• J Lou@mastodon.social
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    If the Republicans are going to call the Democrats communists and socialist regardless of how moderate a campaign Democrats run, Democrats might as well lean further left on economic policy. Appealing to the right does nothing because the right can appeal to the right better than the center-left can

    @leftism

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      None of that will work anymore. The far right owns the house, the senate, the government enforcement agencies, and the Supreme Court. We’re nearing the end of the monopoly game and you don’t get anything extra for landing on free parking. The restraints for any of the rich and powerful just got taken off.

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      This assumes the dems have any interest in actually improving the lives of Americans.

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      Which is precisely why they don’t. They don’t exist to threaten the establishment, they are part of it, and are there to provide the illusion of choice so that the public feel like we’re helping while those in power do whatever they need to at our expense to keep that power. Playing by the rules and within the systems they have set out for us can and will only ever maintain the status quo.

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        This makes sense if one has never been in any sort of leadership role or public-facing organization before.

        It’s true in very narrow senses which are stretched to breaking because really it isn’t true.