Maybe the Iranians will be more forgiving if we deal with Trump.
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I'm starting to think "affordability" is just weasely shit for little administrative fixes.
I want to start hearing about massive trust busting and I want to hear talk about the income crisis and dismantling all the tools and methods that employers bring to bear to drive wages down.
In other words, I want to hear some language that is undeniably leftist about changing the structure of the economy, not bland phrases for tinkering around the edges.
Centrists only use that word because it polls well. They stole it from Mamdami even though they hate him.
We have to get ahead and start actively making a case for socialism, or Republicans will keep having an edge in public debates.
The majority of Americans support most progressive goals. Even conservatives. Once you call it socialism they are against it because indoctrination is hard to shake.
Which is exactly why we need a full-throated defense of socialism.
How do you figure? People in general don't listen to well thought out arguments, they're mostly driven by pithy quips, buzzwords, and emotional arguments. And positioning ourselves on the defense just makes us look weak, and weakness is a poor emotional argument.
Progressive, socialist policies are extremely popular. Progressive, socialist terminology is extremely unpopular. What we actually need is a full-throated promotion of socialist policy without hobbling ourselves by using socialist language. Keep that shit in the cadre, meet the proletariat where they actually are.
How do you defend yourself against the true claim that your socialist policies are socialist? At some point, you have to stand your ground, no?
Anyway, the larger problem is the entire media landscape is hostile, which YouTube and podcasts are helping with.
Bernie has been discussing and proposing affordability legislation long before Zohran was a politician.
For example -Consumer Affordability and Responsibility Enhancement (CARE) Act
Prescription Drug Affordability Act of 2015
College for all plan
While I agree, I’m not really sure how feasible that is in the current makeup? You’re talking about changes that need at least a two thirds majority are you not?
I said I want to start hearing about It. The Dem Party desperately needs to at least re-brand. We're not going to get the reforms we need without arguing for them.
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Yas, preach
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Do you fuckers understand that you can't have affordability without accountability? How do you think we got to this point in the first place? From letting the billionaires fuck us over from every direction with impunity for decades.
They know that if they are successful in prosecution republicans for war crimes. Democrats would also be held accountable when they do war crimes
That would be prosecution, not persecution.
Schuck and Hakeem Doolittle aren't going to do shit. That's why they both need to go.
Do we wanna punish the pedophile President who ate babies he raped with Epstein on that island, inspired an insurrection, fucked our entire economy up, got us into another forever war, and ruined our reputation with our allies, undid tons of civil rights we gained in the last 50 years, or do we want eggs and gas to not cost so damn much?
We cannot have both?
Fuck me sideways, I'm so glad the Do-Nothing Democraps are in power now. I really really REALLY hope the more progressive wing can pressure the corpo dems into capitulation. If not, we are boned.
We're already boned. We've been in a "Boned" state since the government started ignoring Due Process.
The only way to unbone us is to get organized, and get armed. Liberty can only exist when the government fears the populace.
Jeffries and Schumer only say affordability because Mamdami used it successfully of his winning mayoral campaign. Jeffries even used it to say that his meeting with the corrupt criminal Kushner had a meeting with him about affordability.
A good start would be releasing the Epstein files. It would take you about 10 minutes.
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On the Accountability thing, I think there is a subtle thing to understand here. While Republicans had the majority during the last half of the Bide administration, dingbats like Jim Jordan were using the power of Congressional committees to investigate things that the Administratio did that they didn't like. There was no real legal basis for the investigations, other than some officials did things that hurt Conservative's fragile egos.
Those investigations has two goals: one was to demoralize Federal officials, but the other was to be able to turn around later and accuse the other side of wielding Government as a weapon when they are in power, because they understand it can motivate their side to vote.
We al need to understand that this is the real reason why some Democrats seem tepid on this accountability thing, it's because they think it might rile up the deplorables. But, I think it is important to note the key difference between now and prior Presidencies: the Trump administration constantly violates the law. All. The. Time.
I think if Democrats limit their investigations to obvious violates of the law over the past 2 years, they will have more than enough to look at. Simply asking why US citizens keep getting detained by ICE ought to lead to some ICE administrators going to jail, shouldn't it?
If Democratic leadership is truly serious about a both approach, I think they should first start heavily and only with Epstein files and only branch out from there as things get major coverage for 2 major reasons:
First is that there's MAJOR bipartisan support for this and will ultimately lead to isolating certain officials and supporters, giving Democrats the moral high ground in other branching investigations IF they can land convictions and legislation. I'd like to hope that there are at least a few Republicans who are disgusted with their party as a whole (ie Thomas Massie) and are being backed into a corner with campaign finances, and this could free a few votes for later bills or a Senate convictions/removals.
Secondly, i have zero doubt those investigations will lead to certain billionaires being questioned and potentially lead to actual trials and accountability. And if progressives play their questions right, could lead to a public outcry for more campaign finance AND News coverage reform.
Meanwhile, they should pass single issue, high polling bills like tariff reform and ending the Iran conflict. Then once some dust settles a bit and there's the inevitable Epstein tie-in, publicly investigate corporate pricing/inflation.
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Committee chairs for the next session of congress are already promising prosecutions.
If Schumer and Jeffries are put back in leadership roles you can just expect more of democrats fondling trumps Nazi pedophile nuts.
Exactly, but noticed how to two guys who want to lead the party only want to focus on affordability. With Trumps veto power it up hill battle. They definitely should still fight it. But if we don't address the accountability part that they do have the power to address. Then we have no rule of law and Trump and co, and those in the shadows will see that they can do whatever the hell they want without consequences.
I don't know... that starts to look an awful lot like work.
Hungarian here, our current leaders do both.
And I mean they are just doing the bare fucking minimum, sometimes badly, and even that is a major breath of fresh air compared to the likes of Biden or Merz
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