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  • because America is so far right it's reshaped the Overton window

    You’re definitely spot on about that! Overton window has been dragged completely off of the right side deep end in USA. Democrat politics are in fact considered conservative in most other parts of the world.

    Conservatives in the US (eg, far right extremists) have tried to subvert the term “progressive,” similarly to what they did with “socialist,” and pin it on Dems as if it’s some kind of pejorative admonishment. I don’t think Dems are very progressive at all, they couldn’t even be bothered to do things like increase the minimum wage, pass paid family leave, or codify roe, during the times they had power to do so.

    imho progressive = leftist, dem = center right, and repug = authoritarian fascist, to align more fully with global political spectra. However, many of my fellow Americans might disagree with that characterization.

  • Sorry to be a bit pedantic, but: Leftists don’t have an “anti gun thing,” that’s actually a liberal virtue signal, and most of those people are far more conservative than “progressive.”

    Many of us on the left are armed and well trained in the use of firearms, we just don’t make it our whole life’s identity.

    A great leader in leftist ideology once said that the workers should never surrender their guns and ammo, and you know what? He was right.

  • agreed, the Dems are beyond redemption. Hard to stomach all the replies here, implication being that after enduring 4 more years of Trump we’re faced with another neoliberal smiley gladhand who will say some of the right things but work only to maintain the status quo and corporate hegemony. But alas, we can’t have meaningful change until people come around to the reality of what the Dems and Repugs have been doing since the 1970s.

    Wake up you fucking jackasses, Dems are not going to save you.

  • To do so effectively would have meant digging into his financial crimes. You know who also commits egregious financial crimes? Congress critters.

    These ancient corrupt fools need to be replaced at all costs if there is any hope of righting this ship without resorting to violence.

  • Sure, here is a way forward:

    1. Recall all democratic congressmen where state laws permit it, and replace them with those who are poised to act.
    2. primary the rest to set the stage in ‘26
    3. impeach, and dig into the myriad financial crimes and ties to Russian money this time.
    4. convict

    This is the proper democratic means, if that even matters anymore.

    I think a far more effective method would be several million of us marching on the capitol in DC. Trump obviously senses this threat is drawing nearer, which is why he has given bondi and hegseth powers to stage the military against civilians in partnership with the police. In this scenario I believe it will be over for the Trump regime, whether or not the military decides to act on these unconstitutional orders.

  • OP is right that instead of believing the lies and propaganda, a 5min google could have really cleared things up for some people. The problem is Trump consistently implied that other countries pay the tariffs, which obviously isn’t how tariffs work.

    US companies pay them as import costs, and pass those costs directly to the consumer in the form of price increases. That’s why tariffs are a Tax by another name.

  • Likely dead from ceaseless Israeli Occupation Force bombings. I don’t know for certain either, however, because the genocidal forces won’t let any neutral observers in. And in case you also haven’t been keeping track of how journalists fare in the region, they are regularly executed by Israeli snipers, thus unable to tell us more of the horrors playing out in Palestine.