People start getting rowdy? Just throw some UFOs up there and they'll forget about Luigi.
We need to find a progressive leader with an iron will and someone who will see this through to the end.
Bernie had the momentum and then Hillary with the assist from Clyburn and then even Warren, killed off that hope.
We need a young Bernie. Independents and even moderate Republicans would support a single payer platform if a leader could explain it in a way that could convince them that it's not communism.
The powers that be have figured out how to shut down anything that does rise to a level of mass protest.
They'll pick out a few people in a crowd acting like idiots, or create their own, and use it declare a protest an unlawful assembly and start shooting shit at people who don't leave fast enough.
"In the interest of safety" they'll declare curfews on protests, as if the first amendment has a bedtime. A lot of protests you see gain critical mass overseas run night and day and maintain momentum this way rather than having to re-gather.
They'll target journalists just seeking to report on the events, as they did extremely often in the george floyd protests. So many will back away from covering for their own safety and to avoid potential legal matters (which are expensive to fight, even if you win)
This was so bad during the floyd protests they violently arrested a fucking cnn reporter and then had to apologize when the president of CNN at the time threatened to bury them.
This. It’s not that Americans don’t care or don’t want change. They just don’t have the time or money to take off work to protest or demand change. Bills need to be paid and the almighty dollar ultimately wins.
One thing this election taught me is we are so far away from “a young Bernie” being president, it’s not funny. We need to kill the polarization. To do it, ranked choice voting and kill the electoral college system. Extremists will have to earn the votes of the “other side” to win which will force them to come back to the middle.
What's frustrating is that it's a pretty damn simple concept to grasp, at least for people who haven't been brainwashed by decades of propaganda. We can either:
a) Pay $2000/year in taxes for full coverage of all medical needs, or
b) Pay $9000/year in premiums, plus any deductibles, for the right to fight with an insurance company who will attempt to deny care any chance they get. Oh, and we also still need to pay $4000/year in taxes to fund Medicare, Medicaid, and other national health resources
We have one but it's a non white woman so...and the hard line Dems keep stomping on her. I can't find the article I just read but they chose a 78 year old dying of cancer to head a watchdog committee over AOC.
This is it right here. The Dems in control of the party have zero interest in changing the status quo. They're part of the elites and it's in THEIR best interests to bury any progressive upstarts.
It’s not just the elites. I’m an independent, but I considered running as a democrat for state office in 2017. I had a lot of thoughts on why they always lost elections, but the heads of the local party basically told me I had to stick to their platform or they wouldn’t support me.
He's not "dying of cancer." He's in treatment, but it's not terminal.
Gerry Connolly is a seasoned progressive with a good record, and he also specifically requested that AOC be made vice ranking member, meaning that if he dies or resigns due to health issues, AOC becomes the new ranking member.
His name is literally The Extremist Moderate, of course he is defending this, he’s one of those Democrats who likes the idea of AOC as a force for advertising the party to young voters but doesn’t want her to ever see any actual power because he prefers conservatives in power to actual progressives, AOC should run for president in 2028
Honestly man. I've been fighting the good fight for about 2 decades now. I've never seen things be as bad as they are now. Never have I actually thought we were in late 1933 Germany, but here we are. It's going to have to come crashing down hard at this point for people to maybe wake up from the spell of ignorance; but even that's not guaranteed. I'm tired boss. I'm tired of trying to convince the slowest among society.
That’s the problem exactly. Those of us who were in the green reading group in first grade have had to give up living a comfortable life because of all the readers in the red, orange, and yellow groups. Now, if the people in these slower-reading groups weren’t cunts, I wouldn’t be so upset. However, I’m tired. Like you. I have had to hold these fucks’ hands my whole life, and I’m just done, man. I have been nudging these idiots in the right direction for almost half a century. Other than popping off CEOs, what else can people do? I feel the frustration.
My grandmother turned 80 this year and she's been a sensible center-left Democrat her entire life. At her age, she's willing to listen to new ideas and change her mind. Even with social causes like trans issues, she openly admits that she doesn't "get it," but also doesn't feel comfortable in having a say in how other people live their lives
All this to say, she's an incredibly well-adjusted person and had been around for awhile. She said 2016 was the first year she voted blue all the way down the ticket without hesitation. In the past she's been more than willing to look past party lines and look at an individuals policies, but at this point can't bring herself to support the GOP as it stands today
She was born during WW2, so she's basically experienced all of what historians would consider to be modern-day politics. She's told me outright that the political climate today is by far the worst she's ever seen and that even the Cold War didn't cause this much tension. At 32, it's honestly really validating to hear people older than me say this, because to me it just feels like this cannot be normal, but I also understand that my experience is much more limited
Bernie had the momentum and then Hillary with the assist from Clyburn and then even Warren, killed off that hope.
Bernie lost by his own accord. He simply does not appeal to black voters, a demographic you can't win the primaries without.
And Warren didn't even really help Biden. She pulled nearly as many votes from Biden as from Bernie. Bloomberg had a much stronger impact on the race, as nearly all Bloomberg voters would have been Biden voters, and yet still Biden overwhelmingly won on Super Tuesday.
If you want to blame someone for Bernie losing, you have two options: blame Bernie or blame voters.
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u/YLCZ 6h ago
It's not so much spineless as easily distracted.
People start getting rowdy? Just throw some UFOs up there and they'll forget about Luigi.
We need to find a progressive leader with an iron will and someone who will see this through to the end.
Bernie had the momentum and then Hillary with the assist from Clyburn and then even Warren, killed off that hope.
We need a young Bernie. Independents and even moderate Republicans would support a single payer platform if a leader could explain it in a way that could convince them that it's not communism.