so… why didn’t the left stop fascism? I hear a lot of talk about killing people, but it’s been three months and nothing has happened.
Are we all just yappers?
You can bitch all you want, but the right won, and they won exactly what they wanted. So bitching about it on the left isn’t going to make us anymore likely to win, is it?
probably because the left is so dysfunctional they cant form a cohesive group that people want to vote for.
I no longer have the slightest hope of ever “winning” a prosocial government here. We’re too oligarch captured.
perhaps join the liberal fight, and fight against things like oligarchy, which liberals are not for, because it’s obviously bad for institutions. The better the institution is at helping the people, the better the people are.
I talk and comment to maintain my sanity in an insane capitalist hellscape I lack the power to change.
Liberalism is basically the only option you have here, realistically. Anything you can do to change the political tide and get people to care about the importance of good governance, is a good thing.
You could plot a coup and overthrow the government, but we’re not delusional, and that’s obviously not happening anytime soon so, might as well explore other routes.
probably because the left is so dysfunctional they cant form a cohesive group that people want to vote for.
yeah I wonder if all the demonization and litteral killing of communists for the last hundred years have something to do with that.
perhaps join the liberal fight, and fight against things like oligarchy, which liberals are not for, because it’s obviously bad for institutions.
ah yeah the clinton are notoriously not part of the oligarchy lmao\
You could plot a coup and overthrow the government, but we’re not delusional, and that’s obviously not happening anytime soon so, might as well explore other routes.
Classic prisonner’s dilemma. It takes two not to collaborate and eat the cake, but you’re too much of a coward
Liberals are for oligarchy. How can you be anti-oligarchy if you are pro-capitalism and pro-markets?
Weird how the left is crushed and weak when the entirety of the US 20th and 21st century is crushing anti-oligarchy (a.k.a left) forces. Maybe it isn’t a failure of the goal, but that willing yourself into power isn’t going to magically make it happen.
Liberalism is not inconsistent with regulation. Oligarchy introduces inefficiencies to the market. Liberal Democrats have been generally open to and supportive of regulations which oppose oligarchic monopolies, and mitigate externalities. They certainly have their flaws, too many to enumerate here, but they generally want the market to run as “purely” as possible, without the confounding effects of oligarchy. Oligarchy and monopolies upset the mechanisms of the market, and the liberals are the ones passing regulations to try to prevent that. This much is obvious by the existence of regulations, and the near absence of legislators to the left of liberals.
Liberalism is not fully mutually exclusive with regulation, but liberal regulation is to try to maintain capitalist markets against their own failures. Yes, they can be willing to engage in some regulation to try to maximize future markets and capitalism. But they are pro-oligarch and pro-inequality, liberals are trying to maintain it long-term even if the most extreme excesses of oligarchs must be reigned in for the short term.
But most importantly, Oligarchy and monopolies aren’t an “upset” or disruption of markets, but the obvious and natural outcome. Profits are optimized by consolidation and removing competition. And even if competition is maintained, once one company wins the competition there is monopoly, and the fact that most capital intensive industries have a natural barrier to entry (it would take billions of dollars of venture capital to enter and be a very weak competitor with the incumbent) means that markets have oligarchy and monopoly as their natural and necessary outcome.
A homeless guy can’t just immediately become a billionaire by saying that there should be a competitor of genetic testing with 23andMe.
But they are pro-oligarch and pro-inequality, liberals are trying to maintain it long-term even if the most extreme excesses of oligarchs must be reigned in for the short term.
The liberal approach is stretching that short term out forever. They will always reign in outliers and apply bandaids to keep the charade going, directly targeting oligarchy and inequality to keep up appearances that liberal capitalism works. The other guys wanna get to the end already, where they own everything forever. Oligarchies stagnate markets, and liberals don’t want the music to stop.
The eligible voting population is about 30% for oligarchy, 30% for the liberal charade, 5% for some other opinion, and 35% totally politically apathetic. The point was that if you want to actually accomplish something in a democracy, you need demographics. You’ve gotta find 30% to challenge the actual pro-oligarchy demographic somewhere.
