The thing about the Republicans and the oligarchs…they are willing to play the long game.
The abortion wedge issue started in the 70s. They worked for decades to capture SCOTUS. They worked years to get Citizens United across the finish line.
Meanwhile, Democrats work in two year cycles.
The abortion wedge issue started in the 70s. They worked for decades to capture SCOTUS. They worked years to get Citizens United across the finish line.
Meanwhile, Democrats work in two year cycles.
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We need to start paying our effective organizers.
1) Surrender ("compromise")
2) Apologize (shift further right)
It's not so much an organized political party as a white flag production and vigorous waving syndicate.
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The Class War needs to start inside the Democratic Party
https://biggovernment.substack.com/p/why-democrats-dont-fight-like-republicans?r=1vj4ca
But the dems' "let everything fall apart so we can win the next election" attitude also places party over country.
And they wind up losing both.
Republicans, at least the ones since Obama was elected, don’t expect to be bound by the Constitution or any other rules or laws.
Instilling servility in the population, they've gutted public education, crushed organized labor movements through campaigns of force and propaganda and weaponized right wing medias against its enemies .
Koch brothers set sights on GOP state legislatures elections and up federal levels.
Biden needed to set SCOTUS years to Europe 15.
It used to own slaves.
It caused the depression.
All the wars.
It's the greed of the oligarchs.
https://youtu.be/B3ct1ckEhZs?...
They push #culturewar bans to divert citizens from protesting THEIR endless grifting.
We can’t protest #billionaire #taxbreaks when we’re fighting for our basic rights!
Also the long game: In a journal article written in 2005, Donald M. Nonini, Professor Emeritus Sociocultural Anthropologist at UNC, makes the case that the USA has been a kleptocratic oligarchy for years.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23175300
Unable to win fair & square, GOP/oligarchs created the right-wing propaganda machine to manipulate voters.
Dems have to find a way to beat propaganda.
I agree with you that GOP/oligarchs are masters at using wedge issues to manipulate voters.
Just adding they feed the wedge issues into their propaganda machine, which began growing from talk radio, then Fox "News" & now many sources on TV & internet.
And the think tanks are scattered and unaligned; media is too insular; there is no overarching strategy; DNC needs a 50 state plan, etc.
Are we an All America party? The American party? The Constitution party?
Meanwhile we Democrats have trouble understanding why our candidates are always asking us for money.
Maybe it is time for some socialism and abundance based thinking.
The house is on fire already. Maybe we throw some more fuel on it to burn it down faster, then clear the rubble (Guillotines will be useful) and create something new based on the mutual well being of all.
https://bsky.app/profile/weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social/post/3ljq7mfqxp22u
Fight on! ✊
Do they fund a vetting program to weed out fake Dems?
Not a dime.
A newer better weaponized Fairness Doctrine that eviscerates this negative societal influence in our lives
They finally caught their tail.
https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/
Not making excuses, but they are perfectly willing to be unethical and sans morality.
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And we keep losing @kenmartin.bsky.social
Time for a new party? The Democrats are as far removed from the party of FDR as the Republicans are from ‘Ol Abe!” Today, it’s ProRussian oligarchs vs. The Rest of Us. Perhaps it’s time for a “Constitutional Party,” or a “We the People Party?”