Message from @Sorghagtani Beki
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attempting to do so would cost any politician their political influence
You live in ideology wonderland.
If we're talking about the US, public opinion has little to no influence on policy. Business interest groups and billionaires have all the control over public policy, oftentimes writing it themselves and handing it directly to a legislator.
likewise in America, any politician trying to repeal the ACC would be ruined
when the people experience a better society, they will never give it up
Firstly, the Democrats take bribes from the same donors that the Republicans do, for the most part, with some differences.
Secondly, any reforms inevitably get repealed or watered-down.
I do not think the ACC will ever be repealed
Stop talking and start reading.
I mean look at the NHS in England. The Labor Government did that, now Labour is fucked and the NHS is constantly having crises because of the Tories who have been in power for a long ass time now.
No politician would be able to do it without costing his or her political influence
and they need to be wary about elections every few years
In the US, the Electoral College already gives an advantage to the Republicans, and even if a Democrat were to win most of them are neoliberals and trying to get any, even small policy changes that are progressive will be a nightmare.
Even if bernie had won a lot of his policies would've been sabotaged by his own damn party.
yet even the Tories cannot remove the basics of the NHS
This is all irrelevant because none of it is pertinent to workers getting the full value of their labor anyway 😜
no matter what they try
@Sorghagtani Beki There's already been subtle privatization
They're able to defund certain parts of it and generate crises to convince the public that there has to be more spending cuts to compensate.
You mean how Trump changes policy every week. The people tolerate anything.
minus his supporters
For God's sake Sub we have a president who won the election with millions of less votes than his opponent.
they keep backing him for some reason
I think it's stubbornness
If Hillary had won we'd still have plenty of the problems we're having with Trump.
So you just contradicted yourself.
She wanted to overthrow Assad
She doesnt give a shit about single-payer
Trump is the least liked president in US history
she doesn't want free uni education
hillary is a neoliberal
what do you expect
@Sorghagtani Beki Hillary's approval ratings weren't far behind
Well your plan of voting doesn't work
voting got us hillary
which evidently got us trump
Sanders was very close to the nominee
and he would have beaten Trump
And even if he had won it would do nothing.
His own party is filled to the brim with bribed corporatists who would torpedo him and his policies.