For the next two years, Democrats need to remain united, and Republicans divided. If Democrats control Congress in 2022, they can push through a more progressive agenda than they are now. But Democrats in conservative parts of the country need to be able to hold onto their seats for that to happen.
Not too sure "Progressive" is any better of a word on the left then it is on the right though.
We have a lot of centrists. If that wasn't the case, we sure as heck wouldn't have Joe Biden representing the Democrats, as he's as center to the left as it gets.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Americans struggle with the concept that socialism isn't just an economic model and that when many "socialists" call for "socialism" they actually mean taxing the wealthy a bit more in order to pay for stuff.
The reason they struggle with that concept is that their entire media is owned by the people who would be taxed more and those people are greedy psychopaths who don't want to give up any of their money and so for 70+ years they've been successfully brainwashing the American public into thinking that socialism would be terrible for them.
That's why norway has a trillion dollar surplus sovereign wealth fund and America has 28 trillion dollar debt.
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See, the thing that continues to confuse me is windering what happened to the true believers.
People get awfully invested in matters of right and wrong.
It stands to reason at least a few true blue crusaders would gain access to the upper echelons of power.
Or at the least, you'd have an army of activists carefully watching the power elite, to make sure their causes aren't perverted too badly for personal gain.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
You can look Costco as a company that follows a good number changes and thrives. They had higher than average worker wages and lower salaried Executive Leadership group.
The problem is the system rewards greediness and is designed to fuel that. So even if all the billionaires aren't "evil" they still get large benefits from the system which rewards them with more and more.
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It also means that the truly greedy ones can exercise their influence more on the system.
Sanders doesn't really "pretend" though. He wants the super rich and mega corporations to pay their fair share, no special rules for them and he gets labelled a "socialist!" because of it, which "socialism" is generally considered a dirty word in America, even by people who currently benefit from socialist policies like free-to-them medical care.
TBF, he also gets labelled a "communist" as well sometimes.
What's amusing is it's the same media that supposedly lie about everything nowadays that have been telling the plebs for decades that socialism is bad. But somehow they are telling the truth about that.
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Fair enough he did, so it's really how America views socialism as a dirty word, when we have socialism and socialist asepects already. Our police and fire departments, our roads, our retirement program, public schools.
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