US Politics Mega-thread - Page 5399

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GreenHorizons

United States23518 Posts

5 hours ago

#107961

On January 02 2026 19:16 Gorsameth wrote:

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Can't even work for 2 days before the purity tests are once again in full force.

The biggest obstacle for the left in the US is the left itself.

You're using "purity test" reflexively/compulsively while also being laughably hyperbolic adding "full force".

Obviously the biggest obstacle to "the left" isn't "the left", it's "the right". It's unconscionable inequities. It's the capitalists/billionaires that waste/hoard unimaginable resources, the entrenched systems, institutions, algos, and beliefs dominated by those capitalists/billionaires/lackeys that enable it, and so on.

Uldridge

Belgium4986 Posts

5 hours ago

#107962

For being socialist, many of them sure seem to lack the pragmatic framework needed to carry their own identifier.
Socialism for those who are all ideologically aligned, otherwise, burn bridges. Politics is about grabbing as much as you can without causing (too much) a ruckus. If you just sideline 70+% of the populatio or the political apparatus, it'll never happen. They'll just sideline you.
We have this fun thing in Belgium called the Cordon sanitaire, where all the political parties vowed to never make a coalition (and so a government with) the extreme parties, on both sides of the spectrum. This is still being practised, despite ~20 ish% (iirc) of the population having voted for them.

LightSpectra

United States1941 Posts

2 hours ago

#107963

On January 02 2026 19:16 Gorsameth wrote:
Can't even work for 2 days before the purity tests are once again in full force.

The biggest obstacle for the left in the US is the left itself.

GH was hyping Mamdani a few hundred pages back. They only like controversial Democrats if they can use them to encourage people not to vote for other Democrats. Doubtless they would've turned on Bernie Sanders too if he got more votes than Hilary Clinton or Joe Biden in the 2016 or 2020 primary.

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17165 Posts

1 hour ago

#107964

On January 02 2026 20:25 GreenHorizons wrote: the entrenched systems, institutions, algos, and beliefs dominated by those capitalists/billionaires/lackeys that enable it, and so on.

the entrenched systems are not capitalism though...which begs the question: "What Is Capitalism?" The opponents of capitalism do not know what it is they are opposing.

Fleetfeet

Canada2618 Posts

4 minutes ago

#107965

For profit prisons? Not capitalist.

The american dream? Nothing to do with capitalist ideas.

Taxes? Obviously not capitalist nope nope. They distribute the wealth to protect the quality of life of the people so taxes can only be socialist!!!

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