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US senator briefed on Trump's plans to restart Iran war says proposal is 'insane'
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Obama enjoyed a majority for about 6 months until jim crow 2.0 electorate maps Gerry rigged far right types into office. I don't know what majority you are talking about during 2021-2023. Yeah we have corporate democrats but we also have very clear opposition on the left. Controlled opposition is defeatist conspiracy theory half baked in truths. We can do better.
Next time you're wondering why Dems aren't doing more about some problem, I want you to remember what they did to Bernie Sanders and how they react to people like Mamdani. Dems are somehow fucking worthless in the face of fascism, but if a progressive starts winning votes, suddenly, they know how fight.
people not voting because they didn't get their candidate is what hurt more than how corporate dems pushed him to the side. Its the same for what happened to Harris who was corporate , Hilary was corporate just not crazy corrupt and backed by the heritage society and tech bros.
Sure, but I'm talking about the politicians, as that's what the controlled opposition theory is about. Democrat voters may want progressive policies, but Democrat politicians find ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when they "push" for those things time and time again. The politician's goal is allegedly not to represent the left, but to spoil their efforts and prevent us as a country being dragged to the left. Hillary and Kamala were both pushed into the lead with no regard for the will of the voters, albeit through different means in each case, and they both help shut out more progressive wings of the party so they couldn't get genuine power.
On the one hand, you're not exactly wrong. We got fucking Trump out of that, and it's still haunting us a decade later. On the other hand, I don't think it's entirely fair to treat them like petulant children for being upset when the democratic process is so flagrantly manipulated in front of their face to rob them of their democratic power, just because the means used to do so were technically legal. I still think Bernie would have won the primary if the DNC hadn't sabotaged him, and just fucking imagine the world we'd be living in if we got just 4 years of Bernie instead of god damned Trump. That was the will of the voters. And the DNC stole that from us to shove a corporate Democrat down our throats, enabling Trump's rise.