I absolutely agree with you. She was a terrible candidate. But anyone still claiming she was anywhere near as bad as Trump, needs to take a look around.
No. I’m mad that the American left is so politically uneducated that they can’t tell the difference between a Liberal and a literal Fascist. You guys all think they’re the same…even though from a historical standpoint, Fascists hate Liberals almost as much as they hate Socialists.
And it makes me sad that people don’t even realize that it’s the Fascists that want you to think the Liberals are worse than they are…all while convincing the Liberals that Socialists are the ones that want to take away their freedoms.
What the fuck do you think the word nuance means, you fucking idiot?
Since the rest of your comment is just smugly talking to yourself, totally nailing the vapid ignorance. “Um actually the people you don’t like would like you because you were mean to me” stupid fucking baby.
Democrats have been just as bad as Republicans when it comes to Central and West Asia. Just because you think people there don’t matter doesn’t mean everyone does
The democrats are a party of imperialists, just like the republicans. Neither party is capable of changing the US Empire for the better, because both are fully committed to the imperial project. Fascists and liberals actually get along a lot better than you think, because both are fundamentally on the same side of imperialism and capitalism while socialists are on the opposite.
That shows a remarkable lack of understanding about how democracy works. Voters decide who makes up those parties. And Democrats especially are not all the same. Many of them are not imperialists. Unfortunately, many of them are…but it isn’t universal. And the only way to tip the balance against imperialism, is to run leftists for every possible position there is. Up and down the ballot.
But, then you have to actually show up and vote for them when they are in the race. If you don’t…then nothing will ever change.
No, voters do not decide who makes up the DNC and the GOP. Their donors do. Who you can vote for is already pre-approved by their donors. Secondly, the DNC is an imperialist party, because they all wish to retain the IMF, NATO, capitalism itself, and all that goes into imperialism as the necessary endpoint of late-stage capitalism.
The only way to fight against the US Empire is by overthrowing it. As long as capitalism is maintained, so too will imperialism be maintained. You cannot have late-stage capitalism without imperialism, and the democrats can’t go against their donor-base, which is where they derive their political power from.
So, your only solution is violence? Not solidarity?
I mean, if you think you can achieve anything using the first, without having the second already locked in…you will have cracked the code for universal regime change. I’m pretty sure you could just wave that magic wand and overthrow any government in the world.
What do you mean by “violence, not solidarity?” Revolution can only come from an organized revolutionary class. The working classes cannot be organized within the boundaries of a capitalist-controlled and dominated party that focuses entirely on legal measures.
What is sad is that the US political establishment are still pushing the Democrats as an alternative and Americans are too fucking stupid to do anything about it and self police even on alternative platforms like Lemmy
No…what’s actually sad, is that even when there are better alternatives, leftists don’t bother showing up to vote. That’s how we got here. Whenever there’s a chance for us to pull things back to the left…half of us just sit down and whine about how pointless it is to pull.
It is so funny when delusional Americans believe they live in a democracy and not a dictatorship of capital. It isn’t that people didn’t “vote” it is that the government there is structured to make sure that you never threaten capital. Alexis de Toqueville figured this out in the Eighteenth century that the US government is inherently despotic and relies on social norms. The fundamental structure of the constitution is broken and you will never have a “leftist” come to power there, it is literally impossible since voting is fixed during the redistricting phase.
Well, there was Bernie Sanders in 2020. But like I said…no one bothered to show up and vote…so we got Biden. And then we got Trump again. Every time there’s a chance to pull things left, we drop the rope.
But like I said…no one bothered to show up and vote…so we got Biden.
That’s not even close to what happened.
The DNC Leadership chose Biden specifically to stop Bernie.
That’s why when Biden was in sixth place going in to Super Tuesday every establishment candidate ahead of him bowed out on the same night and gave him their delegates, pushing him from sixth to first, and Warren stayed in to split the progressive vote and push the “Bernie Bros are sexist creeps” narrative.
Ok. And how did that stop young people from voting? Unless you’re suggesting that those are the reasons they gave themselves for not voting, then none of that should have actually stopped them.
The best alternative liberal Zionist Bernie Sanders who even if he had received all the votes you wanted would have just been undermined and sabotaged again by the DNC establishment like in 2016. You can’t vote the fascism away. The ruling class is not going to politely expropriate themselves. You should read Luxemburg’s “reform or revolution”.
Bernie isn’t a liberal, dude. And I can’t imagine what you would consider “good enough”, if you don’t think that even trying to drag the window back to the left is worth it.
