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Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class
(www.the-independent.com)
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She gave 10 mill to Beyoncé for an awkward rally and ignored a union to do so telling everyone she was a bad bitch. She is cooked and I’m so angry at the Dems for throwing away what should have been a landslide to please the rich idk how I feel about supporting those fools anymore. It’s just we’re in a first past the post party system which is easy to manipulate, may as well have managed democracy instead of anything good.
DNC is an enemy of the people.
Sure, they might not be starting concentration camps and sieg heiling. but the actions they have taken have directly enabled the ones who are goose stepping down Pennsylvania avenue.
In a way yeah. When you shit on the most pro working class Dems actively and don’t deliver on key promises wtf do they expect? The hypocrisy is too obvious to defend with descending into a cult mentality like maga.
DNC has repeatedly refused to listen to the demands on their voters, too, and actively sabotaged candidates the people want to try and force HRC and Harris down our throats... to a massive collective tanking that had nothing to do with their gender, and opening the door to the usurpation of America to foreign powers and money.
Overall yes. Individuals can be smart and good but the collective has failed in the name of greed and ignorance.
The "nice" style liberals have no tools to fight actual fascists. They're career politicians. They don't understand an ideological opponent.
They don't get that these people will literally demolish governments, throw us into civil wars, and poison the planet for all humanity, rather than feel their power to dominate the weak diminished by one nanoangstrom.
In FPTP, you don't have much choice but to vote against what you don't want, but I would argue that it's still important to vote, so long as that isn't all that you do.
I'm also living under FPTP, and voted "third party" because I believe a plurality of choices is beneficial, even though our conservative party was scary close to winning… but that's just how it'll always end up under FPTP: the right end will get more and more ghoulish until the centrist party is the safest vote in opposition. Together, they both suck up all the votes into the neoliberal duopoly, where neither side meaningfully challenges the underlying conditions that make life worse for increasingly large sections of people.
Anyway, of arguably greater impact than voting is actually figuring out who represents you, and letting them know what's important to you. Canvassing for candidates who you actually do support. That sort of thing.
Sorry about the little rant. I'm sure you're aware of this dynamic. I just felt compelled.
My state tried to implement it but the way the reps wrote it was so anti democratic in the fine print I voted against it. Idk if democracy is possible with reps, only tyranny and military.