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minus-squareiceonfire1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·edit-229 days agoYeah and the senators who ratified women’s right to vote were all elected by men but they still did the ethical thing. At least Sanders seems to want to reduce billionaires’ disproportionate influence on politics. Maybe you’re ok if Elon Musk’s opinion on how much you should get taxed counts a billion times more than yours, but you really shouldn’t be.
minus-squarebasmati@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·29 days agoSanders used to, then he endorsed Biden and now Harris, and has voted like any other corporate dem in the meantime. And we’re pretty far backwards from where we were during women’s suffrage, we had socialists in office then.
Yeah and the senators who ratified women’s right to vote were all elected by men but they still did the ethical thing.
At least Sanders seems to want to reduce billionaires’ disproportionate influence on politics.
Maybe you’re ok if Elon Musk’s opinion on how much you should get taxed counts a billion times more than yours, but you really shouldn’t be.
Sanders used to, then he endorsed Biden and now Harris, and has voted like any other corporate dem in the meantime. And we’re pretty far backwards from where we were during women’s suffrage, we had socialists in office then.