Our government is like a company with two different managers. One manager is a wonderful boss, and everybody loves them, and wants to work for them. The other manager is a raging asshole, and everybody despises him, and nobody wants to work for him.
In reality, nobody works for either manager, they work for the corporation, and the managers are just there to do the corporations bidding, and advance the corporation’s agenda. They might approach it differently, but ultimately they are both responsible for meeting the corporation’s agenda.
That’s the Dems vs MAGAs. They might have totally different approaches, but ultimately, they are there to serve the demands of the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and our job is to pay for it.
Nobody is going to read all your propaganda bullshit, next time just say BOTH SIDES SAME DURP!! Same message, fewer words, makes sure MAGA stays in power just like you want.
This is why I think reforming the Democrats is a lost cause. They would rather torpedo the entire thing than give an actual leftist one iota of power.
El-Sayed / Hasan manufactured controversy playing out right now is a perfect example of what this looks like.
The whole manufactured controversy is just Israel’s talking points. “Antisemitism” this and “no genocide” that - these aren’t real points and it’s why AIPAC incumbents are being singled out. The situation has become overly apparent that the DNC is hamstrung by foreign interests to be ineffective.
“Foreign interests”.
It’s the same interests as the “natives” ruling class. It’s not about helping Israel or the USA, it’s about money, and these interests are international. The ruling class of the USA is the same ruling class of Earth, the USA is the capital (formerly UK), and Israel is as enslaved to them as the USA, it’s not the “controller”.
it’s about money
That includes war, from primitive accumulation to the MIC. See: The Palestine Laboratory
Consider that a lot of this is coming from campaign consultants who eschew the idea of grass roots funded lean campaigns that don’t waste money on TV ad buys(and more consultants).
Also, a lot of this is coming straight from AIPAC. Every single Democrat politician that is engaging in this character assassination spree is getting money from AIPAC.
And, since the lefty candidates tend to communicate to their base via “non traditional” means, traditional media sees them as a threat too.
i hear sharia law is making it happen for the people of NYC
With all this national debt, you’d think we’d have something to show for it.
We spent it mostly on tax breaks for the rich. We have billionaires with record levels of wealth and even had the first ever trillionaire to show for it.
A temporary trillionaire?
This is the time of the year when accounts with a thousand post and ten comments start trying to depress the vote for the only party that has a chance to beat the republicans.
Whoops total accident
There’s a thousand criticisms of US politics I agree with, that make sense; but the one thing that has never made sense to me is why the Republican Party exists.
It’s a horrendous monster with no visible redeeming values. The Democrats can live off “We will fight the monster!” and be opportunistic scumbags, but no explanation given for why that monster exists.
As long as even some of the democrats build up a platform of fighting that monster, and have to pretend to do it, then it’s better than those monsters actually being in charge. I’m not a fan of handwaving the “hard fact” that group still continues to exist as a pure enemy of American success through today’s age, and it turns almost anything else into a lesser evil.
Republican as a party has existed for basically the same amount of time the US has. It doesn’t really have it’s own goals.
The problem is just that poor people’s voices are actively suppressed in favor of the dollar
Mostly gerrymandering/voter suppression/corruption (they’re all the same thing, to me). The Republicans are always accusing Democrats of influencing elections, because they know how easy it is.
You can look it up yourself pretty easily: there are about 1.5x as many people who reliably vote Democratic as there are people who reliably vote Republican. The only reason Republicans ever win anything is because of baldfaced voter suppression.
The part that makes even less sense is that majority of Americans support that monster party, even after it got significantly more monstrous (maggot movement)
Both sides are the same? We mush have an election coming up.
BoTh SiDeS eLeCtIoN cOmInG. There’s always an election coming. Every two years. When do you think it’s appropriate to discuss the corporate ownership of our political parties?
Do we have a six month period in between elections or something?
Meanwhile, bOtH sIdEs made a BILLION dollars in the last election (that we know of), and, as usual, the winner ignored their own platform (as BoTh SiDeS routinely do). Billionaires shared the victory stage with Trump, clapping and smiling. They don’t go away when the Democrats win.
Twenty years since last minimum wage increase.
Voter depression task force out and about again right in time for midterms. Man “leftists” must really love having Republicans in power.
Everyone I don’t like is a Russian bot and other fairy tales
Says the ml brigadier. Hopefully the pay is decent.