In 2016, we got a taste. It was a surprise for everyone, just how close we actually came to overturning the status quo. But, you’re right…they had the game rigged. Except by 2020, there were no more super-delegates. And we had four years to get our shit together. All we had to do, was convince even more people to show up.
And we failed. Not only did we not get more to show up…we had way less people show up. The left quit. They sat down and pouted about 2016, instead of standing the fuck up and fighting back.
You can blame it all on “the system” if you want to. You can sit there and cry about how they control everything, and we’re all powerless to do anything about it. If you want to give up, then give up. But you’re forgetting that no matter how much money they can spend on this…votes are still the only thing that matters. If enough people vote the same way, it doesn’t matter how much money they have…we will still win.
But if you let them convince you that your vote doesn’t matter, and that you should just give up and stay home…then they will win. Every. Fucking. Time. And that’s how we got here. They keep winning because we keep giving up.
Bernie is absolutely a liberal. Calling him anything else ignores what he actually proposes. He wants to regulate capital, not expropriate it. He wants to blunt capitalism’s worst edges at home while leaving the imperial core intact. That is social democracy at best, a liberal ideology. His own platform accepts the basic framework of private ownership of the means of production. He seeks to manage the crisis, not resolve its root cause. That is precisely the reformism Luxemburg critiqued a century ago in the work I already recommended. You really should read it.
Electoralism under liberal democracy is not a path to socialism. It is a containment strategy. The ballot box is designed to channel dissent into harmless rituals that leave property relations untouched. You think stacking votes can overcome capital’s structural power. But capital does not rule through votes. It rules through ownership of production, control of credit, domination of media, and monopoly on organised violence. When the vote threatens those foundations, the mask comes off. The courts block, the capital strikes, the media smears, the state represses. This is not conspiracy. It is the normal functioning of the bourgeois state. Expecting otherwise is like expecting a wolf to vote itself vegetarian.
Your entire argument rests on idealist assumptions. You treat consciousness as primary and material conditions as secondary. You think changing minds at the ballot box changes the balance of class forces. That is backwards. Social being determines social consciousness, not the other way around. You mistake the form of democracy for its content. You ignore that the two-party system is a mechanism to limit political competition to factions of capital, not to enable working-class rule. You cite 2016 and 2020 as if they were isolated failures of strategy, not expressions of a system that structurally excludes anti-capitalist politics. You blame the left for “quitting” instead of asking why the electoral arena absorbs and neutralises radical energy every single time. This is not analysis. It is moralising.
I am Chinese, not American. We had our revolution. We broke the bourgeois state and built a system where the vote actually means something because it is embedded in democratic centralism and whole-process people’s democracy, not trapped in a ballot box ritual that changes nothing. These electoralist squabbles about which faction of capital should manage the American empire are none of my concern outside of the theoretical interest I take in educating and engaging in dialogue with comrades in a much different situation.
I know it sounds cliché to say “read theory,” but genuinely, every idealist assumption you are recycling has been academically addressed and refuted for decades.
If they did that, Trump would have won the general…just like he did against Hillary. But, they didn’t have to. They managed to successfully convince enough progressives that they could, that people just sat down and stopped fighting.
Well, vivid didn’t help. But, I’m assuming also because people just gave up. They threw in the towel, as soon as it looked like Biden was going to consolidate the centrist vote. Polling leading up to super Tuesday, all showed Bernie having strong support among younger voters, and especially students. But none of it actually materialized at the polls themselves.
The democrats are also war-hawk imperialists, though. Why do you say they wouldn’t have supported bombing Iran? Further, saying “oh no gaza” to brush a genocide under the rug like it’s nothing while you cape for the party that fully supported killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians is monstrous.
You guys only have one joke, and it was barely funny back when it was relevant. Given everything that’s going on right now, it’s just sad.
She could have distanced herself from Biden’s genocide but chose not to
I absolutely agree with you. She was a terrible candidate. But anyone still claiming she was anywhere near as bad as Trump, needs to take a look around.
a diet-genocide is still the same thing as a full-fat-genocide.
We get it, you’re still mad at the commies for not falling in line behind Girlboss Hitler
No. I’m mad that the American left is so politically uneducated that they can’t tell the difference between a Liberal and a literal Fascist. You guys all think they’re the same…even though from a historical standpoint, Fascists hate Liberals almost as much as they hate Socialists.
