More talk but no action from Kentucky Democrats

Democrats in the Kentucky legislature have announced new labor bills for the 2024 session. But you know damn well they won't seriously do a thing to pass them. The Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party we grew up with.

For one thing, the legislature has become overwhelmingly Republican - in part because the Democrats wouldn't do enough to pass some of these bills before. So these bills have little chance of becoming law at the state level. If they do, it will be because more Republicans begin supporting what were once Democratic ideas. For another thing, the Democrats can already pass laws like these in cities and counties that they already control - yet they refuse to.

Perhaps 5 or 10 years ago, the Democrats actually were passing some decent laws at the local level in Kentucky. But no more. Nowadays when you read about good local laws passing, it's usually in the Republican-led small towns, not the Democratic-led larger cities. These are usually laws the Democrats used to support but now won't make any serious efforts to enact - if they express support for these laws at all.

Democrats today are the Republicans of 20 years ago. I've had to give up on my once-great Democratic Party.

Also, who do you think is responsible for the brutal, classist war against the homeless in Louisville lately? Louisville isn't one of these Republican small towns. That's another example of the Democrats being taken over by Bush-era Republicans.