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Dark Brandon strikes again...
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this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I don't get it
Self proclaimed leftists who curiously always insist on the course of action that most expediently grants power to the fascists.
Usually under the guise of teaching those nasty wasty establishment dems a lesson for amything ranging from not doing what they want to doing what they want but not as zealously as they think it should have been done to attempting to do it exactly as demanded but getting blocked by the republican stacked court system, (never ask these "leftists" why the republicans were able to stack those courts), to even doing the thing exactly as demanded but it wasn't done by Bernie Sanders or the ghost of Upton Sinclair so "fuck you and your lib shit!"
The more mask off ones will just outright say they're accelerationists who see everyone else losing their rights and lives as worth it for the white privilege socialists to be able to have their ~~rapture~~ revolution afterwards. "First Hitler then our Turn" energy if you're familiar with Thalman's communist party in Weimar Germany.
I'm still deciding what I'm going to do, but will the democratic party not just keep moving towards the right if they know they can get our votes as long as they're just to the left of the republicans? Are we just cooked no matter what we do?
The US has a long way ahead if it wants to make its democracy functional again. They're proud of their old democracy, but there's nothing to be proud of when clearly it needs serious reforms to prevent fundamental flaws like the one you mentioned.
Direct action, community work, and trying to make people more radically democratic helps.
And all that from "red painted"?
It’s the same person who posted the original comment. They probably know what they meant.
But I still don't :(
Since first coming into existence, Socialist groups have used the colour red ('the blood of the people') for their primary colour. This is why anywhere except the US, the 'left' parties - republicans in a 'fuck the monarchy' variety - use the colour red.
So the joke here is it's non-Left-leaning people who 'paint themselves red' to pretend to be what they are not.
Ah, I'm dense, thanks for laying it out for me.
It's their favorite color, by a mile