• futatorius@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Or there needs to be an anti-establishment party, since the Democrats can never be one.

    • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      The issue is that unless we get rid of our first-past-the-post voting system and then enact further systemic change we are going to be stuck with the Republicans and Democrats.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

      Thankfully as Trump demonstrated, a political party can be hijacked to be whatever you want. But we need to do that to the Democratic Party, like Bernie tried to do. This will involve educating people out of their neoliberal positions and ideas but it can be done.

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        1 month ago

        This will involve educating people out of their neoliberal positions and ideas but it can be done.

        As I get older and meet more people, I find this goal harder and harder to reach. People are dumb.

        I think it starts with a smart and leftist, populist candidate, who can convince the dumb ones amongst us to follow them blindly. Then they will be educated by seeing how better things are for them under leftist leadership.

        Bernie, like you said, was basically trying to be this for the US.