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I also saw that while he was on his feet making himself visible, the committee that he normally chairs was digging into the same tech bros who put money in his pocket.
It's no wonder that American voters didn't want to vote for the Bourgeois Liberal Party, even though the alternative was literal Fascism.
Well, they're proud now. In the time we have left.
The Democrats have constantly misread the situation very badly. For the typical voter, not the bourgeois liberals, not the MAGA brain-rotted dummies but the average poor working class voter the choice was:
Vote Liberal Bourgeois and maybe things might tick along for another couple of years with the rich bourgeois liberals profiting off you and telling you how good you've got it
Vote Trump, you'll definitely be fucked but all the bourgeois liberals will be fucked as well.
I mean sanity suggests that the first offer meets the self-preservation criteria better but it's not what you call an attractive offer, is it?
How do you figure?
I don't understand the question.
The "offer" was sane, competent, if not luxury-gay-space-communism government vs. chaos, insanity, and death.
That was the "offer".
If sane and competent gets you a decline in living standards year on year then it ain't all that attractive.
Well good news there, you won't have a moderate decline in living standards now.
I kind of think that we don't have an argument here. Trump is obviously the worse of two choices. It's just that the Democrat offering is not actually a good choice, just a less bad one. Unless you're a member of the bourgeoisie.
I am going to have a moderate decline in living standards because I live in the UK. Where our supposedly centre-left government have just decided to cut benefit payments to the disabled rather than raise taxes.
If your definition of a 'sane, competent' government is one that continues to rabidly support an ongoing genocide, I want none of it.
Good news for you then
luxury space capitalism for the rich; the global south (especially the gazans) were never intended to be with us in the future and the democrats proved it.