This post is specifically targeted to liberals in the sub. You know, the people who ‘vote blue no matter who’ types. The people who believe capitalism can be reformed.
The railroad strike situation is a PERFECT example of how both parties ultimately work for the same people, the capitalist class. Both parties are right wing capitalist parties and therefore will ALWAYS work in favor of the capitalist class at the expense of the working class. Your choices are neo-liberal capitalist party or the fascist capital party.
Don’t believe me? Let’s look at the situation. Railroad workers strike. Owners will not meet the (extremely reasonable) demands of the workers. President Biden, a pro-capitalist president, demands a forced end to the strike. However, the Democratic Party isn’t stupid and understands that this will be incredibly unpopular with working class citizens (anyone who builds wealth through selling their labor). So to make them look like the ‘good guys’ in this situation, they create a second bill that includes 7 sick days alongside the bill that will end the strike. Do you really think the party expected the sick day bill to pass on its own? If you did, I have some snake oil to sell to you. Ask yourself, what was preventing the democrats to put both measures on the same bill? Answer, so they can look like the good guys voting ‘for’ sick time while the republicans vote against it (for republicans know most of their base doesn’t even pay attention to this, it’s more of a cult at this point). Liberals (not leftists) eat up this bullshit narrative and see their team as ‘pro-worker’ all while forgetting the fact that it was a Democratic president advocating for stopping the strike in the first place.
If the Democratic Party had worker’s interests in mind they they would have
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Let the strike continue or at the very least
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Include the sick days in the same bill as the bill to stop the strike
I know you don’t want to see it. You want to see the democrats as working for you, because seeing it for what it truly is makes things seem even more hopeless for the working class. I’m writing this post hoping to open up more eyes to the reality of our situation because at the end of the day, both parties work for the capitalist class and not the working class, and until the working class sees that on a mass level, material conditions will continue to get worse for us while the capitalist class will continue to enrich themselves.
There is no war but class war.
And before it get all the angry people screaming at how the Republican Party is objectively worse than democrats, no fucking shit Sherlock. That isn’t my argument. If one person runs on a platform of killing 5 million people and another on killing 6 million, picking the 5 million is obviously the better choice, but at the end of day, both options are evil.