It’s not productive to just assume they’re stupid.
It’s a useful enough shorthand when discussing them as a group.
Democratic party has increasingly moved away from being the party of the middle class, and they have built their messaging around academic social ideologies that a lot of working Americans don’t like, don’t agree with, or don’t understand.
Neoliberals have created managed democracies the world over and these ideologies are the crumbs we get in exchange for making rich people richer.
What good is a Democratic party that doesn’t even offer that? Their entire platform would be functionally “better to have corporations writing laws than fascist bigots writing laws”, all to gain 12 votes from boomers who don’t went to acknowledge their grandchilds pronouns.
The Democrats need to tell the people why voting Democrat is good for the middle class, and they’ve completely ignored that necessity for years now.
Even assuming they wanted to, where are they going to do that? On a multi-million dollar, for-profit news network that has sworn themselves to their shareholders? Chinese owned TikTok? Elon’s revolutionary new social network that’s just Twitter with slurs?
America is in a very very deep hole politically and “Republicans vs Republicans Lite” isn’t remotely close to good enough.
Republicians are neoliberals and push neoliberalism because when it fails, it makes rich people even richer.
They pursue this with a psychopathic greed, showing open contempt for anyone crushed by their machine, because those people are either poor, middle-class or born too late to ever hold them accountable.
This is why they’re happy to share their bed with neo-nazis and idiots – it gives them the votes, power and distractions they need to keep their snouts in the trough.
The only thing they won’t tolerate is a threat to profits.
The Democrats are also neoliberals and push neoliberalism because when it fails, it makes rich people even richer.
They pursue neoliberlism with a vague air of guilt. When it comes to rewarding rich people for being rich, they’ll just do the same things with a practised frown.
Rather than pandering to fascists, they pander to progressives. This is where we get our crumbs. The healthcare system is still dogshit, but Obamacare forces slightly fewer people to eat it. Gay people can get married because it doesn’t impact the profits of anyone. Their climate policy is still going to kill us all, but it will do it a few years later.
The only thing they won’t tolerate is also a threat to profits. They’re fine with all their “progress” being watered down, repealed or simply never implemented.
But someone like Bernie Sanders having a shot at president? Just watch the left-wing politicians and media outlets effortlessly slip into bipartisanship they just can’t seem to find when citizens desperately need it.
So what are we left with if we say “Oh it’s okay, I don’t need crumbs if it’s going to make a reactionary upset, a state they’re always in”?
Or what? You’ll shoot me over the internet? Sorry to break your delicate little heart, but this is yet another problem you can’t solve with your guns.
I’m no more afraid of you than the far-right is, no matter how big a tantrum you throw.
The moment I get bored of watching you demean youself in public by following me around, I can click “block” and never hear of you again, because you’ll never do anything except LARP.
It’s a useful enough shorthand when discussing them as a group.
Neoliberals have created managed democracies the world over and these ideologies are the crumbs we get in exchange for making rich people richer.
What good is a Democratic party that doesn’t even offer that? Their entire platform would be functionally “better to have corporations writing laws than fascist bigots writing laws”, all to gain 12 votes from boomers who don’t went to acknowledge their grandchilds pronouns.
Even assuming they wanted to, where are they going to do that? On a multi-million dollar, for-profit news network that has sworn themselves to their shareholders? Chinese owned TikTok? Elon’s revolutionary new social network that’s just Twitter with slurs?
America is in a very very deep hole politically and “Republicans vs Republicans Lite” isn’t remotely close to good enough.
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Can you explain what you mean by this?
Republicians are neoliberals and push neoliberalism because when it fails, it makes rich people even richer.
They pursue this with a psychopathic greed, showing open contempt for anyone crushed by their machine, because those people are either poor, middle-class or born too late to ever hold them accountable.
This is why they’re happy to share their bed with neo-nazis and idiots – it gives them the votes, power and distractions they need to keep their snouts in the trough.
The only thing they won’t tolerate is a threat to profits.
The Democrats are also neoliberals and push neoliberalism because when it fails, it makes rich people even richer.
They pursue neoliberlism with a vague air of guilt. When it comes to rewarding rich people for being rich, they’ll just do the same things with a practised frown.
Rather than pandering to fascists, they pander to progressives. This is where we get our crumbs. The healthcare system is still dogshit, but Obamacare forces slightly fewer people to eat it. Gay people can get married because it doesn’t impact the profits of anyone. Their climate policy is still going to kill us all, but it will do it a few years later.
The only thing they won’t tolerate is also a threat to profits. They’re fine with all their “progress” being watered down, repealed or simply never implemented.
But someone like Bernie Sanders having a shot at president? Just watch the left-wing politicians and media outlets effortlessly slip into bipartisanship they just can’t seem to find when citizens desperately need it.
So what are we left with if we say “Oh it’s okay, I don’t need crumbs if it’s going to make a reactionary upset, a state they’re always in”?
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Or what? You’ll shoot me over the internet? Sorry to break your delicate little heart, but this is yet another problem you can’t solve with your guns.
I’m no more afraid of you than the far-right is, no matter how big a tantrum you throw.
The moment I get bored of watching you demean youself in public by following me around, I can click “block” and never hear of you again, because you’ll never do anything except LARP.
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