No, we really weren't. America has always been a pretty shit country to anyone who wasn't owning class. Any good that came about during the course of this country's existence was in spite of it not because of it.

Unbelievable that there are some Americans in politics that get off so much on being told 'you owned a lib' that they vote against their own interest and inspire baseless fear of normal human needs and rights.

Yes, thank you! You got it.

Crabs don’t need to boil to hold each other down, they’re just assholes.

Like humans.

Hope is a toxic ideaology. It does nothing but destroy us, like a cheap steak in hydrofluoric acid.

It stays our hand, and slows our response.

Hope needs to die.

and be replaced by an unbridled, mindless, blackout rage.

Can also raise it at your side to avoid the bad zone.

Owning class.

How much in your bank account isn't the point — it is how that money got there. It just so happens that practically nobody ever became a billionaire without the use of exploitation.

So not just billionaires but any who make their income through exploiting their private ownership over the tools, land, and resources which make production possible that, under the capitalist system, entitles those "owners" to the excess value of labor, in the form of profits, that are generated by the working class – individuals who must sell their labor to these owners for a wage – under their employment.

Plenty of people who voted for the republicans are poor as shit. Selfishness doesn't stop downwards at being rich.

Voting for a party just because you want others to suffer more than you do is pure selfishness too.

I do agree there are some issues that would not be there without the Republicans, that's not what I'm saying but rather saying only blaming the Republicans doesn't solve the real issues we have

I think you both agree that it's more complicated than that and it's a systemic thing effecting both parties. I think he just wrote it differently than you read it

Republicans blinking out of existence doesn't solve the fundamental issues of capitalism that inevitably lead people to those ideologies.

Those systemic forces still exist, a new version of them would simply take their place when people tie their personal interests to the interests of capital.

Sorry your getting downvoted for making the children here uncomfortable.

It's not about opinion, there is scientific studies that give you evidence how the democratic interest of the vast majority is not represented, but the rich.

There are also historical theories that explain why this neo-fascism was the inevitable outcome of neoliberal policies, because material conditions degraded. That's why it's happening everywhere, not just the US.

The democrats shifted to the right, or away from social democratic policies since Trump not because they are winning strategies - but because they know the alternative for the voter is even worse. So policy not according to being able to win, but being able to gain and maintain power (donors, influence) and wealth.

Policy currently has absolutely nothing to do with ideals, ethics or ideology. Those are just pretty words sold to the masses.

You'll need drastic changes, a purge and redistribution of wealth and power and the news and social media.

Extreme leftist don't vote then wonder why a candidate doesn't try to earn their vote.

There are leftists trying to gain a foothold in the Democrat party, and some are succeeding (see the latest New York mayoral primary).

Many people ignore primaries, though. You know who does vote in primaries? Older more moderate voters. So progressives tend to lose primaries, then the people who didn’t bother with the primaries complain there aren’t progressive enough candidates in the main elections, so they don’t vote.

If you want more leftist candidates (within the FPTP system), support progressive candidates and show up to the primaries.