Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Bernie SURRENDERS 2024" video.
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I'm just way too Left for this country.
Maybe I should just move to Russia, who unfortunately has been savaged by neoliberalism, or Cuba, or even Canada, where at least they have a semi-left party there, amongst other multiple parties. I'm serious. I wish I could live in a place where the People had a full voice and the govt wasn't owned by the 1% , Wall Street and the CIA.
Not saying any place is perfect, each State has problems, but Socialist-leaning countries place the general welfare and the good of everyone as a value above elite private profit and heavy capitalistic control. That's what I certainly value.
And as for civil liberties, I feel they're at least as good as here, if not significantly better for POC. Not saying every state is a paragon of perfect freedom, but we are the LEAST free first world nation in the world by any metric, including way of mass incarceration which after 40 years sadly only seems to be getting worse, because those who control it love to oppress and also, it's phenomenally profitable.
Other nations no doubt have their injustices, I'm sure every place does, but I don't see the gross systemic abuse via lawfare and lawless crazy Pigs and blood-loving DAs in certain other States as I do see here. At least nowhere near to the same degree.
If for nothing else, I'll take that universal covered healthcare.
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Yeah he was right about that. For whatever reason, willingly or unwillingly, at the end of the day sadly he always plays ball with them. And that's a damn shame. When extra push comes to extra shove, he does seem to fold- although perhaps to him he doesn't see it that way he sees it as keeping things copacetic, making a strategic compromise, or etc etc. I can even understand that butif he was really serious about spearheading positive change, he would realize that there are some times that he needs to be willing to go it alone if the values and agenda that his party is embracing are two divergent from his own (and they are). From out here, he seems unwilling to take that final step and to make his stand with her without the worthless Blue party's approval, and that's too bad. If the Blue party always knows that eventually he's always going to fall in line, what's there to make them take him seriously? That's not good for either him or us. Unless what he perceives as 'good' is always meeting with Chuck Schumer's approval, which if true, I think is a real bummer and Bernie is doing a disservice to himself by doing so.
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@kylea1436 you're probably right. I think one could primary though if they could stand their ground. Then again a lot comes down to the voters. Most people give very little thought to voting regardless of what party they vote for. Whether they are low income or middle class or privileged, most people vote along party lines and their minds were made up long ago. Most people aren't paying close enough attention to understand why the Blue party is an absolute clusterf**k unless you're in certain privileged groups and they certainly don't deserve our votes and should be made obsolete. Unfortunately the 95% of casual voters that exist that only vote once every 2 to 4 years, dont see this. Even though neither major party has delivered on anything beneficial to the bottom 80%, let's say in the last 40 to 50 years, all these casual voters continually think that maybe this time will be the one that makes the difference and that these people are still worth being trusted.
Likewise, as they blindly follow all the ads for the standard Blue candidates, they choose to regard with suspicion or more questioning any outside candidates, such as Bernie. Then some jackass POS tool of the DNC like Biden comes along who has name recognition which I guess is all it takes these days and a wholly undeserved reputation for benevolence simply because he stood within striking distance of Obummer for 8 years, and people fall all over themselves trying to cast that vote. In short, I wish more people knew better when it comes to the voting process and their voting choices, but it doesn't seem that they do. So this is hard for any semi-outsider candidate to overcome. I don't mean to criticize, but I really do think that majority of middle and working-class voters become mentally-handicapped when it comes to the political process. They allow obvious and misleading TV ads to dictate to them. They don't realize that there's only one or two genuine people's candidates on the federal level.
The GOP of course are just shouldn't even be allowed to participate, they truly are a bunch of escaped inmates from facilities for the criminally insane trying to pass themselves off as responsible citizens.
Unfortunately the Blue party still has a lot of sway and has a lot of not very informed people convinced they're the good guys, and so when somebody who, compared to other nations, is suggesting even the most mild of reforms, is portrayed as a hyper-out there person, and all the other stupid negative hype that was leveled against Bernie last time, yeah unfortunately people being rather clueless as they are, end up voting for the establishment Blue candidate, instead of the challenger and obvious choice. It's pretty infuriating to see this happen cycle after cycle. Even beyond that, it's disappointing to see right wing trash get reelected in this country over and over again, although I understand that the 2000 election was stolen, likely 2004 too, but if it wasn't so damn close it would have been able to be stolen. And etc.
I'd still like to think for somebody articulate enough and determined enough they could be a Progressive and win a Blue primary. There's always a first time I suppose. Hasn't happened in the last 60+ years tho. The two big duopolists do an excellent job of controlling the entire process from start to end and keeping any genuine challengers effectively locked out. Would def love to see that end in my lifetime.
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