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If only they had compromised more and reached across the aisle harder. That will surely fix it next time.
“meet me in the middle”, says the unjust man.
you take a step towards him. he takes a step back.
“meet me in the middle”, says the unjust man.“Next time”
It is also time for the Democratic Party to genuinely embrace progressive policies. It is evident that not many people were enthusiastic about Harris’s moderate campaign policies.
It was time in 2016. Biden barely won in 2020 and somehow Dems took that as a mandate to be even more conservative. At this point I have no idea how progressive ideas ever get implemented.
I mean, in the US, the archetype of progressive policy success, the New Deal, was only possible because of labor militancy and the threat of systemic collapse. That should give an idea
One would think
lol
Isn’t this how every other authoritarian regime on the planet operates? Control all the main media sources, promote only the main messages and propaganda that you want people to see and listen to, repeat it all endlessly, repeat it everywhere, fund it so that this media machine has all the resources it needs to maintain everyone’s attention all the time.
Then when someone on the outside looks in … everyone inside will think they are weird because they exist in their own reality.
Practically speaking, what is supposed to be done about it? It’s all protected by the first amendment. Even if they were to somehow pass a new kind of “fairness” legislation in a future blue wave, the stacked SCOTUS will strike it down.
They could at least try to end corporate personhood… make it so that corporations are not protected by the 1st amendment and don’t get free speech… Anything they blast out needs to be scrutinized and any misinformation needs to have heavy penalties… Sure the actual person saying the thing is protected, but the corporations pushing it out or allowing it to go out through them get crushed under fines… This would require a party that is not working for the oligarchy/donors though
They could at least try to end corporate personhood… make it so that corporations are not protected by the 1st amendment and don’t get free speech…
You’d need a supermajority to amend the constitution, and that is completely unrealistic.
It wouldn’t be easy, but I think people, especially young people, want to vote for people who will actually fight… Over and over as long as it takes
it’s too late for all this dialog
but it’s not.
its about 20 million voters throwing a tantrum and fucking us.
Okay. Am I to assume this means they have to do interviews on fox News? What the fuck are they supposed to do about this? They clearly know it
They need to come to terms!!
I’ve been coming to terms and I never see them there!
This is partially right but really the issue is non voters. There are a lot of sexist and racist people that won’t vote for a black woman but will vote for a white man.
I really don’t have any hope for humanity. Whether we kill ourselves from global warming or nuclear war it ends with the same result. It’s too depressing to actively worry about. Better to live in the moment and ignore things I can’t control.
Hopefully we will have another election but somehow I think the military and policing agencies will be turned against the general population. The first step will be removing Congress, both senate and house, and using violence to enforce it while restricting free speech and freedom of the press. Then the imprisonment of political dissenters in modern day concentration camps. After the consolidation of power is complete and free speech is truly restricted America as it was will be gone. I expect a civil war during this transition, and while that happens China, Russia, and India will all make moves to expand, with wars erupting throughout the world.
Our only hope is if the military truly believes the oaths they swore, to serve the us constitution. But really I’m not holding out to hope for that.
waiting for a chance to elect the least shitty candidate every 4 years is how you got into this mess.
If we don’t organize and start taking direct action then nothing will change.
People need to join organizations in their community or labor unions and begin to directly sabotage the conservative agenda. General strikes should be something that the American left are actively planning right now.
Don’t sit down, stand up
Right. If we’re organized we can cripple this shit in week. Don’t need guns. All we would need to do is withhold our labor. Put our hands in our pockets, call in sick. If nothing is functioning all of a sudden we have our power back.
Anyone with an AM radio has known this for decades.
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You honestly don’t see any left wing bias in the media? Be honest now. Honest.
Left wing bias? Like anything remotely anti-capitalist?
No, never seen it from anything remotely mainstream.
I see what Americans have been conditioned into believing is “left wing” - aka neoliberalism - but absolutely none of it save for a few streamers and podcasters are actually left.
It’s all right of center and the difference is that the American “lefties” hide their imperialistic racism, or convince themselves they don’t have any.
