• @Viking_Hippie
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    -128 days ago

    Most voters would prefer to take one step forward than standing still. They prefer a little good to a hypothetical perfect

    If only! That bill was very much half a step forward, three steps back when it came to both infrastructure and climate change.

    They would rather politicians do things that help them and their community right now

    That’s not the net effect though. The parts nobody talks about, such as the privatization of critical infrastructure and increasing fossil fuel leases many times over harm a lot more than the things constantly promoted help.

    So when you go out against a bill that people can see tangible effects from,

    Which included a lot more bad things that they weren’t told about by the party and the billionaire-owned media. Even the far right echo chamber didn’t talk about those things because they considers them good and didn’t want to give the Dems any credit.

    people who are desperate for something anything to help them

    People who are being lied to by both omission and exaggeration

    you’ve kind of missed the point of Public Service.

    On the contrary. Cori Bush was honest about what was in the bill, what wasn’t, and why she voted against it.

    The DNC leadership and the media, on the other hand, gaslighted people into supporting something that wasn’t what they told people. As is almost always the case, the bill has the net effect of helping people a little bit while harming them a lot to enrich the owner donors.

    That’s not public service. That’s lies and corruption.

    You can’t make things better if you never start making things better.

    You also can’t make things better by making things worse and then lying about it.

    The bill gives crumbs to regular people and climate change mitigation in exchange for entire loaves for exploitative private industry including the fossil fuel industries.