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  • They’ve obviously lost the thread and who could blame them? They’ve been locked up with conservatives for 50+ years. That would be enough to have me blow my brains out.

    The point is the whole DNC is a rotten corpse. Maybe at one time the candidates had an ideology but now they’ve fought every fight they’re willing to fight and just want to be old and not bothered. Except they don’t want to give up their power. Which is frightening. From their perspective they’ve only made it this far by clenching tight to power for as long as they could and can’t imagine a world where they just live at harmony with people around them. They lose all their clout. No one needs them anymore and they rot to nothing. That’s the fear at least.

    Everyday I’m more convinced the thing that got us where we are is American hyper competitive mentality. We have to work endlessly. We have to score the best grades. We have to make the most money.

    Why can’t we just take pride in living peacefully. This is what all the Trumpers are upset about, honestly. They want to be able to live in their podunk town. Doing their unimportant job. Liking the same things their mommy and daddy liked and be unbothered. Culturally that’s fucked and we’ve seen why but idealistically it’s fine. We need unimportant people to do unimportant things and be more or less just like the ones who came before. So why not reward it?

    I’m rambling.


  • like allowing the overturn of roe vs wade

    Voters did this by not voting lesser evil

    Joe Biden who railed against school racial integration policies, Joe Biden author of the 94 crime bill,

    This was not part of his presidential administration and not my claim.

    pro union Joe Biden who compelled the train unions to accept the companies deal

    And went back and got sick days for the union after the deal was signed. Only president to march with the union.

    Biden who lends his support both materially and in influence to right wing governments in Ukraine and Israel, supporting genocide in the latter. Etc etc. A real hero of the people this guy, fly out the red flag.

    I never made the claim he wasn’t a neoliberal. I only cited the fact that he was the most progressive president we’ve seen in the country for as long as I’ve been alive.


  • Ok. So apply this to 2016. The left choice was establishment neoliberal who if had won would have put left leaning judges on the Supreme Court ensuring the court for decades. Since she lost a far right extremist won who captured the judicial branch. I guess this doesn’t count because people didn’t vote for the lesser evil. Or does it?

    So the following election again was establishment neoliberalism who won and basically had the most progressive policy’s of the last century. I guess that moved us right?

    Next election, let’s see, establishment neoliberal again. Hard to pinpoint if she was more left or less left because she ran a campaign catering to “on the fence conservatives” but was part of a very progressive administration.

    Maybe this what happens when you don’t vote for the lesser evil. That’s all I see.