Ah the 20 upvotes to 14 down. Good ol' reliable internet.

I had meant doing both, but yeah, you're absolutely right: they figured out their preference real quick.

Working for McKinsey & Company would be a big sign of it. His time as Mayor included a bunch of business friendly and privatization of city properties and demolition of housing.

Essentially he represents the wing of the party that shows deference to corporate tech companies: which is essentially the status quo of the ruling class. He is of a similar conduit to the oligarchy that JD Vance is for the GOP.

The Democrstic party was stuck between opposing Trump and opposing leftism and categorically chose to oppose leftism. That's been the conundrum they can't figure out.

More than that. His dad is one of the translators of Antoni Gramsci to English language. He is well educated in how capitalist states use cultural hegemony to maintain power and chose to serve the ruling class interests.

Hamas being a terrorist organization.

For what it is worth the Warsaw Uprising and the Yugoslavian Partizans were also terrorist uprisings against their legal governments that were committing a (technically legal) Holocaust.

This is how they have been. Trying to change that is the type of stuff that has riled folks up about wokeness.

It isn't a great list considering the child tax credit was a provision of the american rescue plan, the pact act is a particularly small bill that targeted military veterans, and there's nothing past 2022.

Recognition of four accomplishments in two years gets buried quick by the inaction and inability of the following the next two.

There are people who consider themselves 'not a fascist' that also consider the Nuremburg Trials inhumane for having executed unrepentant Nazis. The line is intentionally blurred.

For what it is worth, Dollar Tree only has about 66,000 full-time employees. 134,000 are part time workers, so two thirds, who are not required to be given medical benefits--but are given access to pay premiums for enrollment in the company insurance plan.

Private prisons: "I got a product for you."

We have moved a bit past 'affiliating with' and are well into 'being' when it comes to the fascism thing.