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[–] 87 points 1 year ago (22 children)

*Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a high-profile progressive, said he believes "the most effective pushback to Trump's unconstitutional actions is to model a reverence for the Constitution and the rule of law."

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I think it’s fair to call the democrats the Conservative Party. The republicans are regressives, certainly. But the people plead for systemic change, and the democrats are just trying to conserve the same failed order that got us to this point.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I see them as basically leaning super hard into white man's burden type racism and imperialism except they've replaced it with american and western capitalist burden so it's less obviously racist and they can feel even more smug and superior to the rest of humanity

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    The theoretical roots of the US political divide goes back to: "We should kill all the natives because they're racially inferior" vs "As a progressive, the natives are only culturally inferior, and if we destroy their culture and force them to adopt ours at gunpoint, we can make them civilized." Underneath it all, that's who they each are.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The Republicans think the constitution was written by god himself and Democrats think they can combat that with American Civil Religion.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh? Did I miss this or forget?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    First of all, this shit isn't unconstitutional. That's up to the Supreme court and they seem fine with it. Second, we have the premiere bourgeois constitution. That thing isn't doing shit for me. The bill of rights we're all supposed to love is just a list of things the state can't do on your behalf.

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