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Once Again, the Democratic Leadership Has Failed Us All
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We aren't getting rid of that in the next 4 years. And I'm a former Republican so I'm not exactly against corporate interests (indeed, corporate interests is where the money and support is).
I'm an anti Trump and as of now, former Republican. This was it for me, it's clear that Republicans can never defeat MAGA so I'm switching to the Democrats side and gonna see what I can do here.
I get that Democrats are more liberal than me so I'll accept my place as a minority view. But I'm not against corporate interests. I'm just against the disaster that's about to happen here in America and now willing to join Democrats to stop it in 2026 and 2028.
This is perfect. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you are the perfect example of why America just voted for fascist dictatorship — you still believe MAGA's are the problem, completely ignorant of the fact that you, your beliefs, and your support for money-is-speech corporate-owned politics places you in the upper percentiles of most-to-blame voters; the older and better educated you are, the more you are to blame. If you've voted R your whole life and are 50+, you're like top 5-10% responsible.
Now you'll consider yourself a Democrat, and support your conservative-indoctrinated idea of "moderate" politics, shifting the already center-right Democrats and Overton window even farther right, while supporting the fallacy that non-profit healthcare, education etc are "radical leftist" beliefs, instead of "what the rest of our allies have had for 50-100 years"... you'll solidify the fascist dictatorship over the next 10-20 years, and you'll do it all, while blaming "the left" — the very people who have been warning that "this would lead to fascism and extremism" for decades.
If I were born in America, I'd probably have ended up less educated and be some tankie communist or MAGA fascist myself because of fellow cotizens just like you. I've never felt better to be Australian, and born under the umbrella of a far more stable, compassionate, governance; despite conservatism/neoliberalisms best efforts to the contrary.
Or maybe, being a naive fool is how the left loses elections.
The Republican right explicitly builds media to serve them and tries to use media as a tool for control. And it works.
You can fight against the laws that empower this money system. But if you naively ignore the power structure and reality of today's media landscape, you WILL BE DOOMED TO LOSE.
If you want to fight against it that's.... Fine. I get it. But you need power first and the current level of power Democrats wield is too low.