• BlanketsWithSmallpox
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    -1711 months ago

    Be the millionaire Democrat socialist/ liberal representative you want to be!

    • @[email protected]
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      1611 months ago

      There’s no chance they’d ever let an actual Socialist into office within the 2 party Capitalist system.

      • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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        -711 months ago

        True, which is why you run as a Democrat then just be a socialist lol.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            111 months ago

            That’s why you pull a reverse Sinema. Lie your ass off and pretend to be the most corporate corpodem that ever sold out. You’ll only have to fight one major party instead of both of them to get elected, then you can move as far to the left as you want, so long as you avoid small aircraft.

            • @[email protected]
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              111 months ago

              Even there, though, even as a president, you can’t meaningfully move much without the support of the party. The difference for fascists is that the Republican party legitimately has a ton of actual fascists, so fascist presidents are extremely dangerous. If a Socialist led the DNC, it would be spoiled and wouldn’t have much of a chance to move left.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                111 months ago

                I wasn’t talking about the presidency per se.

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 months ago

                  Neither was I. An activist Socialist can’t do much except in local and state levels, at a national level it takes a mass worker party for electoralism to have any real bite.

                  That’s why I call national elections loss prevention, because you can either vote to maintain the status quo, or let marginalized groups be attacked and vilified as fascists gain power.

                  • @Ensign_Crab
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                    111 months ago

                    That’s why I call national elections loss prevention, because you can either vote to maintain the status quo, or let marginalized groups be attacked and vilified as fascists gain power.

                    The status quo already has marginalized groups being attacked and vilified.