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It benefits you by reducing homelessness and poverty in general. Holy fuck you guys are so self centered.

It's the economy. They can scream the economy numbers are great but the people are feeling it differently at the grocery store, gas station, paying rent, etc.

Welcome to the club. In my country we have fascist in the government since '94. Lately an openly fascist head of government.

And that's because the majority of the people living in Italy simply don't go to to vote.

No man, those guys will always vote R no matter what. The problem is the Dems not showing up because the candidate is a woman.

Yep, Dems win by increasing turnout, Republicans win by depressing it.

So Dems campaigning on how great they are wins elections

Dems campaigning on how bad Republicans are only wins sometimes and usually only if the incumbent is a Republican.

Unless we make changes we're gonna switch to rotating every 4 instead of 8, and the moderate Dems allowed to make it to the general will never fix stuff as fast as Republicans can break it.

The current plan just isn't working.

The government allowed lies to be told on TV and on the internet under the guise of news. There were no real consequences to those who had listeners and repeated foreign government talking points for money. We have not seen any real investigation on how much interference was ran on social media.

Nearly every human being believes that they are a good person making rational decisions, so its important to examine the environment around these people to where they can believe they made the right choice when it comes to electing Trump and sadly, it seems our mostly unregulated free speech that let it happen, because the republican party is more organized and effective in communicating their platform and slandering their opponents than democrats are, and they motivated more people to vote than the democrats could as a result. Anger and hate are strong emotions and motivators, and unfortunately the republicans keep on using them and it keeps on working.

I have no idea what you're blaming Lemmy on, if anything I'd expect the userbase here to be more active and left-leaning voters than average. People have a good reason to be frustrated, and I think pointing that frustration at the only alternative option we had for a political party failing election after election to learn how to communicate and how to deliver on what the people really want is a reasonable take.

You realize that you need people to have children if you want to keep having a doctor or firemen or farmers and so on? Child credits benefit you even if they don't go in your pockets directly.

You're the exact type of person that prevents social programs from being implemented, if it doesn't benefits you directly then no one should get the benefits.