Democ repbuc views Part 1

My demos views and below:

I am similar on political party thought to Sandi Toksvig "I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in" Billie Jo Armstrong of Green Day who makes music I like also has a similar statement which I also agree with

I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I am ME. As stated elsewhere, I support the Forward Party and it's ranked choice voting platform to help us go beyond our two party/candidate totalitarian society so we get more left wing, working class and politicians who reflect us on the ballots instead of career politicians. Ranked choice voting would give us more choices in Presidential elections beyond just , using an example from 2024 Joe Biden vs Donald Trump

I am exactly like Kyle Kulinski when it comes to the Democratic party and I support the Democrats like Kyle does. I am trying to get Kyle to continue to move the Democratic Party leftward from within

Joe Biden literally as Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's is still better than DJT.

No socialistic movement can be successful without significant participation of women. In the on going people's wars, women form the bulk of the most dedicated and heroic fighters while men are more likely to be troubled and desert in face of repression.

In Nepal, women squad leaders rightfully encouraged other women to publicly beat and humiliate rapists, abusive and drunk husbands, adulterers, etc

In Peru, the ruling class was so afraid of women’s power that stories circulated about the so called cruelty and abusiveness of women guerrillas who, supposedly, killed men who cried or were cowards. See "Shining Path Women: So Many and So Ferocious" from The NY Times.

Long live proletarian feminism. Socialist/L e ft W in g po litics are Feminism and they are one in the same (to quote Podemos For a feminist country, more democratic and with social justice)

For a feminist country. All political parties should have that as a motto for their political parties

Representative democracy is bad in part because it is open to abuse by special interests and political influence

I support ranked choice voting, in particular the Forward Party type to break up our uniparty control over our political system

I support non partisan primaries

I) Other Forward principles within politics I support:

WORK TOGETHER,

NOT AGAINST

Forward strives for collaborative solutions. We’ll make sure they work, and we'll try something else if they don’t.

II) ALL ARE WELCOME —

LEFT, RIGHT, OR CENTER

Forward is creating a political home for everyone willing to work together in good faith to find practical ways to make this country better.

III) MORE LISTENING,

LESS TALKING

Forward is asking what we can do for your community. We will not ask what your community can do for us.

IV) GRACE AND

TOLERANCE

Forward believes in approaching one another with grace and tolerance, finding ways to pick people back up rather than knock them down.

THE PARTY POWERED BY THE PEOPLE.

We believe everyday American citizens should be able to decide what is best for them. We are the only new party that is delivering a strategy designed to empower local leaders to unlock policy solutions that work in their communities. We don’t care about the D, R, or I next to your name. If you are willing to show up and work with people from all walks of life to find real solutions that work in your communities, you are welcome at the Forward Party. But enough talk. Here’s how we get things done the Forward way:

We are forming official executive committees in states across the country, and we have roadmaps for achieving legal party recognition and recruiting credible candidates in many states this year. Forward Party leaders across the country are bringing more choice to you as you read this.

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Our political parties should attend to the conciliation needs of each person who participates in our political parties that is based on the commitment of the political parties’ regulations and protocols to attend to those needs and also when appropriate in the exercise of his public function.

We should ensure free, voluntary and open participation in our political parties to all people of all backgrounds, share the defense of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the democratic method of citizen participation and direct. We should also honestly discuss and respect all opinions, an objective for which we’ll always attempt to promote dialogue and the search for consensus.

Our political ideologies should be rooted in protocols of loyalty, respect, and understanding. This should management should have a necessary and fundamental that had a clear feminist focus

This will prevent African Americans in particular from defecting to the Republican side via Blexit.

There is nothing wrong with African Americans not being Democrats as long as they belong to a political party to the Left of the Democrat Party (or even a party like the Forward Party , Serve America Party and possibly the Libertarian Party).

We need to get African Americans to stop being supporting Liberalism 2.0 politicians and causes . See here here for more

I am pretty open to supporting full and comprehensive E governance/E voting and E government digitization

I support citizen participation toward popular unity to aspire toward recovering politics to serve people.

I support using democracy to convert privileges of a few into rights of the majority thus I support the direct democratic participation of all persons in the areas of political decision making, as well as in the execution of public policies.

I support the direct and equal participation all citizens in the decision making process i.e in the execution of public policies

I am fine with practical and pragmatic decentralization

Decision making should be decentralized. I support decentralization. People should be able to fully participate in shaping decisions that are relevant to their lives. But this should only occur via secure pre political rights, all associations should be consensual . Decision makers who use a forcible top down approach are likely to have their decisions tainted by their fallibility due to their self interest motives at the expense of the public.

This is why small sized political units (maybe even radically localized ones), are humanizing but decentralization here means localized down to the level of the individual person

I put an emphasis on decentralized structures of political organization,and I assert hat a society based on freedom and justice could be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite.

"Since the United States Supreme Court’s disastrous Shelby County v. Holder decision in 2013, states across the country have been actively working to reverse the hard-fought protections for voting rights secured during the civil rights movement. Fair and equal access to the ballot is essential to our ability to uphold and protect our nation’s democracy. Every American citizen is entitled to vote, and we will work to secure voting rights and end racist gerrymandering." Justice Democrats

Over 70% of congressional districts in America are deemed “safely Republican or safely Democrat” and do not have competitive general elections. We support bold reforms to provide voters an equal say in our democracy. This includes efforts to expand the House of Representatives and the Fair Representation Act to create multi-member districts and ranked-choice voting.

I support direct democracy replacing representive democracy and giving people a more clear picture of political things that represents the interests of all citizens equally regardless of identity

The US should at the very least implement direct democracy so women, immigrants, BIPOC people (including Indigenous communities), LGTBQ+ people, and other diverse groups are not only recognized, but become championed as key protagonists in the growing calls for social, economic, and political reform.

