The duopoly of 2 pro-capitalist parties must end.
The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.
- Noam Chomsky
Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!
- Julius Nyerere (first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania)
I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.
- Muammar al-Gaddafi
In what ways has the united states shifted right over the last 20 years? Tbh I’ve never understood this narrative. To me it’s very very obvious that the united states has shifted left steadily for my whole life. Short term there have been rightward shifts, but the overall trend is definitely left.
You probably live in a blue area. (Most people live in a blue area.) The actual situation is that we’ve polarized. People around you, in the blue area, have moved left. People elsewhere, in the red areas, have moved right.
Pew Research for some graphics.
In certain ways, this has been a victory for civil liberties. Gay people from small towns can move to a place where they might have entire neighborhoods of likeminded people. Trans people from small towns can move to a place where they won’t be shot on sight. Hell, someone in NYC who suddenly finds Jesus can go to a smaller town where no one will make fun of them for proselytizing AND they can hang out with likeminded people AND they get cheaper rent.
But it’s also more dangerous than it has ever been to be an immigrant. Wealth inequality has been rising. Increases in wages has been vastly outpaced by increases in the cost of housing and healthcare, and combined with inflation, we’re making more units of USD, sure, but we aren’t able to sustain any better a quality of life. Corporate Taxes were increased for small companies, and cut for large companies.
Depending on whether you’re more focused on the kinds of people living around you, or on the wide-reaching systemic changes that have been taking place, you’re going to notice different things. The really really important stuff that has shifted to the right is kind of boring, so you wouldn’t have seen much reporting on it.
How many changes over the last 20 years have:-
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increased social spending
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reduced wealth inequality
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favored consumers over corporations
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improved environmental protections
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reduced health care costs
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reduced authoritarian power
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The ratchet effect exists because leftists would rather bitch every general election and allow Republicans to be elected, while simultaneously not participating in the primaries.
The fascists knew the primaries were the secret, and their voters are generally loyal in November. Every member of the GOP that opposes Trump is removed in the primaries, and the party moves further right.
Obamacare was copied directly from the Republicans, originally called Romneycare. The chance for M4A was completely squandered by the Dems at the time. Have some damn object permance like an actual adult.
Obamacare was broken because the Dems had a filibuster-proof majority in the senate for like 1 month at in the 2009 holidays. By the time Al Franken got to take his seat, Kennedy had stopped showing up for work, then he died, then it took time to seat his temporary replacement, then the Tea Party win their special election.
With that, the broken Senate version that was meant to be reconciled with the House version and cleaned up couldn’t happen, so the House had to pass the Senate version verbatim to avoid a filibuster by the Dems.
Democrats like Democrats who are Democrats.
Democrats in their eyes mean closeted fascist rethuglicans who are all talk and no action, hardly do any work to confront those less fortunate and both parties are willing allowing hundreds of innocuous Palestinians get brutally disembowelled and tooled into human shields.
The same kind of gutless white trash dirtbag that Tyrant Trump and his fascist regime of bloated war criminals and planet killers choose to dominion over
Democrats hate DSA because they are Democrats
Democrats in this case being truly devoted and compassionate leaders and activists who are actively trying to undo the intensive damage and corruption done by conservatives and conservative embezzler, vouching to lower prices, sending fresh supplies and insurance for those in need, trying to keep out highly dangerous and homicidal officials, taking a stance on Republican policies and how imperialistic and tyrannically sadist it is, they are everything a moderate chunk of the left side of the party are SUPPOSED to do!
Hakeem Jeffries trying to distance himself from them really show which political ideology he really represents.
Lets just say it’s incredibly wrong, yet also presented as the opposite of “wrong”! You know who I’m talking about.
Instead of attacking? Are you cowboys ok? Apparently you still don’t understand shit if this is the trash that gets posted. Wake. The. Fuck. Up.
You live in a violent dictatorship, there is no voting system you fucking dipshits.
Yeah ikr.
Trump is depriving people from affordable healthcare, living environments, food storage, equal rights, sterile air quality .etc, and he’s pretty much the ambassador of the many despicably graphic human trafficking ring formed by Epstein that his posse is going out of their way to shun from the public eye.
But oh no! Zohran is chilling with furries!!! WHAT A FREAK!!! WORSE THAN A CHILD RAPIST WHO ALSO TARIFFED COUNTRIES DURING WILDFIRES AND BLACKMAIL IRAN AFTER DROPPING COGNITIVE NUKES ON THEM!!!
