Verdant Banana @ verdantbanana @lemmy.world

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Democrats have had majority before and never upped the minimum wage sufficiently, citizens never got universal healthcare, workers never got better rights, never codified Roe v. Wade, and all the other things Democrats say they are about to the public

have you seen how these policies play out on the ground or do you wake up and drive to work and the grocery and home maybe a park

shit is not better because Democrats got voted in and we should demand more out of our leaders

work a job that has me in multiple states and the issues the politicians from both sides are claiming to be worked on are in piss poor shape

you want to talk about rural hospitals needing funds to stay open then lets talk about the policies and actions that got us here

both parties for decades have sold out the citizens to be underpaid, sick, undereducated, malnourished on bullshit food, and just basically left to suffer so their stocks and payouts can increase

Democrats just have a better costume

yes a certain segment of people want living wages and healthcare for all and a plan to take care of this planet we live on and to stop killing other people on this earth

not liberal ideas fucking common sense

“oh, it’s porridge and word salad again, fuck me, will we ever get anything more than empty promises.”

same with democrats and the ones of us who have escaped the Matrix are ridiculed by both parties for speaking against either corpo party

would be more interesting to view the protest happening outside the convention where there would be people actually fighting for a better future

if anybody reads what the DNC voted on for their platform lowering aging people's cost of healthcare was a big one and the rest of their platform was mostly for seniors to benefit off of it

more gerontocracy horseshit so no surprise people switched

we need a party for the younger people at this point that would fight for living wages and universal healthcare for all not just Medicare expansion and lowering prescription drug costs lowering that will mostly just help seniors

https://democrats.org/news/dnc-releases-2024-party-platform-draft-outlining-historic-record-and-bold-agenda-for-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-to-finish-the-job/

more humane is not what the goal is

that is the thought process that got us in this mess to begin with

word for it don't have at the moment but that is shite thinking

just because it is worse elsewhere does not mean you don't strive for better at home or anywhere else

have you seen or read any articles about what is happing? on the same planet we are having this discussion on

not politics or a situation you act more humane in than the other guy

human life is not something you are for or against especially as a politician or as you put it more humane towards

pragmatic /prăg-măt′ĭk/

adjective

Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.

Of or relating to pragmatism.

Of or relating to pragmatics.

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practical goals?

Gone are the skyscraping demands for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal to transform the health care and energy sectors, which Harris endorsed in her failed 2020 bid and is now backtracking from. Progressives are instead homing in on a more pragmatic and economy-focused agenda that includes a minimum wage hike, child care funding and new Medicare benefits for seniors.

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who has endorsed Harris, said progressives are playing the cards they’ve been dealt.

“I don’t think that perfection is ever on the ballot. But real progress is,” Jayapal told NBC News in an interview. “Unless Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren were elected president, we still have work to do to get those full things to be mainstream.”

“So much of our … Progressive Caucus agenda is stuff that we know she is for, just as the Biden-Harris administration was for, and I believe the Harris-Walz administration will be for,” she said.

This year, the Democratic Party more broadly has drifted substantially to the right on immigration while seeking to bolster law enforcement. Some in the party are also de-emphasizing progressive social causes in their campaigns.

“I don’t feel like it’s been a recalibration,” she said. “I actually feel like progressives have come out on top in most ways. I measure our success by what we got done. I think Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been the most progressive administration that we’ve had in my lifetime.”

universal healthcare and not shitting where you eat are not progressive ideas they are just things we do to continue to live a clean healthy existence on this rock we live on that is located in the middle of nowhere with no other gas stations around

waited so long to raise the minimum wage even setting it to $15 would not help people when housing combined with just food alone is more than that wage would cover

if we really gave a care about seniors in this country they would not have hours long wait times at hospitals and we would have take care of the senior center buildings and quit giving them way out of date food and quit over dosing them on morphine when we are ready for them to go

this whole article just comes out as more Democrat propaganda made to set people's minds at ease and to say we have to tamp our expectation and baby steps and to say it does not happen overnight even though we have been fighting for basic human rights since the start of the US

human rights are mainstream what the fuck else would they be

looks like locking kids up at the border, not defending DACA, and restrictive immigration policies are a both parties thing after all

was hoping Harris was a sheep in wolf's clothing ready to pack some punch with this election but she is turning out to be just another wolf in sheep's clothing

progressive politics are people politics and the citizens never come out on top especially during election year

no meat in the article

more or less just a promotional piece for Harris with nothing hinting at what she plans to do if elected

really thought we were going somewhere when Biden dropped out

yay now our below living wages will go a micro bit further

let us celebrate the Democrats who do everything they can to fight against the Republicans

heard this my entire life as did my father who was told by his dad

no progress is not won over night, but it has been several lifetimes worth of over nights and the time to shit or get off the pot is now

use to be good for that personally used one as our daily driver on a 4k 60fps media pc up until recent updates a few months ago

without other tools like adaptivecpp and that is very experimental right now it a useless chunk of silicone

him along with other Democrats never fully backed it and it has always just been a talking point for them like universal healthcare

sounds good and the voters are able to chomp on it but the Democrats gum everything never putting teeth in

no gaps just people suffering and politicians ignoring them

people are wanting universal healthcare, police reform, cease fire, more rights for workers including upping the minimum wage

no undecided voters only people that have been waiting for a long time for something to change and for someone to enter the stage vehemently announcing they are on the people's side

the US touts itself as being a united fifty states but in truth we are fifty different countries all with different ways of governing and different boot choices for the cops that help keep the citizens down

don't forget Biden throughout his whole career is on record saying he firmly believes in the Catholic Church and his politics do reflect that

both parties have tried to push their bible views on the public at large

she did have a fiery start but if she does not come out hard on upping the minimum wage, healthcare, police reform and a cease fire not sure if that initial steam will last

his presidency already showed this

the US has already implemented policy changes to combat the problem

the Medicare drug pricing agreement is just noise and will not help seniors with the majority of what the elderly in the US drastically need now

we need access to better senior centers (currently most cities have two a free one and one that not even the VA will cover at over $1000 a day and the biggest differences are the paid ones have nurses on staff and does not hand out food that is months out of date or the free one's building is needing major help), the VA needs funding, hospital wait times for the VA and regular hospitals are too long, end of life care consists of morphine doses that are upped until the person is gone, seniors need better access to food, and the list goes on

and Biden and Harris are acting like we should worship them over drug prices that yes we need to be lowering drug costs but it does not help when what is affecting the elderly's health right now in the US is so much more than lowering a few drug prices

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