U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has achieved significant financial gains from her recent investment in Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), a prominent company in artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors. On Nov. 22, Pelosi acquired 50 call options for Nvidia with a strike price of $120, expirin...
And there is barely any difference in the proportion of rich people voting GOP or Dem. 1-2% in the 2020 exit polls. In 2016, Clinton had swings in her favour amongst the very rich, and larger swings against amongst lower income and POC voters. Not because they switched to the GOP but because she gave them no reason to turn out.
You're projecting your ideal onto a party which relies on the very wealthy to fund their politics. And they can do that because it is how power works and why they do not want to challenge power.
Stop confusing the left with the centre. The necessity of the electoral coalition is precisely a result of power, and its ability to silence the left while pandering to the right.
“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” – Chuck Schumer, 2016
You're projecting your ideal onto a party which relies on the very wealthy to fund their politics.
I'm not talking about the rich, because while they wield outsized clout in what their parties do, they're a tiny percentage of the population and consequently voters. All I'm saying is the vast majority of dem voters (they're not wealthy and they don't benefit from the grifting that the majority that the dem pols do) are willing to criticize dems. The opposite is not true--most GOP voters, who also don't benefit from anything the GOP elected does, will never speak a word against the people in office.
Yeah, sure. Wealthy people don't have any power, even with all those newspapers and TV channels they own, or the politicians relying on them for donations and cushy jobs once they're out of office.
I refer you back to the Schumer quote and beg you to wise the fuck up. You cannot understand anything about this world if you do not understand how power works.
Dude I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. Poor people make up the majority of the country and poor dem voters criticize dem pols. Poor gop voters don't criticize gop pols. That was the entire meaning of my original comment.
The last time I checked, the right disowned that musician for clarifying that he was criticizing the wealthy right as well as the wealthy left. He was disowned by conservatives as soon as they realized he was criticizing them too.
I think you are being weirdly aggressive in your approach to "debate", if a debate is even what is happening here. This guy is not your enemy. You should focus that anger where it's needed, at an actual enemy.
You've sent me a link to a dictionary entry for "Anarchism" that mentions the word "liberal". Something tells me you aren't able to define the word on your own.
You might be a more effective communicator if you stick with perjoratives you understand instead.
Did you mean "neoliberal"? If you meant "neoliberal", then I agree. Neoliberals are conservatives who facilitate fascism.
If by "liberal" you meant "progressive", then let's start a new thread so we don't get your blood all over this one.
Here's some more reading for you. Excellent writing, if you can be bothered to apply yourself. If you do, you'll discover that you (currently) have no clue what a liberal is, or why they're very fucking bad.
Italian fascism was the first right-wing dictatorship that took over a European country, and all similar movements later found a sort of archetype in Mussolini’s regime. Italian fascism was the first to establish a military liturgy, a folklore, even a way of dressing — far more influential, with its black shirts, than Armani, Benetton, or Versace would ever be. It was only in the Thirties that fascist movements appeared, with Mosley, in Great Britain, and in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Spain, Portugal, Norway, and even in South America. It was Italian fascism that convinced many European liberal leaders that the new regime was carrying out interesting social reform, and that it was providing a mildly revolutionary alternative to the Communist threat.
I said page 181. You will need to look at page 181.
And no, I am not going to pretend to have the skills of Raymond Williams, nor the time to rewrite his perfect words just for you. Sorry 'bout that but, do some reading, yeah?