Honestly I don’t know what’s going on in the USA. You’re so proud of your “democracy and freedom” yet one of your 2 political parties is able to effectively dismantle the entire thing in less than a decade. You’re now one election away from being a christofascist state.
…and yet you’re all just going to work tomorrow. You’re all doing pretty much nothing except “make sure you vote in 2024.” So I guess every 4 years you’re going to be one election away from a literal Nazi takeover?
I don’t know. Riot or something. I have no idea how you’re all coping so hard.
The GOP has been working in this direction for forty years. If you think this just started with Trump you have not been paying attention.
I’d add a couple more decades on that, GOP’s degradation roots in 1950s during Eisenhower/Nixon and was later cemented by Nixon/Spiro. The Southern Strategy and “Silent Majority” with increasingly crypto racism were all Nixon hallmarks. Reagan built on them in the 80s and things have only got more extreme with modern right wing media in the 90s of course, but it all roots back to those early post-WWII years when so many things changed.
The influence of Newt Gingrich on American politics can’t be understated. He may not have started the dirty tricks and aimless obstructivism, but he codified the tactics and brought them mainstream in the nineties.
Ooof this makes the democratics seem like they are in on it or just really horrible at policy making to stop it
They are absolutely terrible at policy, especially with the moderate and right wing pleasing neoliberals in power. They’re useless.
Unfortunately the other choice is unbridled fascism.
so they have to make do with bridled fascism then 😂
You mean the establishment Democratic Party that, after Carter got elected, modified its primary rules to weaken the infuence of the public? That Democratic party?
We have a few left-wing Democrats, and the rest of the party reminds them they’re the red-haired stepchildren of the party every chance they get. Pelosi started forcing Occasio-Cortez to play ball on the regular, that is vote against her left-wing values to keep her positions, to get her used to the idea of selling out.
The party is corporate owned, largely by IP interests like Disney and Sony, but by capitalists in whole who are just as invested in the system of bonded servitude as the Republicans. For most matters, they’re still going to back the blue against the unions, the immigrants and the minorities. But they’ll wear a rainbow pin on their lapel while they do.
We vote for them because thats how FPTP elections work: one-person-one-vote means we vote against the popular monster by voting for the other popular guy. And no we can’t get a public-serving government out of it.
Forty years? Brother, you think this shit just magically started in 1983?!
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It’s interesting to me that both sides constantly cry about a lack of progress from their own side due to a 40 year build up of the other side slowly taking ground. I don’t have a clever overview on what’s actually going on, I just see two opposing teams both saying the same thing about the other and giving the same time frame for their claims against their opponents.
Republicans are 100% worse than Democrats. Dems are after money, republicans are after controlling the populace.
That would be because for the people in power, the parties are just a giant red herring to distract the American people from what is really going on: massive accumulation of wealth.
And at this point, enough wealth is accumulated to make the position of the powerful nearly unassailable. It doesn’t matter who wins politically, the powerful will still make their money.