It shows how lost in capitalist control the two parties are, and also how weak the Yankee working class is as an organized force, that universal healthcare is a slam dunk that would secure them popularity for election cycles to come and the best they ever come up with is “what if we make this awful system a few percentage points less awful”. It’s a great example of how they don’t actually care about securing the votes of everyday people. If the power brokers tomorrow decided to do away with the sham elections, most of these reps would probably shrug and do whatever shady shit it takes to get a job in the new regime format without a second thought.
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It shows how lost in capitalist control the two parties are,
Always were. It’s always been a farce and the difference between knowing it intellectually, emotionally, and viscerally has taken time. The weird thing is, the longer it sat viscerally, the less agitated I am, not as in acceptance that there’s nothing I can do, more acceptance it’s not time yet.
That’s fair. Shitshow birthed of colonization and slavery. To be honest, I think the only reason I put it that way is because there was a period in the country’s history, albeit briefly, where the FDR New Deal coalition managed some reforms. It wasn’t even close to actually overcoming the systemic issues, but it was something. And these days, that kind of reform coalition feels like a pipe dream. Figures like Bernie Sanders are treated as radical for saying “minimum wage increase needed” and “public healthcare good”. As if this is an extreme position. While there are capitalist countries that have significantly better, without even being socialist.
It was never a good place for “non-white” folks. And it has never been a great place unless maybe if you’re the trifecta of rich+white+male. But there were moments in its history, to my rough understanding of things, where the electoral angle at least had more potential. Probably the most so when the USSR was a foil to the US as a global power. Not that I think voting would ever fundamentally change it. Just that I don’t think reform was always as impotent as it is now. But also, reform was probably at its strongest when revolutionaries were and the threat of them was more real to the state. So in a way, we could argue the state of reform is a reflection of the strength of local revolutionaries.
FDR didn’t offer a new deal out of the goodness of his heart. It was a reactionary compromise to stave off a communist revolt.
Death to “Israel” today, death to “Israel” tomorrow, death to “Israel” forever.
He’s basically saying that, but to us unwashed masses instead of Israel.
