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DeSantis rocked by Black Republican revolt over slavery comments (www.politico.com)

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The bitter fight between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Byron Donalds over a line about slavery in the state’s revised African American history standards is infuriating several prominent Black conservatives.

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[–] Drivebyhaiku 5 points 1 year ago

Boy, if you think Democrats are Marxist then you don't know your political compass. Both the Republicans use libralism as a base because both take capitalism as granted. Both are technically pro status quo just Democrats believe that they shouldn't outsource all government and federal assets to the private sector.

Actual leftist infiltration within the party are often looked at as fringe idealist dreamers who are put in places where they must tow the party line or be expelled. That's why people like Clinton and Biden got the top billing. They were in league with the banks and not going to upset the applecart.

Far leftists grow out of economic hardship just like far right people do. Just leftists don't think the way to progress is to reset the status quo back to a time where those who are unhappy now are restricted and subjugated back into being unhappy in silence for the whole cycle to begin again... The majority of leftists see Marxism as archaic and ridden with fault. A failed experiment not because the premise of it incorrectly identifying an aspect of the problem but because it was riddled with naivety, violence and a lack of compassion.

The Democrats may not be socially conservative because that's not their marketing brand but doing small systemic pressure releases like removing restrictions from things like publicly and legally acknowledged spousal rights for gay people isn't exactly dying on the hills for civil rights either. The democrats believe the beaurocratic game of democracy and capitalism just executed correctly will work. That's not left. That's basically just stalling out in the center trying to sit a fence. Calling them leftist is an insult to other the political ideologies that see libralism as a rigged game that will always snowball power unless it is kept in check. To those ideologies Democrats and Republicans are basically the same just the Republicans drank the capitalism flavor-aid and asked for a second cup. If Republicans are in charge you aren't going to fix the problem. Just attempt to subjugate disparate groups who will find greater and greater solidarity.