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Edited to add - To be clear for anyone, it's Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)

Someone reminded me that I was using dogwhistle parlance in my use of they which may have suggested otherwise.

Here are some visual aids to accompany my clarification:

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 hours ago (8 children)

Surely it's the opposing team in the political theater that is to blame

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

Left: "We should have socialized healthcare, education, and housing."

Right: "We should have rent-seeking in healthcare, education, and housing."

You: "Both sides are the same."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Left: “We should have socialized healthcare, education, and housing.”

I mean, there's The Left[Hakeem Jefferies/Gavin Newsom] and The Left[Bernie Sanders/JD Pritsker/Jeremy Corbyn] and then The Left[the DSA kids distributing food and fresh clothing to my nearby homeless encampment]. These are three very different flavors of American Left.

You: “Both sides are the same.”

A big part of the problem with liberal democratic politics is how deeply co-opted all these parties have become. At the end of the day, John Thune and Chuck Schumer, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer, Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre all bend the knee to Jamie Diamon and Jeff Bezos and Muhammad bin Salmon.

Wish it weren't so, but that's the world we live in.

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