They saw “Look at all the cool technology capitalism is going to bring us!” instead of “Holy shit capitalism will use this amazing technology to make everything worse”.

When has the CIA ever financed a communist coup?

The senate doesn’t actually need a supermajority to end a filibuster; they approve the rules that set how many votes are needed to break a filibuster with a simple majority.

Similarly they can replace the parliamentarian at will, as republicans have done in the past, but chose to keep a parliamentarian that prevented them from using budget reconciliation to fulfill their promises to the voters.

No oppressed person ever got their rights by appealing to the morality of their oppressor.

Both these movements would have failed if there wasn’t a violent component demonstrating the alternative if they didn’t choose the more peaceful route.

If you want more context on how the two method supported each other in the civil rights movement, here’s a good book.

It’s important to note that King didn’t unilaterally condemn violence, he acknowledged that they were a response to a greater, ongoing injustice, and that the white moderates who pretended to agree with their aims, but opposed them because of their methods were as much if not a greater barrier to civil rights than the klanman.

Facilitating genocide and calling all the politically-activated college students who would have been making up the dem’s ground game if not at least phonebanking, antisemites for whom free speech doesn’t apply were just a few of dozens of decisions the dems chose, knowing they would decrease turnout.

The dems lost because they thought they didn’t have to listen to their constituents to win.

You’re not going to find a good person who puts following rules written to benefit the capitalist class above freeing people from crippling debt.

They were only able to because of the way he went about it. He could have simply ordered the Department of Education to immediately forgive the loans and erase any record of the debt, and dared the SCOTUS to order him to create new debts (which he could simply ignore).

Nobody was screeching “don’t vote for Kamala”, we were telling Kamala what she needed to do to win. Instead she listened to the same campaign that killed Biden’s shot and we all lost because of it.

Nothing I could have done would have made genocide popular. Nothing I could have done would have made Kamala pledging to build the wall and get tough on crime look like anything but an admission that Trump was right the whole time.

That “tactical decision” enabled the democrats to sleepwalk into oblivion.

The only way the democrats could have won the last election is if they stopped trying to be “reasonable republicans” and instead used every tool available to accomplish what their constituents want. Like what the republicans are doing, but for good things like women’s healthcare and not drowning migrant children in the Rio.

Americans voted for Biden because the primary system heavily favored Biden and Americans were told Biden was “more electable” than Bernie, even though every one of Bernie’s policies and his messaging polled better.

If the DNC didn’t put their thumbs on the scale, Bernie would have won in 2016 (or 2020), and guaranteed a democratic victory in the next election because nobody receiving free healthcare is going to vote to go back to the current system.

Bernie isn’t radical, he’s a social democrat, he just looks radical because the democrats are right of George W Bush right now.

They in this case being libs in liberal democracies, not democrats specifically.

One way to resolve the contradiction between the capitalist class, which the state represents, and the masses, whom the state requires to maintain power is for the masses to believe their representatives want what’s best for them, but are powerless to implement it due to foreigners or nature or some other group, or are trying and it will happen some indeterminate time in the future.

This was from 2020

Federal taxes don’t actually work that way. The federal government prints its own money. All taxes effectively go into a giant shredder and are unrelated to spending.

That division is much, much older. The beltway is full of people who benefit from corporations or come from wealthy families and are materially aligned against the working class, and their ideology reflects this. These people as a group stand to lose more from the democrats moving to the left and hurting the bourgeoisie than winning than staying in the middle and losing.

This is a common dynamic historically; liberals in power need the people to maintain power, but their interests aren’t aligned with the people, so they pass policies that marginalize their own base of support, and so the conservatives take power and then do counterrevolution.

Oh, it didn’t work? I guess that just means the dems need to move further to the right. Why would the left do this to us?

And with VP, Eric Trump, the republicans don’t stand a chance! Surely this time the moderate republicans will vote democrat. And the dem base has to vote for the lesser evil, so that means 99% of Americans will vote democrat!

This was always Ukraine’s fate.

The OG coup happened under the Obama admin, the far-right were forced into government under Trump pt I, Ukraine was forced to sell off state assets and take billions in loans by the Biden admin, and now the US is preparing to pick the bones clean over the next decades.

It’s nice that yall are recognizing that the US isn’t there to help the Ukrainian people now, but we’re all gonna repeat this next war.

Eh, while they’re part of maintaining the status quo, we’re ruled by capital, and that was true before Kennedy too.

Referring to another nationality as animals is dehumanizing in contexts like this.

Sure, and Russia had their right-wing coup in 1991, and America is currently doing a self-coup.