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This is getting trolled heavily, I'm shutting it down.

We're fucked because we spent the last 70 years making corporations stronger than nations. So of course lies are the truth, and bad is good, and down is up. Thats what corporations do; gaslight, extract, destroy.

Democrats do deserve to be blamed for losing elections. If they ran better campaigns, if they read the room and actually responded to voters' concerns, maybe the GOP wouldn't have total control of all three branches right now.

It literally says 'they', as in the Republicans, and is blaming the Republicans for insider trading, stealing congressional seats, bankrupting farmers, and bombing fishing boats.

It's also blaming the Democrats for not doing much.

You can blame the Republicans for being shit and the Democrats for not doing enough. Two different groups can be responsible for two separate things.

Probably because we elected the Dems to do something and they put their top man, Merrick Garland, on it and he did jack shit for two years. Biden also knew the court was fucked and refused to do anything about that. Also he did nothing to differentiate himself from the fasc and actively did a genocide and border fascism. Then he refused to give up power and handed his campaign over to a person who refused to distance herself from him.

So, yes, the useless neoliberals have doomed us to climate catastrophe and have enabled fascism by refusing to give up on their failed ideology. This is a global phenomenon that could have been prevented by helping normal people with their problems instead of tinkering around the edges.

Tim, tell’em how much violence the Black Panther party had to commit to gain actually civil rights. How many deaths had to be fought for.

There’s work to be done. Politician are all sycophants. Let's go out an win our rights again.

They are fucking useless, to be fair.

Democrats are the reason we're in this mess though. All they had to do was convince Biden to stick with his 1 term plan and have normal primaries.

The fact that people are surprised is a huge part of the problem. When people say over and over what they will do, and then do it, and then say that they will do it again... at some point it might behoove others to actually listen?

Some, like Jon Stewart, warned people for literally decades that allowing the fourth estate (news media as the external check that balances everything) to be bought out would seal the end. The only surprise there was the speed with which it all happened, and given the external events that helped bring it about, even that should not have been so surprising.

Because it's happened before, see e.g. Brexit, and it's happening again now in most places around the world, even supposed strongholds like Canada and Germany. Although almost universally nearly everything I see across the Threadiverse is the notion that everywhere else is immune - it's like each commentor individually thinks that "yes it's happening everywhere else, but not to ME, where I live". Almost nobody wants to take responsibility to listen, learn, and own up to personal biases that could help to move forward intelligently.

Okay then. Fuck it, we ball I guess.

Sure felt like the Republicans were able to block shit pretty successfully when they were a way smaller minority

I hope both parties end up as museum exhibits, where people can learn why First Past the Post was replaced with something better.

After endless trolley dilemma arguments, it is now that we are allowed to analyze the system that lashes people to tracks?

even if they dint control all 3 branches, thier propagana machine works so well, they had total control over media for decades. that includes all the msms besides fox, notice how none of them show any left leaning news or content, its all whitewashes or marginalize. when troops were sitll dying in afghanistan, almost all the msms, were still honoring them.