And yet the United States continues to slide into fascism despite having elected Biden. What horrific Trump era policies did the Democrats even bother to repeal after they won in 2020 and held both the senate and the house?
They are still funding the construction of border wall segments. They never repealed the Republican tax cuts. They have done nothing about the concentration camps on the southern border for fuck’s sake. They never codified Roe v. Wade, we literally lost the right to abortions while Biden was in office. They could have stacked the supreme court but they didn’t.
The Democrats and the Republicans form an obfuscated one party system in the US. Republican leadership aggressively ramps up the oppression of marginalized people, then Democratic leadership does nothing to restore our rights nor proactively prevent the same thing from happening again. Instead they just use their time in office to suck all of the energy out of people’s movements that could actually effect change.
And much more importantly than all of that, Republicans and Democrats are virtually identically evil when it comes to foreign policy. When the US is dropping bombs on you and destroying your country, you’ll tend not to care whether it was a Red MAGA or Blue MAGA administration pulling the trigger.
In some specific cases it might be worthwhile to vote for Democrats in local elections where there exists much more leeway for politicians to stray from the party line, but voting for them in national elections is just lending your voice to legitimizing their bullshit good cop/bad cop routine they play with the Republicans.
Yes, that is a feature of democratic systems. Parties want to get voted in. So they bend their programs to achieve that goal. I live in Germany and here all parties are leaning further and further to the right, since the AfD (nationalist-conservative, some party members Neo-nazi) party is gaining in almost every poll.
Yes, that is a feature of *bourgeois dictatorships.
All your parties are moving right because the bourgeois-national interest demands far-right responses to capitalist decay. I wonder how many German investment bankers had their portfolios rattled by “Israel’s” instability? There is no democracy here, we’re just around to work the machines and to make sure the bloody butcher gets paid. What democracy can be found in a state tries to hide a genocide from the public? What legitimacy can a democracy have when it’s been so corrupted by a foreign power (“Israel”) who can force us to war? The democratic thing to do would be to drag those responsible for this into the street for public trial and execution.
If all that was at play here was mere democracy, we’d have an M4A candidate. The population is solidly to the left of either party on the majority of issues, but they get no voice because liberal democracy is an exercise in choosing between the options that capitalists have picked for you.
Your bubble is.
This is much less snappy than it is grammatically ambiguous.
Let me rephrase: “Your echochamber is”
Could I interest you in adding a direct object to the sentence?
Your bubble/echo-chamber is solidly to the left of either party on the majority of issues. The bulk of the population is mostly fine with or approving of a right-shift in media policy.
The bulk of the population doesn’t give a shit about any of this lol
I don’t know what you’re on about wrt “media policy” but I’m not saying Americans are communists. It’s been demonstrated in survey after survey that social-democratic positions are generally the most popular.
Hear hear!!! My sentiments exactly! Thanks for putting it into words better than I could have.
