Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Bernie Pushes "Just Vote For More Democrats"" video.

  1. Agreed. Why couldn't Bernie play the same hardball games that President Manchin has played this whole time?
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  2. Not to mention other key provisions which I believe every non-wealthy person deserves
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  3. Yeah that's right. That is correct.
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  4.  @philhunt26  invest in building up a strong Left Unity party near you. go with PSL or the greens or working families party or whatever. If we don't unite all of the left and left-leaning parties in the US we have only ourselves to blame. If we don't start running our own people and taking over and doing our damnedest even if we lose guess what we have only ourselves to blame. It ain't going to come from the amoral duopoly buddy trust me on that. The only other choices are in revolution but that's not going to happen. We can't be successful against a highly militarized state. but I believe with an organized Left movement we can start fielding our own people and over the next several decades start winning offices. I recommend catching some comments from Eric T Red and the 11 demands on sabby sabs.
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  5.  @heatherweeks7944  not cover just realism. See my comment to add.
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  6. Truly a no-win scenario. 1000 Dems wouldn't do shit but deep throat Wall Street, and yet the GOP would always manage to be worse. Only a strong and organized Left can take these scumballs on. That's what we need to focus on.
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  7.  @thomas45081  well we got to build it. There's no other option. It's going to take a lot of work and it's going to suck and it's probably going to take another 20 years but we don't have a choice. So if you're still up for it you can join a local left party by you check out your local PSL chapters or socialist alternative. But we just got to start building it from the bottom up and start running our own people. They're organized now it's our turn to get organized again. Look what the Black Panthers did and the 60s and 70s and yeah they were targeted and that sucked but that just goes to show how much these monsters fear racial justice or economic justice. We can choose to not act or to act. I choose to act. Seriously we have to find a way to get organized the only reason they keep winning is because they're much more organized than we are and because they have big bogus corporate media platforms.
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  8. Half the people don't vote. 90% of voters don't have strong feelings either way they just vote out of habit with next to zero information and usually just with input from friends or family. Less than 10% of us are extremely informed and follow these issues on a daily basis. If us Leftists had a large media platform we could sway this country in an instant. Don't fool yourself for a second, fascist. There's only a TINY minority in this country that are genuinely ideologically screwed in the head AKA Right or far right. Capice???? The rest go along out of intellectual laziness, inertia, or lack of not knowing any better.
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  9.  @jaymethysell5111  did I take you the wrong way?? I took your position to be that of a self-satisfied right-winger. But I could have been wrong.
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  10.  @jaymethysell5111  I don't think it's right wing though. We have to be careful of drawing the wrong conclusions. I think I explained it pretty clearly. If we had a large platform like CNN or Fox News I think all of a sudden millions of people would suddenly start having ideas they never had before and realize "oh yeah why don't we do this- why don't we do XYZ?" A lot of it comes down to simple control of media. I think it's a misnomer to say people are on the Right. That's too easy. I think it's like I said. You have your minority of nuts at the fringes, you have a large majority who don't know a damn thing about politics but vote the way their friends and family do, whether that's Blue or Red, and then you have people that are always ambivalent and that go either way based on a gut feeling. If you're trying to tell me the majority is ideologically right wing I completely differ with that. And don't forget, half the country doesn't even vote, and that could be for any number of reasons. It's not a right-wing country any any more than it's a Marxist country or a Protestant country or Catholic country or a white country or brown country. It is a big mix. having only two worthless dominant political parties doesn't give most people a lot of choice either. If we had 6 to 10 political parties you would suddenly start seeing a lot more diversity and voting patterns and then stated position. Being given only two choices shoe horns people into a box that a lot aren't comfortable with. At the end of the day a lot comes down to propaganda. If we had 100% aggressive voting access, and a fully competitive parliamentary multi-party system, along with the abolishment of the Senate and the induction of rank choice voting, you'd start seeing big changes overnight. The problem is our current system in which the majority of sane voices are silenced. We currently have a pathetic system that makes it incredibly easy for the top 2% to own all the politicians. We can't even get universal voting rights passed! That criminal body otherwise known as SCOTUS did their part to see to that, and Congress refuses to pass their own voting access bill. So what does that tell you? That the tiny corrupt elite that are running the game in their favorite are desperate to do anything to cut the rest of our throats and kneecap the rest of us so we can't have a system that works for everyone. I mean you do know we live in a banana republic right? It's just large and highly developed but it is as much a banana republic as any in the so-called global South or anywhere else. Independent and left voices need a large media platform comparable to Fox or CNN. Media seems to run the show in this country. If we had that media platform people who thought they were Democrats or thought they were so-called Republicans would be coming over to our side in droves. Because why wouldn't they? Anyone who's not a committed fascist would embrace our values of universal human rights, absolute justice and economic dignity. There's nothing radical about it- it's what any normal person would want not just for themselves but for their neighbor. Obviously the forces of evil and corruption don't want that so of course they're going to fight us tooth and nail but don't let them obfuscate the issue to you. It's not a right-wing country or a Left per se, more than anything I say it's a confused country thanks to the elites doing what they do for the last 75 or so years and the duopolists doing everything in their power to crush any genuinely organic people-centered political parties whether they be Left or independent/libertarian.
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  11. Dems won't do shit but as dude says, they would slightly slow the bleeding. Long-term solution is a building up a fighting and capable union of Left parties in the US with an immaculately spelled-out and itemized agenda covering every possible aspect of public policy. then we start fielding our own candidates and taking the fight to these f*ckers on the local state and federal level as best we can. We can get in the ring too. We have to be willing to fight and cut throats. If we can be ruthless for justice, then we can take on the m*thrf*ckers that want to be ruthless for personal gain.
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