“ If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal” Emma Goldman

Both parties serve bourgeois interests and that is the story in a nutshell. The RNC push us further rightward while the DNC normalizes it. It's good cop bad cop with scraps occasionally thrown to us plebs to give us the illusion of change. Electorialism in bourgeois democracy is a sham particularly during the presidency. At best voting local is your best bet for change.

Americans don’t trust the voting process

Good article on voting in the US here

I believe that more Americans need to be politically active.

I support a participatory democracy

I defend democracy in its republican tradition where the common good prevails and not the imposition of particular interests.

The majorities should express themselves and decide and the minorities must be respected as such, only in this particular way will participatory democracy enable identities to be constructed in a respectable and tolerant manner. The citizens role is not just the subject of human rights but also of responsibilities within the community

A participatory democracy is good because it revitalizes citizens and thus restores dignity and legitimacy to social and political action .

A democracy which is constitutionally republiced capable of guaranteeing universal basic human rights, respect for minorities, and groups who were historicsl,y excluded represented under a transparent ethical outline with instances of direct representation and binding participation.

Permanent sovereignty is the basis for the construction of citizenry which exercises this right in all spheres of social life, shooting for the development of a democratic culture through all training and educational and instances; formal and informal.

We all form and build the state which is for all of us. I support the creation of an inclusive and citizen state as the main guarantor of the common good and assurance of universality and decommodification of social rights at both a cultural level and institutional level. The link between the state and citizenship is a powerful tool for the conflict between our current neoliberal model and a society that guarantees effective social rights

The combo of a strengthened state and expanded social and political citizenship must work with feedback between the two . The more democratic and inclusive the state is, the better the state will collect the citizens will and the more effective it will be in its role (or maybe even paternalistic role) as guarantor.

This is MUCH better than Liberal 2.0 and big brotherism of bureaucrats who pass laws they they think people want, independent of input from them

I support a state where power is distributed equally for the promotion and development of territorial and or national identities ,structuring itself in a way to generate real local governments thus being able toreaffirm territorial autonomy as a fundamental part of democracy .I support reshaping political parties like this https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/Navegar?idNorma=1089164

Since the state is a political expression of organized society , it should not be a neutral agent but instead through a variety of creative and common sense, bipartisan methods, not just economic but the distribution and the democratization of political, productive, gender, informational along with cultural territorial power and other spheres with inequalities exist .

The state must manage and regulate (aligning with my economic views) the economical system (until we abolish the state) , being the owner and protector of strategic resources and the enviornmentand being able bodied to participate in economic production .

We have to become a direct and participatory democracy so the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies and which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives.

This will make the need or desire to protest almost non existent as people will cause most of their political needs and wants implemented through direct and participatory democracy

This will make the need or desire to protest almost non existent as people will cause most of their political needs and wants implemented through direct and participatory democracy.

Regardless what methods we use, I want all of the leftist utopian societies I want our society to become to be egalitarian, classless, hierarchyless, stateless and to be an Inclusive Democracy

“ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience” CS Lewis

Another way to put his sentiment is this: It's better to have an enemy who is acts bad and admits it (robber barons) rather than an enemy who acts bad but makes it look good (moral busybodies). It's easier to fight against injustice when it's clearly injustice and not hidden underneath a veneer of morality.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have" Thomas Jefferson

The vast majority of politicians in the US, Europe etc are whites and that is an injustice

So with so many white politicians , it is a hard truth that naturally whites to have control of the political system. Whites have been major players behind relevant decisions .

Even in countries made up of mostly BIPOC politicians, whites are then promoted into power positions as advisers and ministers by these officials.

This injustice is why I support more political diversity as seen throughout this blog

I support developing and improving directly with autonomous citizen councils and municipal spaces

Our political ideologies should be rooted in protocols of loyalty, respect, and understanding. This should management should have a necessary and fundamental that had a clear feminist focus

Political parties should be structured like Podemos. Our current political parties are part of a political caste and we must end this political caste system

Politicians should not be into careerism and ambition

Ordinary people should have control of our political organizations

Politicians need to have a presence in social organizations and be among the people

I wouldn’t mind seeing political machines make a comeback, maybe if they were organized more like Podemos as opposed to being organized like the corrupt political machines of yoresteryear and DJT's unofficial political machine

Why lesser of two evils (Democrats) has drawbacks, like here, here and here. Also see my post here and here, and the case for Dem Exit blog here (and see walkway stories here) At minimum I echo the general sentiment in this post. See here too and here (the screenshot tweet in the latter of which is compelling but...)

This here (archive) is a good discussion on this concept and the anti lesser of two evil methods viewpoints win out in that thread (and are good points too which I agree with)

This post here, shows that a Third Party can be successful , and that post destroys the ‘Democrats are lesser of two evils’ rhetoric. That post says that voting for the Democrat Party is like voting for the New Republican Party. Of course there is this post about third parties that is a bit more cynical

We can also use the Anti partyarchy method to go beyond the two party system we are stuck in, if we choose to reject the lesser of two evils method. Anti Partyarchy, is against pursuing libertarian ends through statist means, especially political parties (since Libertarians aren’t likely to win elections).

Libertarianism is not an eternal or timeless thing. If you have an very well functioning government and politics, libertarian principles seem less relevant.

This Anti Lesser of Two evils method is to not support political engagement (i.e political party promotion) which can be a way to transition to a left wing society without having to settle for the lesser of two evil Democrats.

If we choose to oppose electoral voting and political reform we can instead use alternative strategies outside of the political systems in order to achieve a free society.

I feel that such a society could be freed more readily if we employ methods like education, direct action, mutual aide, alternative currencies, self sufficiency, civil disobedience ,entrepreneurship and counter economics.