You should read about what happened to domestic left parties and people after WWII. Also what the US did to left elements abroad. The state of the left in the US today didn’t evolve naturally to its current status quo.
so… why didn’t the left stop fascism? I hear a lot of talk about killing people, but it’s been three months and nothing has happened.
Are we all just yappers?
You can bitch all you want, but the right won, and they won exactly what they wanted. So bitching about it on the left isn’t going to make us anymore likely to win, is it?
We have no leftwing party in the United States
I phone banked for Sanders on 2 campaigns.
I don’t see Neoliberals or Fascists as winning, just different degrees of losing.
I no longer have the slightest hope of ever “winning” a prosocial government here. We’re too oligarch captured.
I talk and comment to maintain my sanity in an insane capitalist hellscape I lack the power to change.
probably because the left is so dysfunctional they cant form a cohesive group that people want to vote for.
perhaps join the liberal fight, and fight against things like oligarchy, which liberals are not for, because it’s obviously bad for institutions. The better the institution is at helping the people, the better the people are.
Liberalism is basically the only option you have here, realistically. Anything you can do to change the political tide and get people to care about the importance of good governance, is a good thing.
You could plot a coup and overthrow the government, but we’re not delusional, and that’s obviously not happening anytime soon so, might as well explore other routes.
yeah I wonder if all the demonization and litteral killing of communists for the last hundred years have something to do with that.
ah yeah the clinton are notoriously not part of the oligarchy lmao\
Classic prisonner’s dilemma. It takes two not to collaborate and eat the cake, but you’re too much of a coward
Liberals are for oligarchy. How can you be anti-oligarchy if you are pro-capitalism and pro-markets?
Weird how the left is crushed and weak when the entirety of the US 20th and 21st century is crushing anti-oligarchy (a.k.a left) forces. Maybe it isn’t a failure of the goal, but that willing yourself into power isn’t going to magically make it happen.
Liberalism is not inconsistent with regulation. Oligarchy introduces inefficiencies to the market. Liberal Democrats have been generally open to and supportive of regulations which oppose oligarchic monopolies, and mitigate externalities. They certainly have their flaws, too many to enumerate here, but they generally want the market to run as “purely” as possible, without the confounding effects of oligarchy. Oligarchy and monopolies upset the mechanisms of the market, and the liberals are the ones passing regulations to try to prevent that. This much is obvious by the existence of regulations, and the near absence of legislators to the left of liberals.
Yeah Margaret Tatcher was a great person. Every decent communism should ally with her and her spiritual descendant
lmao
Who said Margaret Thatcher was a great person? That’s a wild straw man.
Liberalism is not fully mutually exclusive with regulation, but liberal regulation is to try to maintain capitalist markets against their own failures. Yes, they can be willing to engage in some regulation to try to maximize future markets and capitalism. But they are pro-oligarch and pro-inequality, liberals are trying to maintain it long-term even if the most extreme excesses of oligarchs must be reigned in for the short term.
But most importantly, Oligarchy and monopolies aren’t an “upset” or disruption of markets, but the obvious and natural outcome. Profits are optimized by consolidation and removing competition. And even if competition is maintained, once one company wins the competition there is monopoly, and the fact that most capital intensive industries have a natural barrier to entry (it would take billions of dollars of venture capital to enter and be a very weak competitor with the incumbent) means that markets have oligarchy and monopoly as their natural and necessary outcome.
A homeless guy can’t just immediately become a billionaire by saying that there should be a competitor of genetic testing with 23andMe.
The liberal approach is stretching that short term out forever. They will always reign in outliers and apply bandaids to keep the charade going, directly targeting oligarchy and inequality to keep up appearances that liberal capitalism works. The other guys wanna get to the end already, where they own everything forever. Oligarchies stagnate markets, and liberals don’t want the music to stop.
The eligible voting population is about 30% for oligarchy, 30% for the liberal charade, 5% for some other opinion, and 35% totally politically apathetic. The point was that if you want to actually accomplish something in a democracy, you need demographics. You’ve gotta find 30% to challenge the actual pro-oligarchy demographic somewhere.
You should read about what happened to domestic left parties and people after WWII. Also what the US did to left elements abroad. The state of the left in the US today didn’t evolve naturally to its current status quo.
Well said.