Do Democrats just want power or do they actually want to do what's good?

[Ariesman81Nshiiit]

Rahm Emmanuel says, now that Democrats are in control of Congress, they should start by pushing ethics bills. One of which being no more insider trading. Will they attach abortion rights to it also?

[Chazmatazz269]

“Doing good” is relative. Both democripps and rebloodlicans primarily serve their wealthy and powerful masters. Let’s take a look at the “Big Beautiful Bill”. Republicans and MAGA LOVE suggesting that Drumpf pushed these meaningful tax breaks for the working class people and democrats “voted against no taxes on tips, overtime and social security”. That’s simply not true. Democrats were opposed to the bill for a variety of reasons, but close to the top of the list is the fact that the bill limits those tax breaks to the first $15k. I will exhaust my “break” before the end of the first quarter in any given year. Meanwhile clever service workers and amenable employers aren’t claiming all of their tips anyway. So they’re almost wholly unaffected, and the republicans knew that. Furthermore, senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland proposed tax breaks of $75k-$92k, with MARRIED people seeing the greater benefits. MAGA and the republicans don’t want you to know that because they want you to believe that democrats are fundamentally opposed to marriage and family. Those proposals were rejected by Drumpf and the republicans supporting the BBB in favor of tax breaks that primarily benefit the wealthiest people and corporations. Some republicans even backed the democrat proposals and they were summarily declared “traitors” or “RINO” by liars in office and idiot voters who have likely read absolutely none of the proposals. Multiple economists have openly criticized Drumpf’s rejection of proposals that would have helped working class families significantly more than the pittances that they did pass.
Sure, they did some good but they could have done so much more if their goal was actually helping working class people in this country. Instead, they are primarily focused on helping the fat cats who fund their campaigns and, quite frankly, bribe them for favorable legislation.
If you believe that EITHER major party has ever done anything to disrupt that status quo, you’re retarded.
“It’s ONE party, and you’re not invited.” ~ George Carlin

[slatyb]

I don't know if they will attach abortion rights, I doubt it. They have pushed ethics bills but the Republicans shut them down.

[Anonymous]

Both the Dems and GOP are just a different side of the same coin honestly. Everyone in politics want power in some capacity, some also genuinely want to do good though.

[Chazmatazz269]

Can you name even one US politician who “genuinely wants to do good though”?
If you only look at ONE vote, proposal or bill, i think you can make that argument for any of them. But when you start looking at their entire history of votes, proposals and bills, and looking at how they have enriched themselves more than they have their working class constituents, then it’s pretty clear that they are much more interested in doing what is best for them than in doing what is best for the country and its citizens.

[Opinion Owner]

@Chazmatazz269 honestly I cannot… politics has never been “clean”. I agree though, they might have done some good things for the people but it still won’t cancel out the bad that they’ve done. I could say the same thing about regular folks though, no one is genuinely purely good nor evil, we have a mix of both in all of us.

[Anonymous]

Reps have not done anything good in two years. Where have you been?

[exitseven]

they just want power. They will do and say anything to get it.