The proposed debt cancellation of more than $400 billion would have been one of the most expensive executive actions in U.S. history and affects tens of millions of borrowers.
Of course they did. If you’re rich, you get a bailout. If you’re not, then fuck you.
The lesson I get from this is that forward progressive movement is not be expected from government, it must be done via direct action. At best government (and by extension, voting) can blunt the regressive movement from other more extreme parts of itself.
tl;dr Vote to keep the fascists at bay, not expecting change.
This and, use it to prove to your Republican friends and family, and even your democratic friends and family, how the US is structurally capitalist. It’s not just a happenstance. Capitalists can fund elections, which is how people get in office. They can fund representatives in other ways. They buy stuff for judges. The US bails out, funds, and forgives businesses and not people. Buisness owners leech value from their employees, and that is structurally maintained by US business code. The history is in slave ownership, theft from natives, colonialism, and the maintenance of monarchy-derived capital, and the government system itself is derived to prevent direct-democracy so the poors cant out number the rich.
I can’t believe how it took me to my 30s to realize this, give them time.
Ppp loans were completely forgiven. What a fucking joke - we can’t have shit in America.
The lesson I get from this is that forward progressive movement is not be expected from government, it must be done via direct action. At best government (and by extension, voting) can blunt the regressive movement from other more extreme parts of itself.
tl;dr Vote to keep the fascists at bay, not expecting change.
This and, use it to prove to your Republican friends and family, and even your democratic friends and family, how the US is structurally capitalist. It’s not just a happenstance. Capitalists can fund elections, which is how people get in office. They can fund representatives in other ways. They buy stuff for judges. The US bails out, funds, and forgives businesses and not people. Buisness owners leech value from their employees, and that is structurally maintained by US business code. The history is in slave ownership, theft from natives, colonialism, and the maintenance of monarchy-derived capital, and the government system itself is derived to prevent direct-democracy so the poors cant out number the rich.
I can’t believe how it took me to my 30s to realize this, give them time.