• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    The worst part is that, even though it says “right now”, this has been true for decades.

    They never pause punching left. At best, they sometimes conspire less publicly for a while before launching the next public “red panic”.

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    9 hours ago

    But think of all the supposed swing voters that they’re winning over

    Any day now they’ll start voting blue, I’m sure of it

    Any day…

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    9 hours ago

    Some Democrats, especially Democratic leadership, yes. But not all Democrats. There are many people within the party celebrating the democratic socialists who won

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          I’m not sure but I think they’re talking about the center right leadership we have, Schumer and Jefferies cunts need to piss off and just join the GOP.

          That’s at least how I took it, or how I want to take it.

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            Nah. He’s one of those types that still think the only way to get Socialists elected to office, is if they run 3rd party…despite the fact that more Socialists are beating centrist incumbents all the time.

            I swear the whole concept is a psy-op intended to prevent leftists from voting, and therefore prevent them from ever holding actual power.

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              The problem is that the democratic party, even if it becomes overwhelmed by this new wave of social democrats, will still fall for the same trappings reformist parties run into globally. Internal opposition from those who actually control the economy, the capitalist class. The media outrage is only one small part of it, there’s also the very real fact that dominating production and distribution gives you power to control the state itself. Revolution isn’t just a LARP, in order to truly take political power it needs to be siezed by force, and the commanding heights of the economy expropriated by force.

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    effort towards opposing…facism or genocide.

    Such a low bar though.

    Imagine if they supported progressives as much as they supported genocide.🤯