• @ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    247 months ago

    Man the Democratic Party this election cycle has just been working overtime to invite the conversational wedge between ‘saving american democracy from fascism’ and ‘voting against Trump.’

    I guess that’s what the donor class wants this time: “Do nothing but vote.”

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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        117 months ago

        At first. He campaigned as a progressive the first time, but they soon taught him how to govern like a Clintonesque neoliberal 90%+ of the time while constantly promoting the (at the very most) 10% of what he did as president that benefitted regular people more than the already rich and powerful, their corporations and their hedge funds.

        • @Wiz@midwest.social
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          47 months ago

          That’s a pretty unfair analysis of Obama, if you look at Congress during those 8 years.

          • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            Not really, no. His own uninspired leadership is almost half as big a part of it as the 2010 redistricting plot. Not every bad idea or capitulation was because of Congress.