The beginning step is convincing the poors to care more about "the economy" than their own lives.
They want the poor slaving away to keep raising corporate profits with a smile on their face.
It's why it's so concerning that Dems are doing it now too. They're literally the only thing standing between us and fascism, the problem is they won't stop jogging over to the fascists.
We need a party that actually fights the fascist, not just hang out on the other side of a velvet rope but still in the same club.
For them the problem with fascism is that it is poorly marketed, rather than it being abhorrent.
Do they have a problem with it?
From the last three elections that have featured trump, it seems like the DNC loves fascism because it lets them run terrible candidates that spent decades trying to get to be president.
It's only worked 50% of the time, and a random candidate would easily win.
So to me, it looks like the DNC was just waiting for a reason to run less popular and less progressive candidates.
trump gives them an excuse to shout down anyone that wants to hold the DNC to any standard what so ever.
Popular Fascism isn't called Fascism. Its called Patriotism, typically with a sneer towards the Fifth Columnists and Country Haters who would dare question the innate reasonableness and fairness of the domestic system.
Fascism is what happens in foreign countries. It Can't Happen Here.
Gotta keep voting for progressives until it's liberals vs progressives in the national election. Then we might start seeing some meaningful change.
This all the way. Make it so the Republicans of today are never close to winning again and then you can actually foster some splits within the Democrats.
As it sits today, the Republicans have such. Great shot at winning that the Democrats can’t post a super left-leaning candidate otherwise they’d get handily beaten.
thats very optimistic considering you are now at conservatives vs fascists in the national election.
No party is gonna defeat fascism. The state will not protect you. You want to fight fascists? Do it yourself. Direct action is your friend.
It's such a laughably weak veil the rich pull over people's eyes I'm surprised more folks don't figure this out.
It's sickening to watch the rich people play their game with no care in the world whilst the working families are struggling just to feed their themselves.
The guy in the US who leaked the tax records of the rich, including Donald Trump, just got convicted to 5 years in jail.
(your comment got duplicated btw)
The thing is, much of the time they are aware, but they agree that "this is how it should be". Hence the phrase temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Like, Musk has more (money) b/c he deserves more, whereas Biden had more (votes) b/c... well, don't think about that!:-P Cognitive dissonance is a bitch, especially when fueled from religious extremism that replaces critical thinking (which the Judeo-Christian Bible itself in numerous places commands to be done, but again don't think about that either) with knowledge from authority.
People have no idea what true wealth really is like, not even close.
I remember this one time I was living in a working class area of London whilst working as a freelance software developer in Investment Banking front-office, which means making systems for actual Traders and Analysts, the kind of people who get millions in bonuses every year.
So I'm waiting in line to pay at the local supermarket and some old lady dressed in a nouveau riche style (you know the kind: old lady that thinks she's poshly dressed but instead just looks overdone) has a till openned just for her and somebody from the supermarket is helping her pack her shopping. A different old lady, behind me in the queue for another till, in manner and dress clearly working class, turns to me and says: "Look at her, she's involved in the Council and is rich".
Now, remember, I was working with people who got millions in bonuses to work or the trully rich. They weren't rich, they were the employees of the rich.
So I turned to her and told her: "Madam, if she was rich she wouldn't be shopping herself at the supermarket".
I've also seen pretty similar things amongst the older members of my extended family in my homeland, all of which come from poor origins: one of my uncles saved maybe half a million euros over a lifetime of owning and working long hours at his familiy operated restaurant and he thinks he's rich.
I suspect this kind of shit is incredibly common: all but a handful of people are so distance from the ultra-wealthy that they have no clue of just how far from them they are, and the result of that is that you have old people with a bit of savings and shop keepers who make a tiny bit more money than the average working-Joe, voting for policies that benefit billionaires.
Just deleted the duplicate, thanks for the heads up
But that's it. That cognitive dissonance is just part of the veil, same as the meme above.
The poor folks who get absorbed by the veil think they're a shoe-in to the rich, when they couldn't be further away - they'd have better chances of being picked to go to space than becoming part of the ultra-wealthy.
It’s such a laughably weak veil the rich pull over people’s eyes I’m surprised more folks don’t figure this out.
Its a layered veil. I've seen plenty of people take some mushy centrist "Yes, the system is broken but did you see what's happening outside of the line?! Its much worse!!!" position.
Also, lots of "I just want people to Obey The Line" rhetoric that precludes any kind of conversation about where Mr. Moneybags got the stick that draws the line from.
And of course, if you question the line or challenge the guy with all the money, you're shoved to the other side and accused of being a foreign agent.
Proles will need to sacrifice everything to prosecute those who commit wealth crimes.
Missing the fourth panel, where Moneybags shoves one of the workers over the line and announces "They hate you for your success!", while the rest of the crowd stabs the outsider with pitchforks.
Fear begins to vanish when we realise
That countries are just lines
Drawn in the sand with a stickEnter Shikari - ...Meltdown
And similarly, from Tool's "Right In Two":
Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over
pieces of the ground
Silly monkeys
Give them thumbs, they make a club
to beat their brother down
How they've survived so misguided is a mystery
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time hereOr Outernational's "Fighting Song:"
Look down at our planet from the heavens above
See it as it is, see it as it is
No borders or banks, no wars or tanks
No nations! No nations!
Cartoon could use a "priest" as well. Spouting Prosperity Gospel to keep the rubes in line. "My friend is rich because God has chosen him to BE rich, so his wealth is proof of God's favor!"
And telling all the poor people how much of a sin their envy and greed is, of course!
Phase 4: "Build a wall over that line or the outsiders will come and take your wall building job."
Oh no they won't! This is my damn mud puddle!
