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It's such a laughably weak veil the rich pull over people's eyes I'm surprised more folks don't figure this out.
It's sickening to watch the rich people play their game with no care in the world whilst the working families are struggling just to feed their themselves.
(your comment got duplicated btw)
The thing is, much of the time they are aware, but they agree that "this is how it should be". Hence the phrase temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Like, Musk has more (money) b/c he deserves more, whereas Biden had more (votes) b/c... well, don't think about that!:-P Cognitive dissonance is a bitch, especially when fueled from religious extremism that replaces critical thinking (which the Judeo-Christian Bible itself in numerous places commands to be done, but again don't think about that either) with knowledge from authority.
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The beginning step is convincing the poors to care more about "the economy" than their own lives.
They want the poor slaving away to keep raising corporate profits with a smile on their face.
It's why it's so concerning that Dems are doing it now too. They're literally the only thing standing between us and fascism, the problem is they won't stop jogging over to the fascists.
We need a party that actually fights the fascist, not just hang out on the other side of a velvet rope but still in the same club.
Gotta keep voting for progressives until it's liberals vs progressives in the national election. Then we might start seeing some meaningful change.
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For them the problem with fascism is that it is poorly marketed, rather than it being abhorrent.
Do they have a problem with it?
From the last three elections that have featured trump, it seems like the DNC loves fascism because it lets them run terrible candidates that spent decades trying to get to be president.
It's only worked 50% of the time, and a random candidate would easily win.
So to me, it looks like the DNC was just waiting for a reason to run less popular and less progressive candidates.
trump gives them an excuse to shout down anyone that wants to hold the DNC to any standard what so ever.
We see the games they play and it appals us. Unfortunately it's the only game in town. To change the game, you're not only fighting the DNC and RNC, but network effect and inertia. And some of us don't have the luxury to risk it. Even if it leads to a better world.
And some of us don’t have the luxury to risk it. Even if it leads to a better world.
To bring it back full circle:
Poverty literally rewires our brains and makes us plan on very very short timescales.
Feeling like you don't have the luxury to plan ahead is both parties playing on normal human thinking to take advantage of you.
They keep you poor, and you can't see through their bullshit.
Nothing will ever be fixed if we're always ignoring the long-term and just taking any crumbs were offered now.
We get the option of a shit sandwich or a single baloney sandwich a day.
Obviously the bologna is better, but it's not enough to live off of, we're just going to starve slower.
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