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AOC suddenly leapfrogs to the front of 2028 presidential race on prediction market
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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The ratchet effect is an easy go to and I almost referred to it myself, but its a very non materialist framing. I think a better explainer is how the contradictions of liberalism cannot hold and eventually come undone.
"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
The materialist understanding of this is that both the democratic and republican party are the same class and simply use this strategy for optics and manufacturing consent.
A ratchet cannot move the other direction, so I do not believe that this implies that the parties are active players in politics and that the democrats could move left even if they wanted to.