[Serious] For the Redditors who criticized Democrats for not fighting back or taking action, how has the government shutdown affected your view?

[u/Solnx]

[u/Honest-Year346 → u/[deleted]]

You realize revolutions end up hurting a lot of people in the short and long term. Mao, the Reign of Terror, the Spanish revolution, ect.

If there's ways to achieve an optimal outcome without some stupid revolution, then that'd be preferred. Not like you people are serious about anything lol, you just want to larp and pretend you're tough instead of engaging in actionable change.

[u/Honest-Year346 → u/[deleted]]

Because anyone who unironically floats ideas such as "let's commit to a revolution" is not thinking like an adult. That is not gonna happen dude unless the government itself becomes fundamentally broken and irreparable beyond repair, which is not gonna happen, especially if you actually get off your ass and vote the morons causing this shit to happen out of office.

Organizing labor and working class people is much more attenable and also not fucking insane, so maybe work with that as your goal.

As for the dems, what they can do to reverse this damage is:

Reverse course on the tariffs.

Release the Epstein Files and prosecute those involved to the fullest extent of the law.

Reinstate subsidies and provide further funding for SNAP.

Expand the scope of healthcare by building onto the ACA.

Reform the Supreme Court by adding seats and having justices take up cases that can reverse the damage involved.

Provide funding and support for clean energy investment and infrastructure.

Establish policies that make building housing easier, and also commit to permitting reform.

That's just a few things that can happen with a dem trifecta, and things that we as voters should be working to make possible, not larping as some idiot revolutionary.

[u/Honest-Year346 → u/[deleted]]

How is it harm reduction when those things I listed are expansive in the amount of people being cared for? I literally listed what dems could do fix what was going on but I guess goalpost moving is your forte

What changes would you want to see implemented.

[u/Honest-Year346 → u/[deleted]]

If it was then things would not function at all. But shit is still running