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Why do democrats generally default to assuming the owners of the workplace are automaticaly bad people out to screw the worker?

Obviously, there are terrible workplaces out there and bad bosses. Places that treat their workers like crap and expendable. Nobody is going to deny the existance of the existance of bad bosses.

But Ive found that through the many jobs Ive had, that the majority of workplaces are run by people who do care about the employee. Especially with small buisness where its a lot more personal. I have seen many companies go out their way to help an employee outside of work if theyre going through a hardship and do things well out the scope of whats required for a workplace to do for their workers.

Ive noticed amongst democrats the default is to assume that when one owns a buisness, theyre by default bad intention people out to screw an employee. I feel as though thats a wrong assumption based on stand out bad cases of bad employers. A big reason I say that is because its never a big story to hear "employer does all the right things and has generally happy employees" which I find to be the defualt.

I also feel democrats tend to not try and see the other side of things from the view of the employer and take a descision from that employer that was not made maliciously and see it as being done maliciously. Running a buisness is hard and running a buisness does not automatically mean that youre in the elite class. Also, running a buisness should be celebrated and encouraged because a lot of buisness owners were once employees that worked their way to owning their own buisness and that should be a celebrated aspect of American culture.

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u/CantSeeShit — 16 hours ago

Democrats Dislike Men. WAYT?

Are there enough Democrats who have a positive message toward men to override the dislike from the radical left? We know messaging matters in the upcoming midterm elections. How well have Democrats done to distance themselves from the voices that lost the last election? What are your thought?

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u/Kooky-Ad1551 — 1 day ago
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Why do many people claim JFK would hate the modern day Democratic Party and support Republicans?

Many commenters claim that JFK would hate the modern day Democratic Party (especially DSA) because he was a capitalist that opposed communism. However, capitalism has dramatically changed since the 1960s.

In the 1960s, America followed a version with more guardrails, similar to Keynesian economics, which was started in the FDR era. However, Reagan cut taxes and moved America towards trickle down economics, where we are still waiting for the money to trickle down. Many people have a negative view of capitalism because they have only experienced post-Reagan capitalism, and didn’t experience Keynesian capitalism (which has guardrails), under which America was improving, with stronger unions and more chance to make it to the middle class.

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u/thesmart_indian27 — 1 day ago

Democratic Socialists Winning Primaries

Democrats and Republicans are both against Democratic Socialists. They are winning primaries though. They just won in Florida. Since they are for Billionaire's paying their fair share and I feel they should since they are destroying the environment and our food. Wouldn't it be a good thing to elect them?

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u/truisluv — 1 day ago

What's one policy you'd like to see passed on the state level in your state?

I wish people talked more about state politics, so here's a chance to do so! Tell me your favorite pet polices you'd like passed in your state, especially if it's a little off the beaten path of what gets mentioned by a lot of Dems.

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u/Sunshine7178 — 1 day ago

If you are against socialism, then you want Social Security eliminated!

This is what Democrats should be saying every time you have these Republicans railing against socialist Democrats

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u/SamMeowAdams — 1 day ago

Do you believe that, after the mid-terms, the GOP will begin to distance themselves from DJT in order to present themselves as more moderate, thereby, setting the stage for a center, reasonable POTUS candidate for 2028?

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u/SnooBooks4898 — 1 day ago

can somebody explain ron desantis to me like i’m stupid because unfortunately i am 😭

i keep seeing this man on my feed and every single time there’s a new florida problem everybody in the comments is like “THANK DESANTIS” 😭😭
WHO IS THIS MAN AND WHY IS EVERYTHING HIS FAULT
rent went up? desantis.
school did something weird? desantis.
insurance expensive? desantis.
somebody probably hit a pothole on I4 and whispered “fucking desantis” while changing the tire 💀
i live here and apparently don’t know shit because i genuinely could not tell u what this man does besides stand behind podiums looking like somebody just told him his doordash driver stole a french fry.
pls explain without using government vocabulary because the second somebody says “legislative” my brain starts playing the wii menu music
i’m not even trying to argue politics i literally just wanna understand the plot 😭
what did this man ACTUALLY do and why does half of florida wanna fight him while the other half would apparently let him babysit their firstborn

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u/bearmonroex — 1 day ago

What the Democrat position on the total US debt?

The news saying it going to hit 40 trillion this month. $40,000,000,000,000. New taxes don't really allow for actual real new spending.

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u/DarthVoight — 3 days ago
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What do you think of the popularity of socialism with democrats?

Sources:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-socialism-economy-political-parties-opinion-poll/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/30/about-a-third-of-us-democrats-like-political-leaders-who-identify-as-democratic-socialists/

The former poll shows 70% of dems with a college degree approve of socialism, as well as 49% of those without a degree. I find the latter figure higher than I'd expect. 19% of dems without a degree are negative on socialism and 16% of dems with a degree are negative on socialism

Overall 58% of democrats have a positive view of socialism and 24% have no opinion. 50% view capitalism negatively and 18% view socialism negatively.

u/Carolina_Heart — 3 days ago

What’s the difference between progressive and liberal??

Usually when it’s either one of those words are brought up to the average individual, they tend to think that it’s unilaterally the same meaning. Yet, it’s one of those things where in result it’s not actually identical when it comes to breaking down what each of them is defined as and how they both tend to work in the political landscape of things in the U.S. and abroad overseas. So with that being said, can I have a definition please??

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u/Qpac18 — 2 days ago

Recent Dem text SPAM: anyone else?

It seems that the DNC or some central organization recently released a bunch of lists to a crapload of orgs. In the last 14 days I have gotten annoying text solicitations (all addressing me as 'John,' which is not my name) from the 33 below entities so far. (I dont actually make gifts to politicians: and though I am a Dem, I absolutely would never make a gift to a politician for this reason.) Obviously I respond 'stop,' but they're like weeds. Anyone else have this pop up these last 2 weeks?

Fight for a Democratic Majority

Talarico for Texas

DCCC

Fire Republicans

House Majority PAC

Troy Jackson for Maine

Sherrod Brown

Josh Turek

Jon Ossify

Roy Cooper

DCCC/Obama

Amy Acton

Adam Hamilton

Kirsten Gillibrand

DSCC

Peggy Flanagan

Abdul

Gina Hinojosa

Fight for Reform

DelBWA

Angie Craig

The Squad

Mark Kelly

Zohran Mamdani

Cait Conley

Maura Sullivan

Deb Haaland

Crowley/WI

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez 

Democratic majority fund

MGP Victory fund

End Citizens United

Jonathan Nez for Congress

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u/scrabblecat1 — 2 days ago

Do you agree that the Democratic Party must not become the Party of Palestine?

Whether or not to accept funding from AIPAC is a decision that should be made by individual candidates not the Democratic Party. The Republicans have positioned themselves as the party of Netanyahu and would love to be able to claim that the Democratic Party is the Party of Hamas.

Do you agree that the Democratic Party must not become the Party of Palestine?

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u/ElSlabraton — 4 days ago
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Does voting matter?

To the guy who is worried about undocumented immigrants voting: it’s stupid to worry about such trivialities because gerrymandering, lobbyists and unlimited corporate donations,i.e, money in politics, cancel out all voting. It doesn’t matter who votes. The two party system is a good cop/ bad cop farce-a three card monty scam for fools to think their voice is heard. Yawn.

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u/jhmetros — 3 days ago
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Did AOC decide she wouldn’t do away with prisons because she would need a place for Republicans if she becomes president?

Why do you think she changed her mind about prisons?

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u/Justjerryj — 5 days ago