COberJul 18, 2024
Robert Reich

To recap, the Republican Party has opposed:

-Paid sick leave
-Paid family & medical leave
-Universal childcare
-Universal pre-K
-Tax increases on corporations & the rich
-The expanded Child Tax Credit
-Student debt relief

Doesn't sound like the party of the working class to me.

Jul 17, 2024 at 11:38pmWeb
Show threadRoss of OttawaJul 17, 2024
@rbreich each member of their base thinks the working class are the other guys. They personally are each a briefly-disadvantaged billionaire, who should get their big payoff shortly.
Show threadCatherine is not complacentJul 18, 2024
@rbreich see now here’s the plan. No abortion, no birth control, all those pesky womenfolk can stay home so inconsequential white men can take the jobs keeping them from being fulfilled by motherhood.
Show threadRoriJul 18, 2024
@rbreich never has been. We just have a working class consciousness issue.
Show threadChris AdamsonJul 18, 2024
@rbreich @SaftyKuma Don’t forget overtime pay. They have a plan to get rid of that now too.
Show threadSaftyKumaJul 18, 2024

@invalidname @rbreich

I'm pretty sure they have long-term plan to get rid of PAY, period.

Show threadThomas Crescenzi עקיבאJul 18, 2024
Sure it does.. it keeps us working 60 hours a week just to be able to barely subsist and never be able to get sick or retire, lest we starve to death. Without us working class schmucks toiling so hard for so little, their donors wouldn't be so obscenely rich.
Show threadN0LSDJul 18, 2024

@rbreich Oh, for sure: the Fascist Party of America (err...I mean...."Republicans") are pandering --and, it is 100% pandering -- to the "blue collar American" because they know good and well that without their vote, Trump will absolutely not be Dear Leader again.

That being said, the Dems do *precisely* the same thing.

The difference? *Occasionally* the Dems actually deliver on behalf of those to whom they pander. It's never enough -- not by a damned shot -- and any incremental benefit to the Democrats' target voters are either rolled-back almost immediately by the Fascists (DACA), or become a long-term pet project for overturn (Roe v. Wade, ACA).

Any opportunity in my lifetime for the Dems to make permanent changes that would actually benefit their voters have been largely squandered.

What's worse is that the Democrat leadership flat-out *refuses* to retire and let the next generation lead. It was bad enough with Grandma Clinton; and the Dems *could* have made a clean break with the Boomer-as-shoe-in-candidate model in 2020...but, no. It's like the worst form of helicopter parenting -- and *generations* of Americans are now being governed by their grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great grandparents. Their refusal to retire cost us Roe v. Wade. It *might* just cost us democracy itself.

Chew on that.

Show threadN0LSDJul 18, 2024

@rbreich 2/2 - And why, one might ask, do these Boomers persist in high office at the Federal level? Because they're taking money from *exactly* the same rich donors as the Fascists. There's no incentive for them to retire when they can continue to rake-in big money by simply spending Corporate money to campaign every few years to keep that cash coming in.

Term limits. End dark money. Prosecute the rampant insider trading, in which these corrupt politicians engage.

And perhaps it wouldn't be too much to ask that Congress and the Executive Branch actually exercise the balance of power and force the members of the Supreme Court to act in a manner that upholds a high ethical standard? I know...I know....too much to ask, right?

Show threadChristianJul 18, 2024

@rbreich It's 2024. You still don't have that. As long as you all got either free or cheap medical care you should be all good.

No amount of money is worth your life

Show threadBebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴Jul 18, 2024
@rbreich Doesn't matter, if they repeat it often enough, they will believe in it.
Show threadالحرية لفلسطين חופש לפלסטיןJul 18, 2024
@rbreich Robert, they mean white people
Show threadCinaJul 18, 2024
@rbreich ....and I can't understand why any normal person would want Trump as their president....
Show threadRejZoRJul 18, 2024
@rbreich What's most bizarre is people living in trailers cheering for Trump. They somehow think Trump, who lived with golden spoon in his mouth all his life even remotely gives a shit about them? It's so weird. Only thing Trump gives a shit about is money and his rich buddies being even richer so he can be richer. Biden, even if he's old, at least he actually gives a shit about Americans with his policies. Exploited people don't bring wealth for long, well taken care of people do.
Show threadCameron PurdyJul 18, 2024
@rbreich That's not really fair, Robert, because they did have one speaker at their convention from the Teamster's Union, so I think everything will now work out just fine with Republicans in complete control of our government. I'm sure that they've already changed their mind about all of the bad policies that they have been clamoring to enact for the last four years.
Show threadInc Hulk 🧪Jul 18, 2024
@rbreich I must have understood. I thought the objective was that poor people will not pay any taxes any more. But they will not have an income either, their owner will provide minimal food and housing. Changing 'job' will not be an option, unless at the wish of the owner. Escape will be illegal.
It was like that back in the days the country was 'great', surely?