I wish democrats were as left as Republicans think they are. Just for a day, please
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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Hell, I wish democrats were even anywhere near as left as most Dem voters seem to think!
Heh. Corporate democrats are the new conservatives. They happily filled that role when Republicans turned Regressive.
Yeah, every time the GOP moves right, the Dems chase after them. That's why they're now to the right of Reagan, some of them significantly so.
They're desperately trying to cling to the tiny slice of the population between the most right wing Democrats and the least right wing Republicans while ignoring the dozens of millions of Americans to the left of the DNC.
Except at election time where they demand "unity" (read: obedience) of the left in spite of offering nothing in return except (usually) not being quite as awful as the alternative 🤦
Part of me wonders, which party is going to fracture first.
Right now it looks like democrats, since the RNC has become the Cult of Trump
Depends whether you count the ejection of people like Liz Cheney as "fracturing," I suppose.
I guess maybe it won't really be a "fracture" until those people form their own new party instead of continuing to (delusionally) self-identify as Republicans.
Don't you know that if you don't support the Dems unquestioningly then you're just a closet Trumper, like those Muslim Americans unhappy with Biden's support of glorious Israel?
So I've been told a few thousand times, yeah.. 😮💨
As someone from outside the US, it always gives me a giggle seeing the democrats described anything left of centre, especially communist.
A libertarian Lenin! 😆
“I am Andrew Lenin and I’m here to ask you a question: Is a state not entitled to the sweat of its brow?”
Communism is when people clap their hands and tend thier garden.
Must be terrifying knowing that the evils of the 1950s are only a few daffodils away.
People don't tend 'their' gardens in USSR. All gardens belong to the govenment. They tend to the government's gardens, and voluntarily give their crops for the proliferation of the Communist Revolution.
Clapping hands was accurate though.
You can own a garden in communism though. The distinction is personal vs private property. But yes that does mean you don't own farmland privately.
Is the right wing press a dadaist experiment?
If only! Would have been a really good one!
AOC'S gardening advice "echoes the hubris" of Mao's great leap forward, lol. The headline works in a sense because I definitely want to know more
These are all opinion pieces right? Also why are the Kennedys still relevant I thought Americans hated dynasties? Junior just needs to shut the fuck up.
America doesn't hate dynasties. Sometimes I think America is more obsessed with the British royal family than the English.
Just look at how many Americans obsess over the Kardashians. Just look at who America elects. The Kennedys, the Bushes, the Clintons, etc. If Michelle Obama ran for president, I strongly suspect she'd win.
Look at how America treats the 'first lady' like she's a defacto queen. It's genuinely weird. Why should someone unelected have power, have an entire office or represent the president at events, just because they're married to the president?
OTOH when the actual queen is just a figurehead, treating someone like a de facto queen doesn't seem terribly inappropriate.
That implies queens are innately figureheads. Monarchs have power, by original definition of the political title, and are made figureheads when stripped of active usage of that power.
Everybody hates dynasties until they find someone to idolise. Junior being batshit is possibly the only thing that could make Americans (and frankly, the world) fall out of love with the idea of the Kennedys.