I also support Deep Organizing, see here, here, here, here, here and here and also here for background and how to do that . Also see this post for tangible steps we can take toward building a better tomorrow. This post is primer on political strategy, which uses the great example of MLK Jr and African Americans during the Civil Rights movement (and a less SJW way to boycott too). Also something like this

I also like this strategy to push the Democratic party leftward via electorialism even despite the lesser of two evils method being lame-o:

"The point isn’t to win the presidency, but rather to introduce progressive policies back into the mainstream political discourse and create an united leftist front heading into the 2024 elections. Much like how Bernie did in 2016 and 2020, despite never winning the nomination he catapulted Medicare for All into the limelight through the Democratic primaries and beyond. Likewise, in the 2022 midterm, though Tim Ryan ultimately lost the Ohio senate seat, his presence on the ballot encouraged voter turnout and managed to pull the whole state leftward, resulting in surprising Dem victories for many Ohio house seats.

Every bit of traction Marianne’s campaign gains can be used to prop up progressive voices for the congressional races (e.g., Nina Turner, Richard Ojeda if he decides to run for Manchin’s seat, and so on). And if she gets the chance to wipe the floor with Biden’s face during debates she might even manage to extract some compromises from the establishment Dems on their agenda.

[See this video by Kyle Kulinski for more arguments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rzxtzMz63Y) "Marianne Williamson Vs Joe Biden 2024? | The Kyle Kulinski Show"

Black markets and counter economics could be one of the methods used to help us threaten the state authority and state capitalist class to usher in a true left wing society. This is because Capitalism is an exploitative system based on privilege backed by the State

As per Left Wing Free market Anarchist, Mutualism to usher in our left wing utopia, we could also build alternate institutions built , piece by piece replacing the statist, capitalist, society. This would be a gradualist approach to dismantling and replacing the state with new forms of social organization.

Think of this as an alternative to non market based democratic socialism by synthesizing convergent movements, that would have began the siege and assault on the state and Liberalism 2.0. This would be a new ethic suited to the alliance of various ideas.

Somewhere in this transition stage, all 6 monopolies would need to be abolished to go along with this Left Wing Free market Anarchist, Mutualist transition , as outlined here. These monopolies include the Agribusiness monopoly, the infrastructure monopoly, the utility monopoly, the security monopoly, regulatory protectionism, and the healthcare monopoly

Using the existing market, producer and consumer cooperatives, small enterprises, mutual aid institutions, do-it-yourself collectives, community gardens, credit unions, etc would be initiated. These wouldn’t tend to directly conflict with Capitalist institutions.

The state would also be influenced through pressure groups and lobbying. The main effort would be the creation of alternate institutions. At some point these would become strong enough to challenge the state.

I accept we live and breath ideology, and that as much as we can try to live out elements of a future anarchist society today, that it may also be valuable to take on long-term goals that involve well planned organizing.

So based on my points above my political organizing can be best summed up here

The case for running spoiler candidates (see here)

I don’t think people all are morally wrong for not voting Democrat. I understand why some don’t want to, and I blame the Democrat party for it, not you. I’m simply telling ya'll it’s repeating failed tactics and you should reconsider and follow the example of people who we outnumber who yet have 100x our political power, many of whom don’t even have that much money to bring to the table. they just have votes.

I think much of this third party thing is just the right wing and the media successfully blackpilling left wing votes so we take ourselves out of the game and let the center fight the political battles with the right wing, marching us ever rightward. They want us voting third party or staying home. You even get right wing political operatives who admit to stealth funding Green Party candidates to try to pick off enough votes to squeeze through tough elections. We’re letting ourselves be de-fanged and thinking it a righteousness.

"USA inc isn't concerned about D's/R's - USA inc is concerned about profits generated from exploitation of people and resources. politics has always been a side show - a farce." Jimmy Dore

“They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.”

- Eugene Debs, Works of EV Debs

The Democratic Party, which is the oldest pro-capitalist party in the world, is essentially indistinct from the Republicans—indeed, as representatives of different factions of the capitalist ruling class, the two parties merely differ in their optics and counterrevolutionary tactics. Workers must therefore at least toy with the idea of equally and soundly rejectng both parties and to refrain from voting for either.

To be sure, the working class will never free itself from capitalist domination by voting for the latter's political representatives.

Instead, workers around the world must build their own independent party, centered on the correct theoretical perspective, and mobilize against the capitalists in their respective countries as part of an international, revolutionary socialist effort. The Socialist Equality Party in the US, in concert with its sister parties in the International Committee of the Fourth International, is the only serious tendency fulfilling this role today. See here for my thoughts on the DSA

Electoralism is just harm reduction at best and real change won't come through without direct action. Democrats aren't gonna liberate the working class but they aren't going to send death squads to blow my brains out because im non-binary

What do I think of someone who said what I write above and here is just pie in the sky idealism?

The irony here, of course, is that this cynical attitude, which plays into the hands of the ruling class, is mere impressionistic intuition; Marxism, on the other hand, is instead a scientific method that reveals capitalism's inevitable abolition and replacement with socialism, as Friedrich Engels elaborates in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. As a materialist philosophy, Marxism is neither utopian or idealistic in the sense of a misguided yearning for a better world, nor in the philosophical sense referring to the position that consciousness has primacy over matter.

In response to someone endorsing social-democratic tendencies like the DSA, I explain in some detail just what Marxism is about here:

Keep in mind that Marxism is a dialectical and historical-materialist (scientific) philosophy and method for socialist revolution. It does not simply concern itself with how "good" socioeconomic conditions are in a particular epoch, but instead considers the broader historical context and investigates how said conditions manifested, where they are headed, and what material factors and political tendencies underlie this development. Since the ultimate goal for Marxists is socialist revolution, we reject any counterrevolutionary tendencies like social democracy that stand in the way of this, regardless of any apparent, short-term political gains they may have produced for the working class.

How do I reply to someone saying in reply to my anti lesser of two evils methods in this post "the right are rallying behind fascists"?

The Democratic Party, whose leader regards the Republicans who helped orchestrate a fascist siege against him as his "friends" and "colleagues" and which has actively suppressed a thorough public investigation into the event out of fear that findings regarding the very serious and ongoing threat of a fascist siege of the government would spark revolutionary sentiment among workers, is playing the same essential role in incubating a fascist movement. Indeed, Democrats vastly prefer fascism to socialist revolution, which they fear the most.

