At this point America has terminal cancer in every single major organ. The only cure from here is to cut it all out and replace it with someone fresh or a near fatal dose of chemo to wipe it all out. Anything less will just delay the inevitable death.
Ok. So do something besides talking.
He’s a senator. That’s what senators do.
I like Sanders, and think he could have been a terrific peacetime president in a better timeline. Unfortunately, I suspect we will need to shed blood and lose many innocent lives in order to get somewhere decent now.
We need a leader who is willing to fight, and to sacrifice lives like mine, to create a future.
Meh, good luck to Bernie and similar minded Americans.
But as a Canadian, I ain’t going to America again, and I’m doing everything I can to get off of American products.
Like the news in America is currently going on about Trump’s comments about nationalizing elections, and how people are afraid he may try to meddle in their elections. As though he hadn’t tried to lead a violent insurrection when he lost last time around. Most of them seem to want to watch it all burn, and are willing to follow a convicted felon, alleged child rapist, and “prolific” pant shitter to see it happen. They’re willing to shrug off Musk’s Nazi salutes, and the epstein stuff is just a side-show without any real accountability for anyone involved. They’re openly attacking other western democracies and attempting to undermine THEIR OWN ALLIES national security, while making absolutely bullshit claims about their neighbours causing “national security emergencies” by having trade deficits. It’s utterly fucking absurd.
It should be really simple. You don’t attack your allies. But Americans are too stupid to even figure that one out it seems. So idk, I think Bernie may be dreaming of an America that doesn’t exist anymore. But best of luck to em.
Bernie. Honestly. The US is fucked. You know it always been fucked. It’s waaaaaay past the point of no return.
What Bernie is trying to say is it’s possible we could save her, in theory, so we have to pretend like we will do that. But in practice obviously it’s not. Namely because we fight under the controlled opposition, and people by and large still trust them.
In fact I am beginning to think the population is being dosed with something to make them docile, or cuntish, if you will.
I know Bernie is offering hope which is nice. But fascism is ugly and requires ugly means to root out.
I wouldn’t frame it like that, but yes, we require someone that knows how to build and run a political machine, someone that is a strong leader, that can actually lead the troops, with direction, with vision.
Weak candidates like Biden won’t do it, neither will newsome. Not even close.
…it is not good enough just to be critical of Trump and his destructive policies.
(Thought that was a good addition from the article, left out of the subtitle.)
Here are just a few of the issues that must be addressed:
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We must create a vibrant democracy by ending Citizens United and preventing billionaires from buying elections.
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Whether the Democratic establishment likes it or not, we must guarantee healthcare as a human right through Medicare for All.
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We must build millions of affordable homes and apartments and give our younger generation the opportunity to own a home of their own.
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We must make public colleges, universities, trade schools and medical schools tuition-free and have the best childcare and public school system in the entire world.
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We must expand social security and bring back traditional pension plans so that every senior in this country can retire with dignity.
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We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage and guarantee every worker the right to join a union.
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We must demand that the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations in America pay their fair share in taxes.
So, human decency and objectively good measures are considered far left in the usa. Good thing I’m not an american.
No one is getting a single one of those bullet points out of Democrats
They damn sure aren’t getting a shred of one out of Jill Stein.
I think we have to start over. We aren’t one people anymore, nor is our society fit for a modern world. There is just too many structural issues in our politics and economy, that can’t be addressed by gentle reform anymore.
What the fuck do you mean by start over?
Once you’ve finished your starting over, would you reinstate Citizens United or abolish it?
Once you’ve started over, would you have free healthcare for all, or reinstate privatised insurance company-led doublepay healthcare?
Once you’ve started over, would you build millions of affordable homes, or are you planning on killing enough people that there’s a surplus already?
Once you’ve started over, would you charge for education or make it free?
Once you’ve started over, would you expand social security and reinstate traditional pensions, or reduce social security and continue to assume that everyone will be able to afford a good 401k?
