• @LengAwaits
    link
    1
    edit-2
    7 hours ago

    I don’t really disagree with this, and in fact it sounds optimistic to me, provided you’re asserting that a new party will be born from the broken duopoly that your prediction will cause. Which you may not be. I’m not trying to put words in your mouth.

    Edit: On second thought, I do somewhat disagree, as watching the democratic party flirt with and ultimately push back against a Candidate Sanders in 2016 definitely seems like a deviation from the plot-line you’ve presented. I can envision a future in which the Dem party is captured by further left factions as young people grow up and become more and more engaged with electoralism.

    • knightly the Sneptaur
      link
      fedilink
      16 hours ago

      provided you’re asserting that a new party will be born from the broken duopoly that your prediction will cause.

      That is indeed the case. The new left will come out of the growing union movement, the existing third-parties aren’t capable of filling that niche.

      I do somewhat disagree, as watching the democratic party flirt with and ultimately push back against a Candidate Sanders in 2016 definitely seems like a deviation from the plot-line you’ve presented.

      Nah, Bernie Sanders was the last off-ramp away from this future. There was a chance the DNC could have embraced a left turn, but when instead they started openly conspiring against Bernie in 2015, they locked us into the path they put us on now. They’d ratfuck him in the primary, Trump was going to win 2016, that was going to suck badly enough that any Democrat could win 2020, and the “moderate” they’d pick for the job would be so milquetoast that the party would have to drop them from the ticket to keep Trump from winning 2024.

      Now all that has come to pass, and the Democrats are positioning themselves to be the new business-friendly, pro-genocide bad guys for the unions to organize a party against. We might be getting the “good” future after all.