Why do you hate democracy so badly that you feel people should be forced to vote for your preferences?
Oh I’m raking in the Xi bucks, which is good considering the trajectory the dollar is on.
Oh, I’ll vote and vote blue no matter who.
But 2024 taught me that Americans do not care. They knew who Trump was. They saw how he is president. They heard what he said he wanted to do once in office. They knew about the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership and what its plan was. And the majority of voters couldn’t be bothered to vote against him.
On the Democratic side, I get the grievances, except that by not voting for the AIPAC lady, we’re now watching as Israel plans to turn Gaza into a billionaire resort and just massacre the entire region. The Republicans don’t have a conscience to be bargained with, while the Democrats have opinions that can evolve.
The price of eggs was an excuse. Americans voted based on vibes and racism. Not specific racism though they’re being fed fear of brown immigrants, but permission to be racist. And now genocide of everyone not MAGA is in the Overton window.
Maybe all of the Republican election tampering and voter suppression shenanigans will fail to reduce the alleged blue tsunami to a blue trickle, and maybe the after-election shenanigans won’t work, but that doesn’t mean the Democrats are going to get full control of Congress and the Presidency in 2028. And if they do, that doesn’t mean Democrats are actually going to sufficiently overhaul SCOTUS, and then ironclad elections from suppression, tampering, gerrymandering, voter caging and so on. And these things need to be done before any movement towards rebuilding regulatory institutions, soft power departments like USAID, reforming DHS or any of the other things that really need to be done.
And if all this isn’t done in time, then American voters will get impatient, and follow their brainwashing to vote in oligarch puppets again. And this time the US will become a one-party state, and might even see its constitution dismantled.
So, I will vote. I think everyone absolutely needs to vote as if their lives and the lives of everyone they know depends on it. But I thought the same thing in 2024, and the constituency of the United States betrayed me. Seriously, eventually I’m going to end up on ICE’s hit list, and they’ll come for me. After that, they’ll come for everyone else.
SCOTUS has locked federal political power in favor of MAGA. It’s entirely captured. It has the capacity to nullify any or all parts of the Constitution of the United States, if they decide to do so. Expect to see carveouts of the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th amendments just the way they scalloped the 4th and 5th. We have one chance to stop them. One.
So I’m not going to be dishonest about our actual chances. I still think everyone needs to vote. I also think Americans need to organize twelve million of us behind a single manifesto, so that when we general strike or occupy Washington, we have clear and established demands, and there is clearly nothing they can do about it and stay in power.
But I don’t think Americans are up to the task, even if they are skipping meals and living off ramen. Even if their family is abducted and disappeared by ICE. Even if they’re choking on data center fumes. Moreover because they still believe they have to check the R to prove they’re not effeminate or communist.
I’ll do my diligent duty. Heck I’m looking for my place in the organized resistance. But my faith in the people of the United States is gone. I’m not going to lie about that to purport hope or optimism.
I think that people are mostly politically ignorant and for whatever reason, do not take the time to educate themselves on the deeper working of our political system. Most people rely on mainstream news or their twitter feed or podcasts to stay informed about what is going on. This is why messaging is so important.
In the 2024 election, Trump talked about all the horrible things he wanted to do, but he framed it from the position of, “these terrible things will help you”. Now to the politically aware folks like the kind that comment on political threads, we knew this was a lie. But we are the types of people to do research into crime statistics and know that immigrants contribute a minisicule amount of crime in the USA.
Regardless of how we wish people were more politcally knowledgeable, they aren’t, so it is important for the oppositional party to do that kind of informing. The Dem party should have been out there calling the Repubs ridiculous and giga-racist. Kamala Harris should have had a strong message of protecting our immigrant neighbors against racist dog whistles and highlighting the good they do. Instead, the Democratic party ran on strengthening the border and cracking down on immigrant crime.
When the politically ignorant voter looked at these two candidates, they saw one who said, “immigrants are a problem and I’m gonna get rid of them all” while the other said, “immigrants are a problem and I’m gonna get rid of some”. They heard Kamala Harris say she wants to spend more money building the border wall when only a few years ago, the Democratic party was calling the border wall racist and bad. The common voter saw the decision between Coke and Diet Coke, no matter how innaccurate that comparison was because the Democratic party advertised themselves as Diet Coke.
