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I love how upset they get about Mandani. His crime, not been corrupt. Oh, the horror.
They will quite literally lock up socialist political dissenters before they allow any sort of socialist foothold to take.
How quaint that you think they will just lock them up.
"Ya know they murdered X and tried to blame it on Islam" "You know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam"
No, actually they got rid of King after he started speaking about socialist/redistribution policies.
Good point
Who or what is this Republic these clowns are always talking about?
Other than the woman in Colorado and Mamdani, who else is there? I keep hearing about this wave of democratic socialists, but 2 people are not a trend.
When has Republican fear mongering literally ever been based in truth and reality?
Save the Republic from what, Mike?
Fulfilling our moral obligations to one another as Americans? Our duty to the sick, to the elderly, to the poor, as commanded by your God? Honoring the sacrifices of our soldiers by actually living up to the Constitution?
Pedophile protector says what?
It is indeed dangerous. For people like him, who see the writing on the wall that they will face consequences.
He's right, though. America does need to take this seriously. And elect all of them. To save the Republic.
I don’t ever hear why the left leaning policies are bad, just that they are & should be hated. All I see is right leaning policies result in a reduction of liberties. What liberties would I be trading for left leaning policies? Which one isn’t a nanny state that tells me what I can and can’t do in situations that do not interfere with the liberty and health of another person? I’d prefer my tax dollars go to PSAs about good responsible parenting instead of having to prove my age to join a social media site. Parental control technology already exists. Tell people to use it.
This • 1000.
People gotta start getting Socratic about everything, but especially their news and politicians.
We've lost many critical thinkers in our time, with clickbait titles (many don't really read the articles), "talking points" instead of substantive conversations, and lack of reading good literature (which I believe help to spur creative thought and can lead people to question things more often).
Obey!
Save the republic from… AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE!!!
Please pray for the business models in this dire time.
Back in my day we licked insurance boot and sucked billionaire cock. Who wants to live in a world of affordable healthcare? THE DANGER IS RAEL!
545 people
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? They are the leader of the majority party. They and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in IRAN , it's because they want them in IRAN .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
In June, Mamdani said:
"For far too long our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people. It has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can."
Yes, Representative Republics are designed to be that way, which is why they won't solve their inherent systemic issues unless you manage to get a candidate in that replaces the whole thing with either a modernized Democracy (as in people have power instead of representatives) or rips out the least democratic aspects out of the system and replaces them with something more democratic.
I am a Mamdani!
It's okay, MAGAs. When we get free health care for ALL Americans, you'll get it too.
When we have free day care, you'll get it, too.
When we have free college or trade school, you'll get it, too.
No thanks necessary, not that we were expecting any. Clearly you weren't raised properly.
They don't care. They will starve their own children if they think even more colored children will starve.
Didn’t they rally to get rid of Obama care, then cry foul when it turned out it was the same as the ACA?
Even if Americans achieve these things, the next Republican government would slogan them out of existence
Lord Commander Johnson is a teensy tiny bit insecure methinks
Will America finally get a proper left wing?
Even if they get it, there's still the two party system. DSA would have to wipe the floor with the Dems nationwide, correct?
Anytime soon? Probably not.
But as someone who is decently US-left, I think that's not so important. If we can get people to the point of fighting for equal rights, human rights, universal health care, wealth equality, and social safety nets, we can worry about what's next after that.
For fuck's sake, we're dealing with fascism. Just getting us back to merely right-wing-centric politics would be a magickal feat.
They've always been there, only now can they be seen.
One of the good side effects of the internet; the government has a much harder time controlling the narrative. Those socialists have always been there and fighting for higher minimum wage and unions since 1910 or so. Prior to internet, they were simply ignored for the most part. I'm not even a socialist, and would have never known about them if I wasn't involved in local politics.
Government control of media remains a huge problem... don't trust any one source, verify everything as much as possible.
Do bear in mind that the root of the problem in the US is our oligarchs. We must deal with them FIRST, or it doesn't matter what else we do. That's why half (give or take) of the Democratic party is useless - because they have been corrupted by the oligarchs as well.
I don't care the terms people use - we're now calling it Democratic Socialism. Whatever we call it, we need to drive support for that until that part of the party can take over. But it will not happen if we don't remove the corrupting pressure from the oligarchs.
I would argue the root of the problem is the systems and institutions that enable these oligarchs to exist in the first place and give them the perceived social authority over this country.
The French Revolution didn't start after they removed the nobility, it started when the people began to unite and build alternatives to the systems they were living under which helped to establish mutual aid and other community networks of support that allowed them to eventually abandon their reliance on the systems of their oppressors.
My only counter is that the tools were put in place by the people with the money. So I have no disagreement with you - I see that distinction as unimportant because I believe we must deal with the rich and their tools already, so… I agree with you :)
Speaker Johnson has lost the plot entirely. His comments are showing consistently he has neither empathy nor perspective regarding the working class experience, and working class concerns.
Johnson has become a running trend of let them eat cake.
I just call him a traitor.
Corporations didn't do this.. the average voter did.
Discuss..
Corporations in this country have a huge influence on the average voter.
