• bthest@lemmy.world
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    If the democrats win as well as we’re expecting they COULD take down billionaires and mass media propaganda machines that’s behind all these right-wing movements…but I’m betting they won’t. They probably won’t abolish ICE, they won’t stuff the supreme court, they won’t cut off Israel, they won’t roll back the insane power of the POTUS and executive branch, etc, etc.

    This country is fucked for a generation at least, or as long as this two party government remains intact.

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      You dont understand how the American two party system works. Let me explain it in simple terms.

      You have one party that is corporate light; that’s the democrats. And you have another party that’s corporate get fucked in the arse; that’s the Republicans.

      Both parties serve their corporate masters first and foremost before any consideration of the common man. Neither party will challenge this status quo in any meaningful way. The difference is that one is willing to be a little more giving than the other fiscally.

      But the reality is that the entire political process is captured by vested financial interests that own politicians and work together so that over the long term it all gets shitter and shitter for the common people and they get richer and richer.

      The only way out of this is to primary every politician in the democratic party that have any financial ties to the elites. To money.

      That’s most of them.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      Y’all keep saying democrats as if democrats are one unified party.

      its not.

      Its 37 parties in a trench coat.

      Thats the problem with the democrats. Its basically a Chimera built out of everything thats not-republican, and thats down largely to our two party system of bullshit.

    • Stern@lemmy.world
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      they COULD take down billionaires and mass media propaganda machines that’s behind all these right-wing movements…but I’m betting they won’t.

      Yeah controlled opposition tends not to bite the hand that feeds.

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      stuffing the supreme court is a pretty controversial thing although now more popular given republicans messed with court picks to get us were we are. Many democrats are not fine using trumps “methods” in a good way and want to still abide by the constitution and law. I know foks completely against trump but are not sure about actually abolishing ice. I point out they had not even existed before but they point out border control is kinda worse and that would result in border patrol fulfilling their role. keeping in mind their role was not so controversial before trump.

    • AlexLost@lemmy.world
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      They have their own funders, and you’ll be upset when you find out who they are. (Hint: it’s the same people, give or take a few)