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The "lesser-evil" party. The lesser part maybe true but so is the evil part.
The lesser part maybe true but so is the evil part.
Always has been, otherwise it wouldn't be called the "lesser-evil" party, it'd be called the "good" party.
We've known for decades (and I do mean everyone by 'we', I'm not even American) that the democrats are also corporate bootlickers. It's just that their policies tend to be less anti-human generally. For a while, it was clear: Vote dem, get some consumer protections and slow improvements in healthcare, LGBT rights, etc. Vote republican, get every good thing repealed and new anti-consumer, anti-lgbt, anti-healthcare legislation introduced. Now the dems want to cater to the right for votes and the "lesser" part of "lesser evil" is starting to diminish. They're still the lesser evil, but they're also more in the way of true progress than ever.
They're really gonna fuck him like Sanders huh
Nice, I think this is the most honest confirmation that Mamdani is in fact the best candidate.
Why even have primaries??
To undermine the actual elections.
If they don't respect the candidate elected in the primaries, then the party has to go. I ain't voting blue no matter who any more. I fell for that these last 3 elections and look how far that took us.
I am so sick of seeing people abuse the word "tremendous" like this following in asshat's footsteps, but at least it's a nice, straightforward way for me to identify people to hit with a baseball bat if I can ever get away with it.
Democratic leadership is controlled opposition, there's no other way to say it
Even Jon Stewart said it this past Monday.
Just like the Republican factions in The Spanish Civil War attacking each other for having the wrong ideology while the Fascists tightened their grip.
Was one of the Spanish Republican factions fascist?
With a wide brush you can paint the picture like this: The Republicans were left wing communists (or at least they wanted a democratic republic) and the Nationalists were right wing fascists.
Nationalists won and they had a dictator (Franco) in Spain from 1939 to 1975.
But why would he be in the fascist lite party to begin with?
Because independents don't get elected
The endless loop of self defeating thinking.
Plenty of parties start with a few percent and then grow.
Yet the banana republic keeps fooling itself with this BS and delude themselves they can fix this party.
Really shouldn't complain then, you get what you deserve.
No sympathy here.
Plenty of parties start with a few percent and then grow.
In a FPTP election system? OK, let's hear it. What are some parties that grew to power under FPTP elections.
I don't live in your banana republic, I'm talking about the rest of the world where they have at least semi-democratic elections and where the public aren't pacified pussied resigning in their fate.
But probably your navelstaring shithole is unaware of that since americans generally 'think you're all that exists and your ridiculous joke system is the pinnacle of democracy.
Well carry on and suffer while going down the shitter, it's a gift to the world anyway.
Its clear that Democrats are now the center (maybe center-right) party and there is no mainstream liberal party in the US
I think the last one was probably Bill Clinton? Pretty much since 9/11, America has moved towards the right and continues to do so. The Overton window had shifted so much for America over the last few decades.
Clinton was just as much a neoliberal as Reagan. He gets a pass though because was charismatic and was the president during the dot-com boom/bubble.
I think the last one was probably Bill Clinton?
Clinton kicked off the whole mess with his constant triangulation.
have been for quite some time now
My friends from Canada have been saying this since the Obama years
The Hillarycrats Ride Again!
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