Here’s a fact: the corporate/neoliberal Democrats are more afraid of AOC and Bernie than they are of Trump. Fascism may not be their first choice but it’s preferable to what those two promise for them. They already sabotaged Bernie once – just like Starmer and co. sabotaged Corbyn in the UK – and they’ll continue to do anything and everything to try and scupper their progress. Even if it means more fascism. The ones doing this are as responsible for fascism as Trump is and they’re not your friends. mastodon.social/@Bellison22/11…
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Here’s a fact: the corporate/neoliberal Democrats are more afraid of AOC and Bernie than they are of Trump. Fascism may not be their first choice but it’s preferable to what those two promise for them. They already sabotaged Bernie once – just like Starmer and co. sabotaged Corbyn in the UK – and they’ll continue to do anything and everything to try and scupper their progress. Even if it means more fascism. The ones doing this are as responsible for fascism as Trump is and they’re not your friends. mastodon.social/@Bellison22/11…
💥💥💥💥💥 Via Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too)."
All the main parties are funded by big corporations. It's they who the parties work for. The differences in the parties are just like different brands of the same product in my opinion, promising different things but basically doing the same thing.
Foreign policy does not change regardless of which party is in power.
We need to get corporate influence out of politics.
in France, the historian Johann Chapoutot released "Les irresponsables" (The irresponsible ones. Who brought Hitler to power? There is a very relevant interview about Chapoutot on the French media Blast on YouTube. The CC option might help. gallimard.fr/catalogue/les-irr…
Un consortium libéral-autoritaire, tissé de solidarités d’affaires, de partis conservateurs, nationalistes et libéraux, de médias réactionnaires et d’élites traditionnelles, perd tout soutien populaire : au fil des élections, il passe de presque 50 %…
FYI, I have never voted Tory in life. Labour, Lib Dem, Green in the past, whoever has the best chance of keeping the Tory candidate out.
The reason the left keeps falling apart is there is often a complete lack of any pragmatic ruthlessness to get it over the line and get into power. If you lose the election you have nothing.
@BlurryBits Likely because they know the moment they do the media would cast them as unelectable and the Democrats would start on their “splitting the vote” rhetoric.
The media was very much complicit in killing Bernie’s campaign, particularly what passes as the liberal media (NYT, CNN, MSNBC). Chris Matthews famously attacked him as a dangerous communist, warning that his administration would have firing squads in Central Park for people like himself. And this was before all of them caved to Trump.
There is no left mainstream media. The leftist (moderate, in my view) positions are only covered by independent journalism.
@BlurryBits Also interesting to remember that Obama rose as an underdog candidate propelled by grass roots organizing campaign. But then he betrayed those people by dismantling the apparatus as soon as he was elected. Literally pulled up the ladder that empowered the people.
@BlurryBits First-past-the-post electoral rules make it impossible for a third party candidate to win. So the best a third party candidate can achieve is to influence policy positions.
They sabotaged Bernie twice. Are you thinking of when he was clearly much popular than Biden? California also accidentally lost ballot boxes when he was running against Hillary Clinton.
Lydia Conwell
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •All the main parties are funded by big corporations. It's they who the parties work for. The differences in the parties are just like different brands of the same product in my opinion, promising different things but basically doing the same thing.
Foreign policy does not change regardless of which party is in power.
We need to get corporate influence out of politics.
Aral Balkan
in reply to Lydia Conwell • • •rob
in reply to Lydia Conwell • • •freediverx
in reply to rob • • •Lydia Conwell
in reply to rob • • •JBouchez
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •There is a very relevant interview about Chapoutot on the French media Blast on YouTube. The CC option might help.
gallimard.fr/catalogue/les-irr…
Les irresponsables
GallimardDavid Grieve
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I would agree that Corbyn was 'sabotaged' by all sort of people, but not least by himself.
He was his own worst enemy electeroly. The main thing he achieved was a prolonged period of Tory rule effectively unopposed.
Aral Balkan
in reply to David Grieve • • •freediverx
in reply to David Grieve • • •I see our Brit cousins have their own version of BlueMAGA.
David Grieve
in reply to freediverx • • •@freediverx
I don't even know what that means.
FYI, I have never voted Tory in life. Labour, Lib Dem, Green in the past, whoever has the best chance of keeping the Tory candidate out.
The reason the left keeps falling apart is there is often a complete lack of any pragmatic ruthlessness to get it over the line and get into power. If you lose the election you have nothing.
Blurry Bits Photography
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •And why they arent breaking from the DNC and forming a new party just mystifies me at this point.
They would gut half the dems by the midterms..
Aral Balkan
in reply to Blurry Bits Photography • • •Blurry Bits Photography
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •freediverx
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •The media was very much complicit in killing Bernie’s campaign, particularly what passes as the liberal media (NYT, CNN, MSNBC). Chris Matthews famously attacked him as a dangerous communist, warning that his administration would have firing squads in Central Park for people like himself. And this was before all of them caved to Trump.
There is no left mainstream media. The leftist (moderate, in my view) positions are only covered by independent journalism.
Blurry Bits Photography
in reply to freediverx • • •@freediverx But that's my point. "They'll be attacked by the media" is so much a non-answer when it comes to these two.
Ralph Nader, Ross Perot, Ron Paul, Jill Stein.
All disruptors. None of them filled arenas in hostile territory. Not like these two.
We've never seen a legitimate off-party candidate in my lifetime. And I just don't buy it's impossible.
But, it needs to be populist.
freediverx
in reply to Blurry Bits Photography • • •Also interesting to remember that Obama rose as an underdog candidate propelled by grass roots organizing campaign. But then he betrayed those people by dismantling the apparatus as soon as he was elected. Literally pulled up the ladder that empowered the people.
Blurry Bits Photography
in reply to freediverx • • •freediverx
in reply to Blurry Bits Photography • • •First-past-the-post electoral rules make it impossible for a third party candidate to win. So the best a third party candidate can achieve is to influence policy positions.
無 Mu
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻
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