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None of These People Should Ever Work in Politics Again (www.currentaffairs.org)

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For weeks following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance, his campaign publicly maintained the illusion that he was still well-positioned to defeat Donald Trump. Privately, they knew otherwise. As Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau revealed days after the election:

After the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine, and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters, at the time, that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. […] Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.

The implications of this are staggering, and it should be treated as a massive scandal.

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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've kept voting for the left most party with a chance, for my own conscience and for harm reduction, not for hope, for 20 years.

There's been no hope because our left most party has met their opposition so far up their ass, they only look left to a full blown fascist, and both parties openly take the same corporate bribe money to keep this exploitative economy and it's inhuman priorities exactly as it is while they war over how to, or if to, address some of the social issue symptoms it causes or exacurbates, so long as it doesn't meaningfully effect quarterly earnings results.

I could at this point be easily be convinced to vote third party for an explicitly anti-corporatist party even if it didn't have a chance.

The public, surprisingly bipartisan reaction (voters, not reps, obviously) to what happened a few days ago in New York has given me more hope for positive change in our cesspool of greed enablement than I have felt in my entire life. At some level, it seems many of our people do understand, despite all the corpo propaganda, that their enemy causing most of our ills aren't to their left or right, but economically above, encouraging us to fight about the symptoms of their dictates to THEIR captured government.

I would rather a left-wing populist steal the corpo DNC's base right out from under them as Trump did in 2016 to the RNC so it could have one of the only two banners that matter helping, but I sadly also think the DNC would rather do everything possible to lose than be dragged along like that and lose the corporate bribe gravy train that left-wing populism, unlike right-wing populism, would need to fight against.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, absolutely. Dems would rather lose than change. It just gives them more "pick us or you'll be sorry" ammunition.

Edit: You don't have to look any further than the bs soft-washing of the news media:

https://www.popehat.com/p/some-other-america-one-i-do-not-know

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