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Am I the only one that believe the US has to go through some sort of painful transition/civil war/revolution to fix it? Is reforms from Democrats enough? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world -3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hence the supreme court decision and the mad rush to gerrymander the fuck out of every state they can.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The DNC isn't socialist though, it's just two factions of capitalists duking it out.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

While that's true, I do think that neither of those camps is willing to so much as slide back into a welfare state (even with extra imperialism on the side). The DNC doesn't want any more Mamdanis (even though he's a socdem at best), and if they think this'll prevent that, they'll let it happen, no matter how much they claim to oppose it. If there were any possibility of an actual socialist being elected, we'd see way worse than this.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed! I actually think the current factional war within the DNC might make room for a third party.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think you may be right. I just hope we can get them to move left instead of right. Nate Bear's recent post really gave me pause, because I know a lot of people who want to maintain their treats above all else. I want to have some faith in humanity, but we're definitely going to have our work cut out for us, I think.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I won't hold out for the DNC moving left. Entryism doesn't seem to be a valid approach.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Agreed. The DNC is bought and paid for.

Edit to add: I think I was unclear. In my previous comment "them" referred to the general public, not the Democrats.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

Ah, gotcha, agreed!