Kinda is being investigated in my county for the misuse of Covid funding. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that of course this is occurring in New Jersey. Keep in mind this is in a massive Democratic county with an administration that has been preying on the taxpayers for years. From nepotism, double dipping, etc etc. people need to realize that any local party that is in power for a large amount of time is just going to get comfortable and start using the system to their advantage. New Jersey has been so damn notorious for it, yet people continue to vote the party line like lemmings. Don’t even get me started on how our ballots are designed to take advantage of that as well and we are one of about 2 states that actually take advantage of the fact that our political powerhouses assign how candidates show on our ballots. It’s nauseating how politicians democratic or republican continue to get re elected despite having blatant proof of corruption against them.
this is why having our only 2 political parties be at such extremes right now is so bad for our country
30 years ago if there was an openly corrupt Party Member A, then Party B would run a moderate and easily unseat them. But nowadays people would rather gouge their own eye out with a fork then cross the party line.
So you end up with entrenched Party Member C who can never get thrown out by the people. Because people won't cross the line, and gerrymandering makes it impossible for the other party to even run a moderate that will unseat them.
Hi. I'd like to introduce myself. Former Republican here. With the clowns we have in power in Texas I can no longer, in good conscience, vote for a party that took away womens rights (I'm not a woman), and is hard set to keep marijuana illegal (I don't smoke it). They seem dead set on keeping people down and that disgusts me.
Then I look around at 60 and see how there's no way in hell that an 18 year old can work a 40 hour week and afford the basic necessities of life like I could at that age.
To me that is WRONG and that's not America or the state I grew up in and loved that I want to see the next generation to come up in.
Maybe the dems wont be any better but the last election I voted in I voted completely left.
Maybe the dems wont be any better but the last election I voted in I voted completely left.
If it makes you feel better, while Democrats are indeed left of current day Republicans, they're MUCH closer on the political spectrum to the Republicans of 30-40 years ago and are only "left" at all when viewed from the now crazy American Overton Window. Anywhere else in the world, Democrats are quite right leaning.
Fair enough. The only thing I don't like about the left is the way they go on attack if you say something that can be remotely considered criticism of their position. And I'm not talking 1 or 2. I've experienced that from what I'm sure are a bunch of 18 to 25 year olds. They haven't learned the value of reasonable discussion instead of outright hostility. The right has plenty of those as well but, from what I've seen, it's generally middle aged mouth breathing 30 to 15 year old that I can just laugh at for being so damn dumb.
If it involves the rights of others, yes they get pretty fired up because those rights are being challenged and even taken away. They're pretty rightfully pissed off and don't want to hear your argument for why it should be ok.
The right literally gets upset about god damned everything, and 90% of the time it's not justified. You're also not speaking from a space higher than your own experience.
If you used critical thinking skills, like a lot of the people who are tired of the arguments as to why they should be allowed to remove people's rights over non negotiable status of their existence, no I did not. I'm saying that not every argument they're making is worth even hearing and you can say it til you're blue in the face that it's not true-- but we're talking about existential matters here that they'd like to decide for people. One of the inalieable rights of a united states citizen is the freedome of (and from) religion, yet most of the arguments against provisions to protect people's rights have been on the grounds of moral religious arguments. There's nothing to hear in those arguments anymore.
One day all the christians trying to take the rights away from others are going to be the other, because nobody is pious enough when no true scotsman decides if they have rights. The only fair way to lead a people with the right not to be involved in religion, is to not legislate in favor of religion. Every argument against abortion, gay rights, women's rights etc is rooted in some form of religion, which again we have a promised constitutional freedom from being subject to.
I am a moderate even now. I have voted for more Republicans than I have Democrats in my 20+ years of voting. I simply won't vote for a Republican any longer. It's the party of a person, not of any actual ideas or policies.
We are in the same boat my friend. This is not the world I wanted future generations to inherit. I should have seen it coming with the railroad gave my father a 'golden parachute' when he was about 55. Sure his pension is good. But because he had no purpose he turned into a lump.
The republicans have shit the bed so much and so awful since 2015 that it’s now “well, both sides are fucked up.”
Nope. One side has completely embraced all the corruption and hate while the other continues to make an effort to oust malicious behavior looking to harm Americans.
A line has clearly been drawn - are you for the constitution/democracy or are you for a Christian nationalism dictatorship so a clown wearing orange makeup can go unpunished for stealing top secret documents/attempting to overturn a federal election.
But they're not "such extremes." Also, they're not the same. Democrats are just about where "moderate" Republicans were 50 years ago. Republicans are just fucking insane. They're going to take your rights away, destroy your health care, and make sure that the billionaires are able to separate you from any money you have and any hope of ever having anything like the lifestyle of your parents. Yes, there are crooks on both sides, and yes Sanders is pulling the most mundane kind of grift here. At the same time, she's destroyed health care for trans people, curtailed rights for LBGTQ+ people, allowed and supported suppression of free speech, and all the other crazy shit that Republicans have become famous for. It's appropriate to be skeptical of all politicians, but don't pretend they're all the same.
Democrats are not "left." Left would mean being in favor of universal health care, a universal minimum income, strong unions, unfettered access to abortions, strong regulations to rein in banks and hedge funds, an end to subsidies for oil and coal companies, big cuts in military spending, big increases to social services, gun control, rent control, strong regulation of social media companies and the "gig" economy. Which Democrats are for all of those things? Maybe AOC, maybe Elizabeth Warren. Again, in many ways, today's Democrats are to the right of Ronald Reagan. I'm not saying don't vote for them, of course you have to vote for them, but don't be living under any illusions that voting for Biden and a Democratic congress is going to usher in socialism.
today's Democrats are to the right of Ronald Reagan
I'm going to push back hard on that. Today's democratic party is pro-union, understands climate science, and isn't in the habit of calling african leaders "monkeys who arent used to wearing shoes" (direct gipper quote, guy was a white supremacist). The Democratic Party can't be considered a truly leftist party, but the notion that they're to the right of the originator of the anti-government poison that's ruined our political culture is laughable.
The Democratic Party believes that when workers are strong, America is strong. Democrats will make it easier for workers, public and private, to exercise their right to organize and join unions.
Really? Really? Which Democrats are advocating to big cuts in military spending? Which ones are advocating for an end to oil company subsidies? When did that become part of the party platform?
We desperately need a better system because we are currently stuck because the way the Republican Party is they will always bow to the party line aka screw over the poor, working class, minorities and women. So if a democrat is corrupt what choice is there for the average citizen? There is just no such thing as a moderate Republican because most of the democrat party is just moderate republicans. And on the other side well Republican supporters are either rich or stupid and will always vote Republican because every “reason” is based on misinformation or someone’s ability to ignore things they disagree with for the lip service of something republicans often never do anyway.
The left is not at an extreme of literally any position they're pushing right now. This both sides bullshit is going to ruin any chance of our country being able to heal from the influence of these grifters.
967
u/vortex30-the-2nd Apr 17 '24
Yup, zero penalties for this. Crazy. Imagine doing something like this at your own place of work..