[midnightclubbed]

Did the needle go far left? I didn’t see it go much past the American center (which is very right compared to most of the western world). We got some DEI that has for the most part been proven to be lip service, so much for equal under law and land of the free. We got some money for infrastructure, we put people who participated in an insurrection in jail, we got business as usual. We didn’t get universal healthcare, we didn’t get a reduction of the power of monopolies, we didn’t get a reduction in the military budget, we didn’t get a minimum wage that tracked inflation let alone was a livable wage, we didn’t get money out of politics and politicians, we didn’t get the rich to pay their fair share. The only way I’d measure the past 4 years as being left is because of the current jarring swerve into a right wing oligarchy

[card_zero]

"Let's check the military" is the latest thing, so you might get a reduction in the military budget now, who knows. Perhaps in relation to things like throwing Ukraine under the bus. Is this a very left-wing thing, a small military?

[orwin]

Yes. That's probably why I don't see the DOD budget move much. Maybe bigger contracts with Tesla,spaceX, neuralink and starlink to replace some of Boeing.