Wes4Humanity

Oh to be young and feel every new personal discovery so viscerally!

Ah yes... The 9/11 approach to "investigating"

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."

I think we're probably playing it a little fast and loose with the word "rich" here. Boomers were raised by people who steadfastly believed in the system, in a time after the new deal when the system was still actually helping people. (Broad straight white strokes, I know.) They are also pig headed as a generation, and changing their beliefs (like from, the system is working, to, the system is not working) is hard for them. So they were easily tricked into selling out the future for their own meager gain. They were still victims though, and I don't think anyone would say the majority of them got rich from the housing stuff. Just comparatively to how shitty their kids are doing. At least the article is pointing towards "the rich," just not the real ones. It's about dividing the peasants as usual.

Thanks... What did this guy do? Did he get to unilaterally make this call? (Serious, I have no idea how France works).

"Democratic collapse nowadays isn’t a matter of abolishing elections and declaring oneself dictator, but rather stealthily hollowing out a democratic system so it’s harder and harder for the opposition to win. This strategy requires full control over the state and the bureaucracy: That means having the right staff in the right places who can use their power to erode democracy’s core functions."

The establishment Dems and Reps have been doing this for decades. Trump is just the last straw. He's walking away with the monster they created and he's probably going to let it off the leash.

The only question I have is whether the oligarchy wants him to do that. Imo they weren't ready for it last time. They built the monster for someone controllable like Clinton or Jeb!, and I think they were actually surprised when Trump won the first time. This time they made him a nice little play book, and they've had some time to learn how to at least keep him pointed in the right direction, if not controlled. They might be ready to release the monster they created. Everyone will blame Trump too, instead of the oligarchy... Bonus.

They'd need a solidly progressive platform... The individuals matter less than the goals... Leave guns and abortion on the table for later... Stick to all the things we mostly all agree on. Keep the messaging simple too... "Life sucks. It sucks because you don't have enough money...YOU deserve to be making more money for whatever you are doing. The corporations and billionaires are taking YOUR money, and we're going to take it back and give it to you"... Maybe follow up with a bunch of times rich people got more at everyone else's expense.

To be fair, Republicans don't go after them either... And the people who aren't Democrats always "make them lose", if everyone was a Democrat, they'd always win everything (okay, they'd probably still figure out a way to lose, but I hope you get my point)

Okay, but my point remains unchanged

Except quite a few voted last time and then not this time... So we know they do vote sometimes

Part of me thinks Bernie never really wanted to be president, I think he thinks he can do more good as a senior senator pushing the DNC left while trying to stop the right from whatever evil they're planning this week, and maybe he can, but so far that hasn't worked very well. If he and the squad broke ties with the DNC and started their own party, and were able to pull enough of the left off the couch and away from the DNC to make the DNC the "spoiler" that needed to "fall in line or else Trump wins" that would be the best imo

It would be relatively easy to take over the DNC (and the state and local parties), but very few people outside the establishment know how politics within the party works