I really wish the common person would do a little more research into politics, but it isn’t really surprising that they often sit out elections when the Democrats keep advertising themselves as Republican-lite. So while I agree that the constituency has some blame in the current atate of affairs, I think the Democratic leadership bears far more of the blame. They know what is popular and what would help them win, they just don’t want to win with progressive policies that won’t personally enrich them. This is why I think to fix our current state of affairs, most of our focus should be on the Dem leadership that are passively observing our descent to hell.
Most people rely on mainstream news or their twitter feed or podcasts to stay informed about what is going on.
And this is why I fear for Hasan Piker’s safety. Traditional media is smearing him so badly that even C-Span hosts are saying shit like, “Hasan Piker has made many anti-Semitic statements” which is patently untrue.
I think the Democratic leadership bears far more of the blame. They know what is popular and what would help them win, they just don’t want to win with progressive policies that won’t personally enrich them.
I think a lot of this is also coming from the political consultant class. These people make far to much money on elections and it’s not in their personal financial interests to embrace grass roots efforts to get politicians elected. They want big donors so they can make big ad buys(and get a commission).
Liberal brainworms.
“The only way to stop the fascists is to sweet unwavering, unquestioning loyalty to the party that made Fascism viable.”
Every single election cycle
This is like someone saying they’ll never support the NE patriots because they don’t like Tom Brady…
It made sense when Brady was leading the team, but he’s gone for a while now.
So if you keep talking about the Brady years like it’s today, people are gonna assume you’re so clueless, you think he’s still the NE QB.
But for the love of whatever you give a shit about:
Stop calling the neoliberals “Democrats”
They’re a minority of politicians with no control over the party currently. Pretending they’re the better, just depresses dem.tuenoit and increases the neoliberal’s odds of taking back the party
I’ll never support MAGA because I didn’t like Reagan and he’s been gone a while before the pedophile took it over and made it the super circus it is today. I hate the pedophile way more.
Do you believe Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries have no power over the Dem party? Or do you think they are not neoliberals?
You would be right if you claimed that most of the Democrat voter base is not neoliberal, but neoliberals definitely make up a majority of the Democratic elected officials in power. As a recent example, three neoliberal zionist Dems were appointed to the Foregin Affairs Committee. They will have a lot of influence on how the US conducts overseas policy.
These kinds of decisons made by the Democrat party are what depresses voter turnout. The neoliberal politicians who are taking advice from neoliberal consultants like Third Way or the Center for American Progress are dragging down the country because they would rather lose to the fascists than win with the progressives. They would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
the Democrat party
This is a tell that you are a conservative.
I grew up in a family full of Democrats and I had no awareness of the “democrat party” vs. “democratic party” discourse until earlier this year. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think it’s the conservative shibboleth you’re acting like it is.
Or mistyped.
Do you believe Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries have no power over the Dem party?
What do you think their power was?
For the last decade it was the DNC’s control over the “victory fund”, which the current DNC leader already drained and gave back to state parties.
Before that, if you didn’t do what they wanted, they’d bankrupt your whole state party and let Republicans have it
Even if they regain control of the DNC, they won’t have that war chest anymore.
This is all incredibly basic and happened over a year ago…
What’s your excuse for not knowing any of that?
And I didn’t read past that quoted line, because if you don’t understand how that works, everything else is going to be wrong. Because you fundamentally don’t understand any of the context.
How do you think these committee members are picked? Why is it a big news story that Hakeem Jeffries was in private meetings with Jared Kushner? When the media asks for the general strategy of the Democrat party, who gets interviewed as the face of the partty?
And if you are talking about the DNC spending all it’s money funding incumbents against primary challengers, yeah, I think it’s a problem that the DNC is going into the midterms $2 million in debt. The Establishment Dems should have let the primaries run their course instead of trying to put their thumb on the scale to get their preferred candidates through the primaries.
When the common person who is not very politically active looks into their voting options, they look to mainstream news. They listen to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries because they are the Minority Leader and Caucus Leader. They listen to Ezra Klein’s podcast because Third Way is institutionally respected as representing the modern Democratic party. They read Neera Tanden’s tweets because the Center for American Progress is the main think tank of the Democrat party. The common person is told over and over that the Democrats are for neoliberal policies and they believe it because the Dem politicians in the highest positions of power and prominence are neoliberal.
