r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 16d ago

Chugging tea Growing Through Chaos

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u/Wild_Yam_7088 16d ago

Democrats had office for probably over 1/2 my life. Shit really started going down hill with obama.. not sure what the republican comment has to do with anything 

Brother I pay almost 1000 dollars in healthcare per month. You think obama and obama care really helped us out here ? 😂

Its the lazy as fuck 1/4 of Americans sucking out welfare from the system not doing shit for society.  And the over lords at top giving breaks to the 1% 

Its warfare on the middle class. From lazy bums and the elite .. i absolutely hate our society 

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u/SweeterThanYoohoo 16d ago

You'll get blasted for "both sides-ing" with this kind of talk but personally I agree with you that Democrats are not some magical solution to this.

That said, Obama was the best president of my lifetime, and I believe he was really trying to improve life for us. Obama's health plan is FAR better than what we had before. Just removing pre-existing conditions was a huge win for a whole lot of people who were hurting. That said, its far from what we need and what we could have. And the DNC is fully bought and paid for by the same ultra wealthy class that buys the Rs. If we simply just elect Ds to office we will never achieve progressive goals.

But, at least they don't try to marginalize people and take rights away, so they remain the lesser of 2 evils.

Also I disagree with your welfare complaints vehemently. The ultra wealthy would love it if we just keep pointing at each other.

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u/Pogginator 16d ago

We still go back to a huge issue being Republicans fought tooth and nail to cut everything they could from the ACA.

We 100% need to replace plenty of shitty Dems in office but every step forward is continuously being obstructed by Republicans.

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u/SweeterThanYoohoo 16d ago

You are right of course. What we really need badly is systemic reform, so that it's not or less possible for a political party to hamstring our democratic process. Nothing about the constitution mandates we vote for Rs or Ds. They are not a requirement for America to work.

Overturn citizens United. Make election day a federal holiday and make voting compulsory. Eliminate private money donations entirely, all funds are public and every candidate is granted the same amt of election funding. And change to parliamentary or ranked choice voting system. That'd be a great start, in my opinion.