I agree with the sentiment, but this is a facebook-tier meme. Actually, it’s not even a meme.

Sounds like I should give it a try

It’s not surprising, we shouldn’t be giving developing brains this much access to the internet. I promise you he did not think of doing this on his own.

Does anyone have experience with this? Article reads like a paid ad.

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The first season ended unbelievably abruptly. Still, glad to see DanDanDan return.

Amen

It’s like the second you notice parallels in our two party system, they misrepresent you as saying they are EXACTLY the same in EVERY REGARD.

Meanwhile, we no longer question why we only have two parties to vote for in the first place. Hint: the two parties keep it that way.

If leftists are that make-or-break then maybe the DNC shouldn’t treat us as though we are irrelevant. And if we are irrelevant, then people can stop blaming us for losing elections.

Me, realizing I can’t delete Edge because the OS assumes it’s installed

Is this what the Romans felt at the end? Walls falling, raiders raiding, terrible leaders-- it’s not looking good.

Send this meme to your parents, I dare you

As you say, it depends on how we interpret the words. It’s only a logical contradiction if “the left” is taken as a singular term rather than as a general description. The former is less charitable but it does happen.

In any case, I’m willing to admit that I chose the title based on an alliterative flourish.

Is working in the industry that soul-sucking? (I wouldn’t know, I can barely center div)

OMFG this is amazing

Pronounce ‘bottle of water’ right now OP

Agreed, but I can’t be too critical of the American people. Most of us are kept in a perpetual state of “getting by”.

Why do those establishment Dems exist? Because people vote for them… More importantly you have to convince the rest of America of your ideals with feet on the ground and conversations with real people.

This much is true, but leftist ideas have been intentionally made taboo since the Cold War/Red Scare. Average Americans recognize their quality of life decreasing but would rather vote in a strong-man than address capitalism itself. Unfortunately, this country is closer to authoritarianism than it is to prioritizing the well-being of its citizens.

Instead you bitch about them,

During the election, it was the wrong time to criticize democrats. Now the election has passed and it is still the wrong time to criticize democrats. When are we supposed to remark on our lack of a voice in the two-party system?

…complain about “liberals” and further the divide with them.

I also criticize Republicans on here but that is preaching to the choir. The more that I read about the history of this country and the present-day agenda of furthering the privileges of the wealthy, the harder it is to care about your party’s unity.

on the ground and conversations with real people. I’m not seeing any of this.

…And so it isn’t happening?

Get off Lemmy. It’s not the real world

Posting a meme is not activism. But you would be mistaken to assume my political engagement ends there.

I’ve endorsed voting five times already in this thread and yet I still get the same response. It’s like Americans think civil engagement begins and ends at voting. Ironically, the point of this post is to call that very line of thinking into question.

The enduring ideology of the political establishment is the promotion and protection of the ruling class’ interests–invariably at the expense of the working class. Both parties serve the same master, and because there are only two, the voters don’t have much say in the matter. Progressives, like Bernie, who call out the billionaire donors are the exception to the rule. (More on him later.)

Seen from the leftist perspective, the overlap in the Venn Diagram is a consistent commitment from our politicians to put profits over people. It is why both George Bush and Barack Obama bailed out Wall Street (to give just one example of corporate welfare). It is why SCOTUS declared corporations “people” and campaign donations “free speech”. It’s why the U.S. has engaged in neo-imperialism over the land, labour, natural resources, and markets of developing nations. It’s why the CIA assassinated democratically elected leaders in South America and Asia. It’s why we’ve had decades of stock market growth while wages continue to stagnate. This is not accidental: the system is working as intended.

If Bernie had been elected in 2016 the outcome for the DNC would likely have been just as dramatic. If you want the Democratic party to be a leftist party, go make it one. We’ve literally seen a major party pushed to fascism. You know know change is possible.

I wrote this in another comment but I’ll reiterate here. Bernie did not get a fair chance at the presidency. The DNC limited the number of debates (not allowing their favourite to be taken to task), they gave Hillary debate questions ahead of time, gave Trump/Clinton all the media coverage, etc. It is damn near impossible to succeed as a third-party candidate (sorry, Jill Stein) so a self-proclaimed socialist has to run as a Democrat and play by their rule book. And they don’t even have to play by their own rules! (Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders.) When AOC runs, they’ll do the same thing and then she will spend her time in Congress backing establishment democrats. Please realize that the political elite would much rather shift to the right than to the left. The far left-wing actually threatens the profits of the wealthy.