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I've seen it happen in Europe but specially in Spain once and again since 2011. It's not his actual intentions what you must be wary about, or whether he has sincere Dem allegiance or not. What you must worry is the fact that even as a classic defender of Democratic Socialism he simply won't be able to do much, not in this day and age, an that has consequences.

As an example of one of his viral videos, he says legal systems for expropriating exist in NY, but that doesn't matter much because he will either be blocked from his usage or the results will be reversed by the state. There are a lot of laws that sound revolutionary in liberal democracies, but he keeps talking as if the capitalist state is neutral and will simply let him use them liberally, maybe because he underestimates a local administration: it's waaay more constrained than territorial ones. Here in Barcelona we had the main street activist for affordable housing Ada Colau as a mayor for 8 years, she tried haaard, not only didn't she compensate the market's tendency, it actually got so much worse.

This is a weird illusion that would vanish if they looked closely at other leftist projects's "success" when ruling in liberal democracies, it's the sad eagerness of democratic leftists to get harder-faster-stronger results in order to convince voters in a system that surely sometimes conceded, like in your FDR's time, but nowadays simply makes sure that those results are tiny, never enough to keeping their voters encouraged, much less even dare compensate the tide of capitalism significantly.

Meanwhile, he'll be drowned in fake news from all buyable media (which most of his voter base follow) and fake legal accusations that the state will push as far as they can. They don't need him in jail, all they need is the thousands of "common sense" Dem casuals that vote for him to see him tarnished, put in the defensive, ugly, like another celebrity. I've seen relevant leftist politicians destroyed by fake accusations of covering their old ex who came up to be a pedophile. You'll see him grow 10 years old for every 4 of governance in exchange for poor results.

But the worst effect this process has is demobilizing leftists on a wider sense. It happened with Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, because liberal democracy is still the main hope/cope for most leftists and when their rare successes fail miserably it drags them down for a decade, plummeting all wide working class organizing, specially unions.

That's why revolutionary communists sent their guys to liberal parliaments with reforms as a nice complement, but agitation as the main objective.

[I assume there's a lot of rationalization in this "analysis", I'm not that well read on marxism, please feel free to correct any overly opinionated take.]

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USA by Confidant6198 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Nope

https://x.com/whitehouse/status/1910058352278708638

Communism in theory vs in practice by Confidant6198 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How do you destroy the notion that Democrats are the good guys? Americans seem like a lost cause on that regard by Confidant6198 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows by Confidant6198 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bro, Biden tripled the budget of cops and you say that they are less harmful?! What is wrong with you?! “Good faith argument” with someone who automatically says that I am lying and who say that people dying should be a compromise, gotcha. My elders MLK, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers have all said that Democrat sucks and the only way forward is socialism. I am going to listen to them instead of you trying to whitesplain to me why Democrats are the best my community got.

Edit: They all died fighting for socialism, not for milquetoast liberties granted in fascism like the ones we get under democrats.

Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows by Confidant6198 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can find tons of those liberal mixtures. In college, I knew several trans people who were pretty racist and loved the confederate flag. I knew several white feminists that will talk your ear down on how they were oppressed, but would then talk about how black people are criminals and black men being around doesn’t make them feel safe. And I met tons of gays racist as well.

College literally made me realize that just because one person belongs to a marginalized group doesn’t mean that they cant been huge assholes and liberals in other ways against other marginalized groups.

Edit: I am black and they would talk to me because I was “one of the good ones”

Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows by Confidant6198 in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I am sorry, but as a black man, I am supposed to be your sacrificial lamb and your fucking compromise for you for what? So you feel safe in your fucking neighborhood? I am sure that all black people and Palestinian Americans will agree when I say: “Fuck you from the bottom of my heart”