Post AdeUDW5JZjLfAYV6Po by violetmadder@kolektiva.social
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 (DIR) Post #AdeUDCaq2ogGiX5zm4 by blogdiva@mastodon.social
       2024-01-08T22:41:12Z
       
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       Y'ALL you can vote for Biden in the primaries and November and still protest his shitty policies NOW.corporatist democrats aren't your friends. they're neoliberal machiavellians who sold us out and killed FDRs' New Deal.https://monthlyreview.org/2001/04/01/neoliberalism-from-reagan-to-clinton/don't be an ahistoric buffoon screaming "BUT TRUMP IS GONNA WIN". 45+ years of neoliberal Reaganism wouldn't have gotten us here w/o neoliberal democrats' complicity.so if we have no choice but to vote for corporatists, we MUST protest them 24/7
       
 (DIR) Post #AdeUDNnIOqBJSM0bDc by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-01-08T22:47:15Z
       
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       @blogdiva The problem is, their corporate masters (the politician's corporate masters)  know many people feel they have no choice in who to vote for, so they're going to keep giving us worse and worse corporate candidates every election. I know this because it's been happening in every election since I could vote. So many people have trouble seeing how voting for Biden is any sort of win.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdeUDW5JZjLfAYV6Po by violetmadder@kolektiva.social
       2024-01-09T00:00:24Z
       
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       @Ricardus @blogdivaWe have to give em hell for it.They've got a nasty grip on the inner workings of the electoral process, but we needed to do a lot more than vote anyway.The oh-well-guess-we-gotta-vote-for-genocide shit can't hold forever. If we stand up and let each other know we're not alone in being fed up with this bullshit we can make those walls shake.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdeUEXPi7U63a3WmS8 by blogdiva@mastodon.social
       2024-01-08T22:55:37Z
       
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       a lot of y'all need a refresher on how abjectly bad Clintonism was for the rest of us, so here's a good TL;DR based on one of the thousands of books published about Clinton's 8 years in office:"How Bill Clinton’s Presidency Changed American Capitalism – Mother Joneshttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/how-bill-clintons-presidency-changed-american-capitalism-lichtenstein-interview/Biden description as a centrist is but a euphemism: this is the man that called Storm Thurmond his Capitol Hill "dad". but his style of machiavellism makes him adept to reacting to protest. remember that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdeUEjudeJxyLS5eKG by blogdiva@mastodon.social
       2024-01-08T23:27:37Z
       
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       "Reaganism initiated a new “social contract” – according to which the handful at the top benefit egregiously, while everybody else works more and gets less."[...]"Bill Clinton [...]  didn’t just bring his fellow Democrats along as he set about promoting Reaganism.  He changed them fundamentally; causing them to make the Reagan agenda their own."just remember: there is no #Bidenomics without #Reaganism and  #Clintonism. "What is Clintonism? - CounterPunch.orghttps://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/25/what-is-clintonism/
       
 (DIR) Post #AdeUF4QDOd6lxB19Jw by blogdiva@mastodon.social
       2024-01-08T23:35:19Z
       
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       "The book begins with the rise of the DLC, which at its start, you observe, is very much a group of white male Democrats, mainly from the Sunbelt states. They’re united by a strong distaste for the politics of welfare liberalism, for the New Deal, and especially for the Great Society programs. What specifically is their critique of the postwar Democratic Party...?""The Damning Legacy of Clintonism | The Nationhttps://www.thenation.com/article/politics/lily-geismer-left-behind-qa/
       
 (DIR) Post #AdeVLfBJZTGJH4V744 by blogdiva@mastodon.social
       2024-01-08T23:49:35Z
       
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       @Ricardus you need to make it too costly for democrats to relie on their corporate masters. the only way you can do that is by finding your dissent community, supporting them and protesting anyway you can. if you are gonna wait until someone tells us 'these are the candidates', then you are gonna have to unlearn that shit. better start now than never.
       
 (DIR) Post #Adgh98K9UokveyLW4m by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-01-10T01:36:02Z
       
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       @blogdiva Absolutely true.Basically, I'm old and I've given up hope.