And it makes me sad that people don’t even realize that it’s the Fascists that want you to think the Liberals are worse than they are…all while convincing the Liberals that Socialists are the ones that want to take away their freedoms.
Haha, lol, lmao even
Free Palestine
Your good guys literally committed a genocide. You’re a fucking clown.
GUESS THE DIFFERENCE ISN’T FUCKING GENOCIDE
The raw fucking irony of whining about people’s political literacy and then saying this shit.
The amount of guilt by association in this comment would make Israeli propagandists proud. You nailed the total lack of nuance perfectly.
What the fuck do you think the word nuance means, you fucking idiot?
Since the rest of your comment is just smugly talking to yourself, totally nailing the vapid ignorance. “Um actually the people you don’t like would like you because you were mean to me” stupid fucking baby.
they’re the same thing where it matters; you need to go back and study history that isn’t written by a capitalist.
“scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds”
Democrats have been just as bad as Republicans when it comes to Central and West Asia. Just because you think people there don’t matter doesn’t mean everyone does
The democrats are a party of imperialists, just like the republicans. Neither party is capable of changing the US Empire for the better, because both are fully committed to the imperial project. Fascists and liberals actually get along a lot better than you think, because both are fundamentally on the same side of imperialism and capitalism while socialists are on the opposite.
That shows a remarkable lack of understanding about how democracy works. Voters decide who makes up those parties. And Democrats especially are not all the same. Many of them are not imperialists. Unfortunately, many of them are…but it isn’t universal. And the only way to tip the balance against imperialism, is to run leftists for every possible position there is. Up and down the ballot.
But, then you have to actually show up and vote for them when they are in the race. If you don’t…then nothing will ever change.
No, voters do not decide who makes up the DNC and the GOP. Their donors do. Who you can vote for is already pre-approved by their donors. Secondly, the DNC is an imperialist party, because they all wish to retain the IMF, NATO, capitalism itself, and all that goes into imperialism as the necessary endpoint of late-stage capitalism.
The only way to fight against the US Empire is by overthrowing it. As long as capitalism is maintained, so too will imperialism be maintained. You cannot have late-stage capitalism without imperialism, and the democrats can’t go against their donor-base, which is where they derive their political power from.
So, your only solution is violence? Not solidarity?
I mean, if you think you can achieve anything using the first, without having the second already locked in…you will have cracked the code for universal regime change. I’m pretty sure you could just wave that magic wand and overthrow any government in the world.
You voted for a genocide instead of having solidarity with it’s victims.
What do you mean by “violence, not solidarity?” Revolution can only come from an organized revolutionary class. The working classes cannot be organized within the boundaries of a capitalist-controlled and dominated party that focuses entirely on legal measures.
What is sad is that the US political establishment are still pushing the Democrats as an alternative and Americans are too fucking stupid to do anything about it and self police even on alternative platforms like Lemmy
No…what’s actually sad, is that even when there are better alternatives, leftists don’t bother showing up to vote. That’s how we got here. Whenever there’s a chance for us to pull things back to the left…half of us just sit down and whine about how pointless it is to pull.
It is so funny when delusional Americans believe they live in a democracy and not a dictatorship of capital. It isn’t that people didn’t “vote” it is that the government there is structured to make sure that you never threaten capital. Alexis de Toqueville figured this out in the Eighteenth century that the US government is inherently despotic and relies on social norms. The fundamental structure of the constitution is broken and you will never have a “leftist” come to power there, it is literally impossible since voting is fixed during the redistricting phase.
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA By Alexis De Tocqueville
The frozen republic : how the Constitution is paralyzing democracy by Daniel Lazare
Name the better alternative
Well, there was Bernie Sanders in 2020. But like I said…no one bothered to show up and vote…so we got Biden. And then we got Trump again. Every time there’s a chance to pull things left, we drop the rope.
That’s not even close to what happened.
The DNC Leadership chose Biden specifically to stop Bernie.
That’s why when Biden was in sixth place going in to Super Tuesday every establishment candidate ahead of him bowed out on the same night and gave him their delegates, pushing him from sixth to first, and Warren stayed in to split the progressive vote and push the “Bernie Bros are sexist creeps” narrative.
The US is not a Democracy, it’s an Oligarchy.
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Ok. And how did that stop young people from voting? Unless you’re suggesting that those are the reasons they gave themselves for not voting, then none of that should have actually stopped them.
not running a pro-genocide candidate to run against another pro-genocide candidate would be a great start.
