• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      At the height of the presidential election campaign, I got down voted for pointing out at Fetterman and Tulsi Gabbard as examples that there are Democrats who flip, because they rail on “vote blue no matter who”. After Trump won his second term, I don’t see those die-hard types anymore. They finally admit that the Democratic party is compromised through and through, and that only a progressive takeover of the party will solve the problems that arose.

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        23 days ago

        The problem is people are trying to beat republicans by being just like them. Republicans stand or kill their own. That created Trump, dems want to do the samething. Normal people need to start running again and need support.

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          The days of trying to court both sides and moderates have long gone past. It now requires more radical changes. If Democrats indeed want to win again, they have to go further left. The Republicans have rightly deduced that people want drastic change so they are unafraid to go further right (probably also because of influence from the Tea Party movement). Democrats need to go more populist like the Republicans have.

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            If Democrats indeed want to win again, they have to go further left.

            The basic problem is that the Democratic Party isn’t at all inclined to go left. The people who run it and fund it want a centre-right party to be the only alternative to the far-right party. Left-wing politics doesn’t funnel the money to where they want it to be. So the best they can do is tease people with a vague promise of progressivism, in order to win votes, but with no real intention or commitnent to deliver on it.

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    23 days ago

    His noggin seems to be fully healed after his stroke: he’s now a fully-functional politician once again, with perfectly working lying, backstabbing, flip-flopping and sycophantic brain functions.

    Wish we all had access to this level of healthcare so we could all go back to performing our job to the fullest of our abilities like he does.

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      He ran around calling himself progressive and talking about all the progressive stuff the country needs…

      But all it took was a stroke and a little brain damage for him to go full maga, now he honestly and repeatedly says he doesn’t understand why people ever thought he was progressive.

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        I think the brain damage made him forget that he was willfully lying about being progressive.

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    This, ladies and gentlemen, is what grievance politics leads to. Cenk*, Anna, Fetterman, Dore, etc, when you think of criticism as competition to get to the top, or you think of one person’s success as a lack of your own, the only path is towards right wing grift.

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    Does anybody know the political leanings of his healthcare team after that stroke? Did they influence his fractured mind as it was healing? I wonder if ‘stroke’ is the new doublespeak word for reconditioning at a CIA black site.

    spoiler

    /jokes for the too-serious minded.

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    This is what happens when liberals VBNMW and ignore the shot they did in their past.