The brazen display of corporate power, as exemplified by Occidental Petroleum’s monetary influence over critical safety legislation, illuminates the pervasive degradation of our democratic systems. It’s nothing short of an affront that crucial regulations, designed to safeguard the public and born out of tragedies like East Palestine, are so easily thwarted by industry interests.

The lack of attention paid by mainstream media and politicians to these incidents is both disheartening and revealing, demonstrating the tendency to obfuscate corporate misdeeds and the adverse impacts of unfettered capitalism on public safety.

Biden joining + everyone else dropping out was the last hope the establishment had to kneecap Bernie, and it fucking worked

Yes! He’s running as a green. And the democrats are ‘concerned’ and telling people don’t vote third party or else you’ll get trump!

But then when asked why they won’t add something like STAR voting to their platform, they go quiet. They love holding us hostage and don’t want to give that up! 🤣

He has definitely been positioning himself for it. The insulin moves are welcome, but the fact he let a single payer bill expire after promising to pass it leaves an all too familiar sting. But perhaps he can at least be moved on reducing prices for more pharmaceuticals and descheduling marijuana due to its legalization in CA. We’ll see.

That’s a great way to put it. Both parties are funded by dark money interests, one drives us to the right and the other keeps us in place. This is described as the ratchet effect

I think it’s a losing message to campaign on “everything is fine” when the vast majority of Americans are struggling.

Breaking Points covered this article and highlights that the current expectation is to simply say “we’re better than trump”. I don’t think this is very effective and believe that only an economic message can sway voters.

I think if there was a regular debate schedule it could have gotten interesting. But with the way it is now, you’re absolutely correct