Democrats: We tried to give you $100 dollars to cover your rent and groceries for the month, but Republicans wouldn’t let it pass unless we whittled the number down to $5.
Liberals: We’d love to give you universal healthcare and universal basic income and free you from oppressive medical and student loan debt. Oh and we can do all this well stopping climate change, and strengthening the economy.
Working Class: interesting… We’ve heard you all, and we’ve chosen to split our votes between the Republicans and the Democrats. Again.
Liberals: What the actual fuck.
Republicans: Oh good. To celebrate we’re going to open-mouth cough on you, then throw a dart at The Constitution to see which right we want to take away from you next.
Oh my sweet summer child, liberals only care about their bank accounts. They just pretend to care knowing that shit won’t happen because Republicans won’t let them. It is all theatre to keep you from seeing that they are all the same.
You can’t paint with this broad of brush. Clearly some Democratic politicians actually give a shit (especially as you get down to state and local levels) – total cynicism about politics is reactionary. And of course a ton of lib activists (who are not getting paid, or who are even sacrificing earnings for political purposes) actually give a shit.
The goal is to separate these folks from the opportunists and then convince them that we have a better way to improve things.
It doesn’t matter if there’s a handful of low-ranking Dems who might want to do more for the working class. The system is set up in a way such that they’ll never be able to make any meaningful changes. If it were possible to vote in a better system, it would’ve happened already.
I’m not suggesting that we can vote our way to socialism. I’m pointing out that extreme cynicism about politics is reactionary (“there is no society”, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”, and all that) and not accurate.
To get people on our side we have to describe the world as it actually is (accurate) and show a path to something better (not reactionary).
Who cares if some dems have good intentions? They’re bourgeois tools either way. Is our prime revolutionary demographic career politicians? No. Do we accept the logic that it’s just a few bad apples in policing? No, we say ACAB because they all uphold the same system whether or not they’re in the majority that do extra heinous shit. Just because regular working class people vote democrat doesn’t mean they’re worth supporting.
What are the ‘liberals’ in your fanfic? They promised something to the working class, so I’ll assume they are another bourgeois political party and got no votes.
Bernie should be in the dock for supporting the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, AOC and Warren for supporting the funding of nazis in Ukraine. Practically speaking, they’re open fascists. Gulag them all.
Supported the attempted coup in Bolivia too, and refused to meet with Statesian-Bolivian constituents who supported Morales and wanted to meet her and discuss this with her. She met with Añez instead.
And still hasn’t got any tangible progressive policy out.
They are liberals. So is Trump, though. So were Reagan and Thatcher. Liberalism is the [main] ideology of capitalism. The westerners who pretend that liberalism is progressive have either been asleep since the late 1600s or are charlatans.
Sounds like the democrats are losers if they can’t work around the Republicans tbh. This doesn’t really make them look like the underdog, it makes them look like losers who cave at the first sign of pushback, which is what they are. Do you really think Biden, with his millions, cares about the Walmart worker making 5$ an hour? He doesn’t even go to Walmart, it’s too poor for him.
Working Class: Help Us Please
Republicans: Shut up you whiny cucks. Heil Trump!
Democrats: We tried to give you $100 dollars to cover your rent and groceries for the month, but Republicans wouldn’t let it pass unless we whittled the number down to $5.
Liberals: We’d love to give you universal healthcare and universal basic income and free you from oppressive medical and student loan debt. Oh and we can do all this well stopping climate change, and strengthening the economy.
Working Class: interesting… We’ve heard you all, and we’ve chosen to split our votes between the Republicans and the Democrats. Again.
Liberals: What the actual fuck.
Republicans: Oh good. To celebrate we’re going to open-mouth cough on you, then throw a dart at The Constitution to see which right we want to take away from you next.
Oh my sweet summer child, liberals only care about their bank accounts. They just pretend to care knowing that shit won’t happen because Republicans won’t let them. It is all theatre to keep you from seeing that they are all the same.
There’s reddit in my lemmygrad!
You can’t paint with this broad of brush. Clearly some Democratic politicians actually give a shit (especially as you get down to state and local levels) – total cynicism about politics is reactionary. And of course a ton of lib activists (who are not getting paid, or who are even sacrificing earnings for political purposes) actually give a shit.
The goal is to separate these folks from the opportunists and then convince them that we have a better way to improve things.
It doesn’t matter if there’s a handful of low-ranking Dems who might want to do more for the working class. The system is set up in a way such that they’ll never be able to make any meaningful changes. If it were possible to vote in a better system, it would’ve happened already.
I’m not suggesting that we can vote our way to socialism. I’m pointing out that extreme cynicism about politics is reactionary (“there is no society”, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”, and all that) and not accurate.
To get people on our side we have to describe the world as it actually is (accurate) and show a path to something better (not reactionary).
Who cares if some dems have good intentions? They’re bourgeois tools either way. Is our prime revolutionary demographic career politicians? No. Do we accept the logic that it’s just a few bad apples in policing? No, we say ACAB because they all uphold the same system whether or not they’re in the majority that do extra heinous shit. Just because regular working class people vote democrat doesn’t mean they’re worth supporting.
What are the ‘liberals’ in your fanfic? They promised something to the working class, so I’ll assume they are another bourgeois political party and got no votes.
Bernie Sanders? AOC? Elizabeth Warren?
Bernie should be in the dock for supporting the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, AOC and Warren for supporting the funding of nazis in Ukraine. Practically speaking, they’re open fascists. Gulag them all.
AOC also supported the color revolution in Cuba and the attempted coup in Venezuela
Supported the attempted coup in Bolivia too, and refused to meet with Statesian-Bolivian constituents who supported Morales and wanted to meet her and discuss this with her. She met with Añez instead.
And still hasn’t got any tangible progressive policy out.
They are liberals. So is Trump, though. So were Reagan and Thatcher. Liberalism is the [main] ideology of capitalism. The westerners who pretend that liberalism is progressive have either been asleep since the late 1600s or are charlatans.
No they’re democrats
Sounds like the democrats are losers if they can’t work around the Republicans tbh. This doesn’t really make them look like the underdog, it makes them look like losers who cave at the first sign of pushback, which is what they are. Do you really think Biden, with his millions, cares about the Walmart worker making 5$ an hour? He doesn’t even go to Walmart, it’s too poor for him.