Luckily this election has potentially set that in motion. We will see how long the anger and frustration lasts but the backlash to them over the last year and now post election is very encouraging.
Or completely pivoting towards catering to its base and not the undecided Center right uninformed voter that doesn't giveva fvck about politics until a week before an election.
But with the citizens united, fundraising is an unfortunate motivation that fails the citizenry.
I feel like her asking people to vote for her with the working families party alongside many takes that question the dems corporatism is a really valid way to achieve that while others do it from the outside.
Yeah in the US “left” pretty much just means “slightly left of Republicans on social issues”. The best part is a lot people think the Dems are socialists 🤡
I suppose if you are cleaving the body politic in two, then yes I guess dems are on the left then. I'd prefer them over the repubs any day. But socialist???? Madness!
The Overton window has been far enough to the right for long enough that in the 90s it was in vogue for Dems to be anti-gay as much as the GOP was. That's where we get "don't ask, don't tell" and it's why gay marriage wasn't legalized nationwide until June of 2015.
Yeaaaaaaaaah...
Before that it was interracial marriage... And it became real fuzzy around the civil rights movement.
I still remember Obama and Biden had to be CONVINCED to do this in the 2010s.
Seeing friends and mutuals code switch to their given genders, post about stocking up on plan b, and people making genuine plans to defend themselves from them coming administration has made me emotional enough to choose what I say very carefully...
I think it's more that right wing media has won culturally on a lot of terms thanks to the liberal tendency to simply accept the world as put forth by the republicans. it's also convenient for them to think they're the "left" because if they are, anyone further than that must be a radical
People need to get comfortable with the idea that liberal isn't left.
Like yeah, I have liberal social values. But I'm not a Liberal in the political ideology sense.
People here think that politics, like gender, is binary. To rhem, You're either a liberal or conservative, And there is no spectrum.
There's at least four points to the spectrum. Left, right, authoritarian, and libertarian, And then you plot yourself somewhere in between that.
This sounds bad. How can you effectively make anti-liberal policy arguments (e.g. private property should be redistributed via nationalisation) without being automatically lumped as a far right person?
something like 70% of americans support it as well when you poll with a description of the policy. so much of this is based entirely on messaging that people vote against things they agree on purely because they associate the name it was given with something they don't like
Diabolically genius.
They've turned working less, making more money, and having a healthy work-life balance into an extreme left position, and associated with undesirables.
It's supervillain shyt. Lex luthor and Dr Doom could never...
effectively yeah. take a thing people want, then put out 4 millions ads about how it will cause an unrelated thing people don't want, and they won't vote for it. doesn't matter if it's true or not
Yep.
Rupert Murdoch started that ball rolling before Nixon. Trump is the culmination of brainwashing the populace to not believe actual journalist and scientist.
The diabolical genius of the US right-wing has equated seeking help from the government as something only lesser minorities do, using people's fear of the other to motivate them to vote against their interest.
To them, government assistance is only for n-words. Hence our clown president elect
The Big 3 automakers received over 10 billion in bailouts after the 2008 market crash. But the right wants me to think my neighbor on SNAP is the real problem.
EXACTLY.
In any situation where there's a problem, You always look at the most powerful variables. Someone getting $300 plus $100 for every child per month isn't nearly going to have the power of BILLION DOLLAR corporations That paid less taxes than AN INDIVIDUAL in the middle class.
I have a lot of American friends (often via work) and I feel so sorry for them. No holiday, sick pay, anything. It's disgusting, they work so hard for so little.
U.S. Leftists ceded the progressive identity politic of the 70s to the Democratic Party in the advent of blood-sucking neoliberalism and have been licking their wounds ever since. Now the Dems have an entire base of historically marginalized people under their thumb and U.S. Leftists are still…
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But with the citizens united, fundraising is an unfortunate motivation that fails the citizenry.
It must die.
Single-payer healthcare is considered an "extreme left" position. Let that sink in.
Before that it was interracial marriage... And it became real fuzzy around the civil rights movement.
I still remember Obama and Biden had to be CONVINCED to do this in the 2010s.
And all of that is up in the air in January...
And also make plans.
Like yeah, I have liberal social values. But I'm not a Liberal in the political ideology sense.
There's at least four points to the spectrum. Left, right, authoritarian, and libertarian, And then you plot yourself somewhere in between that.
I guess you can't?
Obviously people ideologically opposed to it are going to be right wingers, but the free market kind.
I would be dead without the healthcare system here.
They've turned working less, making more money, and having a healthy work-life balance into an extreme left position, and associated with undesirables.
It's supervillain shyt. Lex luthor and Dr Doom could never...
https://youtu.be/Bejdhs3jGyw?si=xOWXr_42qvCN97sN
Rupert Murdoch started that ball rolling before Nixon. Trump is the culmination of brainwashing the populace to not believe actual journalist and scientist.
To them, government assistance is only for n-words. Hence our clown president elect
In any situation where there's a problem, You always look at the most powerful variables. Someone getting $300 plus $100 for every child per month isn't nearly going to have the power of BILLION DOLLAR corporations That paid less taxes than AN INDIVIDUAL in the middle class.
I have a lot of American friends (often via work) and I feel so sorry for them. No holiday, sick pay, anything. It's disgusting, they work so hard for so little.
And you think with our archaic labor notions, our economy would be better at least ...
The corporations are going to corporate...
Likewise all it really did was reinforce British class divisions, which are still very much determinative here. Destroyed public housing stock also.
Or the Working Families Party replacing the Dems.