On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 09:44:34 fkalosar101 wrote:
There are no liberal Democrats any more--only smug closet Karens and Reaganites in sheep's clothing. AOC is a liberal; Bernie Sanders is a liberal. They are being forced out of the party. The rest of the Democratic Party are nonhuman filth. Decent people engage with this shite by scraping it off their bootsoles.
The number of liberals has been shrinking in the Democratic Party long before Bernie's run in 2016. It likely goes back to Clinton-Gore,and their New Democrat reset of the party. Most of us here can recall what happened to Dennis Kucinich ,another more liberal candidate ,in 2004 and 2008. The question we ought to be asking ourselves, is how do we break the cycle of fear among voters ,that leads to lesser evil voting ,that only works to shift American politics further to the right? Breaking this cycle is the first step in getting large numbers of voters to leave the Democratic Party. Without that, nothing can happen.
We are in desperate need of a complete restructuring, and modernization, of the electoral system in this country. The whole thing needs to be pulled up, root and all. I suppose we could keep either one of the two existing parties ,if we were to keep a major party of the right ,and keep capitalism in place. European countries show us we can keep capitalism in place ,and have a more equitable system, as much as we would all like to see capitalism go the way of the Roman Empire, which I don't see happening any time soon.
I don't know what the solution is. It might be to form some sort of coalition of left-leaning smaller parties ,both new and existing ones, spanning the spectrum of left liberal/social democrat ,to full blown Marxist-Leninist ,and have all of us get behind single candidates all over the country. I think that might be one of the solutions Lenin might suggest ,were he around today. I know this would be a big accomplishment in and of itself, considering all the sectarian differences that exist. It might not be able to be done.
