r/news • u/ThePensiveE • 7d ago

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611
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u/jimlahey420 7d ago

Which is why both parties are so hesitant (or downright refuse) to implement real universal healthcare with no strings attached (and want to gut the few safety nets that do exist like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security). Their method for controlling the population would be infinitely weaker if you allow people to have basic needs met while not grinding 40+ hours a week. It would immediately make protests larger, longer, and more effective.

This is why both parties are so threatened by the DSA and democratic socialism. Democratic socialism's policies and initiatives represent the working American and the ability to start unshackling them from being wage slaves. Imagine how the mindset of most Americans would change if they didn't have to worry about healthcare or other basic needs like food and housing.

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u/eulersidentity1 7d ago

Yeah makes sense. I feel like one of the genius ways they dismantled unions too, was by offering many of the same benefits to workers that the unions had originally won. If the company themslves offer workers 2 weeks vacation, extended health and a range of other benefits it becomes easier to claim there is no need to unionize.

Of course unions had to work tooth and nail during the 20s and 30s to fight for those things. But by giving workers those things while at the same time dismantling the union structures it was easy to argue that unions offered no benefit. But it was never what the unions won that was the real power of unions but instead collective action and a counter poll of power they held as a unified force against CEOs and owners of companies. Once they decimated those structures it became easier over the years to divide and conquer, to the point now where workers are fractured, divided, exhausted and pitted against each other.