You forgot how Obama called everyone except Elizabeth to the right of Bernie and got them to drop out after it was clear Bernie was winning state after state. On the other hand Elizabeth Warren continued to split the vote with Bernie. The conservative dem vote consolidated around Biden only after the primary was well underway, and it was clear Bernie was winning. Then out of the blue Obama convinced Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg to drop out. The billionaire-owned TV media did not even report properly in real time on Bernie’s wins either, as they were shitting bricks.

Knives and pipe bombs will replace the guns if need be.

Wealth inequality is the real problem that’s causing a spike in violence, not guns per se.

A fascist vs a capitalist zombie is not “we did well.”

America is fucked.

Biden is not thinking clearly.

Dem leaders prefer Trump to a real structural progressive economic reform.

The billionaires buy both parties now. Capitalism sucks chunks.

The billionaires of today love the status quo.

Thanks Obama and capitalism. Without the Obama’s behind the scenes phone call bullshit intervention in the last primary which ended up giving us Biden we would have had Bernie as the president and none of this would have happened.

Just take a small 10 million dollar loan from your father, easy peasy.

Capitalist.

And after January 6th I’m just left wondering why the fuck they’re negotiating with terrorists?

Because most Dems like the status quo and despise populism.

A true servative learns everything they will need to know for the duration of their life by the age of 13.

They die basically the same kinds of people they were born as.

“Stop trusting your lying eyes and trust my worthless spreadsheets instead.”

Huge accumulations of capital are incompatible with democratic governance.

That’s the issue we are not willing to solve.

Fascists are simply people passionate about infinite capital accumulations. The fascists protect the billionaires by channelling the populist economic discontent toward all manner of scapegoat issues.

If you don’t like fascism you must work to outlaw, and make culturally unacceptable, extreme wealth accumulations.

https://www.philosophersbeard.org/2012/04/what-to-do-about-rich.html

There is a great essay that touches on this question:

https://www.philosophersbeard.org/2012/04/what-to-do-about-rich.html

Exactly.

The Dems are just in favor of a slightly less brutal oligarchy. The Dems by and large still take a lot of money and other favors from the billionaires and know which side their bread is buttered on.

The Dems today are not a party for the poor, the workers, the bottom 50%, or anything like that. Thus the current Dems on their own are not up to the task of any serious economic restructuring. And we can’t solve any major problem without dealing with our insane wealth inequality.

I get that the billionaires can’t do it alone, but my point is, without the elites the fascist/capitalist base by itself isn’t sufficiently organized or motivated to run an oligarchy.

The billionaires are the brain of that organism.

That analysis is true only if the base is the target of the violence. Targeting the base is a big mess. But if the targets are the prime beneficiaries of the status quo, just the 0.01%, there is no mess. But that requires discipline, research, patience. Not just anyone can pull that off.

The rich don’t just use it, they finance it and manage it.

Spot on.

I wasn’t a fan of how Biden quashed the railroad strike, and his response to the Maui wildfire was lackluster.

I want someone who fights like hell for my interests, not a goddamn third way triangulator.

No more hugs.

Democrats in power love that the GOP has become unhinged. It makes the rational choice incredibly easy.

This dynamic frightens me so much.

Christianity was a grassroots religion for roughly 300 years, but then emperor Constantine “helped” to “standartize” it. Ever since then Christianity is more about making you more manageable by the state than it is about saving your soul.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea