• alcibiades@lemm.ee
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        9 hours ago

        I agree. Both democrats and republicans pledge allegiance to capitalism above all else. This simply is not sustainable.

        This is also why education and historical literacy is so important. If more people knew how that America is only successful because of (majority) socialist policies like the New Deal and Great Society then there will be more widespread support for a reinvigoration of them.

        I think legacy media and centralized social media have dumbed down our populace to a point that they don’t even realize there is a way out. Everyone in the 99% stands to benefit from radical change.

      • gregs_gumption@lemm.ee
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        18 hours ago

        What percentage of the American population are progressive? Please provide a reliable source for your information. And please don’t provide something nebulous and without meaning like “75% of Americans support random progressive policy”. Those polls show aggrement with a policy, not a desire to change current policy.

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          17 hours ago

          More than you’d think are progressive. But, I’m not claiming we need a progressive party - anything left of center is better than what the Democrats offer.

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          17 hours ago

          I don’t care how many people are progressive, at this point it’s the only thing i will vote for. I saw how the Democratic Party acted after losing, and i am talking about all of it, not just pathetic signs and admonishing people speaking truth to power. I will not vote for establishment again no matter what the options are.

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            17 hours ago

            I don’t care how many people are progressive, at this point it’s the only thing i will vote for.

            Yeah, that’s about what I expect from Lemmy leftists.

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          17 hours ago

          This is the crux of it, American’s have shown us time and again they are centrist/center left at best. These folks are so trapped in their ideological bubbles that they cannot fathom their extreme outlier position, small wonder that there is so much accelerationist language of late.
          Compromise is taboo and so any candidate that has agitated inside the system for change ends up verboten.