lmao

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    Where was all this energy in 2021, when they had control of both congresses and president?

    Where was all this energy in 2009, when they had control of both congresses and president and supreme court?

    Where was this energy…

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      8 days ago

      And from 2013:

      Since 1979 . . . our productivity is up by more than 90 percent, but the income of the typical family has increased by less than 8 percent. Since 1979, our economy has more than doubled in size, but most of that growth has flowed to a fortunate few. . . . The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe. . . . And finally, rising inequality and declining mobility are bad for our democracy. Ordinary folks can’t write massive campaign checks or hire high-priced lobbyists and lawyers to secure policies that tilt the playing field in their favor at everyone else’s expense.

      you see, the realization hit just as they lose pretenses of having power