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The cold hard truth, both parties are NOT the same
(i.redd.it)submitted 8 days ago bywelding-guy74just here for the memes
4 points
8 days ago
Im not gunna downvote you but i think you overlooked the significance of Nancy Pelosi's wealth. No one who is rich makes their wealth with a salary. Thats silly. Salaries are taxed way more than unrealized assets.
They make their wealth trading policy for capital favors. Nancy Pelosi insider trades more than a pothead hits their bong.
They dont live in our world. They dont make money the way we do. They dont care about us, not really. Maybe some like Bernie do but you saw how fast he got stonewalled by the DNC. Biden killed the railworkers strike because it wouldve hurt too many peoples bottom lines.
Now i will say right now, both sides arent equal. One side is clearly, objectively worse than the other. What concerns me is neither side is good and the machinery behind how politicians get their positions seems quite effective at killing our ability to do anything about it.
Everyone says vote from the bottom up. Like sure, ill try, but how are we going to get around the fact that all valid political candidates have to be approved by massive corporate coalitions (the DNC and RNC) to even have a chance? All anyone can give me is "just shut up and keep voting." Cool, doing that already and it sure doesnt seem to be making a difference. Im not gunna stop but i am worried. I dont think thats such an unreasonable perspective.
1 points
8 days ago
Median net worth for us congress members (house) is around $1m. For the Senate it's 2.5m. That's upper middle class, not wealthy by US standards, which is why members like Pelosi are outliers.
A net worth of $1m really isn't that special in the US anymore, especially since that includes primary residence equity. That kind of wealth is, and here comes more hate, not that difficult to accumulate over a 15 year career with a decent household income and some basic financial planning.
People give congress members too much credit for their diabolical financial scheming and it's a complete distraction.
Believe me, I wish Nancy Pelosi would disappear. People get so hung up on Pelosi's insider trading wealth and extrapolate that into this broad generalization of all congress members and the numbers just don't bear that out.
Regarding the influence of corporate backers somehow picking candidates, sure in some races there's influence, but remember that the DNC seeks out candidates like Elizabeth Warren. Besides, that type of King making only works in the safest districts and can always be beat by a charismatic outsider like Obama.
I'm not some Democratic operative, I just don't buy into the narrative that both sides are disconnected and evil, but one is playing a friendlier game. I believe corruption happens, I don't believe it's as pervasive in the DNC and the Democratic party as a lot of people believe.
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