politics

Is not that they don’t know.

All of them know.

The moderate Democrat politicians know they are a doormat for the corporate donor class. They refuse to enact meaningful change because then they lose their corporate donor money (and they’d have to do real work.)

MAGA politicians know they are betraying America to be a doormat for Donald Trump. They refuse to stand up to him because then they lose their billionaire donor money/Trump pardon protection (and they’d have to grow a conscience).

Our government has been captured by dejected cynics and sadistic sociopaths who only work for and represent people with a lot of money.

You have a party that is desperate to go back to a past utopia that never existed and another that is determined to maintain a status quo that absolutely failed.

Failure? Pretty sure the oligarchy is getting exactly what they want.

What failure? They've done their job perfectly as controlled opposition. The real failure is people expecting anything else from them.

In my long study of history there is always a tipping point. 1789, 1840, 1905, 1917 - people just took power back, or made a serious effort to do the same. Not that it was perfect either. The history of humanity is one of struggle against the elites.

In the case of the US, corporations being recognised as actual living, breathing human beings only made revolution a certainty. The only question is when? I'm an old fart, so I hopefully won't be around to see the inevitable chaos.

They've been able to effectively convince the k-hive that it wasn't their failure; that it was the failure of voters. Those convinced of this narrative are the biggest threat to being able to stop fascism using electoral or other tools.

The Democrats are a capital party just like the Republicans. We do not have a labor party in the US. Fascists and racists have their Republican Party, but liberals only have the lesser evil. There is no loyalty. We need a third party to represent labor. The two party/winner take all system is a fucking joke.

One thing that really sucks about today's world is that everything seems too big to fail.

Shitty car dealers? Sorry can't remove them. Shitty banks? Sorry too powerful. Shitty cable? Sorry it's the only option. Shitty cellular? Sorry only service. Shitty political party? Sorry other option is worse.

Capitalism has a way of squeezing everything into a few hands where we are basically fucked once it reaches the end stage.

The problem is that during the run up you seem to get better service / value as it's fighting for the top spot, but once there you are totally fucked.

Democratic socialista need to change their name to the labor party and start championing Bernie's message of the past 40 years. Appealing to people on the right and left

They know. They just insist that their ideology is all that matters and everyone should just "shut up and follow" and somehow it will all work out. This is what established politicians (read as in this case: establishment democrats/career politicians) standby. We know this doesn't work.

This is why people need to start voting for actual progressives. Look at what they say versus what they vote for. Compared to who is challenging them.

Then match it with the outcomes of those voted on policies. Is it so hard? Because I know a good amount of people can't seem to even bother.

Add in the bit of, "how do you know the challenger will actually be faithful on their promises?". Well, clearly the status quo (aka, the same person you elect in) isn't going to make the change you want, so why keep them?

Democrats win by failing. For their corporate bankrollers.

Weird that AIPAC isn't mentioned at all in the comments.

Whoa... Big news. They're determined about something.