Thursday marks the 30th day of the federal government shutdown and the American public has grown more concerned about the shutdown throughout the month and more disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling the federal government, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.
More Americans blame Trump and the Republicans in Congress than the Democrats for the shutdown, the poll finds.
what healthcare? the insurance subsidies that go to private insurance companies that don’t have our best interest in mind?
democrats never intended to help did we would have living wages, more funding for education, less police, universal healthcare, etcetera
You must be too young to remember when American had ZERO options, other than to pay a lot of money for terrible health insurance. Now we have the same terrible options, but at least they cost less.
And Democrats are ACTIVELY working for all those things you mentioned.
Higher minimum wages:
Red states are still stuck at the Federal level of $7.25, but Blue states are higher, often twice as high or even higher. Even MAGA HQ Florida’s minimum wage is $15. It’s the Dems that have been working to lift wages and support unions and workers’ rights. Sure, they could always do more, but at least they aren’t actively moving us toward slavery, like MAGA.
More funding for education:
Yeah, Dems have ALWAYS been about that. It’s MAGAs who want to kill public education, and only let wealthy kids have decent PRIVATE educations. Have you ever heard a SINGLE Democrat call for the end of the Department of Education?
Less Police?
Are you paying attention at all? Dems are constantly taking fire for the very poor choice of the phrase “Defund the Police,” which MAGA was happy to smear Dems with.
Universal Health Care:
I wish more Dems were on board, but many are, and absolutely NO MAGAs are. If you want Universal Health Care of some sort, it’s going to come from the Dems, not MAGA.
There’s a big difference between not wanting something, and not accomplishing something. The Dems WANT all those things, they’ve just been bad at accomplishing them, due to their fundamental weaknesses as human beings, and their feral fear of being bullied by MAGAs. Lately, they have grown a bit more of a spine, but it may be too late.
If you want those things, you will only get them through a Democratic government. MAGA wants to take those things away, then kill you. Minimum wage? There’s no minimum wage. Education? Health Care? Pay for it. Can’t afford it? Too bad, you should have gotten a good education, so you could have a good job, given to you by your rich father’s fraternity brother.
Dems aren’t fundamentally evil, like MAGA, they are just frustratingly, infuriatingly weak and cowardly. They have the moral high ground on everything, and yet they refuse to use it. They are too fucking polite, and we will lose our Democracy over it.
The message to working people in red states is “we got ours, fuck you.”
It’s the dems whose final message to working people was Sinema’s thumbs down.
And dems were happy to have the excuse to, as biden gleefully said in a state of the union address “Fund the police!” He was clearly eager to get back to the brutal status quo. And he got a standing ovation for it.
Enough lies. Democrats have been claiming to want things and then doing nothing to pursue them for decades. They dropped everything for netanyahu’s slightest whim, since it what they wanted to do. It’s the only time I’ve seen them chuck incrementalism out the window. It’s the only time I’ve seen them actually stand for something in the face of pushback.
If democrats were a quarter as serious about keeping their campaign promises as they were about giving netanyahu whatever he wanted, you wouldn’t be like “we totally wanted to do what we voted against. bEhInD tHe ScEnEs.”
You make no sense at all. Sinema was never any kind representative of the Dems. To use her treasonous record as representative of the Democratic agenda is wildly disingenuous, and destroys any credibility you have.
Stop thinking like a MAGA Traitor, and start thinking like an American.
Then they need a new messenger, because her thumbs down is the entire democratic message to workers.
Stop acting like a class traitor.
You can struggle all you want to make Sinema the face of the Democratic Party, but the truth is that she is an irrelevant footnote, whose own constituents replaced her with a different Democrat. They literally fired her.
If you want an example of a Democrat standing up for workers, then point to Joe Biden attending the picket lines of various strikes, while he was campaigning for president. You can question his sincerity, but at least he was making the gesture, instead of demonizing them.
And “Class Traitor?” WTF is that? What “Class” do you think I belong to that I am betraying?I have never once thought of myself as belonging to ANY Class, other than my graduating class. Truly baffling.
None has been more clear on labor.
biden’s appearance on one picket line was a photo op to try to gloss over how he had broken the rail strike.
Oh, you don’t like being called a traitor? Or is it only ok to use that word when you’re using it to claim that anyone to your left must be all the way to your right?
Dude, you keep trying to make Sinema relevant, she’s sooo not. You’re like that MAGA I recently spoke with who kept trying to make me defend JFK. WTF?
CLASS Traitor? What Class? Or are you just saying you are just making some nonsensical claim? Whatever, you’re point isn’t clear, and if it’s what I think it is, it’s pretty weak.
Besides, I’ve been lifelong patriot, from a military family, with a degree in history, and excellent Critical Thinking Skills. NOBODY could ever make a case that I’m a traitor, except actual scummy traitors desperately trying to flip the script.
last democrat president fought for segregated schools and spearheaded crime bills designed to put people away in zoos for the rest of their life and was hugely religious plus loved big oil
president before that one was republican but worked with democrats notably walz who strongarmed oil pipeline protesters all on Native American land granted by treaties
the one before him was democrat for two terms who ran on a platform of hope\change but we ended up with private health insurance subsidies and no living wages or anything else
no point going back further all the same and do not want that high ground or politeness for the United States
Sure, blame Biden for his single vote in a complex political environment from 50 years ago, and then blame Obama for trying, but not fully accomplishing his agenda against a ferocious Republican Legislature who had openly pledged to wreck his presidency, even if they had to wreck America to do it. Mitch McConnell actually said that, then followed through. But it’s Obama’s fault for not accomplishing EVERYTHING.
Look, I’m no Democrat, I’ve been an Unaffiliated Independent since I registered to vote in 1977. I don’t like either party. But it is clear that one is trying - poorly, but trying. The other side is clearly, actively, enthusiastically, EVIL. Destroying America is literally entertaining for them.
The Democrats don’t operate in a vacuum, they are constantly under vicious attack by MAGA, who literally wants to kill them, and EVERYBODY on their side. Stop blaming them for not winning every battle against the evil, cheating MAGAs.
wait what battles have they won?
The ACA that MAGA is trying to kill, for one. Beating Trump in 2020, for another. They’ve had quite a few, but they’ve also taken some losses that were at least partially self-inflicted.