• spider@lemmy.nz
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    5 months ago

    Again, it’s disingenuous to claim that their pragmatism in the face of unreasonable actors is the same as being the unreasonable actors.

    I never claimed that. My point is that neither side is likely to do anything to rein in the cost of prescription drugs because they’re both being paid by the pharmaceutical industry to keep things exactly as they are.

    George Carlin’s point is that both sides are owned by corporate interests; this has been true for decades. Things have obviously gotten worse since the Trump era, but he exploited the weaknesses in a political system that was broken long before that.