• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Moderate Dems get elected because this country isn’t progressive. We collectively want these things to happen, which is why they do.

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      Progressive policy is popular regardless of labels or even parties.

      Even in 2020 most Americans wanted single payer healthcare.

      But because trump ran as a Republican, that meant the Dem candidate couldn’t want to fix healthcare, for some reason is till don’t understand.

      We collectively want healthcare to be improved, but the people who donate to both parties don’t, which is why it doesn’t happen.

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        Either our government is representative of its people and they don’t really want those things, or it’s not representative of its people and needs destroyed. See the Declaration of Independence for more information.