I'd point out the work of Lina Kahn under the Biden administration as head of the FTC was very progressive until it was dismantled by the current corrupt administration.
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Democrats need to go back to combating hypercapitalism, that portion of politics was the most popular in all of US history up until the late 1900s.
I can explain it like this: The most popular president in history is either George Washington, or Franklin D Roosevelt. Washington could have been king, but set it aside (undisputed badass). FDR was the only president in history to be elected for more than 2 terms (he was elected as president 4 times). FDR helped usher in those "magical" 95%+ tax rates on millionaires and implemented strict business and wealth restrictions. FDR'S "socialist" programs were insanely popular, even amongst non-democrats... no one could successfully run against him. We need someone like that.
Democrats need to go back to combating hypercapitalism
Guessing that, looking at their own stock portfolios and exploding wealth, and now their ability to increase it exponentially by insider betting on prediction markets, that they don't feel the urgent need to do much of anything about it beyond pretending to give a shit and then trying to curb stomp any real progressive who gains traction, like they did to Mamdani and Graham Platner.
100% agree, they have been corrupted by "Citizens United" as well.
There are no solutions now, only collapse, and history demonstrates that it will. Mamdani's election will do some limited good for sure, and that's great, but the establishment will learn from that loss and determine how to prevent it in the future, just like they did after Ross Perot got so close to the presidency.
The only power you or I have is local, and I'd advise you to be involved locally as a voter and if you have the time and money, to run yourself. (And, generally, to just do good things in your neighborhood like picking up trash or handing out sandwiches to homeless people.)
The only exceptions to that are being a billionaire or being willing to go full Player 2 like a certain CEO-hating Italian.
Primarying might work on the local level, but it won't work for any national office, because Democrats do not have to play by any rules or honor the result. If they did, we'd have just witnessed the end of a second Sanders presidency, we'd all be making a living wage, and cost of living would actually be affordable.
I do love your 'complaining' comment though, as if I'm the problem.
If voting worked your party wouldn't be first term trump conservatives
Im not the one incapable of reading community rules telling you to leave your bullshit liberalism at the door. This very post is about people like you. Liberals that love coming into communist spaces and trying to colonize it with your bullshit, then rant when your colonization isnt tolerated.
You can leave if you want, since you clearly hate it here. You have a clown image for a reason it seems.
The US was ready for it, but he was a party sheepdog who was never gonna win. His sole purpose in the elections were to keep disenfranchised voters rounded up in the party until it was too late to form outside coalitions.
I'm happy to rage at how terrible Democrats are. I just also want people to recognize how outwardly horrible Republicans are. I think of Democrats as capitalistic opportunists that see an illogically frothing-mouthed monster, and developed a profit means to fight it forever through virtue signalling.
By all means...that monster shouldn't exist. Not by votes anyway. It has no logical means by which to exist, and it's a cancer not just to Americans but the whole world. No matter how anyone explains it, I'll never understand how people keep voting for them.
Yeah. I called it last time a few months early.

Every fucking day it’s anothe democrat texting me, begging me for more money I don’t have.
I don’t have $5 you fucks. You stole it when you raised my taxes, gave me shit, and then bailed out more billionaire cronies.
Which Democrats raised your taxes? Let's look at the legislation then we can look at who voted which way on it.
Biden, when he was asked his first day in office if he will be repealing Trump's tax cuts for the rich. He firmly said no.
Got a source for that lie? I don't see anything regarding Trump's tax cuts on Biden's day one agenda, nor can I find any relevant Biden quotes.
And even if it wasn't a complete fabrication on your part, it still wouldn't answer the question. Biden didn't raise your taxes. You said it yourself, it was Trump's policy.
He also campaigned on eliminating Trump's tax cuts to the rich, which didn't happen.
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