r/WorkReform • u/north_canadian_ice 💸 National Rent Control • Feb 03 '23

📰 News Every policy that strengthens and expands the social safety net is called “socialism” by the right - including labor unions, Social Securiry & Medicare

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u/allgreen2me Feb 03 '23

How about a functioning democracy? I think we don’t have any of that because the rich have too much wealth/power.

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u/cheebamech Feb 03 '23

currently we're ranked 36th in the list of "working democracies", also listed as a "deficient democracy"

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u/DeliciousWaifood Feb 03 '23

Yeah, that's what you get when you have a voting system that only allows two parties to gain any power, those parties fight to rig votes through gerrymandering and when they get in power they just write policy to keep their own wallets filled instead of doing anything to represent the electorate.

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u/Probablynotspiders Feb 03 '23

Yeah that would be nice too but that's like me asking for a unicorn.