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[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The real problem was the Democratic party making tactically poor move after tactically poor move. They were too obsessed with imperial support of Israel to do the right thing for US interests and the voters. They were too "anti-communist" to consider not banning TikTok and alienating younger voters. They were willing to cede the narrative to the right constantly. They refused to give the left any progressive policy goals to chew on despite us yelling about how much all of this would fuck with turnout.

For the past 2 years, they thought corporate ads and ultraconservative libs would win the election, when that wasn't what helped them in the midterms, hasn't been the playbook in decades, and was just what let them hang out with their "good ole Republican friends" who they really wish they could ally with like in the 90s. It was a load of interpersonal bullshit, purposefully engineered by the ruling class to ensure the Democratic leadership would never sacrifice capitalism for liberal democracy's sake.

I'm tired and disgusted of this "blame the left" narrative, especially since plenty of liberals could tell that this was the Democrat's biggest issue for quite a while. They never did anything to address it because the fix wasn't easy. They went with the easy solution and expected voters to pick up the slack. That's not how electoral politics works; Lazy, irresponsible bastards

[–] andybytes@programming.dev -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The last time I voted and did what the liberal told me to do. I elected a president who committed genocide. This whole back and forth with this is just very frustrating because if you really break it all down how the United States is set up, how our electoral processes work, I mean the power of the executive branch nowadays we're not really a democracy. Corporations have captured our government. There's this lady who is a exCIA analyst and she has a book called How Civil War Start and How to Stop Them. Her name is Barbara Walters. She refers to the United States as not a democracy. She is more successful and smarter than me and you.

Joe didn't commit genocide, but he did provide the ability and protection for the genociders, which is honestly worse in some ways. America wasn't a proper democracy; mostly a liberal empire where people have no say beyond if they get burnt, or thrown into hell.

The local level was where we could've built democracy this entire time, but building up that way for the long game is difficult and wouldn't have delivered the material changes very quickly. The executive was ensured it would become a dictatorship because the legislature was so incapable of doing basic maintenance thanks to the ever increasing push by the right to achieve anarcho-capitalism at the cost of the very empire that gave liberalism its power.

The capitalists were a bunch of gremlins in an imperial machine who didn't know how good they had it. Some get to do what they want now, but they're losing more power than they realize, as now America won't be the big bad empire it was when they started. Many have assumed it's capitalism that's the monolithic evil of history, but if you really look at the realities of the past, if you really look at the realities of America and the USSR, you'll realize that capitalism was always but a minor force. Empires are the greatest evil in human history, not that Capitalism is better, but it just can't reach the same level.