Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "Bernie’s Aides Are Fuming Over Biden’s ’Socialist’ Comments" video.

@wearethe9947 "...left is still nowhere..." Have you not noticed there are more corporate-free candidates headed for Congress than we've ever had yet? It won't be a majority of course, but there's no denying the Resistance is growing. Name one significant movement that's ever brought about real political or social change really fast. The Resistance is going to take time and the only thing that can stop it is the short attention span of millennials and gen Z - it's already been shown that the corporatists can't shut it down, their efforts wind up backfiring. Only you can kill the movement, only you can create the permanent Trump regime.
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@JohnCampbell-rn8rz Everybody's jumping on you and I don't want this comment to be seen as one more pitchfork in the mob. I just want to clarify one of the "details" to "worry about later." The following may look like I disagree with your main point but I assure you I do agree. Those "details" include corporate ownership of government, therefore getting the orange fake president out of the way won't "save what's left of democracy," it will set the stage to START building the republic the Founders intended when they laid the foundation. Trump will veto M4A and campaign finance reform whereas Biden's likely to be wishy-washy enough to cave. That's if these measures even reach the president's desk no matter who's occupying it. They won't because even though the Squad is growing it isn't growing fast enough to push those reforms through yet. The Resistance, like every other social/political movement before it, is going to take a longer time than that - maybe longer, I'm afraid, than the attention span of millennials and gen Z. That doesn't mean the movement stops moving; it just means it's moving at the rate of all movements, not at the speed of a genie popping out of a lamp. So I agree with you. Just wanted to clear up that one point: We're not saving democracy, we're beginning to create it where it currently doesn't exist and historically hasn't existed. Edit: I wrote gen X when I meant gen Z so I've changed it.
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@JohnCampbell-rn8rz Agreed!
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@JohnCampbell-rn8rz Agreed, except I'm not willing to indict the Founders unequivocally. In order to have a United States AT ALL they had to create the EC or all of the slave states would have bailed. They kicked the can down the road on abolition and that's tragic, but they knew it wasn't going away. My belief is the Constitution was only a foundation and the responsibility was on We The People to build a republic on that foundation. We failed that trust. An example: Jefferson wrote "I hope we shall crush in its infancy the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations." We could have answered that call. We didn't, and in consequence we got the Reagan Revolution's radical redistribution of wealth that gave us burgeoning homelessness, a decimated middle class, eviscerated workers' rights, the 1%, and ultimately the Citizens United decision that codified corporate ownership of government into law.
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