torture seems like a pretty good compromise
/s
I’m gonna throw this at someone next time they act like I’m an extremist for being anti-maga
It’s such a useful cartoon. Unfortunately relevant almost all the damn time.
Pictured: Stalin talking to the German Communist Party.
Bad news is there are a lot more racists than leftists. If leftists want to force compromise we need to increase our bargaining power somehow.
The thing people don’t seem to understand is that political compromise happens not because it is wanted. It’s because the other faction has forced it.
Compromise happens in systems that enforce it, i.e. multi-party systems.
Very true. The system itself is a big part of the issue.
You win over others with policies, policies that improve their material conditions. Those policies are popular across the board.
Unfortunately the vast majority of the public is too disengaged to care about details like “policy”, instead voting based on gender, skin tone, and lies- if they vote at all
Is that analysis based on data or vibes?
The data on why the Democrats failed to win is clear
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Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college
Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones
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https://blueprint2024.com/polling/harris-poll-positive-message-8-8/
https://blueprint-research.com/polling/distance-biden-ads-message-test-10-15/
“This was a preventable disaster,” Cook said, “but Harris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young, and progressive voters.”
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That’s a factor.
But I wouldn’t rule out gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter caging and the massive oligarch-owned far-right propaganda machine that dominates TV viewership and social media.
I guess the midterms in 2026 will show us whether or not that multi-tiered attack is enough to kill democracy, or if the people of the US really do vote based on the economy.
The best way to improve the odds is to help build a real opposition with your local DSA
Different groups of people. A very significant chunk of people aren’t even aware that the US is at war.
If you can’t back up your claims with data, I don’t get the point of this conversation
https://theconversation.com/what-americans-think-of-the-war-in-iran-277627
The left has been busy to expand and redefine racism instead of focusing on class solidarity.
You hear the same thing from people who say that “both sides of politics are wrong.” What they actually are saying is that the left won’t listen to the right side… as an example, I have a friend who lives in another state who is a hard-core Trump supporter, but since his reelection he has had his eyes opened up to how terrible he is, but at the same time he still supports ICE but calls Trump a pedophile but then also says that the democrats are the real problem with everything…but both sides are bad apparently.
This certainly isn’t true of every case. Socialists, viz., those who are further left than Democrats, have good reason to find fault with both sides. Allow me to give you some examples:
• Republicans and Democrats both vote to increase ICE funding every year. • Republicans and Democrats in Congress both practice insider trading. • Republicans and Democrats both bail out banks and give corporations subsides (i.e., corporate welfare). • Republicans and Democrats both receive campaign finances from billionaires (i.e., legalized bribery). • Republican and Democrat presidents both drone strike "terrorists" overseas and bomb countries without Congressional approval. • Republicans and Democrats both kept Guantanamo Bay open for decades. • Republicans and Democrats both crack down on whistle blowers. • Republicans and Democrats both maintain a surveillance state on its citizens. • Republican and Democrat administrations both assassinated democratically elected leaders overseas. • Republicans and Democrats both fund Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.Trump was not created ex nihilo. Presidential power has been growing for decades. Congress has been blatantly corrupt for decades. We have broken (and supported breaking) international laws for decades. To equate all major problems with one side of the political aisle would be overly reductive.
Some countries actually have a functionning centrist partt
