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That’s literally all they’ve been doing since Reagan.
acting like an opposition party.
It took way too long, but that’s why you can’t drum up the numbers anymore, all but the thickest of skulls have finally realized that Democrat and Republican are both just big corpo, bickering over the social issue symptoms of our rigged economy and society as they maintain the economy and it’s perverse incentives as it is, on the same take by the same oligarchs.
At least Republicans throw their horrible voters a bone, “Oh you hate the other? we’ll be cruel to them to entertain you and tickle your schaudenfreude fancy!”
Democrats get nothing for their troubles. We’re told it’s our duty.
Meanwhile, killing your own non wealthy customers for moar profit? R👍D👌
I’m reluctantly happy that people are starting to see that wedge issues are crafted by corporations and parroted by business bought representative to pit man against man who can barely buy bread to the point where e pluribus unum was meaningless there decades ago. Greed has no party affiliation.
No, they need to be an opposition party for the first fucking time in decades.
And they won’t.
The Democratic Party is frankly played out at this point. It’s pretty obviously a zombie party. We need a new one that isn’t beholden to neoliberalism.
What I’ve learned from the last two presidential elections is that right now, the incumbent party loses if people are unhappy with the current state of the country. A clever, but evil opposition party would try to make things worse.
This is why “doing what republiQans do” isn’t a useful tactic for Democrats. Never has been, though the party leaders have never learned it.
Pass laws to limit election spending/fund raising so that the playing field is about as even as we can manage. After those are set in stone and strong, dismantle the national committees and open the actual gates to allow whoever to run for office.
Even doing this wouldn’t change much though. The popularity contest not at all based on policy would still reign supreme and American voters are still American voters.
we are passed the ballot box.
both sides are bought and paid for with the same checks
only thing that could be done is to start over
Both sides do raise money to operate, but the people funding the two parties are, to a very large extent, different.
Michael Fucking Bloomberg is the top individual Democrat contributor in 2024.
A billionaire is a billionaire is a billionaire. When people say they are funded by the same people, we mean they’re funded by the same class interests. Individual small donations from the working class are a literal drop in the bucket compared to what the wealthy contribute.
The Democrats are still funded by the same set of class interests as the Republicans: the wealthy.
If the majority of your funding comes from people who like low taxes for the rich, don’t like programs to help the poor, and who generally just want to benefit the already-wealthy, then you’re going to really fucking struggle to represent interests of the working class, because the people funding you will stop funding you when you stop focusing on their problems.
Michael Bloomberg in my eyes is not materially different from Elon Musk. But sure, somehow the people funding the party are “different.” We didn’t just watch Pelosi squash AOCs committee for her wealthy donors, who don’t like AOC or what she’s selling. Give me a break.
They’ll come up with a nifty hashtag like #resist or #democracy
And send out even more fundraising emails.
The key work here is "act’’ like an actor.