The best alternative liberal Zionist Bernie Sanders who even if he had received all the votes you wanted would have just been undermined and sabotaged again by the DNC establishment like in 2016. You can’t vote the fascism away. The ruling class is not going to politely expropriate themselves. You should read Luxemburg’s “reform or revolution”.
Bernie isn’t a liberal, dude. And I can’t imagine what you would consider “good enough”, if you don’t think that even trying to drag the window back to the left is worth it.
In 2016, we got a taste. It was a surprise for everyone, just how close we actually came to overturning the status quo. But, you’re right…they had the game rigged. Except by 2020, there were no more super-delegates. And we had four years to get our shit together. All we had to do, was convince even more people to show up.
And we failed. Not only did we not get more to show up…we had way less people show up. The left quit. They sat down and pouted about 2016, instead of standing the fuck up and fighting back.
You can blame it all on “the system” if you want to. You can sit there and cry about how they control everything, and we’re all powerless to do anything about it. If you want to give up, then give up. But you’re forgetting that no matter how much money they can spend on this…votes are still the only thing that matters. If enough people vote the same way, it doesn’t matter how much money they have…we will still win.
But if you let them convince you that your vote doesn’t matter, and that you should just give up and stay home…then they will win. Every. Fucking. Time. And that’s how we got here. They keep winning because we keep giving up.
Bernie is absolutely a liberal. Calling him anything else ignores what he actually proposes. He wants to regulate capital, not expropriate it. He wants to blunt capitalism’s worst edges at home while leaving the imperial core intact. That is social democracy at best, a liberal ideology. His own platform accepts the basic framework of private ownership of the means of production. He seeks to manage the crisis, not resolve its root cause. That is precisely the reformism Luxemburg critiqued a century ago in the work I already recommended. You really should read it.
Electoralism under liberal democracy is not a path to socialism. It is a containment strategy. The ballot box is designed to channel dissent into harmless rituals that leave property relations untouched. You think stacking votes can overcome capital’s structural power. But capital does not rule through votes. It rules through ownership of production, control of credit, domination of media, and monopoly on organised violence. When the vote threatens those foundations, the mask comes off. The courts block, the capital strikes, the media smears, the state represses. This is not conspiracy. It is the normal functioning of the bourgeois state. Expecting otherwise is like expecting a wolf to vote itself vegetarian.
Your entire argument rests on idealist assumptions. You treat consciousness as primary and material conditions as secondary. You think changing minds at the ballot box changes the balance of class forces. That is backwards. Social being determines social consciousness, not the other way around. You mistake the form of democracy for its content. You ignore that the two-party system is a mechanism to limit political competition to factions of capital, not to enable working-class rule. You cite 2016 and 2020 as if they were isolated failures of strategy, not expressions of a system that structurally excludes anti-capitalist politics. You blame the left for “quitting” instead of asking why the electoral arena absorbs and neutralises radical energy every single time. This is not analysis. It is moralising.
I am Chinese, not American. We had our revolution. We broke the bourgeois state and built a system where the vote actually means something because it is embedded in democratic centralism and whole-process people’s democracy, not trapped in a ballot box ritual that changes nothing. These electoralist squabbles about which faction of capital should manage the American empire are none of my concern outside of the theoretical interest I take in educating and engaging in dialogue with comrades in a much different situation.
I know it sounds cliché to say “read theory,” but genuinely, every idealist assumption you are recycling has been academically addressed and refuted for decades.
Ummm, yeah. I think you’re getting “social democracy” confused with “democratic socialism”. A lot.
The DNC is a private corporation and would have chosen Biden anyways
If they did that, Trump would have won the general…just like he did against Hillary. But, they didn’t have to. They managed to successfully convince enough progressives that they could, that people just sat down and stopped fighting.
Why did nobody bother to show up and vote?
Well, vivid didn’t help. But, I’m assuming also because people just gave up. They threw in the towel, as soon as it looked like Biden was going to consolidate the centrist vote. Polling leading up to super Tuesday, all showed Bernie having strong support among younger voters, and especially students. But none of it actually materialized at the polls themselves.
Why did people give up?
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The fact you can say this about a genocide and people not supporting it’s enablers really shows how despicable you are.
The democrats are also war-hawk imperialists, though. Why do you say they wouldn’t have supported bombing Iran? Further, saying “oh no gaza” to brush a genocide under the rug like it’s nothing while you cape for the party that fully supported killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians is monstrous.
Which leftist alternative did you show up to vote for?
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