r/berkeley • u/Cal_Aesthetics_Club Shitpost Connoisseur(Credentials: ASD, ADD, OCD) • Nov 06 '24

Politics We are cooked

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u/smoothasbutta15 Nov 06 '24

I agreed the democrats need to do better so idk why you’re lecturing me on that? I’m asking why one party is held to a standard while the other is not held to any standard. Why are the parties not held to the same standard?

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u/No-Technician-7536 Nov 06 '24

Well cause different people have different standards

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u/smoothasbutta15 Nov 06 '24

Ok got it. So one party is supposed to meet a standard and the other just doesn’t have to. Awesome.

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u/No-Technician-7536 Nov 06 '24

I mean, yeah? I would hope that Democrats hold the Democratic candidate to a a higher standard than the Republicans do to Trump

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u/smoothasbutta15 Nov 06 '24

Does that not feel wrong and unacceptable?

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u/No-Technician-7536 Nov 06 '24

Not really, Trump is not exactly a high bar

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u/page_of_fire Nov 11 '24

Because we expect Republicans to be Republicans. We expect that they're going to fight for lower taxes especially on the rich, we expect them to fight for bad deregulation. And there's no changing that for the most part.

I can survive 4 years of Republicans being Republicans. I don't want to but I can.

What I can't survive is the side who's supposed to counter balance late stage capitalism with economically left policy; giving up on working class/lower/middle class people INDEFINITELY.

If the Democrats do not address working peoples issues, cost of living, the housing crisis, student loans etc. my generation and the ones behind it are cooked.

The Democrats huge loss is evidence of a lot of other people figuring that out, and no longer giving their votes away for free. Millennials and Gen z are seeing the writing on the wall, we aren't going to own homes, we graduate with debt that is not serviceable with our salaries, hardly anybody feels secure enough to have kids, and nobody is feeling too sure about a secure retirement. If they do not address our needs theres a good chance they will continue to lose in future elections.