I meant to say Disfranchised: That means they can’t vote, and in the US that’s often for systemic reasons. Don’t like that Black people can vote? Make having a felony disqualify you from voting and disproportionately police and prosecute black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement

Many are disenfranchised for some reason or another.

Well, his all of his campaigns were about assuring his voters that nothing going wrong with the country was there fault in any way and they wouldn’t have to change their behavior at all to fix it. Tariffs was just something he fixated when he didn’t know how to deliever.

Quite often Nazism didn’t appeal to the upper class German Monarchists. Here’s an illuminating read from the 1940s: https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

British Imperialism?

I think you underestimate how far to the Right establishment Dems are

He has two occupations: grifting and being a hype-man. This fits with him being a hypeman

It’ll be an uphill battle since Ranked Choice Voting would weaken the power of both Democrats & Republicans and party leadership knows it but I also support it strongly for just that reason.

Can’t win them all. I ascribe to the saying “if voting didn’t work, they wouldn’t try so hard to stop people from doing it” though I am realistic about it’s limitations. Voting each year is the bare minimum people can do to change conditions.

I think the quote is saying that leaders aren’t being picked for perceived merits, rather we’re just shitheads picking shitheads

“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." -George Carlin

It’s not the the Supreme Court can’t control the president, it’s that they choose not to.

She may switch to that group of Republicans in denial about being Republicans that are known as Libertarians.

I could see someone in his shoes be worried about war crimes or crimes against humanity at this point. Even if they ARE drug dealers, you can’t just blow up the boat and it’s also very possible they’ve killed innocent bystanders.

New Title: Local Republican in denial about what being a Republican means shocked to discover truth about Republicans

If you haven’t joined a union, do so. If you have joined a union, start agitating for a general strike and don’t let the legality of a strike stop you. People can’t force you to work. Air Canada recently told the government to get bent and “illegally” stayed on strike for 3 days until securing almost everything they asked for. You’re not slaves.

What you do doesn’t really matter. The police will start a riot regardless of your actions.

The only way they could work harder to convince us they’re fascists is if Politicians got caught with an American Flag grafted into a swastika and an accompanying pro-hitler text message controversy.

When you have two major political parties and both are politically Right Wing, Manufactured Consent starts to feel normal to people.

I kind of agree but it’s also in their nature for obedience to authority to appeal to Right Wingers. Maybe they won’t have the same cult like devotion but I doubt they’ll simply “jump ship”