Social democracy, too, fosters fascism, a point I delve into in my abovelinked comment:

"I am personally fond of the social democracy we have where im from."

The problem with social democracy and other reformist, opportunist tendencies is that, in the final analysis, they engender fascism. This is reported throughout the [Socialist Equality Party's] historical foundations article I linked, including in its section titled "The Victory of Fascism in Germany":

Under the influence of “Third Period” policy, the Communist Parties were instructed to replace their adaptation to the trade unions, Social-Democratic parties, and bourgeois nationalists with an ultra-left program that included the formation of independent “red” unions and the rejection of the tactic of the united front. The united front tactic was replaced with the designation of Social-Democratic parties as “social fascist.”

The new policy of the Comintern was to have disastrous consequences in Germany, where the rise of fascism posed a mortal challenge to the socialist movement.

Fascism was a movement of the demoralized petty bourgeoisie, devastated by the economic crisis and squeezed between the two main classes, the bourgeoisie and the working class. The defeats of the socialist movement had convinced broad sections of the petty bourgeoisie that the working class was not the solution but the source of its problems.

The German bourgeoisie employed the fascists to destroy the labor organizations and atomize the working class. The victory of Hitler’s Nazi Party in January 1933 was the result of the betrayals of Social Democracy and Stalinism. The Social Democrats placed their confidence in the bourgeois Weimar Republic and tied the working class to the capitalist state.

Additionally, it is discussed in the "A Shift in the World Situation: The Capitalist Counter-Offensive" section:

The old Stalinist and Social-Democratic labor and trade union bureaucracies utilized their positions of influence, with the critical assistance of the Pabloite tendencies, to divert, disorient and suppress mass struggles that threatened bourgeois rule. Situations with immense revolutionary potential were misdirected, defused, betrayed and led to defeat.

The consequences of the political treachery of the Stalinists and Social Democrats found their most terrible expression in Chile, where the “socialist” Allende government, abetted by the Communist Party, did everything it possibly could to prevent the working class from taking power. That Allende himself lost his life as a consequence of his efforts to prevent the overthrow of the bourgeois state does not lessen his responsibility for facilitating the military coup, led by General Augusto Pinochet, of September 11, 1973.

Just like liberation from capitalist domination is impossible via support for its politicians, fascism cannot be defeated with this same tactic. In both cases, the only option is for workers to independently organize and mobilize in defense of their own political interests.

"Congrats on not being black, brown, gay, trans, or a woman."

First, not that it matters, but I am actually nonwhite. Second, virtually all social problems, including those that specifically or disproportionately impact particular groups like the ones you list, are ultimately rooted in capitalism. In other words, your support for the pro-capitalist Democrats only helps to ensure that these problems persist for these groups.

Incidentally, DSA member and vicious anti-Marxist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez employed this very same identity politics zealotry a few months ago. As the WSWS reports in "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party":

McIntosh asks [Ocasio-Cortez], “Some on the Left have looked at Biden’s record and his difference with the Bernie wing of the party, and they conclude that no progress is going to come out of the Biden administration. What’s your view?”

She replies:

Well, I think it’s a really privileged critique. We’re gonna have to focus on solidarity with one another, developing our senses for good faith critique and bad faith critique. Because bad faith critique can destroy everything that we have built so swiftly. And we know this because it has in the past, and it’s taken us so many decades to get to this point. We do not have the time or the luxury to entertain bad faith actors in our movement.

Such “bad faith actors,” Ocasio-Cortez says, only betray their disdain for the poor and oppressed by criticizing the president. Ocasio-Cortez adds a noxious dose of identity politics to the old Democratic trick of presenting left-wing opponents as aiding the right:

For anyone who brings that up [i.e., opposition to the Biden administration], we really have to ask ourselves, what is the message that you are sending to your Black and brown and undocumented members of your community, to your friends, when you say nothing has changed?... When you say ‘nothing has changed,’ you are calling the people who are now protected from deportation ‘no one.’ And we cannot allow for that in our movement.

The example of protecting immigrants from deportation is an unfortunate selection on Ocasio-Cortez’s part. In the weeks since the interview, Biden has suspended the right to asylum and deported tens of thousands of Central American refugees, denying them as much as a court hearing. Perhaps Ocasio-Cortez considers that the 15,000 children presently detained in immigration jails are “privileged bad faith actors” for opposing their own incarceration.

Ocasio-Cortez saves the most vituperative comments for the genuine socialist opponents of Biden. When asked, “What was your path to joining DSA?” Ocasio-Cortez responds by repeatedly stressing what makes the DSA “distinctive” from other socialist groups: “We felt like there wasn’t this class essentialism, but that this really was a multiracial class struggle that didn’t de-prioritize human rights, frankly, I was really impressed.”

At the end of the interview, she praises a number of DSA members running for office as Democrats by saying, “They are people that you want to be around. And they are not cynical, and they do not engage in ‘more socialist than thou.’ They are just relentlessly positive.”

The reference to “class essentialists deprioritizing human rights” shows Ocasio-Cortez and the DSA are working in line with a definite political tradition: American anti-communism. Nothing socially progressive can emerge from this morass. (like this x6)

The Democrats play the ‘good cop’, while Republicans play the ‘bad cop’

I pity people who think that the Democrats and Republicans represent two opposing sides. The Democrats and Republicans more like the aforementioned classic good cop/bad cop pair - one side is shouting in your face and threatening you, the other side is bringing you tea and saying he or she only wants to help, but look past the superficialities and you will see that both sides are on the same side, working for the same goal.

MAGA people like Donald Trump because they believe that the CRT is literally evil. Democrats want to use CRT as a method to monitor colonized nations and to guide them toward assimilation and to become organized into a colonial army instead of liberation.

They are only upset at each other due to tactics and rhetoric like how such things reflect their ideals. They are again, the good cop/bad cop combo.

