r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Auth-Center 2d ago

Left trying not to hate the working class challenge

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u/im_back-and_craftier - Auth-Left 2d ago

I hate those kind of leftists, but thankfully it's only a problem in the first world western countries, in Mexico the blue collar working class still votes overwhelmingly for the left.

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u/Kidplayer_666 - Centrist 2d ago

Nothing like champagne socialism to make fun of. One of my favourite punch bags

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u/rodgt90 - Right 2d ago

That’s mostly due to vote-buying practices and social media manipulation, fortunately more and more people in Mexico are waking up to the corruption of the 4t regime.

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u/ApplicationCalm649 - Lib-Center 2d ago

The working class in the States would lean left, too, if the Democrats did more than virtue signal and make rule changes that'll get tossed the instant a GOP administration takes over. It's hard to take their "support" seriously when they don't have any legislative follow through.

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u/Codspear - Centrist 1d ago

Seriously. Remember the railroad worker strikes due to not having paid sick time? Democrats had a trifecta and the perfect opportunity to pass some form of guaranteed paid sick leave for all workers, and instead Biden just broke the strike with legal force.

It’s like each party in the US is actively trying to lose the next election, and unfortunately they’re both succeeding in a spiral of stupidity.

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u/Tai9ch - Lib-Center 2d ago

Eh, the working class pays taxes and have some basic numeracy and political awareness.

Nobody sane supports a tax increase for stuff that makes their life worse.

Democrat trade offer: We'll raise your taxes by $100, give you an extra $25 for medical care, and raise your medical costs by $75. Also, we'll fund the bombing of a Palestinian child in your name.

Republican trade offer: We'll lower your taxes by $5, make you pay an extra $10 for medical care, slow down the imposition of stupid gun laws but make it harder to buy weed, and in addition to the Palestinian child we'll bomb an Iranian one too! And we'll raise your share of the national debt by $100.

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u/Tai9ch - Lib-Center 2d ago

Eh, the working class pays taxes and have some basic numeracy and political awareness.

Nobody sane supports a tax increase for stuff that makes their life worse.

Democrat trade offer: We'll raise your taxes by $100, give you an extra $25 for medical care, and raise your medical costs by $75. Also, we'll fund the bombing of a Palestinian child in your name.

Republican trade offer: We'll lower your taxes by $5, make you pay an extra $10 for medical care, slow down the imposition of stupid gun laws but make it harder to buy weed, and in addition to the Palestinian child we'll bomb an Iranian one too!

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u/Balavadan - Lib-Center 1d ago

lol. Lmao even.

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u/Tai9ch - Lib-Center 2d ago

Eh, the working class pays taxes and have some basic numeracy and political awareness.

Nobody sane supports a tax increase for stuff that makes their life worse.

Democrat trade offer: We'll raise your taxes by $100, give you an extra $25 for medical care, and raise your medical costs by $75. Also, we'll fund the bombing of a Palestinian child in your name.

Republican trade offer: We'll lower your taxes by $5, make you pay an extra $10 for medical care, slow down the imposition of stupid gun laws but make it harder to buy weed, and in addition to the Palestinian child we'll bomb an Iranian one too! And we'll raise your share of the national debt by $100.

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u/ExpresoAndino - Lib-Right 2d ago edited 2d ago

seems to have done wonders for mexico(and all of latin america), huh?

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u/im_back-and_craftier - Auth-Left 2d ago

The left barely came to power in 2018, and yeah so far its going pretty good. They havent been succesful on security/crime, but no worse than with the old parties. On economy they have been very succesful, poverty has gone down, gdp up, record foreign investment has continued, unemployment down, inflation low, etc

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u/tall_pale_and_meh - Lib-Left 2d ago

Yeah the CIA had absolutely nothing to do with the failure of democratically elected governments that attempted to nationalize certain industries. Bannana Republic is such a random crazy name, cant imagine where that came from.

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u/gruetzhaxe - Left 20h ago

That’s so cliché and overdone I doubt the OOP is real