Yep. Every year we send Israel billions in American tax dollars, and they send back a couple million in bribes to our leadership. They’ve always said that the American government is the best government money can buy. It just amazes me how cheaply it can be had.

They literally point out Chuck Schumer and Jefferies.

Anyone who takes corporate/big money donations, for one. Especially AIPAC or their affiliates.

Well, there’s the Blue Dog Caucus. Actually, a bunch of them got elected this time around, along with the progressives.

This place sucks for political discussion. We finally have a substantial Dem majority and all these people want to do is whine and complain about it instead of finding common ground with the huge number of moderate Dems we just elected.

Lemmy is 90% basement dwellers who have lost touch with reality at this point. If you suggest any kind of realism, or god forbid optimism, they’ll lay you out for it.

“collective goals”

^Found the non-American

Okay, now define what you actually want to do. Because if all you want to do is shut him up or impeach him without any reforms to the systems that allowed him to actually gain power then we don’t really have much to actually talk about. If you do have suggestions for economic, media, governmental, and even religious reforms then we do have something to talk about.

Fact of the matter is the circumstances that have lead to Trump are not isolate and if you want to not only defeat the person but also the ideology you must rip it apart at the roots.

The fact that we both don’t like the psychotic dude over there doesn’t make us friends.

All conservatives are pathological liars. As crazy as living a lie would seem to a normal person, lying at all times is perfectly comfortable for conservatives. So they use that well-practiced skill to their advantage. A conservative will lie about what they want for lunch if they think it will benefit them in some small way.

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Whether it’s a politician, a colleague or dear, sweet grandma baking cookies, never trust any conservative. They are instinctive manipulators. Always have been.

There’s no requirement for politicians to uphold campaign promises, and no penalty to reneg, so yeah.

For the most part there hasn’t been much competition because they’re the only ones who get funding from rich people.

There’s a lot to unpack on this but you’ve got gist.

At the root? America is just a very conservative country, and it has backwards laws on the books that only accelerates our downward spiral. It’s made more conservative because the wealth gap has widened so much and billionaires and psychopathic corporations blindly pursuing profit only care about enriching themselves – and they can now freely buy media megaphones and dupe the masses while simultaneously eroding education and making the electorate more short-sighted, easier to dupe. (Hence why Trump said, “I love the poorly educated” and “Smart people don’t like me.”

So the Overton Window drifts right; sensible policies that would be center-left by European or Canadian standards get painted as radical communism, etc.

Democrats as I noted in another comment below are timid because they’re up against a more powerful force and partly corrupted from within themselves. The corrupt (and naive) have sold the party on the notion that, “Hey, we can never persuade the electorate. We can never compete with the megaphones of the right, so best we can do is be Republican-Lite, lest we’re perceived as commies by the poorly educated electorate.”

So Overton Window keeps being defined by the Right, so goes the country…

That is… Unless gas prices go up lol.

Edit: I should say there are things to be hopeful for. Talarico has a damn near AOC platform and just won Texas. A Sanders-backed progressive just beat Collins in Maine finally. A Medicare For All and Muslim just won the battleground state of Michigan. So the bullshit that progressivism doesn’t sell and we have to cater to the blind has been largely debunked.

Lol Cuba? Which one is an asset from Cuba?

So close. Soooo close.

Cuba? Not Israel?

I think they’re the same picture, but even if, the output/consequences is the same.

Republicans are heavily compromised by Russia (and in general the BRICS orbit, more accurately), along with Israel, and domestic billionaire oligarchs.

Democrats are heavily compromised by Israel and domestic billionaire oligarchs as well, but since they’re the lesser evil they also attract a subset of do-gooders trying to push back against the corruption. Our job is to amplify their voices to the best we can and broaden the work the likes of Sanders kicked off years ago.