Donald Trump is always compared to dictators, but comparing him to dictators is oftentimes something of a racist, orientalist dogwhistle and obviously Democrats are always compared to communists, which too is a racist, orientalist dogwhistle.

MAGA people are not as interested in downplaying or rejecting historic people like Andrew Jackson or *George Washington they are not triggered or put off by their brutality as the Democrats are since they don't have any plans of opening the club up as much as Democrats make believe they want to. Its a war of brands of colonialism.

*George Washington was a white racist, i.e he owned slaves and because of that and above he was only a President for white America bigots

Both parties have always played "Good Cop/Bad Cop", but currently they have found it was easier for them to merely play "Bad Cop/Worse Cop"

At the same time the Democrats have the power to stop the Republicans, and do nothing. The US government is literally just a nation wide usage of once again 'good cop/bad cop'

While it would be base to see the Democrats become non Liberal 2.0 and you would think them becoming the New Republican Party would move them right of Liberalism 2.0, thus becoming non Liberal 2.0 , however…..

Unfortunately seeing how that type of ‘shift’ by the Democrats to become the New Republican party only involves them staying where they are on the political spectrum while Democrats take some non Liberal 2.0 policies right of Liberalism 2.0 and make those particular non Liberal 2.0 policies become Liberal 2.0 by sanitizing them (like making Neoconservatism be used to spread western morality, abusing entrapenaurship to spread wokeness, using the FBI to go after Leftists , moderates and Conservatives instead of how they used to be used etc) .

And so, that type of ‘shift’ won’t move the Democrat to become non Liberal 2.0 to the right of Liberalism 2.0. Thus the Democrats will still be Liberal 2.0 and closer to being negative than positive in my eyes even if they make that pseudo shift to become the New Republican Party

The Democrats becoming the New Republican Party is happening, as the Democrat strategy is to 1) win REPUBLICAN voters, and 2) lose voters who have been loyal Democrats. Chuck Schumer said “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin”

The Democrats and Republicans have the same benefactors. It's literally, for the billionth time, the good cop bad cop routine. So between the Uniparty (Democrats and Republicans uniting) and the Democrats becoming the new Republican party, we can refer to this concept as the rebirthed Democratic Republican Party

As I mentioned similarly elsewhere, Republicans exist to be so facially evil that the people will settle for trash-tier neoliberal Democrats, and the Democrats exist in order to be ineffectual and only to maintain the status quo and keep warm the seats and then throw elections so the Republicans can swipe in and eat the bad PR for passing the horrible legislation they both truly want passed in the first place

The reason this is able to work is because everyone already understands they're cartoonishly evil while the Democrats have to mask it so they can be the placeholders when the people end up getting fed up with cartoonish evil for a bit and doing nada instead of actively destroying the country while feeling like we are making progress. I

It's a symbiotic relationship that is reliant on the Democrats losing elections. If Democrats kept winning every time ultimately they would be forced to do something good for once

At the very least us leftists have to keep pressure on the government (like this article mentions) or they often never get around to things like releasing migrants from what some leftists claim are ‘racist concentration camps’ on the border

We have been stuck in this cycle of Democrat contradiction and creeping GOP fascism for 32 years. We have been stuck in the electoral farce, the slow decay after WWII and Communism forced the postwar consensus into place, for longer. No good person of history has ever fundamentally changed its course and Joe Biden to some is no different.

If we really care about the border, the international conditions that created the border in its present form, or working class immigrants and citizens, then a grounded and systemic analysis is a must. Elections and politics are a reflection of conditions a lot more than they are an influence on them.

Dual power is vital. State and Revolution, and also Imperialism, The Highest Stage Of Capitalism, speaks about all of this. Other leftists though have different solutions.

We both want to see an eventual end to the behavior of institutions such as ICE, including abolishing the socioeconomic systemic reasons for them.

So Joe Biden can't release people from what some leftists claim are ‘racist concentration camps’? That isn't a priority to him?

Joe Biden claims to be a Catholic. So are many of those we're immorally imprisoning and abusing.

Democrats have had years to "get it together", this stuff has been an issue since Barack Obama and Biden first built the cages. The fact he didn't have a plan and an EO on day 1 shows they don't rally care

If we don't keep pressure on our government, we are culpable in the bad things they. I can't live with that

When I talk about pressure above I am echoing this snipet from C4ss titled "Some Social Challenges That Won’t Magically Go Away With a Biden Presidency"

"The last four years have served as some degree of a much-needed political wake-up call for many people in the United States and around the world. It activated a political concern internationally about the rise of populism and nationalism, and a domestic level of consciousness that at least culminated in the highest voter turnout in over a century and the historical significance of removing an impeached one-term president from office. It also proved that small victories in the short-run from external pressure on institutions can affect outcomes in the long-run — even if we’re just nudging vectors at points of origin or along the way by a bit. Yet, it can all go to waste.

If Americans and those around the world truly care about a more just society, this should not just be the beginning of a decline in the new wave of concern and desire for political accountability with a whimper. Only the continuation of external pressure on the federal government from the people can make it politically profitable for politicians to reverse damaging social policies, or rectify some of the injustices of the structure of American power. Without external pressure, they will go about their business as usual. Perhaps the biggest challenge of the next four years will be holding the incoming president to an extremely high standard of accountability, preferably higher than Trump faced — a task easier said than done."

To people who claim that Joe Biden is a ‘lesser of two evils’, which Joe Biden is your favorite? The Joe Biden who was accused by Tara Reade of abuse?, war criminal Joe Biden?, or segregationist Joe Biden?" (see here and here for what I am getting at)

If not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump, then not voting for Donald Trump is a vote for Joe Biden.

