aesthelete @ aesthelete @lemmy.world

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I watched the one in Tuscon today. The two kids (AOC and Greg Casar) got the fucking spirit I'll tell you that much.

Man, I'm so sick of living in America surrounded by cultist/religious nutjobs.

Help! I'm trapped in a shit hole country and surrounded by moronic assholes.

And this before Jake Paul could fight him on pay per view for a seven figure purse.

As an unconnected individual with a middling net worth, you are powerless in this system. Whole movements of people are powerless. The only way this could possibly work is with the numbers and probably a leader organizing it.

Yep understood but there's a reason they made the switch and that reason is so they can keep the shit they took out of checks of those who don't file.

I'm sure they did the math on it, they're sneaky assholes through and through.

I’m not talking about Bernie not succeeding in his campaigns, I’m talking about how he seemingly hasn’t put any effort into grooming a successor for his very own seat in his very own state. That’s not a media problem.

It is partially a media problem though. It's not the job of a politician to put a succession plan in place for their little fiefdom. It should've been enough to inspire others through his leadership, but he is painted as anything but inspiring by nearly every observer with an audience.

And honestly Warren irritates the shit out of me after 2020. It's great that she'll be able to hand over the reigns of an eminently winnable seat in Massachusetts to her favorite mini-me, but when she had an opportunity to actually advance the cause on the national stage she took to back-biting and opportunism instead.

I found it astonishing that there isn't even a 0% tax bracket anymore federally. It starts at 10% when you make your first fucking dollar. We've gone batshit backwards in this country to the point where we're trying to get every last dime from poor people so we can almost afford to have buy-borrow-die oligarchs that never pay a penny in federal taxes.

They also suck. I'll give you that. It's all things at once: the policy sucks, the leadership sucks, and the messaging sucks. However, the leaders aren't immune to the ouroboros nature of the consultancy within the Democratic party.

Some of the leaders obviously internalized all of the marketing feedback. By the time Hillary Clinton did her final lap on the stage, she was clearly little more than 30 years of political marketing advice in a pantsuit.

You're right though, basically everyone involved is a sellout and that's the real root of the problem.

People in America don't recognize the house is on fire until it's in ashes. Citizen's United was an absolutely debilitating decision, and politicians on both sides of the aisle didn't care because they are happy working for the oligarchs as long as they get a taste of the riches and the power. The media turned a blind eye because they're in the same pockets.

Yes he failed to build a sustained movement of what was essentially centrist politics a century ago, but he failed mostly because the cultural, media, and political apparatus is full of people that either trash binned his message entirely or painted him as some kind of alarmist, or extremist.

I'd love leaderless movements to have a better track record than they do, but the reality is that I think they fail much more often than they succeed in this country.

People can't just quit their jobs and occupy wall street forever.

This situation was designed, and it’s going to be hard to get out of, but we need to get better at forming groups and organizing.

Nothing can be fixed until it's understood to be a problem, and AOC from her stump speeches and emails seems to at least recognize the problem you're pointing that American systems are essentially "massively scaled up isolation from others".

Rugged individualism has failed us. It's going to take a reclamation of collectivism to fix our problems.

It's mostly the consultant class morons that suck. Both parties used to be full of consultants until 2010-2015 with the rise of the tea party / trumpism. The GOP kicked most of the consultants to the curb, but the Democrats are still running campaigns like it's 2008 and the voters give a shit about the color tie the candidate is wearing.

Harris would've been a good candidate had she not been market researched to death.

I obviously don't agree with TDS-having morons that believe that all experts are useless, but expertise should really be evaluated every once in a while. It's clear to me from my field that professional management and consultants are often goldbricking idiots with impressive resumes and few actual professional accomplishments.

You likely don't know shit about economics. That's why you still think it's important to vaguely allude to economics as an important element to understand in politics when really it's just a smoke screen used to tell people that policies that make their lives miserable are all very well and good actually. 🧐🎩

Economic "experts" running policy on the basis of laughably bad classroom economic theory -- save those from the behavioral economics realm that generate testable, falsifiable hypotheses -- are a big reason why the middle class has gone down the tubes in this country for 50 years.

100% is

AOC should start running right now.

Restart your android before going through customs

Except nobody molested your phone.

How about single party socialism? Has that ever turned back into stateless communism, comrade? Or did it turn into "socialism with Chinese characteristics", Putin's Russia, Pol Pot, and the DPRK that Trump wants to turn the US into?

The US has purportedly been a technocracy for a few decades now. The second election of Trump will likely mark the end of the technocracy and the official start of something worse....kakistocracy, full blown oligarchy, kleptocracy, pick whatever word you want.

The administrative state -- the exact thing Elon and his doge goons are targeting -- is the home of the technocrats.