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Controlled opposition (lemmy.world)
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[–] 53 points 1 month ago (8 children)

No one needed to sell out the Democrats. When Nixon was president, the entire time the Democrats held strong majorities in both bodies of the legislature. You know what they did with it? They joined Nixon in developing the war on drugs to turn normal legal behavior into felonies that would disenfranchise Black people and those that associated with them.

The Ds have ALWAYS been this evil. No one needed to sell them out. They have always been a faction of the elite collaborating with the other factions of the elite.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    When Nixon was around, conservative Dixiecrats were still a thing. You can't really compare across different party systems.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Sure, that's why Biden was different when he architected the crime bill and why Clinton was different when he went after Black "super predators" and spiked racialized incarceration and why Obama was different when he expanded DHS and ICE immensely and appointed Homan and deported 3M people and human rights organizations fought his policies and why Obama and Clinton devastated Libya. Very different

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah Chomsky spoke about it in the 70s as well, I think

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