Regular people are so hungry for progressive action that something as basic as a nyc mayor fixing potholes is seen as newsworthy. When they are faced with a barrage of neoliberal talking points from the leaders and consultants of the oppositional party, they get depressed. That is the leaders of the Democratic party flexing their power to punish their voter base for believing that better things are possible. That’s how you get stupid shit like “Democrats for Mike Rogers” or two Dems being the key votes to pass GOP bills last week. The leaders of the Democrat party are spending all their time trying to foment anger against their left flank instead of channeling the already existing anger against the Republican party.
Fucks there has gotten more and more unhinged ever since that Nazi he was supporting turned out to also be a rapist. You’re not gonna get any valuable discourse from him. Every single comment is just blaming democrats for everything regardless of reality. But then it looks kind of like you do too so I’m not sure why y’all are disagreeing. Here are the options in plain words for both of you. Primary establishment Dems with progressives which requires voting in the primaries, then you prevent Republicans from winning generals by electing the democrats. In like the two fucking counties in the entire country where third parties are actually viable, go ham. Otherwise you’re getting republicans elected. And republicans are worse than democrats, full stop. Anyone who doesn’t agree with that isn’t a serious person and is working for republicans.
I agree that Republicans are worse than Democrats and I also agree that it is important to get progressive Democrats into power. I just wish the Dems in power would also hold these opinions.
My frustrations with the current Dem leadership is that they are following the advice of influential political analyst James Carville to “roll over and play dead” when it comes to opposing the Republicans, but are fighting tooth and nail when it comes to opposing progressive candidates. It really feels like the Dem leadership is not serious and is working with the Republicans.
How do you think these committee members are picked?
Buddy…
Every current committee is useless because even the few that aren’t majority Republican, nothing is going to get done.
Why is it a big news story that Hakeem Jeffries was in private meetings with Jared Kushner?
Because they’re pieces of shit…
When the media asks for the general strategy of the Democrat party, who gets interviewed as the face of the partty?
The people the oligarchs who own the media want people to think are running shit, if only to make people less likely to vote in Dem primaries.
Sounds about right.
Even in this example, there is one side that is obviously far far worse than the other.
Letting republicans set the standard? Im gonna be honest, this is not a good look for you.
Cleaner, perhaps, but not usefully better.
Yep. But both sides still went to prison though.
Just as both of those cops couldn’t be left on the street, the democrat party of today can’t be same democrat party of tomorrow. We’re going to make it better or we’re not going to have a country just like Minneapolis didn’t have police station after kicking those murder charges down the road.
I don’t think we should really be heralding the “better” side as the ones that are going to save us. Remember their goals are ultimately the same.
Only in the most broad sense, i.e. control of the government. What they want to do with that power is very very different (especially if you are nonwhite, LGBT, or a woman).
I’m not dismissing those things because that’s the only area of debate in the United States. But the Democrats and the Republicans don’t support universal healthcare, they don’t support workers rights, they support corporations right to pillage the environment, they support the genocide in Palestine and broadly they support American Hegemony abroad. The only thing they disagree on is the gender, skin color, and sexuality of the people who can’t get healthcare or parental leave.
Between the ACA, Medicare expansions, pre-existing condition coverage requirements, VA funding, and medication price reduction, Democrats have ensured that tens of millions of Americans have healthcare. Republicans have done their best to strip this away.
Democrat states usually do not have “right to work” laws that weaken union membership.
Democrats heavily pushed for a move away from fossil fuels, subsidized the expansion of electric car use, increased protected lands, and strengthened environmental laws. Republicans have undone most of this.
Democratic support of Israel is rapidly waning under public pressure. Republicans have not weakened their stance an inch.
Democrats funded and supported international aid across the world to generate soft power. Republicans have pulled this back and replaced it with threats and military force.
Dems are not perfect, but they are closer to your ideal by an immense amount.
I think the difference between us is that I think the Democrats can at best accomplish half measures that don’t fix the fundamental structure of the system. The ACA hands more power and money to insurance companies, it doesn’t fix the fundamental problem. The Democrats support of Israel is “waning” but that hasn’t really altered anything on the ground or even stopped the money from flowing.
Republicans have pulled this back and replaced it with threats and military force.
You’re acting like Obama didn’t endorse more drone strikes than any president in history.
Like sure they are “technically” better but not in any of the ways that matter.
Half measures add up if you keep doing them. If you go half way 3 times you are 87.5% of the way there. You know what I mean?
