Sanders put out a statement today:
We coulda had a bad bitch.
He would actually advance working class interests though, and all billionaire/corporate funding to the Democrats would be cut off as a result; Dems wouldn’t let that happen.
That’s the point of liberal “democracies” after all: keeping capitalists in power.
Get organized, that excuse of a democracy won’t save you.
So instead of democracy, then what, in your opinion?
You need a congealed working class before you can have a democracy. Right now, we have a fractured and alienated working class, so all we get are the motions.
- Gigantic voting districts where elected officials are lucky to know one constituent in 10,000.
- Systematic disenfranchisement of young voters, poc, and the internally displaced.
- Strict limits placed on individual bureaucrats who must pander to the broadly empowered private business interests.
- A fully captured court system that can tip the scales of an election.
- No regional autonomy. No public civil defense. No guarantee of political education. No right to free association of labor.
How do you engage with a democracy on those terms? What democracy is there to engage with? An election that is simply another consumer choice isn’t democratic. You still have no control over what you’re being offered and no participation on how the system is administered.
What you’ve listed are critiques. I agree with many of them. What I’m asking specifically is if not democracy, then what instead?
On paper, the United States is a federal republic, that votes for representatives for a bicameral parliamentary system that derives jurisprudence from English Common Law.
In practice, it’s a plutocratic oligarchy.
For context, I consider myself to be a market socialist who still wants a representative federal republic for the United States.
I have my own ideas for re-enfranchisement for the working class:
- abolish “first-past-the-post”
- restructure gerrymandered voting districts
- implement ranked choice voting
- constitutional amendment for term limits for every elected position
- allow cross-party voting in primaries
- abolishing Citizens United (what a cynically ironic name for what it actually allows for)
These points are only achievable by voting for candidates who advocate for such policies which is admittedly a long shot, given the average citizen’s knowledge of civics, political theory, economics, and statistics but it’s what I believe can work.
Or would you prefer autocracy? The “dictatorship of the proletariat”? Monarchy? Theocracy? Anarchy? Oligarchy? Syndicalism?
My ultimate point is that you seem to still want “democracy”, but you want it in practice, not just on paper, despite your claim of the point of democracies is to “keep capitalists in power”.
These points are only achievable by voting for candidates who advocate for such policies which is admittedly a long shot
Politics is the art of the possible. The entire job of political leadership is to advocate for policy change.
Again, My question to you is if not democracy, then what? Or do you actually want democracy? Please propose your alternative to democracy, given your claim about its purpose in “keeping capitalists in power”.
Or do you actually want democracy?
I want good policy.
If my democracy is producing bad candidates and bad policies, what purpose does it serve?
your alternative to democracy, given your claim about its purpose in “keeping capitalists in power”.
Capitalism is serviced by the illusion of choice in a functional monopoly. The solution is to break up the monopoly.
But that’s a Herculean task.
Democracy is the answer, democrats are not.
We need a real progressive party
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If only we could go back in time and make Bernie the Dem candidate and save Harambe.
Not just Harambe, but also Peanut.
If Bernie Sanders leaves the Democratic Party i will follow him.
He’s actually an independent, he just works with the Dems to get shit done.
He already did, didn’t you see the refreshing band of green next to his name amid all the red and blue? He generally votes the same as the Dems though.
Don’t you all worry your pretty little heads about any of this. In 4 years, the DNC will pick yet another anointed candidate for you to fall in line behind like good little boys and girls. And you all will dance and scream for joy and you will punish and cast out any who show signs of opposition to the one true anointed candidate.
As it was, is now and ever shall be. World without end of the Almighty DNC, Amen.
I could be wrong but polling I’ve seen says 83% of black men and 93% black women voted Democrat. Latinos and White people voted closer to 50% between the two parties
Latinos were the biggest loss as far as I can tell. There is a host of reasons why this group crumbled.
Let’s see how they like seeing family members deported.
Not just family members.
If you and your entire family are suddenly thrown in a cage, who are you gonna call to grab your birth certificate from the safe deposit box?
We never got to feel the Bern… :(
Bernie beating Trump is a nice fantasy, but it wouldn’t happen either.
This election was an information war, and the Democrats fought it like they’re in another century. And they’re going to lose again if they think sensible policy, however revolutionary and in-touch, and hopeful TV ads are how you win elections.
They need their own form of MAGA. And they need to flood and poison the internet and airwaves just like the Republicans did.
A Democratic MAGA equivalent would be quickly literally bulldozed by the militarized police nationwide.
Let them come
so some geriatrics are ok huh
Bernie Sanders told me to vote for Hilary Clinton so I voted for Hilary Clinton.
And then Bernie Sanders told me to vote for Joe Biden so I voted for Joe Biden.
And then Bernie Sanders told me to vote for Kamala Harris so I voted for Kamala Harris.
And now Trump is President again.
I’m beginning to think this guy might not have all the answers.
correct answers are wholly dependent on factual, unadultrrated, information. trumps crew is populated by numerous adulterers so the game id rigged at the outset
He endorsed the best chance there was to stop fascists from taking power. To do anything else would’ve been stupid.
It’s not his fault the dems keep royally fucking it up. It’s not like he has any decision-making power in their party.
He endorsed the best chance there was to stop fascists from taking power
He endorsed them as a last resort when all else had failed. And he immediately became a scapegoat for Clinton after she, too, failed.
What makes Sanders good isn’t his relentless flogging of the turds the DNC push out every four years.
It’s not his fault the dems keep royally fucking it up
No. But I dread to see what kind of hack he’s replaced with when he retires
Lemmy: get old people out of politics!
Also Lemmy: vote Bernie!
Pick a lane guys
It’s almost as if younger politicians with similar policy goals have been actively suppressed…