If Bernie Sanders tells me to vote for someone accused of abuse who touted his work with segregationists and who said that he would veto Medicare for All, then I'm going to echo Cas Mudde and tell Bernie to fuck off. I would however be a Never Bernie before I would be Never (Joe) Biden

But if Joe Biden would make Bernie Sasnders labor secretary (as mentioned here) I would then be more of a cheerleader for Joe Biden than Bernie Sanders

I admit as a Bernie Sanders supporter, I give Joe Biden credit for at least trying to implement some of Bernie’s policies as President. I am pleased that Biden has been more Bernie Sanders like than Hillary Clinton would have been as President. But Biden is still an Anti Bernie Sanders politician who isn’ even close to being like Bernie Sanders and as Bernie Sanders supporters, we can do way better than Joe Biden

Though this article gives me hope that Joe Biden might really be the next best thing to Bernie Sanders as President. This is because article says that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders meet in the middle and have defined and pragmatic common goals

Maybe Bernie Sanders can help Joe Biden not be racist and be like Bernie Sanders on race issues (Bernie was a black civil rights activist in the 1960s).

Bernie can also help make Joe Biden less of a warhawk (Biden is not that much of a warhawk but he his foreign policy failures and Somalia, Yemen nonsense along with him letting former President Barack Obama get away with his neocon imperialism makes him one)

Jane Sanders and maybe even Bernie himself can help Joe Biden not be an abuser anymore and to be a feminist

Actually maybe I will vote for Joe Biden since Joe Biden is apparently Bernie Sanders

Um, back to the migration thing, did Joe Biden release kids from cages since 2021? Nope. Read State and Revolution

Since an America socialistic Revolution is very likely not happening within the near future, I tepidly give extremely cautious and unenthused support to some Squad members who are populists (like AOC unironically)

AOC and her Squad populists literally can’t enact our Left wing policies /non Liberal 2.0 policies herself themselves since AOC and her populist Squadron are working in a system stacked against NON Liberal 2.0ers (AOC teeters on Liberal 2.0 and non Liberal 2.0 left).

I realize that Republicans and corporate Democrats are far worse on imperialism than progressives like AOC and the Squad populists. I agree with what AOC said here as that is a fair and reasonable reason on why Democrats protest like they do recently without caring about optics. AOC should be more constituent with that type of thinking though

AOC and the Squad populists are not perfect, but they’re the best types of non Liberal 2.0 politicians to the left of Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema and most practical politicians between both parties that we can use to defeat Liberalism 2.0 now and usher in a socialistic revolution.

AOC wants to reform the Democrats to make them go left of Liberalism 2.0 which is great with the added bonus of the Democrats shedding themselves of Liberalism 2.0 , Capitalism and corporatist fascism

For example while working as a bartender, she auditioned with Justice Democrats (.com) when she heard that a new PAC, started after his failed 2016 Presidential run by disgruntled Bernie Sanders campaign staffers and leaders, who were looking for people to “audition” as candidates to run against incumbents for Congressional seats, with the goal of the take over of Congress by Progressives committed to the JD/BNC platform.

The Justice Democrats’ (JD) purpose is the takeover of the Democratic Party, because in order to save the soul of the Democratic Party the Justice Democrats will board the Democratic Party ship and take it over. (This is the proper definition of “mutiny”)

Cenk Uygur also said that the Justice Democrats will run strong progressives (hopefully non Liberal 2.0 ones only) from now on and they will be the new wing of the Democratic Party. Maybe this can include getting an intellectual fringe to seize key positions of authority and power within the Democrat Party and eventually bring large numbers of people around (similar to what the Koch brothers did with their pro-business libertarianism)

This political ideology was greatly influenced by Subhas Chandra Bose who in the 1930s advocated a aggressive revolution against the British Empire to gain total independence for India.

Many liberal 2.0ers I’ve met hear I’m an anarchist and IMMEDIATELY start picturing this "Joker-esque school shooter wannabe who bombs, burns, and shoots everything and everyone in sight", causing them to tense up and it bothers the fuck outta me because I just wanted to talk about how awesome mutual aid and workers' co-ops are.

You see, if I hate Joe Biden and Donald Trump, to Liberal 2.0ers/Democrats I am a centrist. This ignores my reasons behind why both parties are trash and we need more left leaning policy and such

Didn't you know that saying both parties are trash is a Republican point to Liberal 2.0ers/Democrats? Kappa

So I am thinking we must seriously find an alternative to the lesser of two evils method. The Democrats now support the warmongering, evil, corrupt Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney is the fascist who lied to get us into The Iraq War for oil, and is someone more destructive than even Donald Trump. Yet these stupid Democrats and Liberal 2.0ers now support him?

I like using this strategy to put unelectable MAGA candidates on the main election tickets so they can be easier to beat for the Democrats

Some leftists (not me) feel that Republicans in power is actually preferable to Democrats in power even if we discount the Liberalism 2.0 element of the Democrats.

To them, with Democrats in power it softens the blows of big capital while promoting illusions among the working class.

These leftists say that with a Republicans in power, they takes off the gloves, increasing exploitation and thus driving the mass movement towards anti capitalist conclusions. Basically left acceleration. Eventually we may have to do something drastic as this to create a truly Left Wing society .

Like get the root canal now (Republicans) instead of downing pain killers (Democrats) for years or decades. Democrats make us complacent but they are not left wing and we cannot keep settling for trash. We will never have a socialistic ,left wing egalitarian society if we do that, ever . Look at the USSR and the October Revolution for inspiration.

So it is tempting to say “What difference would it truly make if Republicans become potus over anyone else? The policies are all decided by chase bank and the state apparatus anyhow. At least Republicans give us a freak show”.

But I am not down with that rationalization. What if a Republican potus starts a war based on lies? What if a Republican potus makes bad trade deals? What if a Republican potus spies on Americans without a warrant? What if a Republican potus uses the national security apparatus to spy on their political rivals? What if a Republican potus sticks the FBI on journalists who write unflattering pieces on them?

What if a Republican potus doles out gazillions of dollars to Wall Street and Big Pharma?

Or maybe try this strategy for elections. If it's a swing state, keep the worst politicans out. If it's another state, do what you feel like.

