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Hey, yanks, until your centre right party (the Democrats) is willing to go all in and run candidates at all levels of government on the slogan of "The Largest Downward Transfer of Wealth in American History", your far right party (the Republicans) will keep repeating this. But if it makes you feel better, go back to blaming Muslims in Michigan or whatever.
The democrats are in on it too and it doesn't matter how many candidates they have politically aligned with the public's best interest. I keep saying this but the only way to break out of this loop is for both parties to split and take a large chunk of resources with them with they do. They also need to eliminate the "CEO" position for any party and all vote for the primary candidates instead of making arbitrary decisions. I get it, you need a leadership for housekeeping reasons, but the current RNC and DNC CEO's are not at all about housekeeping for the greater good. All of it is lip service while they take tax-free "political contributions" from all those shady "SuperPACS" . This is all wishful thinking and I'm just hear along for the ride in the billionaire made hand basket to hell.
The swing voters in the US is dumb as a brick.
They care a lot more about "culture war" issues.
So make "tax the rich" a culture war thing. Left populism is a winning strategy too.
Not if its surpressed in (social) media, unfortunately.
As horrific as it sounds, the US very much needs a 'Democrat Trump.' But even that can't happen in the current media environment. There are all sorts of proposals to address that, but the problem seems to be that people can't help themselves and keep using Twitter, watching Fox, stay glued to Facebook or whatever.
How? The largest campaign that ever occurred for taxing the rich was occuring by AOC and Bernie around the U.S. The media will air something about Trump taking a green shit after drinking a blue slupee far more. It doesn't matter until they switch the notion to something that threatens the media and their families lives more than likely. They own the media.
Don't ask me, a random guy on the internet. Ask your elected representatives, your intellectuals, your think tanks. Your civil society, man, not some random Canadian online.
"Swing Voter" == "Too Embarrassed To Admit Being A Republican"
Don’t hate the 1%, hate the gays!