• ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    13 days ago

    It’s been clear since Pelosi and other Democrats were caught insider trading that most contemporary politicians are self-serving. The distinction we should care about is that for Republicans the cruelty is the point. Where as democrats at least make an effort to make things better even if it’s incremental.

    Pardons would be an incremental change to a systemic problem that, while insufficient, should be well within the Democrats wheelhouse and not unwelcome.

    Democrats need to stop caring about taking the moral high road and start caring about using power to help people. They can’t be bothered to see the former through to the end so they might as well do the latter. The core message of Biden’s 2020 campaign was a battle for the soul of our nation. Thankfully souls aren’t real because Biden lost that battle hard. edit: typos