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Dump Term 2, Part 2: "A third term would be a big shattering."

Slap is correct. This demolition/theft has been 45 years in the making by Republicans. It's been the Great Heist. ~ $70 trillion stolen from the common wealth, by the 0.1%.

Exactly like they drew it up. Our system isn't dysfunctional. It works perfectly. It just isn't for us.

As a democracy, we could fix it it with a single election and maybe a dozen policy choices, if the voters could just get over the distractions. Not just arrest the rot, but claw it all back.

Which is why the distractions, driven by the media and the churches and the banks and the MIC and all the other propaganda arms of the 0.1% -- are there.
 
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Kepler said:
Slap is correct. This demolition/theft has been 45 years in the making by Republicans. It's been the Great Heist. ~ $70 trillion stolen from the common wealth, by the 0.1%.

Exactly like they drew it up. Our system isn't dysfunctional. It works perfectly. It just isn't for us.

As a democracy, we could fix it it with a single election and maybe a dozen policy choices, if the voters could just get over the distractions. Not just arrest the rot, but claw it all back.

Which is why the distractions, driven by the propaganda and the media and the churches and the other arms of the corporate world -- are there.
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Unfortunately Democrats are not without fault in their failure to push back in significant ways.
 
Slap Shot said:
Unfortunately Democrats are not without fault in their failure to push back in significant ways.
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Drawing on two recent books—Timothy Shenk’s Left Adrift and Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld’s The Hollow Parties—Lehmann explores how the Democratic Party has become disconnected from its working-class roots and hollowed out as a political institution.

Shenk’s Left Adrift traces the Democrats’ shift away from their traditional working-class base toward a professional, highly educated elite. He focuses on political consultants Stanley Greenberg and Douglas Schoen, who, in the Clinton era, helped steer the party toward centrist, poll-driven strategies. Greenberg attempted to retain working-class voters through economic populism, while Schoen embraced a neoliberal consensus that prioritized fiscal conservatism and cultural moderation. This strategic pivot contributed to the party’s abandonment of New Deal-style economic policies and its reliance on technocratic messaging.

In The Hollow Parties, Schlozman and Rosenfeld provide a broader historical analysis of the decline of mass-based party politics in the U.S. They argue that both parties have transformed into “zombie-like” institutions, focused more on fundraising and managing culture-war skirmishes than on building broad coalitions or advancing coherent policy agendas. The Democratic Party, in particular, has suffered from what the authors term a “politics of listlessness,” characterized by ideological ambiguity and a retreat from robust economic commitments.

Lehmann concludes that the Democratic Party’s institutional weakness and strategic missteps have left it ill-equipped to counter the authoritarian tendencies of the modern Republican Party. He suggests that revitalizing American democracy will require rebuilding political institutions from the ground up, with a renewed focus on grassroots organizing and a recommitment to substantive economic policies.
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tl;dr - Democrats abandoned the working class.

Left Adrift sounds like the author read Nancy Isenberg's White Trash, and then extrapolated its analysis of America's history as a sort of "dumping ground" for Europe's unwanted criminals and religious & ethnic sects, to modern politics.
 
A real slap in the face to our Allies, as well as to Veterans - but what do you expect from a person who thinks people who serve are suckers and losers?

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Democrats abandoned the Left, the Progressives, and even the Liberals. The embraced the Blue Dogs, the Centrists and Neocons in the name of Neoliberalism.
 
walrus said:

Kennedy is the best and the brightest
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This is a guy who really needs to be prosecuted for whatever we can dig up next admin. I don't care if it's rolling a stop sign and I don't care if he's pardoned. President Pritzker needs to just declare Trump's presidency as Illegal under the 14th and disregard every single one of his actions. Kennedy is actually killing people. I want an entire division within the DOJ crawling up his ass and finding things. Maximum effort.
 
Good news to all of the veterans Elon fired, you now have some pointlessly renamed days.

And fuck those losers who died on Okinawa after May 8th, your deaths don't count, pussies.
 
French Rage said:
But....we were still fighting Japan until September...we even have these terms "V-E Day" and "V-J Day"......
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My uncle was in the Philippines rebuilding Manila and training for the eventual invasion of the home islands. His victory would not come for months and he would not return home until 1946.

8 May will remain V-E Day.
2 September will remain V-J Day
11 November will remain Veterans Day

The sentient pumpkin can go pound sand.
 
ticapnews said:
My uncle was in the Philippines rebuilding Manila and training for the eventual invasion of the home islands. His victory would not come for months and he would not return home until 1946.

8 May will remain V-E Day.
2 September will remain V-J Day
11 November will remain Veterans Day

The sentient pumpkin can go pound sand.
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...on a beach at the Gulf of Mexico.
 
Tale as old as time.

They aimed to de-intellectualise education: they did not want education to provoke people to ask questions or think for themselves. They believed this approach would instill obedience and belief in the Nazi worldview, creating the ideal future generation.

The Nazis first focused on changing what students learned. They changed the core curriculum to emphasise sports, history and racial science as the most important subjects. In 1936, sport was taught for a minimum of two to three hours every school day. By 1938, this had been increased to five hours every day. Subjects such as religion became less important, and were eventually removed from the curriculum altogether.

The Nazis also adapted where the students learned from. They introduced new textbooks which were often racist, and promoted ideas such the need for Lebensraum . Any textbooks used to educate students had to be approved by the party.
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