Speak softly, but carry a big stick.
You may not agree with it, but it's an undeniable fact police won't hesitate to attack peaceful unarmed protesters
But all it takes is a couple guys larping in a vest and carrying a rifle before they'll let the crowd do whatever they want.
Cops are cowards, they don't want the smoke.
These leaders do so by finding different targets to blame for the inequality. Left-wing, populist backsliders, for example, will blame corporations and economic leaders. Right-wing, ethno-nationalist backsliders might nurture grievances by blaming outsiders or immigrants.
The difference is one of those groups is using facts and logic to correctly identify the problem...
Like, I couldn't get over the cognitive dissonance of the author that those two were equally bad.
Who the fuck else should we blame beside corporations and economic leaders for economic inequality?
You want me to go yell at the tooth fairy that poor kids get less under their pillow?
Ideally they would have gotten into campaign finance deregulation allowing the wealthy to buy both parties...
“It probably comes as a result, to some degree, of a period of globalization and deregulation, of neoliberalism in the 1990s and even earlier developments that have changed party systems—in a lot of countries—in the post-war period,” she says.
But I guess that's close enough. It's like they knew the answer but were too scared to say it
His rationale for turning republican is that he’s had a sudden mental & cognative decline? He’s actually admitted that?
He spent the campaign before the stroke talking about how progressive he was and progressive policy was the only path forward...
After the stroke and election, he openly admits to not understanding why people would ever think he's progressive...
Either he's lying and it was all scam, or he legitimately doesn't remember anything about his own campaign and what he was saying during it.
Either is a good reason to kick him out of the party (and office), but Dem leadership has only cared about defending incumbents without question. Because most of the Dem leadership represent voters who don't agree with them anymore.
So if the party stops blindly defending incumbents and starts having unbiased primaries, a lot of Dem leadership will lose their personal power.
Be cautious of any political organization that insists their members throw away all individual values and just conform to the party's values.
It's the moral lesson of the vast majority of Dr Who villains, but especially the Cybermen
Democrats need to do better.
Good to see moderates finally realizing we need higher standards than the letter after a name
Anybody hear absolutely anything from Greg Connelly?
Remember just a few weeks ago Pelosi threw her weight behind him to block AOC because she swore a septigenarian actively battling throat cancer would be a better spokesperson to lead the Oversight Committee?
He does have a quote in the article, but it also points out he missed the window to call musk to testify as part of normal procedure...
We put someone in an important spot to fight fascism, and they dropped the ball and now we all pay the price.
But it was his "turn" so I guess we can't complain.
Ken Martin isn't too bad, and I hope we see some real change out of the DNC under his leadership.
I'm fine giving them some time to see it tho, if O'Malley had won I'd be pushing for a third party right now.
The inauguration during which the White House released a series of scheduled preemptive pardons for Biden’s immediate family?
Which is why Biden doesn't care about the rest of us...
His "us" or in-group doesn't include Americans at large, which is why he didn't do well with dem voters. As long as his immediately family was gonna be ok, he's not worried about the rest of us.
Like, not to get too into the weeds, but the reason political leaning can be identified with an ~80% accuracy with just a brain scan is people with a larger pre-frontal cortex are overwhelmingly more likely to vote D.
That includes the part responsible for that whole "empathy" thing in the first place.
"Bleeding heart lib" isn't just some saying republicans and moderates use to shit on progressives, empathy is the largest identifiable trait of Dem voters.
When the candidate doesn't reflect that, it results in lower Dem turnout.
And it's also one of the first areas of the brain to suffer from the completely normal signs of aging we'll all go thru if we're lucky to live long enough.
Which is why Republican voters are more likely to support geriatric candidates compared to Dems. Losing prefrontal cortex functionality doesn't change anything republican voters care about.
Like, there's real-world facts and data to back up how the current DNC has been doing the wrong things, it's not just an unfounded opinion because I don't like neoliberals on a personal level.
It's just explaining all this goes over most heads.
and this is only month #1
For some people it is.
Others reached that line earlier.
A lot of those people are still regular dem voters and have been for decades, despite the disillusionment.
Rather than fight with them, why not join them?
Why not solidify the left?
Luckily I have a lot of faith in Ken Martin and am optimistic he'll allow for fair primaries and the DNC will keep it's finger off the scale.
I think Republicans will lose the slim House majority, maybe even the Senate.
But your question was vague, so I had to assume what exactly you meant.
Anyways that was completely unrelated to the comment you replied to...
I'm trying to help you understand an important topic and path to beating fascism, but if you're just gonna try vauge gotcha questions and want a slap fight...
My time is likely better spent elsewhere I'm afraid.
Moderates:
The problem with Republicans is their blind support of trump, they'll always vote R!
Also moderates, often in the same breath:
The problem with Democrats is they want to hold politicians to a higher standard, instead of blindly voting D!
Rational people pay attention to unarmed peaceful protestors...
But the people in power aren't rational, and the boots on the ground attack if protestors are unarmed...
Vests and rifles are going to be necessary optics at protests for the foreseeable future.
Quick edit:
Obligatory, "I think my draco might be gay"