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Lol. Lmao. (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rigueur said, "One of the things that Bernie Sanders has been saying since at least 2014 has been about how the Democratic party, if it wants to keep these coalitions, needs to talk about bread-and-butter issues. It needs to talk about politics."

maybe-later-honey “Excuse me sweaty, but being the adult in the room means knowing that the only path forward is to get politics out of politics.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Get politics out of politics" is actually a pretty good description of the Neoliberal project. Move more and more things out of the domain of politics and into the domain of economics so that they're not subject to popular control, but can also be portrayed as natural, just the way things are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Also the framing that politics and economics are two separate realms and the two shall not meet.