'll give you that one. My state is building and opening the largest carbon capture facility in the world so far, because of democratic policy.
etc
Etcetera is what people say when they run out of examples. By my count you've got 1 (one) example of good that democrats have done that has actually materialized and isn't in jeopardy of failing as soon as someone actually has to approve the funding. Most democratic policies die in congress.
But of course you already know of all these so why do you need to ask the question?
No need to be an asshole, I'm just here demonstrating for you that the broad strokes you're painting are not even close to the actual situation.
(I'm not even from USA myself, but your Republicans have such deranged policies that it spills over to us in impacts on trade, etc)
I'm with you on this one. Republicans are deranged in general. But it's abundantly clear that you do not live here. Democrats had 3 years to do something constructive, and they mostly haven't even managed to undo the damage Trump has done, let alone enact policies that benefit the majority of Americans.
In fact, democrats lost a major civil rights battle during their tenure (Roe v Wade) without even putting up a fight. I absolutely cannot blame democrat voters for being disappointed.
Bro, you dodged his question. He answered yours.
So how about instead of brushing him off with an insult, you actually pony up some good things you think democrats are doing that doesn't just boil down to "well republicans would have done it worse"
Frankly, I'm on the side of voting democrats with the exact reasoning that Republicans will steer us into fascism. But I wouldn't go so far as to say that they're doing good, they just aren't doing as much bad.
I can't blame people who are disappointed with democrats as a whole, and I think it's a reach to unironically take your position of voting for them because you think they have good policies.
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