Like party whips don’t exist. They’re supposed to offer concessions to get bills passed. Pork Barrels are a thing. Stop defending these people, the planet is burning.

“I’ve never been a liberal in any way,” said Manchin, adding that “all we need to do I guess for them to get theirs… is elect more liberals.”

Polling has shown the Build Back Better plan is popular nationwide–and both political commentators and progressive activists have warned that not passing the full package could negatively impact Democrats at the ballot box next year.

When a Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college, it’s not because of red states, it’s because the donor class doesn’t want those policies to pass.

Just know that you’re not the only one that sees it this way. There are a lot of us, but not nearly enough.

I believe they did.

Don’t forget, when voting fails and the candidate loses, it’s the left’s ( and young people’s) fault, not the candidate.

Attack the messenger if you don’t like the message. What did he say that was incorrect?

Marx abused alcohol, so not sure. The Republicans are capitalists. The Democrats are capitalists. To Marxists they are the same. Liberalism fails because it cannot address the contradictions inherent to capitalism, inequality and wealth accumulation. Capitalism requires inequality for wealth accumulation.

Social democratic reforms can alleviate the inequality and distribute the wealth more equitably, but, because it does not replace capitalism itself, it always falters.

So, although Democrats and Republicans differ on social policy, they both defer to capitalism. Capitalism rules both parties.

There’s a lot of info and graphs, but it’s interesting:

The poll was conducted online by Datapraxis and YouGov

No, my bad. Sorry I didn’t catch that.

Oh, it was facetious. I thought you had information about Putin’s motivation.

I don’t. How much does Putin care about European polling? Or was that just a rhetorical aside to sway public sentiment?

To answer these questions, ECFR conducted an opinion poll of 19,566 people in 15 countries in the first half of May 2024 – the period prior to the European Parliament election. source

But was it worse than Vacation Bible School?

Hasan Piker explains this quite well.

the people who failed to stop facism are obviously not the same as fascists themselves.

Superior Orders, or ignorance of what is happening, does not absolve one of responsibility.

Since the 2020 election cycle began, “fascism” took on a plethora of new meanings, none of which actually accessed the ongoing material conditions surrounding the rise of fascism outside of the Republican Party. In fact, one could easily conclude that “fascists” and “republican” were interchangeable words if they paid close enough attention to the elections. But they are not. The confusion around fascism, weaponized by liberals to drive people to the voting polls, has disallowed any inspection of the primary role the Democratic Party (with its neoliberal, populist, and austerity police state policies) has played by sheltering and coddling this current iteration of fascism. source

Like Matt Gaetz, who should be in jail. And MTG, who should be in jail. And Lauren Boebert, who should be in jail. And…

This notion of appeasement to fascism will doom us all.

But is he wrong? From Nixon, to Reagan, to Newt GIngrich, to Mitch McConnell to Trump, the Democrats have been feckless and refused to halt this march to fascism. They are complicit by tacit acceptance. This need to adhere to some vague Status Quo (Capitalist Donor Class) is why we are in this situation. It’s time to wake up and realize the Marxists were right all along. You can’t compromise with Capitalism.

Exactly!👍

then walk back the changes

When have the Democrats ever shown us that they’ll do that?

Roe? Voting Rights act? Hell, a Republican had to save ObamaCare.

Democrats aren’t going to save us from FASCISM. The sooner everyone realizes this, the more prepared we’ll be to fight against it.