02-23-2021, 12:38 PM
(02-23-2021, 12:15 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-22-2021, 02:48 AM)Einzige Wrote:We know there's a group of Republicans who are in cahoots with the Democrats (5 Senators, 10 Congress people). We refer to them as half Republicans or Rhino's these days. We've known about them for many years now. They're about as spineless and wishy washy and eager to please/bow down to the media and corporations/donor class as the Democrats these days.(02-22-2021, 02:27 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-22-2021, 01:02 AM)Einzige Wrote: I love the assumption, coming from well-to-do (relatively apeaking) members of the American labor aristocracy as populate this board, that a proletarian revolution would be immiserating.
For you, perhaps.
I think it would be both proper and fitting for the Democratic party and its strongholds to end by succumbing to a proletarian revolution myself.
That goes for the Republicans, too. It never fails to amaze me that conservatives don't see that the GOP is just the functional counterpoint of the Democratic Party- white Christian identity politics etc.
You, as a small business owner, are doomed by the capitalist system. It wants to resubmerge you back into the proletariat, and will succeed. You can either embrace the forces trying to destroy you or see that the only alternative is a united working class, global in scope, that smashes their system and all its workings into junk. And you can work for that even if it does not come to fruition in your time.
The 7 Republicans senators and 10 congresspeople who voted to convict Trump are actual Republicans. The rest are just Trump loyalists. You and other Trump loyalists are simply the Party of Trump, now. It is a cult of personality only. When he goes, it will go, and the Republicans will just go back to being the Republicans again-- wrong as before on all the policy issues, but at least no longer hypnotized by one man who does not respect law, democracy or decency.