I suffer heavily from learning difficulties, and even I know Republicans are completely inhuman warmongeries!
I’m mostly bothered by OOP tweet. Evan here is cosplaying Dora the explorer. Like, really Evan, you don’t have any fucking clue why?
I can’t believe this post is one of the top ones. What fkn discussion can we start from here?
Just say you despise Americans and stop pretending to want better for them
If we didn’t despise you before, we do now.
Trust me no one missed that. Bigots can get fucked.
American education system at work of you think that’s what a bigot is.
I think democrats are controlled opposition, but do people not understand that they currently aren’t in power?
The fed is run by the GOP. Dems are only enough of a problem that Trump has to write EOs for every goddamned thing.
Maybe if Biden had written EOs for every goddamned thing we wouldn’t be in this mess.
So you want the president to seize more power than they legally have and for that escalation to continue whether a fascist is in office or not. Yeah great plan.
Well Biden didn’t so you got what you wanted. Now what?
Let republicans do it only, then. Great plan!
Most of us don’t want our government to work that way
Well you got what you wanted. Now what?
How, pray tell, did I get what I wanted?
Maybe if Obama had done something about Russian election interference on behalf of trump in 2016, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Most American American to ever America gets elected as president.
Dems: Russia did it!!
He didn’t have the advantage of SCOTUS backing everything he wrote.
In fact, the US Supreme Court actively opposed him.
Well it’s a good thing he didn’t try then. Things would be so much worse.
Biden was a centrist Democrat who tried to get progressive in his presidential term, but yes, it was a too little too late.
Nah Biden was a conservative who did conservative things his entire term.
- Blocked a strike
- Supported genocide
- Ripped out every progressive policy from the BBB called it the IRA and declared it a victory.
- Sabotaged his own student loan forgiveness effort.
- Fought against work from home policies.
Biden was an pro-corporate, pro-genocidal piece of shit who deserves to be in prison.
I’m agreeing with you, but I’m also pointing out that “too little, too late” is being very, verrrrry generous.
Biden had the perfect slam-dunkingly solid golden sure win opportunity(s) to take out FatCunt ChildRaper for a myriad of blatantly illegal things. The main stars of which were the televised attempt at an insurrection, and the stealing of top secret documents which were stored in an unlocked room next to a fax…A FAX!!!.
Plus many other things that would be just as easy to prosecute because, let’s face it, the orange imbecile and family aren’t criminal geniuses.
But, no, instead of going for the tRUMP from day one the old dipshit just slow walked that bullshit for years…then it wasn’t his problem anymore.
I didn’t exactly like Biden when he was elected, but I now actively hate the guy for doing fuck all. The whole world is a much worse place because Biden is a coward.slow walking trumps trials and giving him press for a whole year was a big mistake, and this includes doing nothing about epstein files.
There was no small amount of obstruction from the Republican party and SCOTUS. It was a while before Garland was appointed AG. Judge Cannon raised some weird challenges to the investigations and indictments against Trump, including his unlawful possession of classified documents.
And then SCOTUS gave Trump immunity for everything he did in office, essentially requiring any challenges to that immunity be taken up with the captured Supreme Court itself.
There were a tuckfun of shenanigans played to delay until Biden’s term was over. And then the voters had the audacity to elect Trump for a second term, with full awareness of what kind of monster he was.
Essentially, the voters of the US decided to let him get away with it, and take over the federal government to rob the treasury.
To quote Jamille Bouie, To think that the American people did that [elected Trump as President], to think that is the reality of the situation, raises difficult questions about this country, difficult questions about our capacity for self government.
Sounds like you’re admitting Biden couldn’t get the job done.
If what’s going on at the local levels is considered “quietly sitting there”, I’d love to hear a few realistic and effective suggestions for what you think the party should be doing.
I’d love to hear a few realistic and effective suggestions for what you think the party should be doing.
You know for example ditching the private social network owned by a nazi and promote the open and decentralized alternatives that millions of people are already using
So you don’t think the party members should be reaching out to people where they are? They should instead stick to social media platforms that practically nobody is using and therefore stifling their ability to communicate with not just supporters but also undecided & unaffiliated voters as well as all the people that they’re representing? Fascinating.
If their goal was to reach out to people, wouldn’t it be useful for them to spend 2 minutes to create a free account on the fediverse where millions of people are? Go ahead and explain why they are not doing that
