I dunno man, one group funded a genocide and the other also funded a genocide.
"Sounds like they aren't quite the same." Is a strawman. Pointing out that both parties serve corporate interests first and foremost isn't saying they're both the same. One is clearly worse than the other. But if corporate interests conflict with voter interests they will always sell out voters. That's how you end up with your vote not being able to do anything to stop genocide. Liberal democracy only allows change if it doesn't go against what the elites want.
But that isn't true. They tried to get healthcare passed which would (and probably did) deal a big blow to healthcare. Student loan forgiveness also got stopped because a corporate interest sued since it would hurt them.
Right. Which is why it sucks so much democrats care more about murdering brown people than stopping a Trump presidency. Democrats always have shit candidates because they, just like republicans, focus more on corporations and lobbyists than voters.
"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that's what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That's what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we've got to take back the White House, we've got to take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House."
Barack Obama ~2003
Single payer healthcare was a big reason many people voted for him. Unfortunately we never got there.
Don’t forget 700 billion he handed over to the banks after they collapsed under their own mismanagement. Probably helped that Citicorp hand picked his cabinet.
The other party stopped healthcare? You mean the public option amendment for Obamacare when dems had the WH, senate, and house? If so that's definitely not what happened. See also Manchin on the infrastructure bill and dems like Gluesenkamp-Perez on student debt. Democrats always make sure they have spoilers so they can talk about wanting to do stuff, but find a reason they can't so they don't piss off corporate donors.
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u/Fitzaroo 2d ago
I dunno man, one group tried to cancel student debt and provide healthcare while the other stopped it. Sounds like they aren't quite the same.