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Imagine any leader fawning over a triumphant arch with gilding while a war goes on and the economy is sinking. Isn't that enough? C'mon you congress conservatives, become part of your country's society again!
Conservatives are the sworn foot-soldiers of the elite and wealthy. If not for conservatives, the normal people would be able to enforce the law on the wealthy. As long as conservatives continue to live, they will protect the wealthy elite with their lives. That is a guarantee.
Billionaires and big tech rig the game with government money and tax loopholes. Sites use AI filters to actively block posts calling out the elite. Scrap income tax; tax wealth and land instead.
"Tax wealth not work"
georgists unite
I'd love to find a news article about an election that says "All is well, people head to polls to show their support for two excellent candidates. Either would be a fantastic choice for the nation."
unfortunately we never get great or even good candidates they are criminals or another terrorist criminal take your pick
For real. I'm sick of having to choose between the less shitty of two shitty candidates.
I have no idea how things can or will improve. As an outsider, America is a strange place. Unfortunately, the world seems hell bent on copying everything it does.
Nah they're definitely less insistent on copying us after this year. A huge chunk of the world has looked at Trump and went "that's not an ally. We need to diversify our allegiances in case the US goes nuts again"
It's part of the reason China is becoming so popular on the international stage. They want to trade, and they're stable. Trump's foot stamping and attempted "dick waving" power trips have absolutely buried our reputation and bargaining power in the global community.
Turns out, electing a corrupt man-child who ruins everyone's economy and messes with the global oil supply tends to make a lot of people not like you.
I think the long-term damage is worse this time around, because the fact that he could lose and then win again signaled that it wasn't a fluke.
I agree with all this except "in case..".
Our allies know that authoritarians that get voted in, most of the time don't get voted out. I'm confident they're worried about when, not if.
I'm convinced that those in power put trump in the whitehouse so that they could basically pull a private equity buy-and-bankrupt on the entire country
It becomes less strange when you constantly ask "who benefits financially" because that is the prime mover here. Beyond that, there is little to consider given current evidence increasingly points to lack of meaningful representation regardless of vote.
As soon as the world cuts off the US currency as a reserve, we’re done. Stop trading with us. That’s what needs to happen. Pop the balloon.
Yes, most Americans are very upset with the establishment. They just can't agree on who the establishment is.
Obviously Trump is currently the establishment since he's the one in power right now, but the irony is a lot of the people who voted for him did so because they were angry with the establishment that preceded him. So, many Americans are angry at an establishment that was meant to take on a past establishment that many other Americans had been angry with.
Trump has always been a part of the establishment.
MAGA was made up of three establishments. Evangelical Christians, Generational Wealth, and Corporate Oligarchy. These are the only three groups that are INHERENTLY fascist. There could have never been a single thing that a SANE person would see or hear from this group that would make anyone think that the working class would get anything but more work and more taxes.
The main problem is actually that about half the country are either illiterate morons, and/or sadistic psychopaths. They all WANTED this
It’s establishments all the way down. And what do they all have in common? Being servile to capital.
my fear is that this trend will splinter only the 'left half' of the vote as a significant number vote third-party from 'lack of options' or as 'punishment'; and that the 'right' will remain mostly united (as they usually do) in their hate and stupidity and greed, allowing republicants to actually gain as a result.
I only read the headline, but I think that's fueled all of the elections.
When will they will figure out bOtH pArTiEs are "The Establishment"? Don't hold your breath!
I vote, and you should, too. They are not the same. One party is "pro-LGBT" and the other is "pro-church" and they are bOtH pro-corporate, pro-billionaire, pro-war, anti-union and so on.
The differences are the bait. The commonalities are the establishment.
Not everyone, that's why establishment Democrats are fighting progressives in their own party harder than they are fighting Republicans. We need to vote in the progressives to actually represent us.
We need to stop even labeling them “progressive” or leftists, as is that is some kind of aberration from the norm. It needs to be the default. The establishment and the fascists are the weirdos who perpetuate evil in the name of money and private property.
“Leftists” just sane, moral folks who want their elected officials to serve the people, for capital to be subordinated to the will of the workers. For the workers to be the ruling class.
No, THIS is the people you need to be fighting
https://san.com/cc/why-super-pacs-with-gop-ties-are-donating-to-democratic-candidates/
The super PAC Lead Left has donated more than $1 million to at least three Democratic congressional primaries, according to The New York Times, which reported that the donations were an attempt by Republicans to keep control of the House of Representatives
“They’re going into Democratic primaries and literally trying to boost the most extreme candidates and oppose the Blue Dog-endorsed candidates that, if they win, are going to beat the Republicans in the general,” Gray told The Times.
"bOtH sIdEs" is only true for establishment Dems, and if you pay attention, progressives are gaining in power and prominence. DSA is not the only source, but it's becoming a lightning rod.
Show me ANY good Republicans. I'll wait.
The only hope for us is to support the actual progressives instead of lumping them in with the establishmen Democrats, because doing the latter is EXACTLY what the fascists want.
So it's like you're mostly right but critically wrong when you write off both parties. And yes, voting is critical, but what is even MOR critical is supporting progressive candidates before the primaries and into the primaries and THEN in the general. Always vote, and when you vote, always take the better - or less shitty - option. That's where "vote blue no longer who" comes into play - in the general election, an establishment Dem is still less shitty than a fascist Republican.
There will be executions after the midterms. The only question is whether they will be orderly and for the people, or chaotic and by the people.
I mean, I'll be optimistic with you, but there's still a nonzero chance that it will be executions of the people.
We are so far removed from that prospect that it almost depresses me, because that's what we need to do to the oligarchs.
Such things only occur when it's an act of desperation. Reasonable people don't rebel. People who've been pushed beyond the point of reason rebel.
To rebel is reasonable when the alternative is decay and starvation. Revolution has generally improved the lives of the people where it's been had.
Unfortunately, reason has never found a stable home in America.
But anger and violence has always thrived here
I like this Leeland person.
Yeah, realising your entire lineage’s lifelong earnings for generations amounts to sofa change to megalomaniacs who are also making sure your grandchildren will suffer even more than you are now is bound to make one testy.
e: all the while children are dying by genocide. The wrong people are being listened to.