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[–] notsure@fedia.io 114 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

...so when we 'hire' politicians, they are supposed to work in our best inerest, only a few representatives seem to do this and they are all Democrats....

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 96 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

they are all Democrats....

More accurately, Social Democrats and other progressives. Establishment Democrats are corporate-owned bootlickers that act against their constituents' interests in favor of their donors, much like Republicans but without the blatant -isms and -phobias.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 32 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

...i agree whole-heartedly...the people who should be in charge don't want to be and the people who want to be in charge shouldn't...

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

It's W.B. Yeats' Second Coming all over again.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 18 hours ago

Every Dem candidate is pretty close to Jimmy Carter on the issues.

The GOP keeps moving further to the Right.

Letting the GOP win anything doesn't do anyone any good, ever.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

Social democrats isn't a party (at least, not one they're members of). It's an idiology. They are elected as members of the Democratic party. You're right, but I'm just pointing out that they are Democrats, along with being social democrats (no capital letters), progressives, or whatever else.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 38 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Democrats on the left of their party.

Quick recap of the political landscape for the past few decades

  • The right will make the world worse for everyone except about 100 people
  • The center will try to keep it the same, and often make it worse in general as the status quo has been built by the right
  • The left will actually try to make it better, but sometimes fail

This has always been the choice since Thatcher/Reagan and the right had their last ever economic idea in neoliberalism.

A few more decades of majority centre/right wing rule and 99.99% of us will have nothing and that 100 will have it all. They know this and that's why they fund racists to paint an alternative reason everything is going to shit. They can happily carry on with their accumulation of everything and hopefully enough people won't realise before it's too late to do anything.

The few left wing voices you can hear are your only voices that have managed to resist being bought.

(Oh important reminder, don't let a politician tell you what their political alignment is, look at how they vote and behave. The further right you go the more often you'll get an untrue response to the question)

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago

The right will make the world worse for everyone except about 100 people

I mean, your eventuality of about 100 people owning it all is correct, but for now there's at least a few thousand that the right is making money for.