Once you’ve started over, would you raise the minimum wage to an amount that people can realistically live on, or leave it so that corporations can underpay workers and leave social security to foot the bill instead or have starvation and homelessness as the warning to any prole stubborn enough to consider only working a single full time job?
Once you’ve started over, would you demand that the wealthiest people and three corporations pay their fair share of taxes, or would you allow all the tax avoidance schemes from before?
“Start over” is much, much, much emptier words that don’t have any hope of making anything better AT ALL than Bernie’s words.
If your only criticism of Bernie is that there just isn’t enough death and destruction for your tastes, but using that as a reason to disagree with his ideas is nonsensical.
If your criticism amounts to “death first”, then I have to tell you that Trump and ICE wholeheartedly agree with you.
A rewritten Constitution. For example, the 4th Amendment should treat our devices and bodies as “papers and effects”, so that unwarranted searches aren’t constitutional. Ditto for LGBTQ+ and minorities being treated as people from the outset, and more.
In any case, to broadly speak to your points: An replaced Constitution should have a section dedicated to economic fairness and mechanics to uphold a more egalitarian society. For example, workers having the right to vote for leadership positions and pay packages, UBI, universal healthcare, education as a paid job for students, and so on.
The Magna Carta, American Constitution, and French democracy were born of suffering and strife. We are now in a age where that happens again.
That’s a great list and all, but this is the guy who urged revolution and then turned tale and ran away three times and three times told us to vote for people who would never give us even a fraction of one of these things on this list. I was all in for him, but he let us down bad.
That’s cool but how are you going to do it?
By building a movement that demands it
The problem is that people say they demand it and then end up voting for people that do not care
Yes we should all vote for Russian asset Jill Stein instead /s
I mean concrete actions
I don’t know. Some of these points seem like discussion enders for many people. I suppose all I can think about is what I will do.
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The wealthy are not playing for the same team.
They don’t care if the country goes to shit they can just leave and find somewhere else nice to be. They would sell the country for a dollar and just go to Switzerland or whatever.
lol, you dont know swiss people. if they would come here, openly fuck around with elections, our direct democracy or state and personal rights, they would have a bad time. no matter the money.
Lol, no. Switzerland has the same issues. It’s just no as apparent/blatant. Naively believing that switzerland doesn’t have those issues is the very reason it has those issues as well.
Strongest Party more or less openly supports trump/maga. Go figure.
Seeing the Swiss Guard executing Musk and company would please me, I must admit.
Nestle and Syngenta I’m sure would give them some pointers to fit in.
PLEASE come and fuck with US! It would actually be interesting! Preferable, even. XD
I wish they would
So many “no shit” policies that we should have already been doing for decades, stymied as per usual by monied interests. Disgusting.
Both parties only do what their masters tell them to do. It isn’t their fault, man. They are helpless. It’s the systems fault. /s (just so no one gets confused)
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Why do I keep seeing people on here call Bernie a liberal zionist?
I think he supports 2 state solution, right? So some people consider that a form of Zionism. Which seems a bit questionable because I believe that has also been Hamas’s position for the last few years, although they don’t call it that.
Maybe there’s more to it. To be honest I’m not overly worried about the exact positions of one of the more outspoken critics of Israel in congress. I’d much rather focus my ire on its defenders, which are many.
He don’t believe that zionism is a colonial project and said that bds is antisemitic
This is Lemmy. There are extreme left here. So left that they kind of horseshoe back towards the right again.
Also, I’ve definitely seen your username here for a while. I’m sure you know this by now.
Horseshoe theory is a psyop. It’s not a thing.
It’s a thing, it’s just inaccurate — that doesn’t change the hard facts that both sides somehow find their way to differently flavored authoritarianism.
I mean, it’s a thing the way all propaganda is a thing, but it’s not just inaccurate it’s deliberate because that’s how propaganda works.
that doesn’t change the hard facts that both sides somehow find their way to differently flavored authoritarianism
If you truly believe this you have no concept of what Socialism and/or Communism actually is and have fallen HARD for CIA propaganda.
