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Why...just why?....Dems are just asking to lose midterms. Stop fucking with gun control shit and focus on the goddamn fascist in power.
Spend your political capital on shit that'll actually make a difference in not just gun but our overall violence numbers.
Raise the minimum wage
Increase education funding
Hire and pay teachers more
Stop techbros from planting DCs everywhere and firing their workers.
End the for profit prison systems
Get single payer healthcare passed
Kick ICE the fuck out of your state
End the war on drugs, which targets minorities the most
Enshrine abortion rights into law
Create proper safety nets for our most vulnerable citizens
Strengthen worker protection rights(unions)
Repeal anti-lgbtq+ laws
There is sooo much they could focus on that would solve our violence in general, but they go for this shit which just pushes away single issue voters and has others scratching their heads wondering wtf they're doing.
It's because both parties act as a ratcheting effect towards one singular goal. While there are minor disputes among the owners of the US on how best to reach that goal, they generally both agree that an armed populace is antithetical to their long term control, especially as quality of life continues to drop drastically across the population while they build their replacement for the working class.
Dems do their best to stall actual developmental progress (no kids, letting you buy insurance that has no coverage outside niche lifestyle conditions and letting gay people marry temporarily is not progressing society in any way) while republicans crank towards the shared goal by destroying progress and offering a 'antiestablishment' path that does nothing to harm the establishment.
If one side says 'yeah totally, keeep your guns, fight for your guns,' while doing everything to eliminate everything that actually matters for your quality of life, and the other side says 'yeah sure we'll improve your quality of life, but we want to take your guns,' then both sides funnel different groups into a looped cycle where life objectively gets worse for the average person, but the average person doesn't know how to blame so they just pick a team colour to hate for their lifetime.
Progress stopped in the 1960s in the US, and was dead in the water besides temporary privileges, not rights, after 1972.
I wonder wtf happened in 1972.