I empathize with Gen Zers mostly voting Democrat , like in the 2022 mid terms

Gen Zers are the first generation who has a true leftist or at least Liberal 2.0 lean leftist vision,(which I am by the way confident they will play a vital role in implementing as they become the majority) and them voting Democrat now, despite how crypto right wing , uniparty and New Republican party the Democrats are now ,is the first step toward that utopia. But……..work in progress

Maybe Retiring All Government Employees (RAGE) and draining the state apparatus would be a good place to start (Chile’s Left says politicians shouldn’t be politicians for more than a few years as to keep things fresh). No one would direct this system, and barely anyone who participates in it says that it’s a system at all.

I would support a Human rights party that is as big as the Democrat party and Republican party existing since if you are going to do human rights, a human rights party would be the best party to do so.

The views on our political system, political parties and ideologies ,bi/partisanship and similar polemic things are written in the book Mediations of a Militant Moderate https://books.google.com/books?id=VMZHuyK5NTsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false are an outline for at least some of my polemic views

We must make it easier for Congress to legislate. That means we must find what to do with the filibuster (maybe like Jacobin said but maybe like this, or this but I think we should at least try to find an ad jac ent or just abolish the Senate as a whole) to the filibuster to replace it and for the reason Krysten Sinema said she wanted to keep our filibuster or the pro filibuster reasons here and reform the Supreme Court.

Since the state is a political expression of organized society , it should not be a neutral agent but instead through a variety of creative and common sense, bipartisan methods not just economic but the distribution and the democratization of political, productive, gender, informational along with cultural territorial power and other spheres with inequalities exist .

The state must manage and regulate (within reason) of the economical system , being the owner and protector of strategic resources and the enviornmentand being able bodied to participate in economic production

I support political management with higher levels of transparency, participation, closeness (to the citizens), along with digital activism, citizen campaigns, public accounts done periodically etc

In addition, its management was characterized by raising the levels of transparency, participation, closeness to citizens and digital activism, reporting in different parts of the District with different platforms the details of his parliamentary work, through citizen campaigns, periodic public accounts

The link between the state and citizenship is a powerful tool for the conflict between our current neoliberal model and a society that guarantees effective social rights

The combo of a strengthened state and expanded social and political citizenship must work with feedback between the two .

The more democratic and inclusive the state is, the better the state will collect the citizens will and the more effective it will be in its role (or maybe even paternalistic role) as guarantor. This is MUCH better than State liberalism and big brotherism by far

I am against denigrated democracies, I am wary of Liberal 2.0 adjacent causes due to that and the due to fact I frankly don’t care about that stuff due to our bourgeois system within that causing political nihilness in me

I am a supporter of Democracy I guess

Though I am very wary of and or pessimistically appraise democracy and the quantitative illusion. I feel that democracy restricts accountability and freedom

I am ok with a Constitutional Republic which is has more upsides than a Liberal Democracy

I sympathize with Oswald Spangler’s Anti Democrat stance even though I am not really Anti Democrat

I support the creation of a caucus thats values include providing Tripartisan, Triangulation and paricpatory ideas on illegal immigration , ending wars or finding better alternatives to wars and and warmongering by the US, and promoting fair trade that benefit American workers

Congress should adopt a series of measurements and goals that can be modified and reexamined over time.

Representatives should select from these measures based on what they believe their constituents would care about then suggest how the laws they are passing will improve them.

I feel these measurements such as, but not limited to should be used to measure our GDP: Poverty rates, Life expectancy, Rates of Business formation, Clean Water, Crime Rates, Overdose deaths, Government Efficiency, Mental Health, Income Growth & Average Incomes, Affordability, Environmental Sustainability, Recidivism, Labor-force participation Rate, Military Readiness, Marriage Rates, Quality of Infrastructure, Rehabilitation Rates, Civic Engagement, Education Rates

Plato, in his Republic, wrote that tyranny arises, as a rule, from democracy.

Western "democracies" are just the perfect obfuscation of power. The politicians are basically frontmen/frontwomen and punch bags who cover for the legitimate power centres (corporations, NGOs, billionaires etc).

I believe in a fair society but we can’t get it through liberal democracy. Liberal democracy is built against us. Hence why I am hostile to liberal democracy because I don’t necessarily like the idea of Liberal Democracy. See here for more

This article lists the positives of Liberal democracy but moving leftward on Democracy and I agree with that sentiment.

"But the greatest service of politics isn’t to enable the mobilization of people who have the same views; it’s to enable people to live together when their views differ. Politics is a way of getting our ideas to brawl in place of our persons.

Though democracy is practiced when people march on Washington and assemble in parks—when they feel that they have found a common voice—politics is practiced when the shouting turns to swapping. Politics was Disraeli getting one over on the nineteenth-century But Jedidah Purdy's alternative to a liberal democracy which that article touches on also shows how the alternative to Liberal democracy can salvage those elements from Liberal Democracy and still create a better fix to Liberal democracy

Liberal Party by leaping to electoral reform for the working classes, thereby trying to gain their confidence; politics was Mandela making a deal with de Klerk to respect the white minority in exchange for a peaceful transition to majority rule. Politics is Biden courting and coaxing Manchin (whose replacement would be incomparably farther to the right) to make a green deal so long as it was no longer colored green"

Liberal Democracy is wrong because it is a bourgeois concept and could be seen as a bourgeois dictatorship . Liberal Democracy is pseudo-democratic and pseudo-humanitarian and that is wrong

Liberalism does not and is not meant to apply to all people of a nation, but only the (potentially colonial) bourgeoisie. when the US is discussed as the land of the free and possesses democracy as a value, it is not that these are absent: they are present, but that it is only for the ruling class. just, none for anyone else.

Liberal Democracy is inevitably taken over by elites who mislead the people about what is best for them, which prevents the people from actually getting their fair share of things even in a "democracy".

Liberal democracy is really just a facade for the class dictatorship of the capitalists. They will not hesitate to seize authoritarian power when they deem it as necessary, as we can see with the fascist movements and states of emergency.

