Even so, I’m not sure I can agree that the best solution to dealing with the right is to fight the centrists first
We aren’t able to use electoralism to fight the right as long as the political platform and messaging of the democratic party is 95% the same as the republican’s.
The criticisms of the dem party don’t amount to “let the right win”, they amount to “the DNC prevents any political resistance to the right, they either need to be coup’d or destroyed if we want to stop the right from winning”
Blaming the people for the predictable effects of the dem’s actions deflects away from only entity that had the power to change the outcome and the only entity that will have the power to change this in 2026.
It’s not constructive to go “Damn, I sure wish genocide didn’t decrease turnout for the dems”
Just like in 2016, the dems deluded themselves into blaming the voters (specifically black people and/or the left) and bernie sanders instead of themselves, and we are watching them do it again in real time.
Biden sent Netanyahu every weapon he was allowed to, and had the military protecting Israel.
If the Biden admin didn’t want Netanyahu to do this, they could have just not actively supported his efforts to do so.
This was obvious to everyone from the beginning.
Even blue MAGA were doing “But you still need to vote biden, even if the dems never stop facilitating genocide” since Oct 8th, because deep down, they understood the dems wouldn’t listen, even if it was going to cost them the election.
I voted, but I have no power to change the outcome of the election. Only the democrats had this power, the blame lies only with them.
Genocide lowers turnout. Saying you’re going to appoint republicans to your cabinet lowers turnout. Pledging to shut down the border and build the wall lowers turnout. Means testing all of your campaign promises lowers turnout. Running tough-on-crime campaign ads raises turnout FOR THE REPUBLICANS!
We’ve been yelling that the dems will lose if they continue to go right for the last 4 years, but the dems either chose to move to the right on every issue either knowing it would lower their performance, or ignorant because blue maga like you helped shield them from the reality unfolding infront of all of us. I don’t know which is more damning.
They’ve been saying that for the last year. And bombing the west bank. Hell they bombed Bethlehem on Christmas.
The democrats can not fail, they can only be failed.
That’s a damn lie. Oysters being hollow give them a perfect crunch, crackers you crush just instantly turn to cardboard
It should, but it absolutely isn’t.
Despite being a video-essay channel, this channel has good economic analysis of the conflict.
tl;dr current indicators suggest they will continue to increase production as they build domestic production to deal with sanctions, but if it continues for more than a couple more years, it will decrease 10 year growth projections.
Dick Cheney, aghast that Americans could allow someone as Islamophobic as Trump to represent them.
If you understand it as a trial where a president who has done something wrong is held accountable according to the law, then no that’s idealist nonsense.
If you understand it as a mechanism that allows 50+ senators to replace the president with the VP if they want to, yes.
Their role is entirely dependent on maintaining the cult of personality and calling for the blood of those who are accused of dysloyalty.
You’re not looking at this from a systemic perspective.
Their role is winning their own elections. Everything else must be secondary, since if it wasn’t they’d be replaced by someone else who does.
I’m talking about the people who run the machinery of the evil empire that turns the suffering and continued immiseration of billions into profits for the shareholders of the most destructive companies, I’m not under any impression that these people have morals I can recognize.
The US party system is extremely effective at keeping threats to capital out of power.
The country is 3 corporations in a trenchcoat. If Trump threatened the corporations those same republicans campaigns need to get elected, those republicans would have to either lose their seats or get rid of Trump.
How many of those senators depend on MIC lobbying to keep their seats?
There’s lines a president can’t cross, threatening the jobs 50+ senators is one of them.
Successfully removed from office, not the ceremonial bullshit the dems do for the aesthetic.
Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before?
In the US? The closest you’d get is JFK, if you think Allen Dulles was behind the assassination, and not just the coverup.
Outside the US? Constitutional coups after a country goes against US interests happen so frequently that it’s not even noteworthy.
What would that do, exactly?
Replace Trump with JD Vance, who I’m sure will be more amenable to the interests of the capitalist class.
Trump would be impeached if he tried. You think Raytheon and Boeing can’t buy enough congressmen to impeach him?
People elect representatives to represent them, not to compromise and pass the opposition’s agenda.
It’s forgivable if the representative failed to obtain enough power, but if they have literally any means at their disposal and don’t use it, an unwillingness to use all the power the people gave them to do what they elected them to do is a betrayal of those people.