• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    democrats are simply the ‘lesser evil’, and have been since the 1960s, at least… and we’ve needed a viable third party left of the mainstream for longer.

    republican administrations drag us down and undo gains made. democrats repair some of the damage–but never quite enough, never push progress enough. they lose. it gets undone again and the cycle repeats.

    but now it’s all getting destroyed. there may not be a continuation of the cycle. it’s hell from here on until ‘trumpism’ and maga are what is completely destroyed.

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    17 days ago

    It’s the most anti-communist country on the planet, so there’s not much hope. Talk of raising wages or organizing collectively, or not agreeing with US imperialist foreign policy gets you labelled a commie / tankie by its witch-hunting, McCarthyite majority.

    If there’s a list of countries to next take the communist road, the US would be dead last.

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            15 days ago

            Sure, but IRL and outside media I still hear “tankie” more than “commie,” and more importantly the original comment was made in the context of Lemmy.

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              You’ve heard people use the term “tankie” IRL? Damn, even the most brainpoisoned libs I know don’t do that.

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              Talk of raising wages or organizing collectively, or not agreeing with US imperialist foreign policy gets you labelled a commie / tankie by its witch-hunting, McCarthyite majority

              You’re telling me this statement is about Lemmy and not the US in general?

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    17 days ago

    The Deprogram podcast, Hakim, and Second Thought YT channels all exist to address this. It’s rather obvious to anybody willing to learn

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    17 days ago

    Step 1: Don’t generalize. Don’t say “Americans” when you mean “some Americans”. As you can see from browsing here and on other media sites, there are a great many vocal people who have voted Democrat for years but are entirely disappointed by decades of failed DNC leadership.

    Step 2: Remind people that everyone is on their own side. Politicians might vote the way you want, or not, but their interests will never be exactly the same as yours. Don’t ever believe that the two-party system is an accurate description of our values.

    Step 3: Share memes of Schumer.

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      17 days ago

      “Some Americans” is still a generalization. Generalizations are extremely useful. We cannot function without them. Perhaps you mean to say, don’t over-generalize.

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    16 days ago

    This is quote from their former member, Huey Long:

    “They’ve got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen”

    — Huey Long, campaign speech for the re-election of Senator Hattie Caraway (D-AR), 1932 (Williams p. 589)

    Source

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    15 days ago

    They’ve had multiple majority governments and you guys still pay an arm and a leg for diabetes medication.

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    17 days ago

    We don’t have to do anything other then work on passing electoral reform one state at a time. Democrats can be whatever the hell they want, so long as everyone is free to vote how they want with the ability to transfer their vote.

    Electoral Reform Videos

    First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)

    Videos on alternative electoral systems

    STAR voting

    Alternative vote

    Ranked Choice voting

    Range Voting

    Single Transferable Vote

    Mixed Member Proportional representation

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      Historically, that doesn’t actually fix systemic issues, though, like the only parties of relevance electorally being pre-approved and backed by the bourgeoisie. Moreover, electoral reform doesn’t have a real path to implementation that would make more sense than revolution to begin with.

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      This has never done anything in countries that use it, like SK, Japan, Australia, etc. It might make the candidate stacking a little more expensive, but that’s it.

      If capital stands above the political system, the method of voting doesn’t matter.

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    17 days ago

    Many Americans don’t like either party at this point. Thus the low voter turnout and apathy. Many vote Democrat as the lesser of two evils. Though, the goalpost keep getting pushed to the right, to the point that Democratic party is well right of center. I understand the apathy at this point. But I wish that people understood that if we want things to come back to the left, then we’re going to have to vote overwhelmingly Democratic for a while. And not just every four years. Everybody whines the Democrats don’t get anything done when they’re elected. But they generally only have two years of majority in the house, Senate, because they can’t be bothered to vote every two years…

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    If they haven’t accepted it yet, I’m not sure they want to. The ones holding the lines seem to be just reactionaries pining for a return to the neoliberal status quo.

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    16 days ago

    We need progressive primary challengers, and we need PARTICIPATION in the primaries. Primary voter turnout is like 15% or something equally pathetic last I checked.

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      That’s more because Primary candidates are all pre-selected and don’t stand to change the system. Voter apathy is high bevause voter will isn’t represented by the dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.

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        The super delegate bs with Bernie in 2016 was definitely a ridiculous situation, I don’t know what to say about that.

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      Yup.

      Millions of Americans LOVE complaining about our presidential nominees but are nowhere to be found during the primaries. Can’t be bothered to be proactive. Can only be bothered to complain after the fact.

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    16 days ago

    Stop re-electing these ancient incumbents who are WAY too comfortable being Republican-lite. Vote for younger candidates, preferably someone who was born AFTER the Battle of the Bulge.

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      16 days ago

      I don’t think that makes a difference. Ben Shapiro is young and is alt-right

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        I think it makes a huge difference- Shapiro is just one person. And to prove the point, look how much influence he, a young guy, is having on our political landscape. Not that they’re the perfect politicians, but look at how much support people like AOC and Tulsi Gabbard drum up. We need people that are energized and that can energize others.

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          It is not about wether someone is young or old, but that the system is rotten and needs to go. Also, we are not getting anything better in this system.