Start with the FOIA section of the CIA website before they take it all down and read up on what the actually admit to when it comes to propagandizing US citizens.
Good luck.
Yeah you’ll need to be more accurate than ‘start with the FOIA section’ — right now I’m laughing at John Mulholland being paid $3k by the CIA to write a fucking ‘guide on trickery and deception’.
Unless you’re trying to say I’ve fallen for propaganda because they’re good at sleight of hand, at that point I can just direct my laughter in your direction.
Keep reading. You’ll get there eventually. I’m sure you’re patient and diligent enough. I have faith in you.
YOU CAN DO EET!
Right.
While I’m doing that, how about you look up burden of proof buddy?
You’ll figure it out. Actually, on second thought, you likely should have already known about this. Which does beg the question ‘Why are you acting like you don’t?’ .
Unsure if edgy sarcasm or ML propaganda… Please disambiguate.
No more ML propaganda than the idea of horseshoe theory is CIA propaganda.
Also, ML propaganda? lol
Are still counting your age using “teen” at the end?
Thanks for disambiguating! :)
Di nada.
Also, no reason to use your 25 cent word of the day more than once. No one is impressed twice by its use.
Getting pissy at people for using a polysyllabic word twice isn’t coming across as the big own you seem to have been aiming for.
Why did you just say that?
Best guess? They’re either truly dedicated satirists, gone off the metamodernist deep end into deep post-irony, or they’ve genuinely decided that modernist Grand Narratives weren’t really all that bad (let’s just ignore all the atrocities they brought about). After all, far-left modernist narratives aren’t at all like those other, far-right modernist narratives! They’re different, just like everybody else who is selling a utopia (that’s only practically attainable through an authoritarian regime).
Yes. I mean, the only thing they have in common is they are part of the human political spectrum…
It truly boggles my mind that people don’t understand enough about politics and propaganda to realize this.
We’re not indoctrinated with this theory for no reason. Anti-communist propaganda serves bourgeois interests.
They only have little in common if you’re unimaginative.
Or one of them.
“Unscratched” liberals have much more in common with fascists than socialists.
One day you might look back on this and laugh at all the CIA propaganda you believed was true.
Oooohhh, spooky! 👻
That’s a Ken M type account. Go with it.
I used to play golf with Ken M.
Did he bring tree branches instead of clubs?
Who?
Ken M.
Oh.
Ken M
Oh
Because he is
Yeah anyone who isn’t a fraud must be a zionist.
Because he’s American
Oh honey if you think Americans invented liberal Zionism have I got news for you.
Well, we are certainly gaining enough downhill momentum to get us back up somewhere.
Feeling the need to explain how free fall works right now.
Fair point.
Cool so Dems are going to stop suing viable 3rd parties off the ballots, eliminate the billionaire class and disband?
Because that’s about the only way THAT is going to happen.
‘If you only vote harder for my good friends the status quo oligarchs that helped get us into this mess we can reverse Americas decline’
Bernie is doing what Bernie has always done, sheepdog for fascism.
That’s not what he said in the article
That’s been Bernie’s general message for years
Correct. Though I would more correctly say “Dems do what Dems have always done in the 21st century, guard dog for Fascism”.
Thank you for letting me know you feel this way.
Ah, I see Blue MAGA has arrived. Nice. Hey fellas.
Did you just call yourself “blue maga”? Weird, you’re supposed to be blindly calling people with valid opinions that, to shame them out of thinking clearly.
It bothers me that your reading comprehension skills are so bad.
Some of you kids shoulda definitely have been left behind.
Yeah third party voters generally have trouble understanding basic concepts
Is this that projecting that Dems do so well?
If every 3rd party voter had voted for Kamala you’d have still lost.
Against a 41x felon and pedo.
How fucked up is that when your position sucks so bad NOTHING can prop it up?
And people wonder why I voted for a black woman for president in that election.
Oh, the one who DIDN’T support a genocide. I know how that part tends to confuse Blue MAGA when I tell them.
Oh man such mind-blowing points…lol
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