The victories were a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also a referendum on the Democratic party’s own centrism that is complicit in the violence of masked men hunting immigrants, the funding of a genocide and the denial of healthcare to citizens of the world’s wealthiest country.
…Hakeem Jeffries, who is running for speaker of the House, will not commit to holding a vote on abolishing ICE. He opposes Medicare for All. He has said he will not hold Trump accountable for the human rights violations committed, portraying it as a question of “getting even” rather than achieving justice where it was denied. Chuck Schumer, who holds similar positions, has an extraordinarily low approval rating – yet plans to run for majority leader in the Senate. Electeds are questioning whether these men should hold these roles.
But the dissent must also come from us, as it has been. We need to demand an end to the fast violence of guns on our streets trained on our neighbors, bombs dropped from the sky and the slow violence of people dying because their healthcare was denied or their food stamps were cut.
We need to organize, and mobilize, to demand the multi-racial democracy we were promised – not a playground for the rich to get richer on the time and labor and lives of the poor.
It doesn’t matter what the words say when their actions actively contradict it.
California is 1st place for state with the highest effective tax rate in the USA at and above $250K.
Above 250k doesn’t mean much in some areas of this state. Thats barely twice the official poverty level. The fact of the matter is the establishment democrats are consistently against taxing the people who have hundreds of millions to billions to hundreds of billions of dollars. That is a very different class than $250k/year income and you know it.
We are moving the goalpost a bit, but the Democrats have passed policies that tax the rich and their platform is to pass even more and restrict their political power. That’s progress. It might not be a lot of progress, but it’s the fact of the matter.
Their stated policies are completely unrelated to their actions. They consistently put down any wealth taxes. They consistently put down any capital gains taxes. They consistently put down any reforms to the alternative minimum tax to make it effective. They consistently fail to stratify property taxes to target hoarders and the obscenely rich. They consistently fail to address campaign financing issues.
You are correct that they repeatedly screw over the middle class in California.