I don’t think we should refuse to help people unless we fix the underlying problem. It’s not like we should have waited to end slavery until we eliminated racism, right? Expanding healthcare to another 50-60 million makes a hell of a lot of difference to those people. I would say that is better “in a way that matters”.
You’re acting like Obama didn’t endorse more drone strikes than any president in history.
That we know of. Trump stopped reporting the numbers, so I wouldn’t bet on that record holding.
I agree, but also don’t think we should be so devoted as to defend them for being the only ones who can help us and having them watch and do nothing. They’re more concerned with the people running on doing more. Is that an Ally or just the weaker of two enemies?
We should absolutely push the Democrats to do better and support DSA and other farther left candidates. Short term though, they are the best chance to wrest control of the government back from the MAGA fascists.
They are the best chance insofar as we can change the party. FDR enacted many of his policies because the alternative was a mass uprising leading to murder of the owner class/scabs and the visuals of the societal abandonment of our elderly was dumping gasoline on the fire.
Well vote for progressives in the fuckin primaries and pull the fuckin party left because it’s literally the only fuckin option that isn’t republicans winning. Y’all can refuse to grasp the political reality all you want, but it doesn’t change it.
It’s not refusing to grasp anything to talk about how our options are falling to hell or floating for a while. You’re preaching to the choir about how to change it and if you haven’t noticed: That is what’s happening. We are entitled to bitch in the meantime, especially about areas where corporate and consultant interests superseded people’s own best interests due to record levels of spending and nonstop concern trolling (eg: Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Oliver Larkin, Charles Booker, etc). We also don’t need permission from anyone to do so, thanks for your concern.
Not really.
A guy standing in a room watching a rape or murder is also irredeemable scum.
There is a reason however that in such cases the law differentiates between murder and accessory to murder. The latter carries less severe penalties. They are simply not the same thing and one is objectively worse than the other.
Law means less than nothing to morality.
Morals are relative. The law is not (at least ideally).
My point was that what the laws says is right or wrong should have no bearing on what actually is right or wrong.
Where I am from, it was illegal for blacks to drink from certain fountains. The law is always flawed, even if we don’t see it as such today.
Many argued it was immoral for black people and white people to drink from the same fountains too. That’s the problem with using morals as a standard.
Less bad than the one committing it. Maybe not “far far” but still.
I can and will argue that its just as bad. Kinda like pointing and laughing at shipwreck survivors before you leave them to drown.
The left have a job in all this too, and it is to sit back and let it all happen. Occasionally be dismissive of the voting process and attack liberals that might otherwise agree with you, without educating them first.
If you’re for some reason not cool with losing, you should probably begin working to reform your party into something that’s actually helpful and effective.
Cabal of clown pedos are your party. Both parties. Not everyone wants to be a cuck about it.
If Trump runs I might vote for him for the first time so you might be willing to give up your little 600 sqft shack and 80 hour work week.
Until then always remember that violence isn’t the answer! And that the Dems tried their best!
This actually was a bit of a process. After Hoover, America was a serious shithole. A Hooverville was a shanty town. We call them homeless encampments now. It took Roosevelt’s new deal to pull us out with a lot of national programs.
Then WW2 happened and we were super in debt, and we needed to get really organized to develop a robust union-supported middle class, so that our GDP outpaced our debt + interest + spending.
And the owner class took all that personally. Before the war, the industrialists organized a propaganda campaign to instill capitalist values in the US (and no small amount of fascism). They weren’t yet good at it but got better with time.
And once big industries were unionized and regulated, Lewis F. Powell Jr. wrote his notorious memorandum outlining the plan to recapture the government, especially the courts, in order to create a pro-commercial state, e.g. one in which unions weren’t welcome, regulations weren’t enforced, and the working class knew their place.
And the owner class has been following that agenda since. Of course, it is turning the US back into a shithole on the verge of fiscal collapse, but they don’t care. Nor do they listen to the economics experts that point out that liberal democratic societies end up far richer, including their owner class. They think as Trump does, that they’re the experts on everything, and they surround themselves with sycophants who don’t disagree with them or challenge their ideas.
In the 1970s, but especially after Reagan, lobbyists and special interest groups gained access to elected officials, and got really clever in all the ways that they can bribe them. Politician went from being a decent career into a gateway into the owner class, and so people ran for office not to do things (e.g. to create change) but to be adjacent to power. Nowadays, money is super entrenched. Campaign contributions are dwarfed by PAC money which is dwarved by Superpacs, and then there’s the promise of post-career cushy high-paying jobs… as lobbyists.
