• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Democrats took America from gays are illegal, to full gay rights with marriage.

    Gay marriage was legalized at the federal level by a conservative-leaning Supreme Court. The only time a Democrat acted on same-sex marriage nationally was when Bill Clinton banned it by signing DOMA in 1996.

    Environmental laws have been all Democrats.

    Nixon created the EPA.

    If Democrats did nothing, Trump wouldn’t have signed 76 executive orders reversing Biden orders on his very first day.

    If Democrats passed legislation, Biden’s achievements couldn’t be undone through executive order.

    The parties are not the same, especially now that one of them is openly fascist, but you’re giving Democrats credit for things they did not do. Also, the meme doesn’t say they’re the same, it describes the rachet effect, which is an accurate representation of how Democrats behaved on multiple issues. Look at how their economic policies have changed over the last 30 years, or how their views on immigration policies have changed since Trump was elected.

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      28 days ago

      Is there a political community you found on lemmy that understands how this works, like you do. I see way too many Democrat apologists on these popular communities.

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        26 days ago

        Not on .world. I’ve noticed .world is more of a neoliberal, mostly pro-capitalism instance in general.

        Note, I’m talking more about the moderation rather than members.

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        28 days ago

        Well, .world has a lot of users who understand this, but the loudest voices (who are often times moderators) are definitely Democrat apologists. Then again, some of the other instances, like .ml, have the opposite problem, and are full-blown tankie/authoritarian apologists, so it’s kind of a, “pick your poison, damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” situation.