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People should be allowed to exist

Social programs aren't communism

The system isn't working for the people

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I've changed my mind on this.

Let the DNC go full MAGA and when they lose, because they will lose, they get the heat and we can eject them forever. At least sit them in a corner.

Progressives, you fight if you want but I don't believe the elections will be fair so it's a win win for you.

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[–] twocupsofsugar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I don't understand, so their goal is to shift from centrists to conservatives? What is even happening right now?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

This is pathetic and embarrassing

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is just the standard blue dog democrat crap that they have been pushing for the last 30 years.

Guys I think it's finally time. To quadruple down.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago

Dear US-Americans, it is time to form a new, progressive party.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus does this country need to get off of the two party system. Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to get someone elected via the current system who’s willing buck the system that put them into power.

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[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

This is the Ratchet effect in action. Democrats did not heed the warnings about extremist right-wing propaganda spreading like wildfire. They now assume the voter basis is inherently fascist, and race to appease them.

Democrats are equally to blame for things, like the modern racist slave trade that is the "corrections" system. This puts them with the camp of critical-race-theory enemies. Many of them are transphobic as-fuck, which also puts them (partly) in the anti-gender camp.

I did not cite genocide and war-crimes in the above paragraph, because so many of you have made clear you are fine with it.

Centrists have made it clear, time and again, that they value middle-of-the-road fallacy above human lives, and they are willing to put those lives on the line to reifytheir trolley problem fetish. The centrist is someone who will literally say to Hitler "I will defend to the death your right to express your hate" and at the same time say to the trans woman "I will have to reduce your freedom of expression, because it is unpopular with my voter base, and we risk devolving into fascism".

This is how we got here. These mfers come every 4 years begging for leftist and anarchist votes, because the alternative is fascism. But they were themselves fascist the whole time, only with a broader social support. Now they lose that broader social support because 10 years of relentless, ludicrously funded propaganda have shifted the discussion 100 years back, they now bend over backwards to earn that social support again. This in unscrupulous.

In turn, it lends legitimacy to neofascism and shifts the institutional landscape even further. We should not concede one inch to anyone trying to water down human rights for political gain. Human rights are to be taken as a whole, especially at the times that the most illiterate and unnuanced fragile white masculinity reclaims racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism with renewed confidence, this is not the time to let them score popularity points.

In fact, we need to escalate. The more we trigger the fascist voter base the better. Destroy the common sense, of the equal-opportunity capitalism apologist social democrat.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

"Blue MAGA is just made up, no one is actually like that you silly progressives!"

[The DNC is literally trying to copy MAGA's ideas and rebrand it]

[–] Mud@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

A convent of dems in Virginia attempting to revive Jimmy Carter.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

We need to disband the United States. It is no longer salvageable. We need to disband the federal government entirely, grant every state full independence, and let the states form whatever new country or countries they want. By the time you get to a political system this dysfunctional, there is no saving it.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's called balkanization. And it may well happen.

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago

That's what DOGE is in the process of doing.

Personally, I think the power vacuum created by the US Federal Government will be immediately filled by megacorporations and it's going to be a long, hard, bloody fight to disentangle our entire continent from these gargantuan corporate parasites.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hard to believe this is real. If Democrats were saying not to do anything, I'd believe that. This post couldn't pour it on thicker

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