Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "GOP donor: No money if no action on guns" video.

  1. But at the same time, I'm glad there's at least one Republican doing something. Even if his kids and grandkids had to get shot at to even push him into any type of action.
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  2. It's not We the People, it's We the Corporations duh
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  3. Seriously I bet he wouldn't be this combative to ban AR-15s if it had been another town. Even a town 10 minutes away from his. Unfortunately, this is how Republicans work. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio both voted no to fund disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy, but then when Harvey, Irma and Maria hit this past year, they begged people to help their states. It's fucking typical behavior that needs to be ostracized for what it is. Pure selfishness and immoral behavior for even the most primitive human.
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  4. +Peter Gobkoswki - Because the NRA had barely just enough Democrats being paid off by the gun lobbyists that they were able to stop any gun control law with the help of ALL the Republicans. Some Democrats are total corporate tools too, but the fact that only a small portion of Democrats vote on terrible laws and against laws that help the working class makes a clear cut case that they are by far the better party compared to the vast majority of the Republican party and sometimes the entire Republican party voting on disastrous bills that fuck over the average American. And also it seems like most Democrats actually want to become better moral politicians, which is why two key corporatist Democrats just announced the other day they would stop taking PAC money and dark money. You don't see that type of moral change taking place in the Republican party. Instead you have 17 kids dying from mass shootings and the Republican party shrugs and goes "What can we do? Nothing can be done about it". It's pathetic.
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  5. Peter Gobkoswki - Because of Republican obstruction and filibusters. You realize it took them years to get Obamacare passed because Republicans were kicking and screaming every step of the way, and even then Obamacare turned out to be a huge disappointment because Obama conceded to Republican demands in the bill and it turned out to be a right-wing moderate healthcare system instead of what should've been something that worked like Single Payer. Also, listen to what I just said before. There are a handful of Democratic congressmen and Senators who are in the pockets of the NRA. Joe Manchin for example has taken tens of thousands from the NRA. There are Democrats who will vote against their own party just as there are Republicans who will band together and vote against anything Democrats try to pass even if it is beneficial to average Americans. You sound like you have a really single minded view of politics.
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  6. +Peter Gobkoswki - Buddy, I'm not arguing with you on that. A lot of the Democrats are corporate puppets that will vote the same corporatist way with Republicans a lot of the time, and if they didn't have to worry about backlash from their constituents, most of them might just do that out of sheer corruption and the influence that their donors have on them. That coupled with constant Republican obstruction, is why they failed to pass an actual populist agenda for tax reform, a good healthcare system, etc. Most actual leftists think Obama was a terrible president. He constantly towed the fence between Republican and Democrat (at least when it came to the real issues and not identity politics) and was a gigantic corporate Moderate his entire 8 years, which is why we all came out of the Obamacare debate with a healthcare system that was created by Mitt Romney and a right-wing think tank. Most of those centrist Democrats do not want real change to the point where the working class is getting their fair share and a livable wage and corporations actually have to start paying their taxes that they evade due to legal loop holes and now a 21% corporate tax that they can easily drop down to 7% with the right techniques. I have a million and one problems with the Democrats, do not mistake that. My original point though was that out of the two parties, the Democratic party is the only one going through a positive change. A lot of them are moving away from donor contributions because they are realizing that it does more harm than good in today's political environment now that people have finally caught on to the corruption that campaign contributions lead to. The ones who are not budging on their corporate PAC money and dark money are slowly getting voted out. There are various new left-wing groups that are banding together new politicians that are incorruptible who will primary Democrats like Dianne Feinstein, who voted for the Iraq War and constantly votes against the American peoples' interests, and Cory Booker, who has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Pharma every year, even though he just pledged to stop taking any donor money (probably realized he was going to get booted unless he changed). This type of transformation will eventually lead the Democratic party into a leadership that has a populist message and real goals that help the working class and not just corporations. I do not see this type of change going on in the Republican party, the only thing I see is Trump constantly sowing chaos in his own party, and corruption at its utmost highest level. The Democrats are far from perfect at the moment, and I have very little faith in them until more populist candidates are voted in, but they have been heading in the right direction since Obama left office and are the only logical choice when it comes to the future of this country and the future for our working class.
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  7. +Roy Lee - You don't need to be a Democrat to understand there's a sickness in this country that's root problem is our 300 million guns (48% of all the World's guns). You just need to have a brain. Not a big qualification.
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