• PhilipTheBucketA
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    6 days ago

    Woke: The ACA was largely a giveaway to the insurance companies. It fixed the system from being cartoonishly killing-people-on-purpose evil, into at least featuring a passing resemblance to decency such as would make sense for any other industrialized country, but it did basically nothing to fix the systemic issues at play in health care, because of systemic issues in our politics that make government on behalf of the people basically impossible. And, things have gotten back worse again since it happened in several terrifying ways.

    Bespoke: Let’s get involved in fighting to make the system better, including kicking out a bunch of the bums who are carrying the mantle of “liberalism” while basically being corporate whores. The success of the BLM protests, the legalization of marijuana, and of course the historical precedents of big things like OSHA, social security, medicare, and so on, make it clear that change is possible if we fight hard enough for it.

    Broke: Fuck the Democrats, let’s let the Republicans win, what’s the worst that could happen.