The cancer infecting the political Left

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(07-29-2020, 01:33 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(07-29-2020, 04:17 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(07-29-2020, 01:22 AM)Einzige Wrote:

(07-29-2020, 12:32 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(07-28-2020, 11:35 PM)Einzige Wrote: <snip>

We figured that out a while ago. The Democratic party can't win without a relatively cheap army Marxist believers and followers doing the bulk of the work and scaring people into agreeing and voting for them. I'm sorry but the Democratic party is a regime and it has always functioned like a regime but it's time is coming to end.

Eh? The vast majority of Democratic voters, even of Democratic activists, are basically nonideological, like the overwhelming majority of Americans.

Well, let's make this easy. For POTUS, the choice is between a Mad Man and a Zombie. As for the 2 parties. They're both Neoliberal/Neocon. The US population has been gaslit to no end. The result, a step, step down towards the next dark age. Until then, let's enjoy our bread and circuses. [cheap junk food], mass/digital media. I'll go for Biden for a better chance for bread.  Like, it's the new national motto:   "It's all about the bejamins"    

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.  In America, do what Americans do. That means you join a tribe like Futbah teams and sort out what kind of junk food you prefer.  After all, even though America hates to admit this reality,  Trump is the personification of the US.
PS.

Marxism, like anything human concept has to account for the fact that  some humans are sociopaths. This reality is why a lots of zealous ideologies warp into nightmares.  History is littered with this stuff.

Trump's not a mad man. He's to stoic, to cunning and to calculated to be a mad man. So, you go ahead and vote for the zombie and get used to the idea of  fighting for a loaf of bread or paying twice as much for a loaf that can't be manufactured as much or get to your grocery store until its disinfected and cleansed or sold until its disinfected and cleansed and so on. Dude, the guy has 83 million followers on twitter that the dude who owns Facebook bans and doesn't worry about losing as customers. You better wake up and stop thinking like a Democrat and start thinking like an American who knows they're dealing with a crisis right vs sitting in the bleachers watching one right now. Do what Rani did if you can't accept voting for a Republican, vote Libertarian instead of voting for a zombie and find yourself being stuck with a two bit liberal candidate who doesn't deserve to be president that the country doesn't recognize as being legit.

1. He's a mad man , just look at his tweetstorms.

2. Stoic?  Really.

"Synonyms: Adjective

• forbearing,
  
• long-suffering,
  
• patient,
  
• tolerant,
  
• uncomplaining
  

Antonyms: Adjective

• complaining,
  
• fed up,
  
• impatient,
  
• kvetching,
  
• kvetchy,
  
• protesting
  

Here's the opposite of stoic.   Russian  Ambassador Lavrov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov
There, that shows folks what I think of  "Russia,Russia, Russia" stuff. There's a lot of bipartisan gas lighting going on here. I choose to ignore it because I don't give a flying fuck what Russia is doing. Of course they interfere in our stuff, just like we interfere in there stuff. That's normal interstate competition.
So feel free to do a compare and contrast of Lavrov vs. Pompeo.

Fighting for loaves of bread.  Guess what? That's already happening.



PS.

The stuff going on is nothing new.  I've been there before.





Like, I got the Hong Kong Flu.  Covid is way worse than that. Same song, different verse. I grew up with this stuff, man ,,, in Oklahoma.



   


Fighting for bread.  That's going on right now. It's obvious the Republicans offer nothing, except find some non existent job.
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/837141457...s-hit-hard

Here's the deal. 40 years of Republican  tinkle down economics is all wet. Doing the same thing over and over again is a definition of insanity.  Remember when Reagan said , "are you better off now than 4 years ago?   I have a newer update.  "Are you better off now than you were 40 years ago?   I answer in the negative.

What is the definition of "American" ?  Anyone that's a citizen is an American to me.  Regardless of socioeconomic class, color, creed, etc.  It's none of my business if someone is homosexual, trans, different color, liberal , conservative, etc. I have too many other problems to fuss over stuff like that.  


I'm thinking like a Democrat because for one thing, the utter lack of a public healthcare system left the US wide open to what's going on right now wrt Corona virus. That is why the US is a banana republic. The US is right up there with Latin America with chaos. When I was a kid, and the US had a public healthcare system, I remember getting in line for shots at school, which were provided by the county health department.  This can't happen with coordination at the national level.  The economy sucked in the 70's , but the safety net and other public services were working well.  Now, everything's shit, shit, nothing works, all is corrupt, because of legal bribery sanctioned by Citizen's United.  The before Republican policy and after Republican policy leaves no doubt.  I'm done, done with Republicans.  They have failed, utterly.  I have nothing else to say.  Fuck Republicans and the horse they rode in on.


You said "there is a crises".. You got that right.  The evil axis of Neoliberalism/Neoconservatism is the author of this mess.  Republicans are all in on that axis. The Democrats, especially the younger ones, not so much.  Like AOC nailed. "It's all about the Benjamins".   That ought to be our national motto, man.