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0 pointsswed4204mo ago0 comments

If you think only one of the two parties of capital are to blame for this timeline, I have a bridge to sell you.

Democrats manufactured consent for Trump's rise in a 1000 ways over decades. Neoliberalism delivered us Trump, who is merely a symptom of this broken system.

Dems/Repubs play good cop/bad cop; always in service to capital interests. We have a uniparty, but people are fooled by reasonable election turnout and close elections. Democracy is an illusion in the US.

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watwut4mo ago

Yeah, you know what, the culpability of republicans is so much higher at this point, that yeah, they are the primary responsible for current state.

This both sides game is just how they were enabled again and again by people who like to frame themselves as reasonable above the politics center, but are in fact just their supporters.

swed420OP4mo ago

Trump was elevated from meme tier gameshow host to serious candidate thanks to the Dem pied piper "strategy."

Dems put more effort into defeating Bernie than they did Trump.

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