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Losing affordable healthcare, and funneling even more wealth to the 1%, while making the economy worse both for working people and the country.

If only it was just confined to the very young. Lots of people remember some of the idiotic things they said before and just as they came of age to vote. Many people continued to cling to it, however.

Not that Adam Mockler falls prey to this kind of thing, but I watch his feed, and one thing I've noticed younger folks like him tend to do, and man, does it make me cringe - it's when they use a sentence with the phrase "my generation...". Oof.

I guess it takes a few more years to get some real perspective on just how silly that sounds to talk about your "generation" as if it's somehow magically different than any other, but one way to try to explain this to someone that is Gen X or younger and has not yet picked up on this: boomers have a song, practically an anthem for the boomers, at least at one point in time: "My Generation". It even had the lyrics:

"I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)"

LOL. BTW, this is not confined to any given generation, hell, my generation - Gen X - did the same shit in their tweens, teens, twenties, thirties.

Yes, and Republicans will do absolutely zero to change that, because abusing the system is one of their main strategies.
And old school Democrats won't change it either for some reason, despite calling themselves democrats.
So it's a long process of first changing the Democratic party from within, and then hopefully get the power to modernize democracy in USA.

A guy at my last job had a major, fundamental misunderstanding of how the local building code was updated annually. He, and the partner who said I was wrong for “insubordination” when I refused to do the work using outdated codes, ended up in front of the professional engineers board and had to formally make a plan to show how they would never make that mistake again. It wasn’t exactly license revoking, but it felt great to have started that process haha

The best part was that I know the firm’s code nerd was spoken to to tell me I was wrong and they sent out a company wide notice about making sure your code was updated. No one ever apologized to me. I only submitted the report after they let me go for “not being a good fit”.

The #1 rule of not getting caught doing crime is don't do 2 crimes at once. The in #2 rule is don't make enemies of people that know where the bodies are buried. Sounds like you worked for idiots.

There has never been a moment of my life he hasn’t cast a shadow over. I’m gonna need a few hospitals after celebrating

I suppose it's the fault of the constituents for continuing to vote the same person in over and over again. Or is it that you don't have any other choices?

In America, liberalism is called leftism, leftism is called fascism, and fascism is called bipartisan common-sense politics.

The nuances between Social democracy and Democratic socialism never stands a chance in public discourse.

In a sense yes. Both Burnie and AOC describ themselves as democratic socialists but neither of them have ever advocated for the public ownership of production like in pure socialism. They have always supplimented they're political views along with democracy.

So simple calling them socialists is incorrect. Also keep in mind that both of them are part of the DNC.

Edit: Bernie Sanders is registered as an independent and AOC is not part of the DNC.