• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Alright but you’re also additionally alienating the party who majority aligns with your supposed policy stances as well as the people who vote for them, unless you dislike accountability, democracy, and worker solidarity.

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      1 month ago

      Devotion to capitalism and the status quo will certainly complicate forming a unified front based around against changing the economic system.

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        1 month ago

        I’ve yet to converse with somebody who has any realistic plan to do away with capitalism unless their definition of capitalism is “western nation”.

        Let’s just tax the rich and regulate the markets.

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          And what’s your plan to get that done? What, you’re going to convince wealthy politicians to give you those things, and piss off their donors, just out of the goodness of their hearts? What about when they don’t do that, are you going to find your backbone and criticize them directly instead of turning all of your vitriol to the left of you?

          No, of course not. Your plan is to vote harder and throw up your hands when the things we desperately need as a class are explicitly left off the table; spoiling the vote, btw; because the things that would really get people out to vote, across party lines, just happen to be things that go against the interests of the ruling class. Then you’ll shout at the rest of us for “dividing the left” when we point out the fucking obvious that those who derive power from capital are not going to give up that power voluntarily and the whole thing was smoke and mirrors to keep you invested in the system that affords them that power.

          We as a class will need to organize and build class consciousness so that we can pull our collective power together and use it to force the hand of the ruling class. That’s what a realistic plan looks like. That is the only way meaningful change has ever been wrought about in this country.

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            Fair democracy with an educated populace to minimize all human suffering and avert maximum harm.

            Don’t like wealth hoarders? Tax them.

            Don’t like shady businesses? Regulate them.

            If something needs to be overthrown it’s a wannabe despot, not the concept of goods traded for legal tender. Constant progress has occured for hundreds of years. Theres hardly ever a time in the past better than this decade in the USA.