It’s the next chapter, but it’s always been where the story was going. The oligarchy has been running things since at least Reagan. Now the mask is off. Now it’s reaching the suburbs. You think being under the thumb of the rich and powerful is a new experience in America? Check your privilege.
“Not all the wealthy.” -Luigi
When is Harris’ anti-oligarchy rally? Obama’s? LOL, Pelosi’s? Why the fuck does this one guy who should be retiring on a beach somewhere have to keep dragging the entire Democratic party? I love Bernie, but it’s beyond pathetic that after all these years it’s still his job.
Add 'em to the list.
But, why were they only in control for 2 years? What is it about Democrats that makes them so pathetic that they can’t beat fascists? They have theory, but it’s the same theory that has failed again,band again, and again, and again. If they just lean a little further right they will capture the precious “center” and start winning. It doesn’t work, and they are doing it again.
In an age of record inequality and the mass enshitification of everything by wealthy elites, the unstoppable force isn’t bigotry, it’s populism. A populist shift is inevitable. Right wing populism is fascism, and Republicans have embraced it with gusto. Democrats would rather lose elections to fascists than become a left populist party again. It’s that simple.
The Democrats blame a worldwide rightward shift for their latest loss, and it’s fair enough to see. However, the biggest exception to the trend is just over our southern border. They rejected neoliberalism for Democratic socialism, and their aging male president just successfully handed over power to a younger woman who will continue his work. This is in a country that’s culturally and religiously even more conservative than the US.
Democrats aren’t victims of our eroding culture, they are the ones responsible for the erosion.
I’m quite familiar with Biden’s accomplishments. How much of that won’t be undone by Trump? It’s no good to make what are really minimalist gains if you are going to throw the next election to a fascist. Biden certainly was an improvement over what we had with Obama and Clinton. So what?
The sad fact is that the Democratic party oligarchs just figured out the populist mood the country is in and gave Biden permission to loosen the reigns a bit. So he partially turned back just a few of the things we lost over the last 50 years. Income inequality continued getting worse though. That cannot continue if this country is going to survive, and neoliberals are incapable of doing anything that doesn’t make it worse somehow.
They are definitely the controlled opposition. In some cases it’s the same sponsors and in other cases it’s not. It’s a slightly more benevolent but also more elitist bunch of oligarchs funding the Democrats. There is more overlap in corporate interests though.
The Republicans never seem so pathetic when they are out of power. Besides, they have been (intentionally) pathetic for decades, not six weeks. Do you remember Trump disappearing when he lost to Biden?
At least the midterms is right. This midterm should be an easy sweep for the Democrats, but they are already blowing it. Democratic strategists are already openly declaring their intention to double down yet again on strategies that always fail. No matter how many elections you bungle as a Democratic strategist, they will always take you back.
Bias always exists for any non-trivial topic, but there is also a gradient from less biased to more biased. Using “unbiased” is something some people do to mask our autism. Your point is correct but utterly worthless. It’s also an excuse that many weak minded people use for failing to rise above our post-truth culture.
You are confusing “unbiased” and “neutral”. If one party is telling nothing but lies and the other party is telling only the truth, a neutral news source will tell you all about the ensuring drama, what the polls say, and how it might impact the next election. What they won’t tell you is who is lying and who is telling the truth. Most mainstream news coverage is neutral and that’s a big part of how most Americans are ignorant and misinformed.
Unbiased reporting actually cares about the truth and will report it even if that means taking sides in the political debate. Unbiased reporting is very leftist friendly because most leftists care very much about representing reality in their opinions.
And yet, Republicans have been steadily making gains with the working class. With this past election they are now the dominant party for working class voters. It comes down to two things. American voters are deeply ignorant and the Democratic party is pathetically weak and out of touch.
For every dollar spent on IRS audits for middle America, they get about a dollar back in recovered revenue. For every dollar spent on auditing wealthy Americans, they get about twelve dollars back in recovered revenue. I don’t think these cuts are intended to help balance the budget.
Maybe they could help clue the Democratic party into the seriousness of the situation.
Not for most of us. Auditing average Americans is damn close to 100% automated. It’s the rich fuckers and corporations that take time and effort to audit.
It always has been.
True, unless it comes to fighting progressives in their own party. Then they suddenly remember how to fight.
That’s the only reason I’ve ever done much of anything in shell script. As a network administrator I’ve worked many network appliances running on some flavor of Unix and the one language I can count on to be always available is bash. It has been well worth knowing for just that reason.
conservative hacks who oppose Trump after being pieces of shit until just recently
Let’s be clear about this. They are still absolutely being pieces of shit. They don’t mind all the worst stuff that Trump will do, but they don’t like him being so obvious about it.
Evil people live longer.
It’s astounding how thoroughly the Democrats have convinced you that absolutely nothing is ever their fault. They are just fellow victims of a declining society that they had absolutely no hand in creating. Unbelievable.
It wasn’t just the establishment issuing warnings. The left has been telling the Democratic establishment for decades that they were leading us here, even before we knew his name would be Trump. Neoliberals disregarded the flashing danger signs over and over again.
Where we are now isn’t because of a single election. Do you think the Democrats were going to win every election forever? Do you think the Republicans were going to get any nicer? This war has been raging for over 50 years and you’re obsessing over one battle. Kamala and the rest of the establishment earned this outcome.