Liberal democracy is an key part of imperialist capitalism, and it cannot be used to build socialism. The bourgeoisie holds the actual power, and must have it seized. Any gains that are made for the people using liberal democracy are temporary and will eventually be undone, as we have seen in welfare states from the 1980s and inward

At MINIMUM we should argue with standard Liberal 2.0ers about the nature and scope of specially-protected rights and liberties that are within the settled context of the liberal-democratic nation-state

I am against Liberal Democracy furthermore since Liberal Democracy is the same as or has become intertwined with Oligarchyism making the two inseparable, or that at best Liberal Democracy is open to abuse by Oligarchs. (and I am against Oligarchys) .

So I would, at least theoretically be open to throwing my support behind any Liberal Democracy that has no traces of Oligarchyism if such Liberal Democracies exist (though even if they did exist, don't hold your H20)

I believe quite firmly that the likes of Larry Fink (Goldman Sachs CEO) is considerably more influential than Emanuel Macron, Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau etc. It's far preferable for someone to wrongly use Joe Biden as a scapegoat than to question what it means for Vanguard to own a slice of basically every company.

This is why non-Western countries and leaders kinda hate us. Vladimir Putin runs Russia. Xi Jinping runs China. Who runs the US? The UK? France? It's just a nexus of institutes, corporations, pseudo-private corporations etc such that nobody can get a straight answer from us, ever. The elections just change the very most outer shell of governance.

Then we pretend that there is proper "separation of powers" and whatnot. It's horse shit, they all collude heavily and are interwoven with every successive government.

Thats why they need more authorative methods in other countries, because they don't have this complex web of corrupt power that acts as a legitimation in the form of pseudo liberty of choice. You're not more free in democracies, you are maybe allowed to say a bit more, but only so much until you become politically relevant. That's part of the illusion.

You're likely not even critical of the system to begin with because the propaganda is so effective and you can live comfortably due to historic imperialist structures. You're no closer to changing the status quo than in the much hated autocrat regimes, in fact probably farer away.

How do you achieve change? At this point I'd rather have a nationalist authocrat than Klaus Schwab & Co ruling my country. At least they don't sacrifice their people to the NWO of a bunch of transhumanists with a god complex.

So we have to do a 360 and abolish this corrupted denigrated form of western 'democracy' to liberate us in the west and in places like Russia, China etc

Liberal Democracy today also doesn't seem like a 'democracy',at least in the US.

Liberal Democracy today is all about the deification of the state as some manifestation of some mystical “general will’,imperialism, colonialism and warmongering, corporatism , using three letter agencies like the FBI, CIA etc to violate human rights, bullying shaming and intimidation, cults of the experts and elitism, managerialism, educationalism, anti religious, assaults on freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free inquiry , tolerance, and due process. So that is another reason I oppose Liberal Democracy

If ostracism is part of democracy and not voting for either party, 1984 by George Orwell, the works of C.S Lewis, JK Tolkien and Adam Smith allowing people to pray privately on a football field after a game (see radlib Sports Illustrated hit piece on Coach Kennedy) are considered a threat to democracy then democracy is a bad thing that should be abolished

I do believe that force should be used if the US way of life was disappearing, which is proof that I am not some threat to Liberal Democracy .

This post expands on my views on democracy and also disproves the myth that socialism is anti democratic.

I was ok with Krysten Sinema opposing the Democrats plan to weaken/bypass the filibuster. Here is one way she can still help increase ‘voting rights’ if she feels a need to do so to please her Democrat critics. Remember Democrat Wendy Davis filibustered the controversial Texas pro life law in 2013 by filibustering so filibusters help Democrats too

I am against the abuse Krysten Sinema has gotten from other Democrats in 2021 /2022 due to her vote. The ASU students should have confronted her after she left the bathroom

I understand that Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin within their own party were/are political minorities in their own parties and thus should never have the ability to block or make change (since they are mavericks in their party for a reason)

But Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin seems like two of the very few members of Congress that actually believes in what they are doing, and they have straightforward and clear reasoning for their positions.

I believe the system that organizes our society and government, is truly bizarre and insane

This is hard for Western people to realize, especially after all the anti-USSR propaganda

Our country is basically a regime

I feel that a society's political life where political powers, authorities and decisions are decided and controlled by a diverse American nation for the purpose of reaching material welfare, freedom and fairness by all citizens, social groups and nationalities, and by the people that formed it

I feel that women, immigrants, BIPOC people (including Indigenous communities), LGTBQ+ people, and other diverse groups should not only recognized, but be championed as key protagonists in the growing calls for social, economic, and political reform.

To build on that, I support agonistic radical democracy where social movements attempt to create social and political change by challenging neoliberal and neoconservative concepts of democracy. This strategy is to expand the liberal definition of democracy, based on freedom and equality, to include difference

This agonistic radical democracy means the root of democracy and it rejects deliberative and liberal democracies oppressing differing opinions, races, classes, genders, and worldviews in attempts to build consensus. An agonistic radical democracy builds off of the fact that in a country, and in a social movement there are many (a plurality of) differences which resist consensus.

Agonistic radical democracy is not only accepting of difference, dissent and antagonisms, but it is dependent on it. This is based on the fact that there are oppressive power relations that exist in our society and that those oppressive relations should be made visible, re-negotiated and altered.

By building democracy around difference and dissent, oppressive power relations that exist in societies are able to come to the forefront so that they can be challenged.

I want this type of post Democracy society no matter what society we usher in (Third parties/non uniparties are oppressed within the US political system like BIPOC were oppressed in the 19th century through the mid 20th century in that non uniparty political parties are held down by the man/woman, repressed and disenfranchised from becoming big as the Democratic Party and Republican Party. We need to fight for the rights of non Blue AND non Red political parties to be created, grow and become as competitive and big as the uniparty, see here for more)

So this is why I support Revolutionary Democracy

Revolutionary Democracy