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To those in countries where democracy might last another election - harm reduction is not optional
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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Minimum wage: Dems ran on $15 since 2015. Reality? In 2021, 8 Senate Dems killed it. “$11 is more reasonable”, Result: 20 states still at $7.25.
Corporate taxes: Biden’s 2022 “win” (15% min tax) affects 150 companies. Meanwhile, Amazon paid 0% in 2021. Dems folded on closing offshore loopholes.
Military spending: Obama’s “cuts” were a theater. He ended ground wars but quadrupled drone strikes (civilian deaths went up 400%). Biden signs $886B budget, higher than Trump did.
Healthcare: 2009: Dems had 60 votes. They gutted the public option to please Big Pharma donors.
Dems had 4 months at 60 seats in 2009 and 18 days at 50+VP in 2021. Both times, they negotiated against themselves.
Harm reduction in a burning building is not a permanent solution.
And that has to do with the national party line... in what way?
Saying that "cuts" were a theatre by pointing to drone strikes makes no sense. Budget cuts are fucking budget cuts, I'm sorry that you don't think that wasting less money on implements of war instead of human needs is a good thing?
Civilian deaths did not go up "400%".
Drone strikes went up as a replacement for traditional air and artillery strikes, not as a sudden spike in military activity.
Much of the increase was a pay raise for troops and assistance to Ukraine; furthermore, the increases of the Biden years were significantly lower, by percentage, than during the Trump years. But sure, both sides same. What's Trump's position on Ukraine, again?
Yes, and the Blue Dogs were massacred in 2010 and 2012 because of this.
And as anyone who actually follows politics can tell you, four months is a blink of a fucking eye, and the fragility of that fillibuster-proof majority was exactly why ramming the legislature through was so important.
I'm sorry, do you think the Democratic Party is a hivemind? It's a big-tent coalition in a situation where they literally could not lose even a single vote to pass any legislature?
What exactly were you expecting from a razor-thin margin in a big-tent "Everyone who isn't the fascist ghouls" coalition? Socialism in a five year plan?
YES, THAT'S THE POINT OF HARM REDUCTION
You are not getting it, are you?
Suppose the Dems won with the Harm Reduction policy. What do you think would happen after 4 years? Trumpism would surrender? Fascist would say, ah we lost lets give up?
No, you are in a permanent state, where Dems making only the bare minimum, people voting them out of fear, for what? Forever? You call that a solution? Because that already may happened. Maybe Biden elected as a harm reduction. But this aint go forever.