Anyone paying attention to political history in the US knows it is an inherent function of the party. Liberals have always been the gatekeepers of capital, always placing a firewall between the left and structural change.
They prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and slogans
3 days ago by SaltyAmerican to c/latestagecapitalism
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SaltyAmerican 5 points 2 days ago
davel 10 points 17 hours ago
Those weren’t passed by voting Blue no matter who, but by organizing, unionizing, striking, protesting, and threatening revolt.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. If you don’t threaten politicians’ careers, they will ignore your please.
Unless of course you have the capital to by favor, which capitalists have and do.
Schoolhouse Rock and The West Wing have endumbened us all.
BrainInABox 8 points a day ago
They sure as shit weren't passed by mindless loyalty to the Democratic party
Ensign_Crab 5 points a day ago
And I thought that coasting on the 15 year old ACA was a stretch. The party is not the party of LBJ any longer. It's the party of Netanyahu.
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While I won’t argue that this has often been the role of the Democratic Party, and I have no doubt that it is a priority of the current party leadership, it is not an inherent function of the party. With our current electoral system, it is inevitable that our politics will be dominated by two parties. Republicans are the worse choice of the two on literally every single issue, including being less open than Democrats to changes to the electoral system itself. The solution, as leftists, is not to abandon the Democratic Party, but rather to take it over from within and elect party leadership focused on real change and not upholding the status quo. This approach is much more feasible and potentially much faster than trying to build a new party from the ground up, and much less destructive and painful for the people than violent revolution and the civil war that would likely ensue.
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