My grandpa killed Nazis so his son could become a Nazi
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Not just Republicans, conservatives in general. All Republicans are conservative, but many Democrats are as well. That needs to change.
Mamdani shows it’s possible to start the purge of the DNC. We need to continue that. Primary every last conservative. Drive them from the DNC, drive them from politics, drive them from political discourse and public life. Authoritarianism must be crushed, Constitutional rights must be restored, and common sense policies for real people must be enacted. If we can’t achieve that, then all is lost and totalitarian neofeudalism will prevail.
Not just Republicans, conservatives in general.
You are correct! I tend to use the two interchangeably when I know that conservatives pushes out to a larger group.
And frankly, anyone who acts like this was just another election where one side lost is only slightly higher on the totem pole than conservatives are.
I'm tired of both Democrats and Republicans destroying the future, and people pretending Democrats don't because they do it slightly less
I'm tired of rich and/or petty people controlling us. We're better than this.
Left or right we're getting fucked one way or the other. The whole foundation's been corrupted to the core.
It's like every debate, any talk of politics is pointless and anything truly reasonable is quickly surpassed overpassed by political "sports team" entertainment while people with real [heartless] willpower continue to do what they do. And I mean that from the streets to the president. The corruption is the same essence and the same evil at any wealth status, education, or social position and all of it is the rotted part of the foundation the country is built upon.
Nothing makes the Right happier than when someone on the Left says that there's no hope.
Look at NYC. The Dem candidate for Mayor is being threatened with deportation and arrest for being a Communist.
The fight isn't over until we give up.
When your "left" is just Diet-Republicans that are less hateful on social issues? Your perspective makes total sense.
And to be fair? That is what the Democrats have served you. And I hate them harder then Republicans hate them. For this reason.
I would like to invite you to a Solution-Oriented American Left in Zohran Memdani, Eugene Debbs, or Bernie Sanders.
This is not the End of what the Left is. This is only where it Starts. we have entire books about the rich American history the Democrats-since-Clinton have entirely abandoned.
You don’t really have a left, not at the moment. It’s getting better but oh my god the disasters it took for your shithole country to start to rally…
It is wierd isn't it. Like having grown up in the middle class I can see why so many ran to the Republicans. It's a short sighted nostalgia party that preys on people who don't pay attention or whov been indoctrinated to only watch right wing media.
But the hubris of the Democrats and even just some left leaning voters is kinda wild.
But the real problem is the lack of attention local elections get from average folks. Iv been guilty of this as well, and it buggers me good that I never really learned of their importance till I was already like 34
That seems like a completely nihilistic and empty view of politics. What do you even actually think a society that isn't "corrupt" (or at least is less corrupt) could look like? How can you blame the people with no power at all just as much as the president?
Blaming everyone for everything is basically the same as blaming nobody for anything.
It's fine to think that the vast majority of people believe in propaganda or are worried about things that don't matter.
My main problem really is with you saying "any talk of politics is pointless". It's just complete doomerism.
Two groups that love to say "Both sides are the same."
People on the Left who have given up hope.
People on the Right when they get caught being evil.
I would change Republicans to 'selfish and narrow-minded individuals'
So ... billionaires.
Plenty of people who voted for the republicans are poor as shit. Selfishness doesn't stop downwards at being rich.
Voting for a party just because you want others to suffer more than you do is pure selfishness too.
Owning class.
How much in your bank account isn't the point — it is how that money got there. It just so happens that practically nobody ever became a billionaire without the use of exploitation.
Yet, it is not just billionaires but any who make their income through exploiting their private ownership over the tools, land, and resources which make production possible that, under the capitalist system, entitles those "owners" to the excess value of labor, in the form of profits, that are generated by the working class – individuals who must sell their labor to these owners for a wage – under their employment.
There's street people that pull the same shit as these billionaires. It's all the same heartlessness. That's how the game works. The gangs, cartels, and mafias all play by the same methods.
Regular people don't play the game and that's why nothing will ever change. Regular people are basically taught not to play the game.
You can blame only Republicans which even if they disappeared wouldn't solve the issue, or you can acknowledge that both parties are corrupted by oligarchs and PACS
Apparently a lot of people don't mind being oppressed as long as the oppressors have decorum
While I agree with your premise, its very disingenuous to imply a lot of issues wouldnt be solved/improved if Republicans blinked out of existence like a Thanos Snap.
I think you both agree that it's more complicated than that and it's a systemic thing effecting both parties. I think he just wrote it differently than you read it
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Yes they both suck, yes Republicans suck worse, but I think you're missing some important nuance of exactly how the Democrats suck. Let's game this out:
If 77 million of the dumbest shitheads ever to walk the Earth were to simultaneously, spontaneously implode tomorrow, everything would change. But especially the Democratic Party. The party leadership would not be able to keep doing what it had been doing. Their whole game requires the Republicans to exist as a credible threat for what's going to happen if you don't keep giving them money and settling for whoever they foist on you. They always try to run the furthest-right soulless hack they possibly can, so they calculate what the threshold is that would make enough people say "fuck this, I'm sitting this one out" to throw the race to the Republican, and aim just to the left of that. So, with every single Trump fan or likely R voter gone ( and nothing of value lost ) the entire electorate is now split- pretty evenly on age lines- between the proudly centrist, CNN-watching Biden 2020 primary voters, and the angry progressive left who's been holding their nose and voting for the lesser of two evils their whole life.
The Democratic party can only pick up the first group. Democratic Socialists take the other group. Nonvoters become a much smaller group, and third parties remain negligible. Now the only way for the Democratic party to survive (Especially since the c-suite and board of directors of most of their corporate donors just went poof, so those companies restructured as co-ops...) is to keep running the only play they know- unilaterally compromise and triangulate with the other party. So what they do now is move as far left as they can get away with without losing their base, who they're already losing to old age.
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My optimism for the future is dead at this point. Even if we miraculously have a collective pivot into sustainable practices tomorrow, this train ain't stopping in my lifetime. Maybe it'll be better for future generations, I sincerely hope it is and I'll keep doing what I can to ensure that. But my future is doomed to dealing with the mess that unchecked greed and exploitation has wreaked upon our world.
Yeah, this is kind of my attitude as well, sadly. I'm a younger millennial, but I feel I've been around long enough to determine we're truly just a pot of boiling crabs dragging everyone else down to try to save ourselves.
I think one of the hardest parts of getting older, at least for me, is watching the childlike wonder and hope for the world within yourself slowly vanish. I'll never stop fighting the good fight, but the light has definitely died in my heart. Honestly, sad as fuck.
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Unbelievable that there are some Americans in politics who wake up every day and consciously decide they want to destroy everything around them.
It's unbelievable that half the voters wanted it. It's betrayal.
Unbelievable that the rest of the Americans would rather just sit there and take it than risk literally anything.
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