(Apparently it’s super humiliating. Once you’re in office, if you want to keep your campaign sponsors happy – and willing to keep you in office – you have to pass what they say. They give you the bills prewritten and expect them to be passed verbatim. Fail, and that sweet high-paying job you were promised after your political career is gone. So elected officials beholden to large sponsors are forced to be absolutely subservient. It explains why it’s so natural for Republicans to abdicate all responsibility to Trump, and why establishment Democrats are incredibly milquetoast, and make every excuse not to pass public-serving legislation. It also explains why establishment Democrats are fighting progressive and DSA factions more fiercely than they fight Republicans, even though the GOP is actively trying to unmake the two-party system and arrest the Dems as political enemies as soon as they get the chance.)
Progressives and DSA are gaining traction specifically because the establishment Democrats are just weak Republicans, and many of those who’d vote for them would rather vote for the guy with the fancier suit and the better memes. Progressives and DSA are coming into office with an actual platform beyond we’re better than the Republicans and are trying to actually pass public-serving policy.
Trump, in the meantime, has a knack for inviting people to be their worst selves. He attracts voters who just want to vote based on vibes, rather than a platform and their own best interests. Trump also is openly racist in contrast to the dog-whistle racist Republican party of 2015. White racist Americans found refreshing. He’s only saying what we all are thinking. Since then, the Republican party now has a purity test, that either you’re 100% MAGA devout, or you’re a RINO. And already we’re starting to see the MAGA movement start to cut into their own ranks, excluding those who are not quite perfect.
I’ve been saying similar things for a long time now. Repulicrats and Demicrans are two sides of the same coin. Bush signed in the patriot act. I got all excited to make a change and voted for Obama. Then he signs in the expansion of the patriot act and carpet bombs the shit out of Syria.
It is the job of fascists to make sure any groups who might oppose them are too busy fighting each other to stop them.
Uh… no? Of course they’d love it to happen, but that’s not how fascists historically operate.
You might wanna do a bit of reading and maybe edit that comment because uh, yeah it kinda is.
Like I said to the other person, if you have evidence to the contrary I’d love to see it.
Yeah, fascists never use propaganda to twist the public’s beliefs to their benefit. /S
I’d certainly be interested in historical examples of fascist propaganda meant specifically to divide the opposition (rather than simply gain more supporters).
They called themselves National Socialists. There’s one example.
How do you think the Germans were convinced to more or less go along with the Holocaust?
If you have a point make it I’m not going to read your mind.
I mean, the historic Nazis basically presented themselves to the German political establishment as an anti-communist deal with the devil, and it worked well enough for them to take over Germany. Does that count?
I’d say not really. This deal with the devil tactic was ultimately about getting the German political establishment to support them in return for breaking communist skulls, so it falls pretty cleanly under “simply getting more supporters.” What would count would be the Nazis trying to split people who oppose them from other people who oppose them (so social democrats from liberals, communists from social democrats, etc) so that the size of the opposition isn’t changed but it’s directed less effectively. What you’re referring to is just selling oneself to potential supporters, which any political party/movement must do anyway.
Propaganda can have multiple purposes. It also drove a wedge between the far left and the center left. The same goes for the Nazis attacking LGBT people (sound familiar)?
It also drove a wedge between the far left and the center left.
No it didn’t. The people the Nazis were making deals with were squarely on the right of the German political spectrum. We’re talking monarchists, rightwing nationalists and the like. A good proxy for this would be seeing which parties voted for the Enabling Act of 1933, and as you’ll notice immediately if you’re familiar with German politics from this period they’re all rightwing. Hell, most of them weren’t even republican. The center left here was the SPD, and they all (the ones that made it to the Reichstag anyway) voted no, while the communists were too busy suffering state repression. Importantly, the wedge that was driven between these two parties was driven by themselves.
Just let people transfer their vote if their first preference doesn’t win. Then the unrepresented get suffrage, and the democrats get more votes.
Ask yourself why democrats are saying no to these free votes. Maybe the DNC wants us fighting as well if they dont implement this common sense electoral reform in the blue states they control?
Lol. Both sides.
There’s a lot of liberals in here thinking they’re leftists, or trying to “unify the left” in their usual bullshit ways.
